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Dabke

Arts & Life
10:08 am
Thu September 19, 2013

Palestinians Celebrate Culture Through Dabke Dance

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Al Hannouneh Society Dancers perform dabke, a popular folk dance performed at Arab weddings.
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A dabke dancer with Al Hannouneh Society For Popular Culture plays the part of a Palestinian bride. She shows off her hands, which were applied with henna.
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A dancer applies henna to a bride for her wedding.
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In Palestine and Greater Syria, an ancient custom was that the daughter of the sheikh, the master of the tribe, would fight or dance with the single men of the tribe. The man who was able to grab her handkerchief won the right to marry her.
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Lina Baddar, 23, from Jordan, practices the dabke steps backstage, before the performance.
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Before the show, Lina Baddar, 23, holds an alumnimum foil dagger as she looks over the dabke steps.
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Dancers re-enact a Palestinian wedding scene through dabke.
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Outside the auditorium, local Palestinians sell oil from the olive trees in Nablus, t-shirts and jewelry.
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As part of the Al Hannouneh Society for Popular Culture's traditional dress project, thobes made by Palestinian women who still live in Jordan's refugee camps are sold.
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A flavor of Palestinian culture was on stage last weekend at Queen University.  A dozen dancers from the Palestinian territories and Jordan were in Charlotte to perform a traditional folk dance called dabke. The performance was part of an eight-city U.S. tour. 


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