Nowruz celebrates the Persian New Year, and the beginning of spring as it starts on the spring equinox. It's one of the most important holiday in Iran and has been celebrated for over 3000 years. This year, it starts Mar. 20. Enjoy these books, films and more!
Iran: Persian Classical Music by Faramarz Payvar Ensemble
This album contains a number of virtuoso performances on the various instruments of the Persian classical repertoire.
Anthology Of World Music: Iran by various artists
Musicians show the intensity of discipline, technique, emotion and skill of interpretation that make Iranian music perhaps the most profound and most human musical system of our time.
The Adventures Of Amir Hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi
Apanoramic tale of magic and passion, a classic hero’s odyssey that has captivated much of the world -- it is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza, the adventurer who in the service of the Persian emperor defeats many enemies, loves many women, and converts hundreds of infidels to the True Faith before finding his way back to his first love.
Taste Of Persia by Naomi Duguid
More than 125 recipes, framed with stories and photographs of people and places, introduce us to a culinary paradise where ancient legends and ruins rub shoulders with new beginnings—where a wealth of history and culinary traditions makes it a compelling place to read about for cooks and travelers and for anyone hankering to experience the food of a wider world.
Bottom Of The Pot by Naz Deravian
Naz Deravian lays out the multi-hued canvas of a Persian meal, with 100+ recipes adapted to an American home kitchen and interspersed with Naz's celebrated essays exploring the idea of home.
Darius The Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
Soraya, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, has lived eighteen years in the shadows but as her twin brother's wedding approaches, she faces choices with unimaginable consequences.
Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story by Adib Khorram
Kian can't wait for Persian New Year! His family has already made a haft-seen, and Kian's baba and maman told him that all the things on it start with S and will bring them joy in the new year. Kian wonders if he could add just one more S, to make his family even happier. Ages 4-8.
Saffron Ice Cream by Rashin Kheiriyeh
Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat. Ages 4-8.
Pea Boy And Other Stories From Iran by Elizabeth Laird
A wonderful collection of traditional stories from Iran retold by an award-winning author who knows the country intimately. Ages 7-10.
Sepideh, directed by Berit Madsen
Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations to a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh's ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger. But Sepideh holds on to her dream. She takes up the fight and teams up with the world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari.
Monir, directed by Bahman Kiarostami
This documentary looks at the life and work of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, who first garnered attention in the 1970s when she pioneered contemporary forms of geometric mirror works. Monir created an artistic language that was informed by traditional Iranian craft and architecture; formative years spent in New York in the 1940s and 50s and ongoing conversations with some of the 20th century's most experimental artists were also part of Monir's artistic universe.
Cold Sweat, directed by Soheil Beiraghi
Afrooz is the captain of the Iranian National Futsal Team, a women's indoor soccer team. A long-held dream to play the Asian Games final is shattered when Afrooz' husband imposes a travel restriction on her. Furious, Afrooz stands up against the patriarchal Iranian system. But will she win this battle?
Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami
A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters: Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered.
Abbas Kiarostami's Ten
Over the course of several days, a nameless woman gives a number of friends, family members and acquaintances a ride in her car across Tehran, among them her young son who is still upset over his parent's recent divorce, her sister, a close friend who has just been abandoned by her boyfriend, and an older woman on her way to a worship service. As the woman and her passengers ride through town, their conversations cast a light on her views of herself, as well as the ways other women view themselves and the larger world around them.
