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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.
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.
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
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.
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 ...
The traditional dances of the Middle East (Arabic: رقص شرق أوسطي) (also known as Oriental dance) span a large variety of folk traditions throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. For detailed information on specific dances of the region, see the main entries as follows:
Mezmar or mizmar (Arabic: مزمار al-mizmar) is a traditional group performance and stick song-dance that is performed by in the Hejaz region in western Saudi Arabia for festive occasions such as wedding and national events.
Ardah, a type of folkloric dance, is the most popular dance in Saudi Arabia, and also the national dance. [9] It is performed with two rows of men opposite of one another, each of whom may or may not be wielding a sword or cane, and is accompanied by drums and spoken poetry. [10] Najdi ardah is the most common variant of ardah in Saudi Arabia ...