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Until April 2, a table in the corner of Sahar Saidian’s living room in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev will be set with “Haft-sin,” the careful arrangement of seven symbolic items ...

People interact with a dedicated memorial space to Iranian lives that were lost during a gathering in New York, on Saturday, March 14, 2026, for the upcoming Nowruz, Iranian/Persian New Year's day.

As the United States and Israel continue the war which might free the Iranian people from a tyrannical regime, the yearning of the people of Israel for positive relations with the Iranian people has ...

Anna Hakakian, a resident of Great Neck, New York, grew up in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. At that time, Nowruz, the secular Persian New Year, offered a rare moment of respite from a conflict that ...

Song, dance and celebration filled Harris Hall Room 108 on Monday as students and community members gathered for Nowruz, a holiday marking the new year in Persian and Turkic cultures. Traditional ...

Atlanta is a long way from Iran. Far enough that most days, you can convince yourself the distance offers a kind of protection, that whatever is happening “over there” stays contained, separate from ...

The strong scent of beef kebab and ghormeh sabzi — a stew of herbs and fenugreek considered a national dish of Iran — wafted down the hallway of the Longworth House Office Building on Tuesday, leading ...

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