Ramallah, occupied West Bank – The energetic tempo, the stomping, and the ancient traditions. Dabke has a lot in common with various African dances, so Palestinian choreographer Sharaf DarZaid decided ...

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 ...

Zvi Gotheiner was sitting in a Lebanese restaurant in Stockholm a few years ago when his partner started dancing a simple line dance – the dabke, it was called – with the owner of the restaurant. The ...

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 ...

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.

As the beat of a heavy drum rings inside a practice room at the University of Washington, members of the Jafra Dabke Team, a Seattle-based Palestinian dance group, kick their legs and fiercely stomp ...

A Charlotte dance group rooted in Palestinian tradition is inviting the community to witness the art of Dabke — a centuries-old stomping, synchronized folk dance — at its seventh annual showcase this ...

As the son of a migrant Lebanese mother and an incandescently white Aussie dad, you can take one look at me and know I’m not a ‘real Leb’. Since I’m not really much of a dancer, I usually sip scotch ...