Nowruz

2022 - 3 - 20

Persian new year

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Happy Nowruz: The beginning of a new season (The Fulcrum)

As an Iranian-Canadian student at the University of Ottawa, springtime is always a very special time for me. I get to travel back home to Oakville, Ont, ...

“Nowruz for me is a fresh start of the year. I usually celebrate by spending time with family and setting up the haft-seen with my family as well,” said Famili. Friends and family are invited to make up for the fact that the past two years we haven’t really been able to celebrate. Nowruz is such a special time for me because I get to spend it with my family, but also because it’s a time for reflection. However, the beginning of spring is really the start of a new year for me. I get to travel back home to Oakville, Ont, where I celebrate the beginning of spring with my family.

Afghans mark Nowruz under Taliban with muted celebrations (National Post)

KABUL — Afghans celebrated Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on Monday but festivities were muted, taking place under Taliban rule for the first time in ...

“We started our Nowruz by doing exams, we had no picnic,” she said. Nowruz, celebrated throughout Iran and Central Asia, is usually a colorful celebration in Afghanistan when families gather to prepare festive dishes and welcome the beginning of spring. Article content

Prime Minister Trudeau's message on Nowruz (Prime Minister of Canada)

Har Ruz etan Nowrouz, Nowruz etan Pyrouz! Hello everyone—and happy Nowruz! No matter how you celebrate, Nowruz is a time for family and friends to get ...

North Shore libraries celebrate Persian New Year with Nowruz ... (Toronto Star)

Ushering in Persian New Year and the spring equinox on March 20, libraries across the North Shore have organized programs to celebrate Nowruz.

A haft-seen is an arrangement of seven items that start with the 15th letter of the Persian alphabet, pronounced “seen.” At the same time, Nowruz gives a time to reflect on the current state of the world and the collective actions we can take to resist, and work towards a better world for all of us.” Starting at 11 a.m., the performance consists of two sets. A recording of the event will be available on the library’s YouTube page after it premieres. “Nowruz is a time for hope and renewal at the beginning of spring,” said Ehlam Zaminpaima, customer and community experience co-ordinator for the library. The West Vancouver Memorial Library is welcoming the coming of spring with a haft-seen table in the main hall of the library.

Taliban cancel public holiday for Nowruz but say celebrations allowed (CTV News)

Afghanistan's Taliban administration said there would be no public holiday for the Persian New Year this week, but said they would not stop people from ...

"We are not officially celebrating Nowruz," said Abdul Ahad Amad, head of publications at the information ministry. FOLLOW ON FOLLOW ON

Nowruz, a new year celebration, explained (Red and Black)

As the Northern Hemisphere welcomed the official start of Spring on March 20, Iranians, Afghans, those belonging to the Persian and Kurdish diasporas, ...

Tables also often include candles, eggs, mirrors and a book, such as the Quran or a collection of poems from Iranian poet Hafez. On the last Wednesday before Nowruz, people sometimes jump over bonfires chanting “Give me your beautiful red color, and take back my sickly pallor,” according to a CNN article. This custom is still widely observed despite these ambiguous beginnings.

Manitoba's Iranian community celebrate Nowruz in person for first time in two years (unknown)

After waiting two long years, members of Manitoba's Iranian community are finally celebrating Nowruz — Persian New Year — in person.

"Nowruz is not only about the renewal of the environment, it is associated with its virtues and values," Arianpour said. "I think everyone can feel the renewal of nature." "Especially the last two years, we were dealing with so many sad or bad things, including COVID," he said. Everybody was happy and we danced a lot together without masks," said Zhaleh Parsaei, who attended the celebration organized by the Iranian Community of Manitoba on Saturday night. It's also known as Novroz in the Ismaili Muslim tradition and Naw-Rúz in the Bahá'í faith. This made this year's Nowruz celebration even more special for us," he said.

WNY's Afghani community celebrates Nowruz, although banned in ... (WBFO)

Monday is Nowruz, the Afghanistan new year. Sunday, several hundred recent Afghan immigrants from across Upstate New York gathered at the Dnipro Ukrainian ...

"We know that some places like Buffalo State and Canisius have offered their dorms for the Afghani people for coming over here and, yeah, for now it's just temporary until we find them a permanent house." That is the main common question everybody asks and we tell them that we are doing our best to find a place for them to live or stay," he said. "Just about everything that is happening Ukraine and Afghanistan, we share similar pain and we all have similarities that are connecting us together today," Safary said.

Nowruz is banned in Afghanistan, but families continue to celebrate (MTPR)

One woman living in Kabul describes how, despite food shortages and repression, her family is celebrating the Persian new year with what they have.

"We have depleted our savings and reached a point where we try to cook things that need the least amount of groceries and will turn out bigger in amount. "A year ago, I could not have imagined that I would live in a country that would be under the rule of people like the Taliban. It seems surreal, crazy. "Right now, we only have small amounts of almonds and walnuts, and I don't think we can make haft mewa with two things." But the real star of the Nowruz table would be haft mewa — a sweet and savory compote. It's going to be simple; it's going to be small; but it's going to be something. Even though she's a member of what she describes as "the privileged population," Shararah and her family have been affected by food insecurity. "All the people would be going around, enjoying the decorations and lightings, having an ice cream, just being together," she says. She makes a plain rice but makes it colorful with sprinkles of saffron and sugar. The ingredients are not set but typically include a combination of pistachios, almonds, walnuts, cashews, cherries, raisins, currants, apricots, apples or senjed (a small sweet and tangy berry shaped like an olive). They are washed, peeled, mixed together and soaked in water, which some scent with rose or cardamom. But in early March, the Taliban's Ministry of Vice and Virtue confirmed that there will be no official Nowruz celebration this year. Even before the Taliban, Kabul did not have a nightlife and most shops closed by early evening — except on the night before Nowruz. Despite the late hour, Shararah is animated, her face growing increasingly brighter as she describes the once-bustling streets of Mandawi market in Kabul's old district, colorful stalls that she and her sister would navigate one by one.

'One day to enjoy': Economy woes dampen Afghan Nowruz ... (Aljazeera.com)

Kabul, Afghanistan – Groups of women bustle through the female entrance of Sakhi Shah-e Mardan Shrine in Karte Sakhi in western Kabul, where many Afghans ...

The Taliban rule and the flagging economy have seemingly put a dampener on celebrations this year. As much as 95 percent of the population does not have enough to eat, and 3.5 million children need nutritional support. The country is feeling the economic strain that has built since the Taliban took over the government last August. Afghanistan is still lacking a functioning central banking system to address the crisis. A tray of jelabis, sticky spiral-shaped fried sweets, is displayed on her table. About 55 percent of the poverty-stricken country’s population face extreme hunger, with nearly 9 million a step away from famine. Shagufta’s daughter has been waiting to return to her high school studies. Street vendors at the bazaar sell sweets and ice cream to women pushing children on tricycles. They think we will just disappear. Last year, I had a salary and I was helping other people, giving them bread. “People are buying less gifts because there is just no money to spend. They rush towards the mosque located inside the shrine premises, posing for selfies and TikTok videos, wearing colourful dresses donned with sequins. “The life situation of people at the moment is very bad.

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