"Even though she's a member of what she describes as 'the privileged population,' Shararah and her family have been affected by food insecurity. 'We have depleted our savings and reached a point where we try to cook things that need the least amount of groceries and will turn out bigger in amount. Like many people, we avoid eating meat and eat mostly things with rice or plain bread.' The cupboards, once chock-full of nuts and dried fruit, are now meager, she says. 'Right now, we only have small amounts of almonds and walnuts, and I don't think we can make haft mewa with two things.' But, she insists, 'It's OK.'
'Our Nowruz table this year will maybe look like dinner from last night, but I know my sister will still make an effort to make it special,' Shararah says. 'Even if we don't have an extravagant sofra, we will still visit my uncle and have some home-baked bread together. It's going to be simple; it's going to be small; but it's going to be something. No one is going to stop this celebration.'"
~ Simran Sethi
"Persian holiday Nowruz is celebrated in Afghanistan despite the Taliban ban" : NPR
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