{"id":324776,"date":"2026-05-20T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:34:08","slug":"uc-davis-school-of-medicine-ceremony-turns-into-viral-proposal-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324776\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Davis School of Medicine ceremony turns into viral proposal moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A marriage proposal at the UC Davis School of Medicine commencement ceremony is going viral.<\/p>\n<p>The school held its graduation ceremony this past weekend. One of the graduates was medical student Habib Salamah.<\/p>\n<p>As is custom at medical school graduations, Salamah was joined on stage by family \u2014 and by his partner, Dr. Alaa&#8217;i Alshabrawy, a 2025 medical school graduate and current UC Davis Health internal medicine resident.<\/p>\n<p>After being hooded and pausing for photos, Salamah dropped to one knee and asked Alshabrawy to marry him.<\/p>\n<p>In the video now seen by millions, Alshabrawy appeared genuinely surprised and nodded &#8220;yes.&#8221; The couple was then applauded by the crowd of more than 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Salamah said Alshabrawy&#8217;s father gave his blessing before the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Alshabrawy is of Egyptian background, UC Davis said, while Salamah was partly raised in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A marriage proposal at the UC Davis School of Medicine commencement ceremony is going viral. The school held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,8229],"class_list":["post-324776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-uc-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}