For more than 300 million people around the world, it is a celebration known as Naw-Ruz, Persian for “new day.” In 2010, the United Nations officially recognized it as International Nowruz Day ...

This is also a time when two religious communities in 17 countries in Central Asia welcome Naw-Ruz, New Day, also written as Nowruz, the first day of Farvardin, the first month of the Iranian ...