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More than twenty protestors staged an Arabic folk dance called dabke, chanted anti-Israel slogans, and held up signs with phrases like “Batsheva, Proud Ambassador of War Crimes” as part of a new focus to boycott Israeli cultural groups.
The protest against Israeli dance.... GayandRight 2009
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The dabke is a big favorite with Frances and Mercedes.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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The dabke is a big favorite with Frances and Mercedes.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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The dabke is a continuous series of small lilting steps in quarter-swirls which sway your hips, laze your shoulders back and forth and breeze your arms like treetops over your head.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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The dabke is a continuous series of small lilting steps in quarter-swirls which sway your hips, laze your shoulders back and forth and breeze your arms like treetops over your head.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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Omar Souleyman's approach to the Arabic wedding music and dance known as dabke features sampled beats melded with pleasingly overdriven melodic passages played on a keyboard and drawn partly from Kurdish, Iraqi, and Syrian sources (all masterfully played by his longtime accompanist Rizan Sa'id).
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2010
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After winning the record, the chefs gathered around their dish and sang the Lebanese national anthem and joined hands in a traditional Lebanese dance, called "dabke," in celebration.
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With his home country in the news due to renewed violence and uprisings, it's crucial this week that one of Syria's sharpest musical exports, dabke star Omar Souleyman, visits New York City once again.
Americana, Syriana Andy Beta 2011
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With his home country in the news due to renewed violence and uprisings, it's crucial this week that one of Syria's sharpest musical exports, dabke star Omar Souleyman, visits New York City once again.
Americana, Syriana Andy Beta 2011
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Protestors locked arms and skipped back and forth as part of the dabke dance, with others simply holding up placards or joining in a chant led by a rapper.
The protest against Israeli dance.... GayandRight 2009
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