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  Azadeh Namdari or Azade Namdari (30 November 1984 – 27 March 2021) was an actress and TV host.On 25 July 2017, a video emerged showing Namdari drinking and without hijab while on vacation in Switzerland. The event drew a backlash on social media as she was an advocate of black chador and compulsory Islamic dress code in Iran.On March …

Shaul Mofaz was born Shahrām Mofazzazkār on 4 November 1948 in Tehran, Iran, to Persian Jewish parents from Isfahan, and lived in Tehran until his family moved to Israel. His father was principal of the ORT school in Tehran.Mofaz immigrated to Israel with his family in 1957 when he was nine years old.

Nowruz is the Iranian New Year, also known as the Persian New Year, which begins on the spring equinox, marking the first day of Farvardin, the first month of the Iranian solar calendar. It is celebrated worldwide by various ethno-linguistic groups, and falls on or around March 21 of the Gregorian calendar. Nowruz falls on March 20 in 2021.Nowruz has …

Nowruz is the celebration of the New Year in Kurdish society. … March 20th is traditionally marked as the day that Kawa defeated Zuhak and March 21st is marked as New Year’s Day. Kurds today use this legend to take pride in their identity, and the lighting of the fires has since become a symbol of freedom.

The Persian name of the festival consists of čahāršanbe , the name of Wednesday in the Iranian calendars, and suri , which has two meanings; it may mean “festive” and it may also mean “scarlet” (in traditional persian and some current local dialects in Iran), which stems from the reddish theme of fire. In specific, since the fire has a …

Alireza Pahlavi was born on 28 April 1966. He attended the Niavaran Palace primary school in Iran but left Iran alongside his family shortly before the Iranian revolution. He moved to the U.S. where he attended Saint David’s School in New York City and Mt Greylock Regional High School in Williamstown, Massachusetts.Pahlavi received a BA degree from Princeton University, a …

Dorehami is an Iranian Telecast currently directed by Mehran Modiri. It aired on cable network IRIB Nasim on Thursdays at 21:00 and Fridays and Saturdays at 23:00 (IST) from March 18 to October 1, 2016 and continue from November 4. The show’s first season finale aired on April 6, 2018, featuring Adel Ferdosipour as the guest.

The Persian word Gaz is associated with gaz-angebin which translates to ‘Honey of Gaz’, in reference to a species of Tamarisk, T. gallica that is native to the Zagros mountain range located to the west of Isfahan. Gaz is traditionally presumed to be the sap of the Tamarisk tree. Gaz dates backs to 450 years ago in Isfahan, when the …

The book ‘Another Hundred Years’ which contains unpublished poems of the late contemporary Persian poet Nima Yushij (1895-1960) has been recently brought out by the publishing house of Academy of Persian Language and Literature.

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province in the People’s Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over 11 million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city and one of the nine National Central Cities of China.The name “Wuhan” came from the city’s historical origin from the …