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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Omar Souleyman is a singer from Hasakah, Syria, who plays a techno-ish version of dabke, an Arabic folk music usually heard at weddings. He performs in a red-and-white checkered keffiyeh, dark glasses ...

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 ...

Drawing from Kurdish and Turkic music, Iraqi choubi, and the dabke, Souleyman makes a modernized blend of old musics that collide in the modern Middle East. Save this story Save this story Most of ...

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, ...