{"id":40,"date":"2009-04-12T20:14:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-06-13T20:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T20:30:46","slug":"happy-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/happy-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easter is a very special occasion for Christians and non-Christians alike in Egypt. For Christians, it celebrates Jesus Christ\u2019s resurrection (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0639\u064a\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0645\u0629<\/span>). It comes at the end of a 50-days fasting for Eastern Christians. Celebrating Easter typically lasts for a whole week, i.e. the last week of fasting, including celebrating Good Friday (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0639\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0632\u064a\u0646\u0629<\/span>), Ash Wednesday (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0623\u0631\u0628\u0639\u0627\u0621<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0645\u0627\u062f<\/span>), Thursday (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u062e\u0645\u064a\u0633<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0647\u062f<\/span>), Easter Saturday (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0633\u0628\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0648\u0631<\/span>) and Easter Sunday (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0639\u064a\u062f\u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0645\u0629<\/span>)<span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A good greeting expression for Christians on Easter would be (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u0639\u064a\u062f \u0633\u0639\u064a\u062f<\/span><span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">\u0648\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0645\u0629 \u0645\u062c\u064a\u062f\u0629<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Easter is also an ancient Egyptian occasion that is celebrated by almost all Egyptians regardless of religion or belief. In Arabic it is called (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0634\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0633\u064a\u0645<\/span>), and it celebrates the beginning of spring. It is celebrated on the Monday following Easter Sunday. It is a national holiday in Egypt. People celebrate (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0634\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0633\u064a\u0645<\/span>) outdoors by going out to parks and gardens. In the morning, children color eggs and eat them for breakfast. For lunch, people usually have salted fish (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0633\u0645\u0643 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0645\u0644\u062d \/ \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0633\u064a\u062e<\/span>) and leafy green vegetables. At night, there are special concerts, and they are usually broadcast live on radio and television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A general Egyptian greeting for special occassions like Easter is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\">\u0643\u0644 \u0633\u0646\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0646\u062a \u0637\u064a\u0628<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size: 15pt;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is a very special occasion for Christians and non-Christians alike in Egypt. For Christians, it celebrates Jesus Christ\u2019s resurrection (\u0639\u064a\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0645\u0629). It comes at the end of a 50-days fasting for Eastern Christians. Celebrating Easter typically lasts for a whole week, i.e. the last week of fasting, including celebrating Good Friday (\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0639\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0632\u064a\u0646\u0629), Ash&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/happy-easter\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9055,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/9055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}