Choreographer Zvi Gotheiner has no way to tell the Syrian singer Ali al-Deek how well his music went over in Washington this weekend. Hopefully he is still alive, and safe. For now, Deek's Arabic folk ...

Dabke marks weddings and celebrations. Check out the masterclass at the end of the story Dabke troupes in the UAE speak to Gulf News on the Levantine tradition and what the art form means for the ...

The traditional Levantine dance form is enjoying a renaissance as a new generation of artists introduce it to a younger audience/ “For me, it’s the voices of the mountain,” says the Lebanese musician ...

Repertory Dance Theatre, a revolutionary institution of modern dance, will close their 51st season of revolutionary modern dance with DABKE, April 6-8, 2017 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

Since coming to campus as an official organization this summer, the University of Minnesota’s Arab Dabke Club (ADC) has started to build membership. The Dabke originates from the Levantine regions, ...

LONDON: “For me, it’s the voices of the mountain,” says the Lebanese musician Wael Koudaih, perhaps better known as Rayess Bek. “The singers always have these amazing, big, beautiful voices. Because ...

The sound of synchronized stomps filled Parkes Hall 122 during the Middle Eastern North African Student Association’s Dabke dance workshop Monday evening. The event doubled as a fundraiser, with entry ...

Many Lebanese social media users have shared a video of Lebanese men in Australia dancing the "dabke" – a folkloric Lebanese dance - in their own unique way. The video starts with men dancing normally ...

Al Asala Dabke is a Palestinian group that performs a dance called "dabke" at weddings and special events - the Arabic version of breakdancing. The dance is high energy and technical, and is performed ...

Israeli snipers, tear gas and smoke from burning tires couldn’t stop Palestinian protesters from performing the dabke, a traditional Arab folk dance, at the Gaza border fence on Friday (video above).

Since I’m not really much of a dancer, I usually sip scotch and eat kibbeh and sambousek at the Christian Maronite ceremonies I’ve attended—but at my cousin Joseph Rizkallah’s layliah, things got ...