Life is Like a Haft-seen TableEditorial

Life is Like a Haft-seen Table

Shaghayegh Hanson If Forrest Gump were Iranian, today he might say, “Life is like a haft-seen table,” instead of a…

PCC NewsPCC News

PCC News

PCC’s Board Meetings Persian Cultural Center’s board of directors holds its meetings every second Wednesday of the month at the…

Peyk 192 March-April, 2021Peyk English cover

Peyk 192 March-April, 2021

• Life is Like a Haft-seen Table • THE MEANING AND HISTORY OF NOWRUZ • Aria’s Rants and Raves •…

THE MEANING & HISTORY OF NOWRUZArticles

THE MEANING & HISTORY OF NOWRUZ

Nowruz literally means “new day” and marks the first day of the Iranian calendar. There is much quibbling over the…

Aria’s Rants and RavesAria Fani

Aria’s Rants and Raves

Aria Fani Rethinking Iranian Nationalism There is an exciting new book in Iranian Studies entitled Exile and the Nation: The…

Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice in the United StatesArticles

Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice in the United States

by Hooshyar Afsar Throughout U.S. history, immigrant rights and open immigration policies have been closely tied to the adoption of…

Reclaiming Self-CareArticles

Reclaiming Self-Care

By Lily Mojdehi In my last article, I wrote about the stigmatization of mental health services in the Iranian American…

What Nowruz Means to MeArticles

What Nowruz Means to Me

Comments by Parents and Students of Iranian School of San Diego about Nowruz Rachel Tait As an American of Scottish-English-German…