Persian New Year Party @ CSUN Cal State Northridge

Yesterday evening we were invited to a party which was held in the Camden House restaurant in Beverly Hills. A good friend who was my school mate at the university of Southern California, USC has opened a Mind Therapy Center and held a big party there. She is a very successful psychologist. My wife and I went there and stayed for a couple of hours. Then we had to rush to another party, this one a Persian new year, NowRuz party in the Californian State University Northridge, 15 miles north of Los Angeles. They have a very active Persian club and my son Ashkan is its president. With the help of other members of the Persian club and their adviser, they held a very well attended party with lots of Persian food, dance and fun. We were there till 11:00 pm. Every body liked the event. It was fun for us as guests, and good practice for the young students to practice to hold such events.
Khosrow Sobhe
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085

Persian New Year NowRuz 1387

March 20th was the first day of Spring and the first day of Persian new year. We have special ceremonies for our new year, for which we prepare a table with several fruits, greens, vegetables, grains and etc. each stand foe some thing. We celebrate and visit friends and relatives.

In the mind of Iranians, the word nowruz invokes colorful images which are sumptuous, elegant, and opulent as well as delightfully simple, refreshing, and cordial. Although colored with vestiges of Iran's Mazdian and Zoroastrian past, the Nowruz celebration is neither religious or national in nature, nor is it an ethnic celebration. Jewish, Zoroastrian, Armenian and Turkish Iranians and Central Asians celebrate the Nowruz with the same enthusiasm and sense of belonging. Perhaps it is this very universal nature of the message of Nowruz that speaks to its wealth of rites and customs as well as to its being identified as the unique fount of continuity of the Iranian culture.

Khosrow Sobhe

www.RugIdea.com

310-770-9085