Farid (Ali) Nouri is one half of Peace Bureau. Farid has been the owner and music curator of Eighteenth Street Lounge in Washington, DC since it opened in 1995. He has over 25 years of entrepreneurial and management experience. Growing up in the outskirts of DC, Farid attended the University of Maryland. Realizing that music was his passion, he scored his first deejay gig in 1991.