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...Persian Society celebrated the New Year festival of Nowrooz with a night of traditional food and dance on Friday in the Currier House Fishbowl...
Nowrooz celebrates the awakening of the new light of spring prevailing over the darkness of winter, according to Ali J.Q. Satvat '99, co-president of the Persian Society...
This festival has been celebrated for 2,500 years and is the main holiday in the Persian world. It serves as the Persian Society's main annual event...
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...