Creating and dancing dabke together. 

Collaborations

A special performance with El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe in NYC.

Collaboration with renowned tabla 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.

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.

Learning with Dabketna group based in Lebanon and dancing with one of their members 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, 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.