Word: persian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nushin Kormi '99, also a Persian Society co-president, said the celebration has a great significance to Persians, who all celebrate it simultaneously...
...festival is different from traditional Islamic festivals, according to participants, because it is based on Persian culture, rather than the religion itself. The ancestors of present-day Iranian Muslims, Persians were originally Zoroastrians...
Kormi said the Persian Society puts on this celebration annually in order to bring Persian culture to the Harvard community...
...There are lots of Persians here in this area. Our main goal is to introduce the people of Harvard to Persian culture," Kormi said...
...Nowrooz and the Persian Society celebrates our culture. We were created to further our culture and bring together the Persians in our area," Satvat said...