{"id":61881,"date":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/61881\/9-eid-traditions-you-can-never-escape-in-lebanon"},"modified":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"9-eid-traditions-you-can-never-escape-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/61881\/9-eid-traditions-you-can-never-escape-in-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Eid Traditions You Can Never Escape In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not even lockdown can kill these Eid traditions. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. The awkward phone calls.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/kG9xEP5oZLMVh3wYRQ\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Doesn&#8217;t matter if you haven&#8217;t seen them in years or can barely remember their names, when your relatives call for Eid, you answer. So brace yourself for an awkward conversation filled with &#8220;lhamdella&#8221;s and &#8220;nshalla&#8221;s.  <\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. Waking up at the crack of dawn.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/jG5uIKBfJyouY\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  After a month of sleeping all day and staying up all night, that first day of Eid will slap you right back into reality. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. The ma3moul overdose.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Our favorite Eid tradition? Stuffing our face with ma3moul like there&#8217;s no tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. The riz b la7meh<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/3og0IBdJDTIYUMk0rm\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Is it really Eid if your teta doesn&#8217;t put a pile of rice on your plate?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. The Eid outfits.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  All documented on Instagram. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. Celebratory fireworks and the occasional gunfire. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/9umH7yTO8gLYY\/giphy.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Is this really necessary?<\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. The repetitive questions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <i>&#8220;Shu emta ha nefrah fik\/e?<\/i>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>  Yup. You&#8217;ll receive these face to face, by text, by phone, by fax&#8230; They&#8217;ll even send a carrier pigeon if they have to. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. The disappointed glares from your parents.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gifimage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/disgusted-look-gif-5.gif\"width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Often when a family member is talking about their soon-to-be-married child while you&#8217;re still single forever. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>9. The 3idiye prayers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  You desperately need a 3idiye this year, and preferably in dollars. <\/p>\n<p>  But look at the bright side, at least this year you&#8217;ll avoid the whole two kiss\/three kiss confusion!<\/p>\n<p>  Eid Moubarak!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not even lockdown can kill these Eid traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-61881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>9 Eid Traditions You Can Never Escape In Lebanon<\/title>\n<meta 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