To celebrate our twenty-fifth anniversary, the Worldview team will be hitting the road from July 6-12, bringing you stories from Michigan and southern Ontario. Our first stop is Sunfest, the largest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Arab Student Association at the University of Michigan hosted its annual Arab Xpressions ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Just as much as it is a genre of music, dabke is a form of dance. The two work to reinforce one another ...

47SOUL are winning fans all over the Middle East, and poised to take the world by storm with their energetic sound and politically engaged lyrics. Less than two years old, they have been booked for UK ...

Before anyone in the West had ever heard of him, Omar Souleyman was already a star in northeastern Syria, where he was one of the most in-demand wedding performers in the region. Souleyman plays dabke ...

In Arabic, “dabke” means “stomping of the feet,” but in parts of the Middle East, it is also a traditional style of dance commonly performed at Arabic celebrations such as weddings. The UCLA Dabke ...

This year’s edition of the Palestine International Festival for Music and Dance will open on 27 July and will run until 8 August, with concerts scheduled to take place in Ramallah, Jenin, Jerusalem ...