What is the DEBKAfile that is named after an Arab folk dance native to the Levant countries?
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Debkafile DEBKAfile (Hebrew: תיק דבקה‎ ‎ ) is an Israeli military intelligence website based in Jerusalem, providing commentary and analyses on terrorism, intelligence, national security, military and international relations, with a particular focus on the Middle East. It is available in both English and Hebrew. The word "Debka" refers to an Arab folk dance.
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Dabke Dabke (Arabic: دبكة‎ ‎ also spelled Dabka, Dubki, Dabkeh, plural Dabkaat), is an Arab folk dance native to the Levant countries. Dabke combines circle dance and line dancing and is widely performed at weddings and other joyous occasions. The line forms from right to left. The leader of the "dabke" heads the line, alternating between facing the audience and the other dancers. In English, its name is also transliterated "dabka", "dabki", "dabkeh".
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Maqam al-iraqi Iraqi Maqam (Arabic: المقام العراقي‎ ‎ ) is a genre of Arabic maqam music found in Iraq that is at least four-hundred years old. The ensemble of instruments used in this genre, called "Al-Chalghi al-Baghdadi", includes a "qari' " (singer), "santur", jawza, "tabla" or dunbug/dumbeg, and sometimes "riqq" and naqqarat. The focus is on the poem sung in classical Arabic or an Iraqi dialect (then called "zuhayri"). A complete maqam concert is known as "fasl" (plural "fusul") and is named after the first maqam: bayat, hijaz, rast, nawa, or husayni.
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Liwa (music) Līwa (Arabic: ليوه‎ ‎ / ALA-LC: "laywah") is a traditional dance of African origin performed in Eastern Arabia (Arab states of the Persian Gulf), mainly within communities of descendants of people from the Swahili Coast (Tanzania and Zanzibar). It is also performed by the African-descended Sheedi community, as well as the Baloch of Pakistan's Makran Coast and Karachi area.
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Soke (dance) sōkē or eke is a Tongan group dance performed with sticks which the performers hit against each other on the beat of the drum. It has some common elements with, but is a complete independent development from the English Morris dance. As with most Tongan dances, the whole performance is to dazzle the spectators and to please the chiefs. There is no hidden purpose.
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Itik-itik Itik-itik is a mimetic folk dance in the Philippines. It originated in Cantilan, Surigao del Sur. Itik-itik was discovered in this town by National Artist for Dance Francisca Reyes-Aquino. Originating from a dance called sibay and performed to the tune of "Dejado", the story was told that an expert young dancer named Cayetana at a barrio of Cantilan during a baptismal party had become so carried away with the rhythm that she began to improvise short, choppy steps similar to ducks and then splash water on their backs. The dance immediately became popular in the province for stage performances and social dancing. Later, Mr. Antonino Arreza, a native of Cantilan and a grandfather of Prospero Pichay, Jr. was believed be the one who compose the lyrics of Itik-itik. Below is original version of Itik-itik in native Cantilangnon dialect:<br>
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Konyali Konyali(Κόνιαλι) is a Turkish folkloric tune (Türkü).Konyali is a form of the Turkish folk dance Kaşık Havası.The meter is 4/4.The makam is hüseyni. Danced by the Greeks of Anatolia- Karamanlides, Cappadocian Greeks, Pontians and others. There are similar folkloric dance tunes known as "η βρακα" in Cyprus.
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Kolbastı Kolbastı is a popular Turkish dance. It was originally created in the 1930s in the seaport of Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey. Loosely translated, 'kolbastı' means 'caught red-handed by the police.' According to legend, the name comes from nightly police patrols of the city to round up drunks, who made up a song with the lyrics: 'They came, they caught us, they beat us' (in Turkish: 'Geldiler, bastılar, vurdular').
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Raqs sharqi Raqs sharqi (Arabic: رقص شرقي‎ ‎ , ] ; literally "oriental dancing") is the classical Egyptian style of belly dance that developed during the first half of the 20th century.
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Gavotte The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated according to one source. According to another reference, however, the word "gavotte" is a generic term for a variety of French folk dances, and most likely originated in Lower Brittany in the west, or possibly Provence in the southeast or the French Basque Country in the southwest of France. It is notated in or time and is usually of moderate tempo, though the folk dances also use meters such as and .
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Dawada The Dawada (Duwwud, Dawwada) is an Afro-Arab ethnic group from the Fezzan region of southern Libya. They live around the Gabraoun oasis, at the town of Murzuk, where they harvest brine shrimp in the salty lakes. They dry the brine shrimp and sell them to caravans. The name Dawada means "worm-folk" in Arabic due to this practice. The appearance of the Dawada is distinctive and has been likened to the Khoisan, perhaps a relict population. They are mostly an endogamic group which rarely marry outside of their tribe. They speak an Arabic dialect.
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Rugovo (sword dance) The Warrior dance of Rugovo (Albanian: "Vallja me shpata e Rugovës" , Serbian: Борбена руговска игра ) is a traditional sword dance named after the Rugova Canyon in Kosovo. There are two male dancers who fight a mock battle for the hand of a girl (a "maiden's dance"). It was made internationally famous by the Kosovo Albanian Rugova clans (hailing from Kelmend in Albania). It has been unreliably claimed that the dance was a historical "warrior training of the guard of the Monastery of Peć". The dance is also found in mountainous Montenegro, where a tribe of shepherds settled in the 18th century. It was part of Yugoslav folk dancing ensemble, and in 1982, it was noted that "in the last time the Rugova dance has gained wide popularity".
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Elazığ dik halay Elazığ dik halay (Karaçor)(Karachor) is a Turkish kochari folk dance. It is a form of circle dance.There are similar folk song known as Shoror . There are modern popular versions of this song, with Turkish lyrics, known as "İşte Hendek İşte Deve" in Turkey, one sung by Barış Manço. There are modern popular versions of this song, with Assyrian lyrics, known as "Kochari" in Russia, one sung by Loudmila Khoshaba. Kochari is a song from her Album of the year 2008, called "Nazdarta".
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Dagbon music and dance Dagbani music and dance is a core tradition of the Dagbamba or Dagomba people. The Dagbamba speak the Dagbani (more appriopriately Dagbanli) language. They are the dominant ethnic group in the chiefdom of Dagbon found in the Northern Region of Ghana. Music and dance plays a central role in Dagbon. It is through these arts that the Dagbamba have preserved their history over the centuries. The Dagbamba regard dancing as a form of emmotional expression, social interaction, a spiritual performance or even physical exercise that aids them articulate or illustrate ideas or tell a story. In most cases, music in Dagbon is accompanied by dancing in order to form a complete story.
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Lebang Boomani dance Lebang Boomani dance (also Lebang Bumani) is a harvest dance performed by the Tripuri people of Tripura, India. It is one of two dances associated with the Tripuris, the other being the Garia dance that is performed at the time of sowing crops.
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Shaabi Shaabi (Egyptian Arabic: شعبى‎ ‎ " Shaʻbī "  ] ) is an Egyptian musical genre. It is a form of popular working-class music which evolved from baladi in the second half of the 20th century.
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Sirtaki Sirtaki or syrtaki (Greek: συρτάκι ) is a popular dance of Greek origin, choreographed by Giorgos Provias for the 1964 film "Zorba the Greek". It is a recent Greek folkdance, and a mixture of the slow and fast rhythms of the hasapiko and hasaposerviko dance respectively. The dance and the accompanying music by Míkis Theodorakis are also called Zorbá's dance, Zorbas, or "the dance of Zorba".
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Marfa (music) The "Marfa" (Urdu: مرفع‎ ) is a form of celebratory rhythmic music and dance in Hyderabad, India, among the Hyderabadi Muslims, adapted from Afro-Arab music of Hadhramawt in Yemen. played with high tempo using Marfa (instrument) "daff", "Dhol", "sticks", "steel pots" and "wooden strips" called "thapi". The Chorus effects and vocal meter are set according to beats.
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Music of North Africa North Africa has contributed to popular music, especially Egyptian classical and el Gil, Algerian raï and chaabi ( internationally-known tubes such as " Ya Rayah "-Dahman El Harrachi or Aicha- Cheb Khaled) . The broad region is sometimes called the Maghreb (excluding Egypt), and the term Maghrebian music is in use. For a variety of reasons Libya does not have as extensive a popular tradition as its neighbors. Folk music, however, abounds, despite frequent condemnation and suppression from governments, and exists in multiple forms across the region—the Berbers, Sephardic Jews, Tuaregs and Nubians, for example, retain musical traditions with ancient roots.
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Gnawa music Gnawa music (Ar. غْناوة or كْناوة ) is a rich Moroccan repertoire of ancient African Islamic spiritual religious songs and rhythms. Its well-preserved heritage combines ritual poetry with traditional music and dancing. The music is performed at "lila", entire communal nights of celebration dedicated to prayer and healing guided by the Gnawa "maalem", or master musician, and their group of musicians and dancers. Though many of the influences that formed this music can be traced to sub-Saharan West-Africa, its traditional practice is concentrated in Morocco
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Kujawiak The Kujawiak is a Polish folk dance from the region of Kujawy in central Poland. It is one of the five national dances of Poland, the others being the krakowiak, mazurka, oberek, and polonaise.
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Croatian dances Croatian dance traditionally refers to a series of folk-dances, the most common being the kolo ("circle [dance]"). Croatian dance varies by region, and can be found throughout the various regions of Austria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Kosovo, Hungary, and Romania. The traditional kolo is a circle dance, where dancers follow each other around the circle, is relatively simple in form and widespread throughout other Slavic countries. Due to emigration, Croatian folk dance groups are prevalent throughout the diaspora, most notably the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany.