Palestinians Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Dance==== The [[Dabke]], a Levantine Arab folk dance style whose local Palestinian versions were appropriated by Palestinian nationalism after [[Six-Day War|1967]], has, according to one scholar, possible roots that may go back to ancient [[Canaan]]ite fertility rites.<ref name=Canaan>{{cite book|last=Kaschl|first=Elke|title=Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine: Performing the Nation|date=2003|publisher=BRILL|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfRAsefaeVEC&pg=PA82|pages=71β82|isbn=978-9004132382|access-date=29 November 2023|archive-date=29 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129193731/https://books.google.com/books?id=OfRAsefaeVEC&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> It is marked by synchronized jumping, stamping, and movement, similar to tap dancing. One version is performed by men, another by women. <gallery> File:Debka.jpg|Palestinian [[Dabke]] folk dance being performed by men File:Betlehem woman dancing.jpg|Palestinian women dancing traditionally, [[Bethlehem]] c. 1936 </gallery> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page