Two Iranian cultural centers, and Sarcheshmeh cultural center, announce launch a cartoon contest on the Holocaust.
Quoted by , Shoajaei-Tabataaii, director of the House and Secretary of the cartoon contest, explained that the two institutions have thus protest against the drawings published recently in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
He said at the launch press conference that the designers had until April 1 to submit their work. Winners can claim price $ 12,000 (€ 10,600), $ 8,000 (€ 7,000) and $ 5,000 (€ 4,400).
The successful designs including the award-winning, will be exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art of Palestine and various places in the Iranian capital.
This contest is a second edition. at the initiative of the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri reaction already at the Mohammed cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo occasions.
The winner of the first edition was Moroccan Abdellah Derkaoui with a drawing of the wall separating the Palestinian Territories and Israel which displays the front door of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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