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Runaway Barbara (هاشلة بربارة): A Happy Halloween!! Posted by jesa on Oct 31, 2012
While everyone is busy preparing their costumes and stacking up their candy, children in the Arab world, and specifically the Levant – Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon – impatiently await December 4 to celebrate their own version of Halloween, Saint Barbara’s Holiday( عيد القديسة بربارة). While the carving of pumpkins (لقطين) is not as…