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Dances, colourful carpets, fire jumps and the "seven S's": Nowruz (literally "new day") marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the Persian calendar. ....
April 6, 2021 By Mairi Beautyman “All my inspiration stems from my childhood experiences and cultural heritage,” reveals Hozan Zangana, who fled Iraqi Kurdistan as a teenager with his family in the 1980s. Last November, during Dubai Design Week 2020, the Netherlands-based designer presented “Fata Morgana,” a socially distanced seating installation punctuated by pillars representing the seven Emirates. Erected in the heart of the Dubai Design District (d3), the installation was the most recent pavilion in the annual Abwab series, which celebrates regional design talent. Zangana is no stranger to the competition he co-curated and designed “Excavations,” the 2016 Abwab pavilion in collaboration with Rand Abdul Jabbar. ....
What The Items On A Nowruz Haft Sin Table Represent Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/March 17, 2021 2:43 pm EDT Happy New Year! What, again? Yes, not only did we get the chance for a fresh start on Jan. 1 and a do-over on Lunar New Year about six weeks later, but, as it turns out, some cultures very sensibly choose to start their calendar off with the Vernal Equinox, aka the first day of spring. According to CNN Travel, Nowruz is the Persian New Year, but it isn t celebrated only in Iran (the former Persia, more or less). Some 300 million people across the globe celebrate it, in countries including Afghanistan, Albania, India, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan, as well as throughout the diaspora (including in the U.S., of course, since we never met a diaspora we didn t like). ....