LAWRENCE — Music will pulse and food will abound at Mahjaran, a three-day festival where the sounds, sights and smells embody the feel of a Lebanese village.

Since coming to campus as an official organization this summer, the University of Minnesota’s Arab Dabke Club (ADC) has started to build membership.. According to its mission statement, the club’s ...

Dabke, literally meaning “to stomp the feet” in Arabic, is a popular folklore line dance native to Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, widely performed on joyous occasions like weddings.

The two men estimate their dabke dance video has been viewed more than 3,000 times, mainly by people in Palestine, including Rayyan's mother back home. "My mother said 'Mohammed, take me please ...

Led by Israeli-born Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner, ZviDance will premiere DABKE, a contemporary dance inspired by this ancient Middle-Eastern folk dance, and COUPLING. ZviDance's home season ...

Dabke, a traditional folk dance, has long been a symbol of Palestinian expression, identity and resistance. “Our people in Palestine blessed us with the gift of dabke,” said Ahmad Hamdan, ...

A dance crew is teaching displaced children in Gaza a traditional Palestinian dance form called dabke. The hope is it can provide some psychological reprieve in the midst of Israel’s brutal war.

Watch Dabke in Dubai: Arab expats share their love for the Levantine folk dance. Dabke marks weddings and celebrations. Check out the masterclass at the end of the story.

The troupe’s dancers wear colorful, traditional costumes for dabke, a folk dance popular in many Levantine countries, including modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan.