Abdul Rahim Sarban Bero" is played in every Persian wedding as the bride walks to the aisle, in the same manner as Wagner's Bridal Chorus "Here Comes the Bride" is played each time a bride in the west walks the aisle. His song such as Ay Sarban is covered by hugely popular singers such as Googoosh (from Iran) and Ahmad Zahir from Afghanistan. Every successful musician from Ahmad Zahir to Farhad Darya cite him as one of their main influences. Sarban was born in Saragy, an old area of Kabul to the prominent and highly respected Mahmoody family. His father was a well
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky have gone the sound of a tumult like the fighting of two hundred Mexicans. As necessity bade him, he paused for breath or to reload his revolvers. Crane uses a vast amount of imagery in the story, for example; “...Crane used nautical imagery in “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” as a visual reminder of this westward movement. In the passenger-car with its “sea-green figured velvet”, a waiter, like a “pilot,” is “steering [Potter and his bride] through their meal”. Contemplating the best way to sneak into Yellow Sky undetected, Potter envisions himself as a boat, “a plains-craft” - to