While the use of a korsi is not common outside of Iran, Iranians in the diaspora create similarly inviting setups for their own Yalda celebrations. On this longest and darkest night of the year in ...

The mystics believed that on the year’s longest and darkest night ... Persian new year, coincides with Passover, I can no longer imagine celebrating Hanukkah without poetry or Yalda without ...

For Yalda Night, a Persian celebration of the winter ... back to around 500 B.C., Iranians stay up until dawn to see the new sun that is born in the morning; yalda means “birth” in Persian.

But on Shab-e Yalda, the celebration ... first sunrise after the darkest night of the year. Katayoun Sabet and Mehrdad Ariannejad make time to be around new friends in downtown Toronto For ...