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Abdellah Derkaoui
International Holocaust Cartoon Contest was a 2006 cartoon competition, sponsored by the Iranian newspaper ''Hamshahri'', to denounce what it called Western "Double standard, double standards on freedom of speech". The event was staged in response to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons controversy. The United States Department of State, United States State Department, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), Israeli Foreign Ministry and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, among others, strongly criticized the contest. In January 2015, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting and the magazine's subsequent decision to publish further cartoons of Muhammad, the Iranian House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex in Iran announced that they would be sponsoring The 2nd International Holocaust Cartoons Contest. Selected cartoons were exhibited in Tehran beginning on 14 May 2016. 2006 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamshahri
''Hamshahri'' (; ) is a major Iranian national Persian-language newspaper in Tehran (whose municipal government owns the newspaper). History and profile ''Hamshahri'' is published by the municipality of Tehran, and founded by Gholamhossein Karbaschi. It is the first coloured daily newspaper in Iran and has over 60 pages of classified advertisement. The newspaper is distributed within the limits of Tehran municipality. It has a daily circulation of over 400,000 copies, which is on par with major US-American daily newspapers such as the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', ''Boston Globe'', and ''Chicago Tribune''. Based on the results of a domestic poll of how citizens of Tehran view television and print media which were released by Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance ''Hamshahri'' was the most read daily in Tehran with 44.1% in March 2014. In 1997's Iranian presidential election, Hamshahri newspaper, then run by former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
