So, Aidee Shoma Moborak! <\/p>\n
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I’m planning on heading down to Madison Ave. to check out the 2nd annual Persian Parade<\/a>. I’m debating whether or not I should untack my Shah-era (pre-1979) flag<\/a> from my wall to bring along. Many Iranian exiles\/ex-pats that you meet in the United States (particularly in Los Angeles) departed right around the time of the revolution. I suspect that most of them fly the shah flag (as I do) not because they’re monarchists, but because they do not consider the Islamic government to be legitimate. <\/p>\n Here’s something I wrote<\/a> back in Nov. 2003, reflecting on my Persian heritage for Iranian.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n On a lighter note, I received this in my email yesterday:<\/p>\n PersianMirror.com and Norooz Productions are excited to tell you about a wonderful new animation movie for Persians called Babak and Friends – A First Norooz.<\/p>\n Written and directed by Dustin Ellis and his team, formerly from Nickelodeon and Warner Brothers, Babak and Friends – A First Norooz is an extremely high quality Disney Style production using the voice-overs of Oscar Nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo, Parviz Sayyad, JAG Star Catherine Bell and Ali Pourtash. The movie also features the music of Aris and an original song by pop singer Andy called Daram Miram Beh Tehran – written exclusively for the movie.<\/p>\n Babak and Friends – A First Norooz is a funny and heartwarming story about Babak, a young and mischievous Iranian boy, growing up outside of Iran, caught between cultures. Set to classical Persian Music, the movie is about a boy learning about the warmth and depths of Persian culture and why he should be proud to be Persian during the Norooz.<\/p>\n The movie, recorded in Farsi and English is only available on DVD. Each DVD comes with a free Norooz storybook and loads of special features, including music videos and cast biographies! The movie is the perfect Eidie and, like the Lion King or Finding Nemo, is suitable for audiences both young and old. <\/p>\n To watch the trailer or order the DVD, please go to www.babakandfriends.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Probably due to jet lag (the first time in awhile that I remember that I’ve been really affected by it), I’m up again way too early (before 6 am). At 4:33 am Pacific will be the precise beginning of Noruz, the Persian New Year 1384 — that’s on the Persian calendar not the Islamic calendar. So, Aidee Shoma Moborak! I’m planning on heading down to Madison Ave. to check out the 2nd annual Persian Parade. I’m debating whether or not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-iran","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-77","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}