The Haft-Seen display at Babylon’s burned Book City is an image of life’s victory over the ashes of the past.

It is an image of us: finding, at the height of winter, an invincible summer within ourselves and stepping with firm feet toward the spring of our land.

The endurance and continuity of our history bear witness that we are stronger than everything that has ever happened to us.

In memory of those whose names became eternal in the year that has passed, who were the most loving among the living...

Happy ancient Nowruz.

Aydin Areta