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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. "Lm3allem" by Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is the most-viewed Arabic music video with 1 billion views in May 2023. [1] [2] "Ya Lili" by Tunisian singer Balti with Hammouda is the second video to garner over 700 million views.
Khaleegy' or Khaliji (from Arabic خليج) is a mixture of modern style and traditional folkloric dance from the Persian Gulf countries of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The name of the dance literally means "gulf" in Arabic and it is
Arab girls dancing Khaleegy. Khaleegy (Arabic: خليجي) is a dance performed in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. [36] A long "Thawb" is worn which the dancer holds up in front. [37] There is a step with it, but the main feature is the hair tossing as the head swings from side to side.
Despite belly dance commonly being known in the West as Arabic dance or Middle Eastern dance, much of the modern Arab world and Islamic Middle East considers it a highly disreputable art-form; in certain regions it is even outlawed. [24] [25] Belly dance remains common in Egypt, where it has two distinct social contexts: as a folk or social dance.
According to Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec, a Lebanese historian, journalist, and politician, [9] the dabke descends from Phoenician dances thousands of years old. [10] According to Palestinian folklorists Abdul-Latif Barghouthi and Awwad Sa'ud al-'Awwad, the dabke jumps may have originated in ancient Canaanite fertility rituals related to agriculture, chasing off evil spirits and protecting young ...
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Almah or Almeh (Arabic: عالمة ʕálma IPA:, plural ʕawālim عوالم [ʕæˈwæːlem,-lɪm], from علم ʻālima "to know, be learned") was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. [1]
The yowlah is considered a victory dance, and it used to be performed after a victory in a tribal war or after returning from a successful pearl diving. The highly successful reality series Al Meydan on Sama Dubai took the yowlah (which was not widely known at the time) and created competition similar to the format American Idol whereby viewers ...