Talk:Dabke

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reading all this I can only shake my head: People please grow up and just discribe the dance!
--Reyhan (talk) 10:36, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Has anyone heard his song "Vipir"? He based it on the debka. Go to george farmer to hear his work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.76.13.166 (talk) 01:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  George Farmer  

message: Hello, I have created an article called Palestinian/Jordanian Dabkeh. The reason I chose to do so as a separate article is because I wanted to make an article focusing on a specific group of people. But with wikipedia, I am getting these warnings of what should and shouldn't be done. Do you guys mind, whoever the creator of the article is, that I continue on with this article. Also note that it's a project I have to work on. Let me know what you guys think thank you.
wikiraw31 (talk) 03:40, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Concern about an article I am trying to create

message: Some user on here is unfortunately too close-minded to see beyond their own feet!
Dabka is the traditional folk dance of the Sinai Bedouins, especially in El-Arish (see: http://sharqigirl.over-blog.com/article-409153.html (page in French), and http://video.aol.com/video-detail/elarish-dabka-dance-in-egypt/4118861867 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4d_DdRmgBc).  The Sinai peninsula is geographically located in Asia and is culturally part of the Levant (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Levant_3.png).  
Egypt is a cuturally diverse country and different regions have their own traditional folk dances (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDFSl6z14U&feature=PlayList&p=688E052F8031D082&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30) especially from Time 2:40 to 3:00 of that video clip.
Cheers. (98.194.124.102 (talk) 02:49, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dabka is Egyptian too 

message: Dabke has nothing to do with Israel. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 12:46, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the article, and you will see that it does. By the way, your personal hang-ups are showing. Please tuck them in.--Gilabrand (talk) 13:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Your remarks don't even deserve an answer. If you continue this way, you will not be on Wikipedia for long.--Gilabrand (talk) 17:53, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Yes the dance has very little relation to do with Israel, yet the article still be within scope of project Israel. It doesn't matter who has which project tagged much, it matters how you improved it. So instead wasting time on discussing each other, you may try to improve the article. Kasaalan (talk) 18:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Israel must be removed 

message: Hello all, I'm a student at Georgetown's Masters in Arab Studies program and am a part of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative. Just wanted to give a heads up to the groups involved that I'll be doing research and edits on the origins and types of Debka, when it's danced, styles, etc.
--Naj87 (talk) 21:49, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome Naj87. I'll try to help out in whatever way I can. Cheers. ← George talk 22:05, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits coming :) 

message: I really enjoyed reading this article.  I want to read more about the types of Dabke, although that section was quite informative as-is.  Particularly the section on "Sahja", was very interesting - I wonder if this was the traditional precursor to freestyle battling!  Also, the language is appropriate for an encyclopedia article on this topic - a complicated one considering that it is an art form performed by the masses and doesn't lend itself to delineation.  I would like to see more on these types of dance, if such information exists, particularly those types with only a line or two of description.  Also, I want to know more about where this type of dance fits into the social fabric of the societies that take part in it - addressing the complication described above specifically.  So, for the artists who play instruments and sing, are there any status benefits or special respect paid to these individuals?  Are performances of this dance very common? - maybe a delineation of where and when they might be performed and with what frequency would be helpful.  There is some debate on this talk forum regarding regional prevalence of the dance, perhaps such a section would clear up a little of that confusion.  Amongst no roses (talk) 22:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The recent additions to the article flesh out many of the needed details and give the reader a real sense of the variety of dance and the variations within each type. Smoothly written and easy to understand and follow, and a rich source of information. A few suggestions for even more improvement: one suggestion is to make a serious bibliography, at the very least by copying some of the references and adding them to the bibliography. But there are more that one could add, including MacDonald's and Ladkani's dissertations. Another suggestion is to standardize language and spelling and to put the Arabic words in for the names that are in English. Sometimes is Dala Ouna, sometimes Ala Dala Ouna. You should put the Arabic in the first time it appears, at least. And then there is Samir (where the alif is indicated by one "a") but with Zareef the ya is indicated by double "e". If you put in the Arabic, it will be clearer how to say these, since no standard transliteration system is used in the article.
Radavis147 (talk) 17:05, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: comments

message: Hello!, Dabka is not from Levant it's naturally born in Iraq!, this is really an undertaken truth, the folkloric music of Levant is the same of Iraq from which they have taken it, they also use the Iraqi dialect and the Iraqi folkloric songs, but as long as there are only few Iraqi sites it will be undertaken because there are no sites for the folkloric, so everybody can add articles to the own site with the information he likes and that's why Dabka is considered as...Syrian but it's really not.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.170.211.140 (talk) 13:06, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Critical Error: Dabka is NOT from Levant

message: Choreographed dabkes (usually spelled debkas) are frequently danced in Israeli folkdance sessions, both inside and outside of Israel. Should this be mentioned in the article? Erniecohen (talk) 21:35, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the dancing of dabkes in Israeli folkdance be mentioned here? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: circles have centers not middle parts. 2605:E000:9143:7000:7129:3D1C:53E5:17CE (talk) 23:12, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, done, Huldra (talk) 23:28, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 January 2018 

message: The Wikipedia article has plenty of references to different Levantine populations  performing this dance besides “Arabs”. The article points, with sources, to the origins from Canaanites/Phoenicians and not Arabs. It therefore should not be referenced as a specifically “Arab Folk Dance”. The main description should be “Levantine Folk Dance” and then further broken down in the article which peoples perform it. Cohenonline (talk) 19:22, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know what you mean by Arabs in quotation marks, but we are not going back thousand years to where the dance originated. That's for the history section. We are in the present and in the present Dabke is universally recognized as an Arab folk dance performed by Arabs native to the Levant. Dabke is performed by Levantine Arabs primarily, foremostly, and also perfomed historically by Jews (and other religious minorites) that were living in the Levant. Regardless, it makes little difference because Arabs are "Levantine" also. JJNito197 (talk) 19:47, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Levantine Peoples Dance 

message: I added a wikilink to Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec = Yusuf Yazbek. Now Im not sure they are the same person (my impression after reading the comments of Red Phoenician). I read in the Arabic Wiki that the guy I added a link to his page was also a historian, but in case Im mistaken, revert me. Attar-Aram syria (talk) 11:30, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment: okay, it is certain that Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec is the guy I linked 1. Ofcourse, his political career doesnt negate his other work. He was not driven by ethnic ideology (a communist, hardly a Phoenician nationalist) and his views are not weakened by his agenda (again, a communist). He was however not an academic historian, but an amateur historian, yet had an honorary phd in the philosophy of history from the university of Sheffield.--Attar-Aram syria (talk) 11:39, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:   Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec 

message: Dabke is not general Levantine dance, since you want to include Israel and other countries in the Levant. It’s specifically a Levantine Arab dance specific to: Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan The word and history is specific to those countries. What other countries and groups of people call their circle line dances is irrelevant. Lebanesebebe123 (talk) 16:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dabke is not generalized Levantine dance  

message: No one single Levantine group has more claim over dabke than the other. All of the pictures and info is geared towards excessively mentioning Palestine only. Not enough info for the other countries Lebanesebebe123 (talk) 14:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone is editing page to show Palestinian bias for dabke