Shaden Qous, a 21-year-old Dabke dancer, is one of a few hundred Afro-Palestinians living in the Old City of Jerusalem, which lies under Israeli occupation. She has been attending DarZaid’s ...

"I think that is part of growing up in Israel," says the 62-year-old Gotheiner. ... "In the Arabic dabke, people dance holding hands with their shoulders very close.

"We deliver a message. It's not only dancing. We protect our heritage, our dances, our songs," Al-Nabali says. "We deliver a message to people, to remind them not to forget our heritage and their ...

Dabke is a native Levantine folk dance popular in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Iraq. Dabke combines circle dance and line dancing and is widely performed at weddings, festivals, and other ...

Learning dabke is not obligatory by any means, but Khaled Alagha, a 23-year-old customer relationship manager and member of Ard Kan'an, says it’s a family legacy.

Gotheiner began working on "Dabke" during the summer of 2011, when there were protests in Syria but not a civil war. The Israeli-born choreographer wanted to make a dance about the melding of Arab ...

Drawing from Kurdish and Turkic music, Iraqi choubi, and the dabke, Souleyman makes a modernized blend of old musics that collide in the modern Middle East. Most of what we hear about Syria ...

Mazhary decided to start the club because her mom taught her the Dabke growing up. A University alum, Mazhary’s mom was in a similar Dabke group in the late ‘90s and would always talk about the club.

Jafra Dabke Team’s Sunday performance in the Central District is a show of solidarity with the local Palestinian community and people in Gaza, where Israeli airstrikes had killed more than ...