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nikahang kowsar http://www.khodnevis.org y tehran , iran nik kowsar 150 canada y 27 october 1969 journalist , cartoonist nikahangkowsar.jpg nikahang kowsar
 nikahang kowsar
nikahang kowsar

nikahang kowsar -lrb- , born 1969 -rrb- , also known as nik kowsar is an iranian-canadian cartoonist , journalist , and blogger , currently living in washington dc , us .
kowsar was also a reformist candidate for the second term of city council of tehran in 2003 , an election won by the conservative candidates of abadgaran .
he studied geology in the university of tehran , and joined gol-agha , an iranian political satire magazine as a cartoonist in 1991 .
he worked for hamshahri from 1992 to 1998 , and was a member of newspapers such as `` zan '' , `` aftab-e emrooz '' , `` sobh-e emrooz '' , `` akhbar-e eghtesadi '' , `` azad '' , `` bahar '' , `` bonyan '' , `` doran-e emrooz '' , `` nosazi '' , `` hayate no '' , `` abrar-e eghteadi '' , `` hambastegi '' , `` farhang-e ashti '' .
most of these papers were banned by saeed mortazavi .
he was arrested in feb. 2000 for drawing a cartoon and spent 6 days at the evin prison in tehran .
