A proponent of the Iranian tradition says she can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without ...

Yalda Night, or Shab-e Yalda (also spelled Shabe Yalda), marks the longest night of the year in Iran and in many other ...

PESHAWAR: The ancient Persian festival ‘Shab-i-Yalda’ was ... sweets and beverages for guests with sharing stories and poetry were the main feature of the annual festival.

Yalda Night, one of the oldest Iranian traditions, is often misunderstood as the birth of Mithra, but historians clarify it ...

Erev Yalda is a new ritual that finds beautiful meaning in combining Hanukkah with the ancient Persian tradition of Yalda.

seek guidance in the poems of the celebrated Persian poet Hafez, drink hot tea, and, of course, eat. The ceremony of staying up all night goes by the wonderfully descriptive term “night ...

was inspired by Persian’s great poet Hafiz Sherazi’s poetry. The title page of Payam-i-Mashriq said that it was in reply to ...

In his long epic poem, “Jacob and the Wolf,” the poet re-imagines the story of how Joseph’s brothers, the sons of Jacob, sold ...

especially singing the writings of the iconic Persian poet Hafez, and the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, another Persian poet, until well after midnight," he said. On this evening, they usually have ...

He was the earliest known Jewish-Persian poet. We know very little about him, except that he seemed to have lived at the time of the great lyrical poet Hafiz — sometime in the 1300s. And ...