Friday, July 4, 2008 
photo credit: Mahyar
Ah, Norooz! Tonight, as Iranians ’round the globe celebrate Chaharshanbeh Soori by jumping over fire (or candles, in my case) for good luck in the new year (1387, in case you’re keeping count), I’m taking a little time to reflect on everyone’s recent time off from the site. You probably noticed that […]
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Happy New Year! That’s assuming, of course, that you follow the Gregorian calendar, which has us in the year 2008 just a few hours from now. If you’re living in the West, custom dictates that you’ll be drinking champagne and wearing a funny hat tonight, pretending you know the lyrics of Auld Lang Syne as […]
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Another year, another Shabeh Yalda… that’s right, kids, it’s time to bust out the pomegranate and halva and celebrate the longest night of the year. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, the IRNA has a good write-up and there’s also the Wikipedia page.
This site was on hiatus for most of the last […]
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Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I never attended any annual Mehregan events. Everyone knew about the big one in Orange County, but there has never been much else for celebration-hungry Iranians to attend. Mehregan is upon us again, and it still doesn’t look like there’s much to celebrate outside of southern California.So […]
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Photos and Video by Armaghan Saremi
The 13th day of Norooz, aka Sizdeh Bedar, marks the end of Persian New Year celebrations. You’re supposed to get out of the house for good luck, and being that this year was the first that I wasn’t with the fam, I took myself to Jafar Panahi’s Offside (review to […]
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Graphic: sungraphicsonline.com
Just a quick post to share this list of more upcoming Norooz stuff in NYC we got in our inbox, this time from Shabeh Jomeh. We’re looking forward to the Persian parade!
Organizer: NYU Persian Cultural Society Nowrooz PartyDate: Saturday March 24Time: 8pm-12amPlace: NYU Kimmel Center 4th floor (60 Washington Sq South btw Thompson […]
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Photo: Hanieh Bastani
Happy Persian New Year! If you’re reading this and you’re not Persian, combine traditional New Year’s anticipation, presents from Christmas, birthday cash, brand-new-schoolyear outfits, spring cleaning, picnics in the park, feasts, a strange blackface version of an un-Santa Claus, and you’ve got the basic ingredients of Persian New Year spirit. Intrigued? Can you […]
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