Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot for the Middle East Mess
Tyrants, not borders, are the problem.
May 16, 2016
An exiled Iranian cartoonist’s take.
This weekend, the Islamic Republic will hold its third Holocaust-cartoon festival, with submissions vying to mock the Shoah, deny that it happened, or insult Jews and Israel more generally. When asked about the contest in an interview for the New Yorker, the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted that it is run by an NGO and not sponsored by the government. Nikahang Kowsar, a cartoonist who fled Iran after receiving death threats for publishing work critical of the regime, sets the record straight:
Tyrants, not borders, are the problem.
Is Israel’s existence “politicized”?
And the story of his most celebrated find.
An exiled Iranian cartoonist’s take.
Doublespeak about mainstream Muslims.
This weekend, the Islamic Republic will hold its third Holocaust-cartoon festival, with submissions vying to mock the Shoah, deny that it happened, or insult Jews and Israel more generally. When asked about the contest in an interview for the New Yorker, the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted that it is run by an NGO and not sponsored by the government. Nikahang Kowsar, a cartoonist who fled Iran after receiving death threats for publishing work critical of the regime, sets the record straight:
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