Persian Culture & Traditions

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Here’s something that surprises people about Persian: it has zero grammatical gender. No masculine or feminine nouns. No gendered articles.

Cook Your Way to Farsi. Episode 8 In Iran, when someone’s about to start something new. a job, a trip,

Part 5 of Persian Poetry for People Who Don’t Read Poetry ← Ep 4: Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh | Series Index |

Every Iranian New Year starts at the same table. Not the dinner table. the haft-sin (هفت‌سین) table. Seven items, all

My mom’s ghormeh sabzi recipe is the correct one. I need you to know that before we go any further.

Sa’di’s Golestan is Iran’s original self-help book — 800 years before the genre existed. I break down the famous opening lines and one hikayat word by word, showing how the vocabulary is still used in everyday Persian today.