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'''Nikahang Kowsar''', also known as '''Nik Kowsar''' (, born 1969) is an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran Iran]ian-Canadian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cartoonist cartoonist], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/journalist journalist], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/weblog blogger], currently living in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_DC Washington DC], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US US]. Kowsar was also a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_reformists reformist] candidate for the second term of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_and_Village_Councils_of_Iran city council] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran Tehran] in 2003, an election won by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conservatism conservative] candidates of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadgaran Abadgaran].

He studied Geology in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tehran University of Tehran], and joined Gol-Agha, an Iranian political satire magazine as a cartoonist in 1991. He worked for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamshahri 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Mortazavi Saeed Mortazavi]. He was arrested in Feb. 2000 for drawing a cartoon and spent 6 days at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evin_Prison Evin Prison] in Tehran.

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