1388 - 2009 Norouz Celebrations

• 20,000 vacationers from Iran have traveled to Armenia
• A $100 million Iranian community center in San Jose. Santa Clara County, the third-largest population of Farsi speakers in U.S.A.
• Mayor Bogaard declares ” Norooz a Pasadena Tradition”
• Smithsonian’s Freer Norouz  to accommodate about 1,000 people, but more than 7,000 people showed up.
• I save the entire year to spend for Nowruz
• For years, nobody had talked about Chaharshanbe Suri on state-run TV
• “burn away” a year’s worth of sin during the Chaharshanbeh Soori festival in Dubai
• So if London’s parks are full of picnicking Middle Eastern types (Hyde Park…) this evening, you will know what’s afoot.
• Hamilton Hotel in Itaewon, Seoul, to celebrate the coming of “Norouz”  hosted by Iranian Embassy

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