{"id":7877,"date":"2021-01-15T12:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/?page_id=7877"},"modified":"2021-01-15T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:28:28","slug":"behbahani-siavash-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/education\/extracurricular\/art-in-the-department\/celebrating-my-culture\/behbahani-siavash-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Behbahani, Siavash Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Siavash Behbahani and celebration of his\u00a0 Persian Culture<\/h2>\n

Yalda Night, or \u201cShabeh Yalda”<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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As you might know I am Iranian, and we celebrate Persian culture.<\/p>\n

Today, as we are experiencing cold weather, I\u2019d like to share with you an\u00a0 upcoming holiday called, Yalda Night, or \u201cShabeh Yalda\u201d, which celebrates \u201cthe longest and darkest night of the year.\u201d This is essentially, the night before the first day of Winter (no reference to Game of Throne\u2019s Winter is coming- hahah), and falls generally on Dec 20th\/21st.<\/p>\n

In this long, cold, and dark night, friends and family get together to eat, drink and read poetry to provide a warm, supportive, spiritual, unified, and fun ambience. Candles and certain colorful seasonal fruits, such as pomegranate and watermelon, as well some nuts, are served as snacks. There is a significant focus on poetry which provides a spiritual and\/or romantic ambience for the night. As a result, Haafez\u2019s poetry book, one of the major poetry books in persian culture, is always placed on the table with the candles\/food.<\/p>\n

Obviously, due to covid people are not celebrating it physically, but interestingly, I have been invited to some virtual events, so I am glad I\u2019d get my healthy dose of poetry this month.<\/p>\n

There are few very unique dates that come from ancient Persian culture, the most important one is\u00a0 the New Year, called Norouz, which is the first day of spring (March 21st-ish).<\/p>\n

Return to Celebrating My Culture Program<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Siavash Behbahani and celebration of his\u00a0 Persian Culture Yalda Night, or \u201cShabeh Yalda” As you might know I am Iranian, and we celebrate Persian culture. Today, as we are experiencing cold weather, I\u2019d like to share with you an\u00a0 upcoming holiday called, Yalda Night, or \u201cShabeh Yalda\u201d, which celebrates \u201cthe longest and darkest night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18282,"featured_media":0,"parent":7780,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7878,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7877\/revisions\/7878"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}