Advent Calendar Day 12: Global!

~ clamorousvoice
Decorated trees, lit buildings, and Father Christmas in Beijing, China.
A woman wearing a niqab is photographed alongside a shop selling Christmas decorations in Cairo’s Shubra neighbourhood. Photograph: Odd Andersen, AFP.
An underwater Father Christmas in Malaysia, 2010.
The Bolshoi Theatre at Christmas, Moscow, Russia.
A Nigerian woman prays on the beach at Lagos, Christmas Day 2011. Photograph: Reuters.
The Apollo Theatre, 125th Street, Harlem, New York, illuminated for Christmas.
In Chandigarh, India, little schoolchildren dressed as Santa Claus sing Jingle Bells (and do the actions!). Photo: Reuters.
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Dr Sophie Duncan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. She works regularly as a historical advisor and dramaturg for theatre, TV, radio and film. She likes theatre, Victoriana, detective fiction and cocktails.

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