Check out how we create, teach, learn and continue to grow our dabke experience and expertise as we dance dabke together.

Supporting Our Troupes.

Collaborations

A special performance with El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe in NYC featuring Dancers For Palestine and Boston Dabke Troupe.

Collaboration with renowned tabla/derbaki player Mohammad Karzon.

Dancing in Dearborn, Michigan with Banat Al Awda, an all-women’s Palestinian dabke group based in New Jersey.

Dancing with Ali from Mijana Zaffe Group in Dearborn, Michigan after a special tour of the Arab American Heritage Museum.

Dabke session with Jinan of Falasteeni Foodie.

Friendly dahiyi competition with local all-men’s dabke group Faris El Layl.

Teaching musician Chris Stylez Bacon how to dabke.

Dancing dabke with Crazylegz and Gogo dancers.

Co-hosted the 2024 and 2025 DC Arab American Culture Festival with Quartertonez Music.

Teaching and learning with our little cousin in Lebanon who dances with Al Assayel dabke group.

Original piece called “Alaa Dalouna” by Malikat Al Dabke members Sonia and Mae Abdulbaki’s brother, Alaa.

Bonded with Mary Mulcahey in Chicago - check out her dissertation: Dancing towards Equality: Creating Spaces for Women in Lebanese Dabke.

We’ve taken classes with Lebanon’s Zorba Academy, Lebanon’s Dabketna Academy and Palestine’s El Funoun to continue to grow our dabke expertise.

Dancing with a member from Lebanon’s Dabketna (Ali Masri) group in Beirut.

A very special collaboration with the warm and generous family-owned Z&Z Manoushe Bakery in Rockville, Maryland.

The NYC Dabke Festival

Arab Socials hosted a New York Dabke Festival in November 2024, where we performed, taught a workshop, and met the wonderful “Dabke Siblings” and activists Sima and Samer Bu Jawdeh who are part of the Nahda Project, Freedom Dabke group, Banat Al Keffiyeh dabke group and NYC Dabke instructor Zaki. We also got to see the groups perform, including Al Baydar dabke group.