The article " Holiday culture in folklore and ethnocultural context " by Assoc. Prof. Dilbar Zeynalova, head of the Department of Languages and Literatures, was published in Turkey's prestigious “Academic Journal of History and Idea”( "Akademik Tarih ve Düşünce Dergisi") (Volume 9, Issue 3, 2022).

Referring to a number of well-known literary scholars and sociologists, the article examines the holiday culture as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon, focuses especially on the folklore and ethnocultural aspects of the holiday culture, and talks about the historical-ethnographic characteristics of Novruz and Eid al-Adha holidays, which are widespread in the Turkish world.

The full text of the article is in the link below:

https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/atdd/issue/72073/1009027