{"id":6601,"date":"2012-10-31T04:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2014-07-11T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:12:08","slug":"runaway-barbara-%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%b4%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-a-happy-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/runaway-barbara-%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%b4%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-a-happy-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Barbara (\u0647\u0627\u0634\u0644\u0629 \u0628\u0631\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0629): A Happy Halloween!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone is busy preparing their costumes and stacking up their candy, children in the Arab world, and specifically the Levant \u2013 Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon &#8211; impatiently await December 4 to celebrate their own version of Halloween, Saint Barbara\u2019s Holiday( \u0639\u064a\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u064a\u0633\u0629 \u0628\u0631\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0629).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the carving of pumpkins (\u0644\u0642\u0637\u064a\u0646) is not as popular in the Levant, children disguise (\u062a\u0646\u0643\u0631) in different costumes as they go from door to door asking for trick or treat ( \u062d\u0644\u0648\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u064a\u062f).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The treats are a traditional recipe \u2018katayif\u2019 (\u0642\u0637\u0627\u064a\u0641) and they consist of a soft dough (\u0639\u062c\u064a\u0646\u0629) filled with nuts ( \u062c\u0648\u0632) and pistachios (\u0641\u0633\u062a\u0642 \u062d\u0644\u0628\u064a) and topped with a sweet syrup (\u0642\u0637\u0631). In some villages, the Barbara Sweet consists of boiled wheat(\u0642\u0645\u062d) , raisins (\u0632\u0628\u064a\u0628) , anise (\u064a\u0627\u0646\u0633\u0648\u0646), pomegranate seeds (\u0628\u0630\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u0650\u0645\u0627\u0646) , and sugar(\u0633\u0643\u0631), which is also offered as a trick or treat to children in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their bellies filled with sweets, the children go around the city singing the traditional song of Saint Barbara\u2019s Holiday to commemorate forever her story.<\/p>\n<p>The myth tells of a young girl, Barbara, who wishes to spend her life in the service of God but whose father has betrothed to a pagan (\u0648\u062b\u0646\u064a) prince. She runs off to escape her unwanted marriage and Roman persecution (\u0627\u0636\u0637\u0647\u0627\u062f) by disguising herself with different costumes to hide her identity. As the story goes and the song narrates, she is eventually recognized through her eyes (\u0639\u064a\u0646\u064a\u0647\u0627) and her bracelet. The boiled wheat that is eaten on the eve of Barbara festival is a reference to the fields of wheat that she used to hide herself in to escape persecution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Berbara&quot; | \u0639\u064a\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0628\u0631\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0629\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9HIrFLvFDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Christian children around the Arab world celebrate her life through imitating her disguises so that her martyrdom (\u0634\u0647\u0627\u062f\u0629) for her faith does not go by unremembered. \u00a0A runaway Barbara is thus remembered through this holiday that resembles Western Halloween which we celebrate today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/10\/Happy-Halloween-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/10\/Happy-Halloween-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/10\/Happy-Halloween.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>While everyone is busy preparing their costumes and stacking up their candy, children in the Arab world, and specifically the Levant \u2013 Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon &#8211; impatiently await December 4 to celebrate their own version of Halloween, Saint Barbara\u2019s Holiday( \u0639\u064a\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u064a\u0633\u0629 \u0628\u0631\u0628\u0627\u0631\u0629). &nbsp; While the carving of pumpkins (\u0644\u0642\u0637\u064a\u0646) is not as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/runaway-barbara-%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%b4%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-a-happy-halloween\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":6606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3525,3],"tags":[4946,9663,512673,3213,8846,253692,913],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arabic-language","category-culture","tag-desserts","tag-festivities","tag-food","tag-halloween","tag-lebanon","tag-levant","tag-traditions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/9711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}