Lost for words

As usual it’s been a long long time since my last post here, lots of things happened in my life, now I’m in England as a student instead of being in my beloved country Iran. These days are Christmas time in most of the world so “Merry Christmas” to all of you who celebrate this nice tradition. Many of my friends here ask me if we celebrate Christmas in Iran or not? my answer is always the same, No most of Iranians don’t and Yes some of them do celebrate christmas. A big majority which is Muslim don’t celebrate it as big as christmas day they just celebrate it as Jesus’s birthday. But for Iranian-Armenian minority and other christian minorities in Iran Christmas time is as big as western countries, We have a big population of Iranian-Armenian’s in Cities of Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz and Orumiyeh as far as I know. There is also a big Assyrian minority in Oumiyeh. If you go to their lovely neighbourhood’s you will find it as Christmasy as any other christian neighbourhood all over the world.

I searched a little on the web for christmas in Tehran and I find these nice pages, check here for cool photos of christmas shopping in Tehran, here you can also find a nice photo set of christmas in Tehran (the photo in this post is from this page), also make sure to check this post from ‘The Newshoggers’ blog; Christmas in Tehran and finaly read this intresting article by Dr. William Wedin, nicely titeld ‘A Christian Christmas in Snowy Iran‘ at least in Tehran my mates have snow for Christmas, here in England we even didn’t have that!