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Tirgan in the World

September 2026
Behind the scenes

Yes, Tirgan is going around the world. Where's our first stop? You'll have to come back next month for that — not because we don't know, but because we're still finalising it, and we don't make promises we can't keep yet. It is coming.

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Twenty years in Toronto. More than a million people through the gates. Around five thousand volunteers, most of whom arrived the same way — looking for friends, or a way back to their roots, or somewhere to feel a little less misplaced. Looking for home. And they never got around to leaving.

Tirgan now runs from two hubs: Toronto, and a second in the United States through Friends of Tirgan USA, a registered 501(c)(3). Two countries, one organisation, one pattern continuing.

Help Your Community By…

The ask

Staying close. That is genuinely most of it.

A diaspora becomes a network the moment enough people are paying attention to the same thing at the same time. You are already doing the hard part by reading this.

And by telling us what's happening where you are.

An exhibition in Hamburg. A startup in Dubai. A film screening in São Paulo. A researcher whose name should be better known. A restaurant worth crossing a city for. A rising star, a new innovation, anything Iranians everywhere should hear about.

We cannot publish what we don't know. Send it — one line is enough.

Next editionWe announce the first stop of the Tirgan World Tour.
Where it lands, when, and what it will take to build it.