Nowruz is celebrated at the exact moment of the spring equinox when the sun crosses the celestial equator. In 2025, this ...

Azerbaijanis in Iran, like many other non-Persian ethnic minority groups living under the Islamic Republic, face repression ...

Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is celebrated on March 20, 2025. Learn about its rich history and cultural importance.

Ahead of Nowruz I was struck with a desire to cook with my mom — something we hadn't done before. Here's what I learned ...

Rebecca Sassouni shares her family’s recipe for halva, a beloved dessert that honors both cultural roots and cherished ...

Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

After performing evening prayers, a number of young and veteran poets of the country, cultural figures and professors of Persian literature, as well as a number of non-Iranian Persian-speaking poets ...

The Grand Iwan Nowruz Festival takes center stage at Concordia University’s Loyola Campus for a two-day celebration leading up to the Persian New Year on March 20.

Festival organizers called Nowruz a “universal moment of rebirth and renewal,” a cultural welcoming of spring.

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