Nowruz, or the Iranian and Parsi New Year as it is famously known, is the celebration that marks the beginning of Farvardin, the first month in the Zoroastrian calendar. People from around the world ...

For our friends of Persian heritage, this week is a particularly important one. For 35 centuries, the Iranian and Central Asian peoples have celebrated Nowruz on the vernal equinox, which fell this ...

While Sunday is widely known by many as the first day of spring, with the spring equinox occurring at 8:33 a.m. PST, it is also a time of celebration for Persians and those of Asian Indian descent.

March 21, 2022, may not mean much to most people in the world, but it is a very special day for people in Iran, and a few other countries, as well. It’s the start of a 13-day-long, 3000-year tradition ...

At her Palo Alto chocolate shop, Shekoh Confections, Iranian chocolatier Shekoh Moussavi transforms prized ingredients like rose and saffron into gourmet European-style confections. But one of her ...

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Turkey’s Kurds celebrated the Nowruz festival on Friday, as political deputies lit a torch in the southeastern Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakir. Nowruz, which means ‘new day’ in Kurdish, is a ...