The Premier of British Columbia, Canada, David Eby, extended Yalda Night greetings in Persian. In his message on the social ...
An ancient Iranian festival that basically celebrates the coming of the winter solstice and the longest night of the year for centuries is Yalda Night (or Shab-e Yalda; also ... the “Shov-e Avval-e ...
Yalda Night, or Shab-e Yalda (also spelled Shabe Yalda), marks the longest night of the year in Iran and in many other Central Asian and Middle Eastern countries. On the winter solstice ...
Alongside the miracle of light from Hanukkah, I grew up celebrating Shab-e Yalda, the ancient Persian winter solstice tradition. The mystics believed that on the year’s longest and darkest night ...
The attribution to dawn and the colour red further symbolises the victory of light over darkness, which is what the Yalda or Shabe Chelleh event is held in honour of. On this night, many candles ...