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A World Tour for the New Year 

Terms and conditions                                    View this email in your browser The UNESCO Courier | Season's Greetings A World Tour for the New Year   The Courier would like to wish all its readers  Season's Greetings  and invites them for a Happy New Year Tour on its "magic carpet" that travels through space and time.    When we welcome the New Year on 1 January 2019, we will be in the year 5779 of the Jewish calendar, 5119 of the Tamil calendar, 4717 of the Chinese calendar, 2561 of the Buddhist calendar, 1440 of the Muslim calendar, 1397 of the Persian calendar.   To celebrate the New Year 2019 of the Gregorian calendar, we present Nowruz, the New Year of the peoples who were once part of the Persian Empire. The festival is celebrated each spring by some 300 million people around the world.   "If we could travel around the world on a magic carpet and peep at the celebrations in the various countries, what a wonderful variety of customs we should find," said the Courier's editors in December 1955.    Are you ready to embark on our voyage now? Let's start with Iran!                                        Nowruz: The seeds of a new day Find previous issues Follow the Hashtag #UNESCOCourier Since its creation in 1948, the UNESCO Courier has been spreading an ideal throughout the world: humanity united in its diversity around universal values and fundamental rights, strong in the wealth of its cultures, knowledge and accomplishments     The UNESCO Courier 7 place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France courier@unesco.org Want to change how you receive these emails? You can subscribe, update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.