… because they loved to show their emotions through song, dance and gesturing with their hands. Father stood by his … went. The staged performance [Heb. h izayion ] included a dance of Bat Yifta h who, with her friends, went out to … The next morning, I ran to Mother to tell her about the dance I had seen. She told me that Father had worked all …

… how the dabke , one of the region’s most popular folk dances, belonged to the Palestinian national struggle: We …