Middle Eastern gatherings can be complicated, like a chess game. We decided to take the Iranian Mehmooni and break everything down from a chess player’s perspective.
While in chess the objective is to checkmate the king, in Mehmooni you want to checkmate the queen. Thus, she is the most important player of the game.
The list of players and their functions will prove useful the next time you attend one of these events--you won’t walk out empty-handed.