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 ...

Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox. The sound of synchronized stomps filled Parkes Hall 122 during the Middle Eastern North African Student ...

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, ...

As the Palestinian identity continues to be threatened with violent erasure, young Palestinians turn to their folk dance, the dabke, to assert their existence. From its humble beginnings as a worker’s ...

Displaced trainer launches initiative to provide recreational, psychological support for girls who endured years of war, displacement 'We forgot for a while the pains of war and the difficult years we ...