The Results of the Third International Cartoon Contest

The Results of the Third International Cartoon Contest – Syria 2007

Speech of the Arbitration Committee

We were not surprised by this huge number of artists who participated in the caricature competition, they were more than 300 artists from 57 countries in the world, we were not surprised actually because we still bit on our faith in the caricature artist in our world whom both imperialism and Zionism are attempting terminate the human value in himself and trying to kill his moral consciousness- is still one of the strongly-defending of his believing-in- values.
The caricature artist is in the front of the workers for rights, justice, and beauty.
The wide participation in the third international Syrian participation for caricature as a prove of the idea that the caricaturist view will stay pure and invincible against the ferocious American and Zionist campaign which aim to distort and abuse the Syrian image and it's just stances.
In addition to that, we were not surprised by the high artistic values of most of the participating works, because the caricature is-unarguably- one of the arte that managed since a long time to develop it's artistic means and technologies, which were used to serve the ideas and meanings perfectly. We exerted a huge effort in choosing what we thought to be the best, yet we think that a lot of the portraits that did not win in this contest shall win in other contests.
Thus, we hail every participant and those who were not able to participate, as for the winners we say: congratulations, and wish you to go further in your hardworking in serving the ethical and human message.

THE JURY
Masoud shojai Tabatabai /Iran
Cartoonist& Director of Iran cartoon website
& Manager of the Iranian House of Cartoon

Dr.GHassan Alsebaei/ syria
Critic reviewer

Mohammad kanaysi / Tunisia
Journalist & writer

Issam Hssan /Syria
Cartoonist

Raed KHALIL / Syria
Cartoonist & director of the
International cartoon contest -Syria2007
Director of Syria cartoon website

NUMBER OF TOTAL PARTICIPANTS (308) WITH (1071) ART WORKS.
PARTICIPATIONG COUNRIES:57
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First Prize :Pawel KUCZYNSKI –Poland
25,000 sp+ statue+ certificate