So proud to know Willow. Looking forward to this book. ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads – NYTimes.com. But this year’s improbably charming book about hackers is “Alif the Unseen,” a novel prompted by its author’s frustration. G. Willow Wilson, admired for her graphic novels and memoir, says that she was sick of treating her readers as separate factions (“comic-book geeks, literary NPR types and Muslims”) and sick of assumptions that blogging and social media could not have political consequences. So she conjured Alif, a young Arab-Indian hacker living in an unnamed Middle Eastern high-security…
I thought nawroz was a zoroastrian festival. The Kurds round my parts are big on it too, and they’re alevis.
it probably started as a zoroastrian religious festival, but seems to have retained a strong cultural affiliation, and spread quite far. we have records of coptic christians in egypt celebrating nawruz in the 10th century. i’m still trying to figure out that cross-cultural jump.
happay navroz mubarak all