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The M.E.C.A. Dance Ensemble dance during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
The Haft Seen table spread set by Maryam Khosrovani at the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
The Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival had sweet cakes for sale at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Board member Manous Richey smiles during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Executive Director Selina Ahmadzadeh and volunteer Susan Joulaee smile during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Secretary Fariba Toutounchian and Executive Director Selina Ahmadzadeh smile during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Micheal's cook Ali Javaheri mans the grill during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
Crystal Bass of M.E.C.A Dance Ensembles opens the first performance during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A Dance Ensemble dancers Crystal Bass and Shahar Perera perform a duet during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A. Dance Ensemble dancer Shahar Perera performs during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A. Dance Ensemble dancer Sabrina Mijares performs during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A Dance Ensemble Director Roshana Nofret leads the other dancers during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
The M.E.C.A. Dance Ensemble performs during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A Dance Ensemble dancer Shahar Perera performs during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
The M.E.C.A. Dance Ensemble performs during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A Dance Ensemble dancer Sabrina Mijares moves toward the crowd during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A Dance Ensemble Director Roshana Nofret twirls in the middle of the audience during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
M.E.C.A Dance Ensemble Director Roshana Nofret dances with Iranian-American Society Board member Manous Richey during the Iranian-American Society's Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18. Photo by Jarleene Almenas
The Iranian-American Society of Daytona Beach presented its fourth-annual Nowruz Festival at the Casements on Sunday, March 18, to celebrate the Persian New Year, a festivity that has been around for 4,000 years.
Nowruz celebrates the spring equinox and after thousands of years, it remains as the most important celebration for Iranians and the 300 million people in the neighboring countries who celebrate it as well. According to the Iranian-American Society, Persian Kings used to invite people of different religions and ethnicities from around the empire to court for Nowruz,
This festival has become the Persian New Year celebration for the Volusia County Community since its start in 2015.
