I was in the fourth grade the first time I remember celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year. My dad let me and my brother stay home from school that day to celebrate. If he’d made this great academic ...

I will never forget the feeling of witnessing a Nowruz party in the White House, in 2016. It was the second year that Michelle Obama had hosted such an event, and it was headlined by Iranian-American ...

Millions around the world are celebrating Nowruz this week. It's a 13-day secular festival, sometimes called Persian New Year. In Syria, it's celebrated mostly by Kurdish people. Many did so in secret ...

Today is Nowruz. It marks the coming of the new year in some cultures. But what is Nowruz, and why do people celebrate it? Thursday, March 20, 2025, marks the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, a holiday ...

It started with ghormeh sabzi. In 2016 Arya Ghavamian began cooking the Iranian stew in his tiny New York apartment and inviting his friends over. One of them, Mani Nilchiani, would bring his setar, a ...

Moving to a small city in the Deep South, I was concerned about standing out like a sore, purple-haired thumb. But, as I stressed previously, this couldn't be further from the truth. As for my Persian ...