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An exciting and welcoming community event organised by a Palestinian woman living here in Mayo is taking place as 'Mayo ...
Middle Eastern Festival draws thousands each year to the West St. Paul church for a weekend of Lebanese food, Arabic music, dance and camel rides.
Butterflies in Cairo, songs in Bahrain, olive branches in Palestine, Henna Nights take many forms, but each one carries care, ...
The final night of Jazzablanca 2024 delivered a powerful blend of music, unity, and activism, featuring standout performances ...
Explore the stories behind iconic Arab folk dances like Dabke, Tanoura, and Ardah, and how they keep culture and tradition ...
Explore the stories behind iconic Arab folk dances like Dabke, Tanoura, and Ardah, and how they keep culture and tradition ...
The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...
Get ready to eat your weight in grape leaves and kibbeh. The annual St. Elias Middle Eastern Festival is back this weekend, bringing four days of homemade food, live music and traditional dancing to ...
To dance is to remember, to dance is to remember. This is how the description of the documentary "Dancing Palestine" by director Lamees Almakkawy begins. As Palestinian identity continues to be ...
Hadar’s work, which is the backbone of the film, grapples with Israeli folk dance’s appropriation of Palestinian dabka and, more broadly, Palestinian dispossession. She also explores the use and/or ...
Even the Palestinian folk dance “dabke” in which dancers perform in a line or semicircle and hold hands and shoulders is a symbol of resilience and resistance.