Dabke, literally meaning “to stomp the feet” in Arabic, is a popular folklore line dance native to Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, widely performed on joyous occasions like weddings.

Unfortunately, we are completely at a loss to know whether the Jews of ancient Palestine ever succeeded in developing a style of dancing that was characteristically their own, as they succeeded in ...

Exodus 15:20. In the days before the Diaspora (the dispersal from Palestine), the Jews were a dancing people. As they wandered over the face of the earth they took up the dances of other nations ...

Some of Eskendrella's inspirations include famous Egyptian musicians ... Ahmed Fouad Negm and Amin Haddad. Palestine International Festival for Music and Dance was founded in 1993 to overcome ...