VIDEO: Dance Parties In The Rain | Bringing In The New Year, Kurdish Style

Well it’s only a week late, but here’s a short video Cayla and I put together from our time wandering the streets together on New Year’s Eve.

Clustered parties lined one of our city’s main drags for the last 6 hours of 2011. I’m always surprised at how furiously Kurds will celebrate the holidays of others, and this was no exception. Their cultural new year isn’t until March, but thousands of people still partied, ate and danced the year away.

It was an excellent ending to an excellent year.

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