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The festival of Nowruz is celebrated by many groups of people in the Black Sea basin, the Balkans, the South Caucasus, Western Asia, central and southern Asia, and by Iranian peoples worldwide. [92] Traditional Nowruz dance performance at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, 2011. Places where Nowruz is a public holiday include:
How is Nowruz celebrated today? People typically spend weeks preparing for Nowruz, mostly by spring cleaning. During the festival, family visits and communal meals are common, along with gift ...
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The Persian/Iranian holiday has some wonderful traditions and celebrations to kick off spring.
Nowruz holiday consists of ceremonies and traditions. People start to clean house, paint eggs, sprout up semeni, make national pastries such as shekerbura, pakhlava, shorgoghal, badambura and a great variety of national cuisine. [6] It is tradition to light a candle matching the number of family members. One of the main attributes of Nowruz is ...
Some Afghans, [10] including members of the Taliban and their supporters, do not observe Nowruz traditions. [11] In 1985, Radio Television Afghanistan aired a Persian play to commemorate and promote Nowruz. [12] Under the 1990s Taliban rule, Nowruz was banned "due to the thought that it was a pagan holiday centered on fire worship."
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