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Shab e Yaldá شب یلدا with Moná Kiani from Englisi Farsi   Yaldá means Rebirth of the sun. It is a celebration of the triumph of light over darkness and falls on the winter solstice.   It is the longest and darkest night of the year (in the northern hemisphere) and customary to reside indoors seeking refuge from the darkness to welcome the new light.  Eat delicious food, read meaningful stories and Persian poetry (Hafez & Sa’adí).   Nuts, fruits (especially pomegranate and watermelon) and Persian sharbat (home made fruit cordials) are the key features of this tradition. The red...

Growing up I shied away from my Iranian heritage. I could understand & speak with my extended family but never wanted to read or write. I was never inspired to. Now I have a family of my own, I longed to converse & read books to my children in my mother tongue. This proved rather challenging, as I was illiterate. I was determined to find a way. Using the familiar phonetics of English. I paved the way for learning as I taught my children. Learning each letter as a building block, I was able to piece together the puzzle of...

Having tried and failed the conventional "Farsi School" I realised I needed some help from the English Letters.

Utilising the familiar phonetics of the English alphabet, Englisi Farsi utilises the recognition of phonetic sounds associated with the letters to help families that cannot read the persian Alphabet, Learn and read along with their families. 

On 16 September 2022, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman named Mahsá Zhiná Amíní, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. Amini's death resulted in a series of protests inside Iran & around the world.  These fateful events have sparked a transformational shift in the Iranian diaspora. Bringing us together in a common love of our motherland & hope for change. Change in the form of a more just [edálat], equal [barábar] and free [ázád] future for our Iranian brothers & sisters. The music & art that has emerged from these peacful protests and calls for justice have moved...