There are so many singers in Iran that Iranians joke that anyone who has a fall out with their mother becomes a singer. I feel like a more updated version of…
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Expressions and Idioms Iranian CultureIran’s Ride-Sharing App Uses Persian Proverbs in its Ads- and It’s Awesome!
You might have heard of Tap30 (pronounced ‘tap-si’), one of Iran’s ride-sharing apps. Although there are others, Tap30 and Snapp have become the two biggest and most used. For a while,…
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Updated: 8 July 2019Chances are you’ve probably never given much thought to the calendar. But in Iran, it’s a different story. For starters, calendars and planners contain 3 dates for any…
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Updated: 8 July 2019Over a thousand years ago, Sultan Mahmoud of Ghazni (today’s Afghanistan) commissioned the ancient myths and legends of Persia to be written into verse. At the end of…
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Updated: 8 July 2019The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is perhaps the most notable piece of Persian literature. Ferdowsi is credited with having saved the Persian language with this masterpiece because…