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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Silly things will be written about this record, so let me emphasize up top that, overhyped or not, a fine record it is, and fine in a distinct way. But with Omar Souleyman — especially as heard ...

The Morse Crescent Theater transformed on Saturday into a space of celebration and shared heritage as Yale’s dabke team hosted its fall showcase. The event was co-sponsored by the Modern Arabic ...

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 ...

For hundreds of years, dabke, a frenetic line-dancing music, has remained a staple of weddings and celebrations in the Levantine Middle East. In the 1990s, the genre’s musicians discovered samplers ...

During the Lebanese civil war the Beirut downtown area, previously the home of much of the city’s commercial and cultural activity became a no man’s zone known as the Green Line. Many inhabitants fled ...

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, ...