1. Mana Neyestani is an Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator whose work appears internationally in economic, intellectual, political, and cultural magazines.
13 Facts About Mana Neyestani
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Mana Neyestani is well-known because of his cartoons about Iranian presidential election, 2009.
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Mana Neyestani is the 2010 recipient of the Cartoonists Rights Network International Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning.
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Mana Neyestani was born in Tehran to an Iranian Azeri family.
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Mana Neyestani's father Manouchehr Neyestani was a well-known Iranian poet from Kerman and his mother Azardokht Keshavarzi was a high school teacher from Tehran.
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Mana Neyestani has a master's degree in Architecture from the University of Tehran.
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Mana Neyestani began his professional cartooning career in 1989, and started drawing editorial cartoons in 1998, for Zan.
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Mana Neyestani did many illustrations for kids magazines during his career including Doost magazine.
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Mana Neyestani was in charge of the kids section of the nationwide published newspaper Iran for many years.
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Mana Neyestani's cartoons are published regularly on the website of Iranian exile media Radio Zamaneh, as well as Tavaana: E-Learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society and IranWire.
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Riots erupted by ethnic Azerbaijanis in Iran when they took offense to a Mana Neyestani cartoon published in the children's section of the 12 May 2006 supplement of Iran, a government-run newspaper.
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Mana Neyestani finally ended up in exile in France where he published a graphic novel titled An Iranian Metamorphosis, about his time in prison.
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Mana Neyestani clarified the use of the word that was interpreted as from the Azerbaijani language as slang in the Persian language and that he did not want to offend anyone with his cartoon.