Global Newsletter
Good morning and Ramadan Mubarak to those observing. This week coincided with another major holiday in part of the Islamic world, Nowruz, which is celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan and much of Central Asia. The festival marks the new year at the spring equinox of the Persian Solar Hijri calendar and has roots deep in Iran’s ancient pre-Islamic history. Oral tradition associates it with the mythical King Jamshid, who saved humanity from an eternal winter, and Greek writer Xenophon observed an Achaemenid Nowruz celebration in the 5th century B.C.E.
