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MARCIN BONDAROWICZ (born in 1976 in Starachowice, Poland) works as illustrator and graphic designer. Graduated from the Radom Kazimierz Pułaski Polytechnic. He is consiedered as one of the most distinguished artists of caricature and satirical drawing...

Konul Khalilova of the BBC Azeri service tells us How Muslim Azerbaijan had satire years before Charlie Hebdo. More than 100 years before militant Islamist gunmen murdered journalists at France’s satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, another magazine very...

Slavs and Tatars One of the most important contributions to modern Azerbaijani literature and culture was the irreverent early twentieth-century magazine Molla Nasreddin. What follows is an introduction to the magazine by the artist collective Slavs...

BBC NewsHow Muslim Azerbaijan had satire years before Charlie HebdoBBC NewsAzerbaijani weekly magazine Molla Nasreddin was revolutionary for its time, bravely ridiculing clerics and criticising the political elite as well as the Russian Tsar and the

There’s a coffee shop in an out-of-the-way part of Baku where the walls are covered with illustrations from an early 20th century satirical magazine called Molla Nasreddin. The magazine represents a bygone era, when Azerbaijan was a font of new cultural...