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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 ...
The Baalbeck International Festival (Arabic: مهرجانات بعلبك الدولية, romanized: Mahrajānāt Baʿlabakk ad-Duwaliyya; French: Festival International de Baalbeck) is a cultural event in Lebanon. [1] Since 1955, people from around the world have gone to the city of Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon to attend the annual ...
The buzuq, which is an essential instrument in the Rahbani repertoire, is a hybrid instrument that is not classified among the classical instruments of Arab music or among those of Turkish music. However, this instrument may be looked upon as a larger and deeper-toned relative of the Turkish saz , to which it could be compared in the same way ...
Egyptians have Baladi people, Baladi bread, Baladi rhythms, Baladi music and Baladi dance. [27] [28] It is a folk/social form of bellydance. It is more stationary than raqs sharqi, with little use of the arms, and the focus is on hip movements. Baladi dance has a 'heavy' feeling, with the dancer appearing relaxed and strongly connected to the ...
The mijwiz is most popular today in the Levant (Lebanon, Syria and Jordan). Many popular folk songs either include the mijwiz on recordings, or include the instrument's name in the song's lyrics. One example is the famous Lebanese dabke song "Jeeb el Mijwiz ya Abboud" (Arabic: جيب المجوز يا عبّود ) by the singer Sabah.
The Mayyas (Arabic: مَيّاس) are a Lebanese all-female alternative precision dance group. The company has 36 dancers, and their routines are choreographed by Nadim Cherfan. The group's name means "the proud walk of a lioness" in Arabic.
Lebanese songs (2 C, 2 P) M. Music organisations based in Lebanon (3 C, 2 P) N. Number-one singles in Lebanon (16 P) R. Lebanese record producers (7 P) V.
Abdel-Halim Caracalla is the founder and the artistic director of the Lebanese dance company Caracalla Dance Theatre, a company which would evolve into the first and most prominent dance theatre of the Middle East, creating a new language based upon the disciplines of western technique intertwined with the identity, movement and traditions of Arab cultural heritage.