Iranian artist wins cartoon award

Iranian cartoonist Javad Alizadeh has received honorable mention at UN/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Awards 2016. 

Organizers of the United Nations/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Awards for 2016 recently announced that the artist received one of the ten honorable mentions of the event.

He grabbed the admiration for an untitled work that depicts a poor barefoot man who puts his luxury shoes on sale.

The first to third prizes of the program went to Miroslav Barvircak, Yonatan Wachsmann and Steve Sack.

A jury panel composed of former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, several political and cultural figures as well as a group of envoys at the United Nations selected the winners.

The other cartoonists who received honorable mention were from Afghanistan, Denmark, Portugal, Switzerland, China, Turkey, Thailand, Brazil and the US.

United Nations established the annual political cartoon awards in 2000 to pay tribute to the cartoonist Ranan Lurie.

Born in 1932, Lurie is a political cartoonist and journalist, a senior associate at the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies), a member of the United Nation Correspondents Association, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cartoonews as well as an educational magazine.

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