Nikahang Kowsar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nikahang Kowsar

cartoonist

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1969

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: cartoonist, journalist, caricaturist, blogger

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Nikahang Kowsar (Persian: ???????? ?????, born 1969), also known as Nik Kowsar is an Iranian-Canadian cartoonist, journalist, and blogger, currently living in Washington, D.C., US.
Kowsar was also a reformist candidate for the second term of city council of Tehran in 2003, an election won by the conservative candidates of Abadgaran. He studied Geology in the University of Tehran, and joined Gol-Agha, an Iranian political satire magazine as a cartoonist in 1991.
He worked for 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 Saeed Mortazavi.
He was arrested in Feb.
2000 for drawing a cartoon and spent 6 days at the Evin Prison in Tehran.