Shayna M. Silverstein

Chapter Five: Conflicting Movements

supplementary media for Fraught Balance

Clip 5.1

posted to YouTube on November 2011

“The Holiday of Cursing Hafiz’s Soul,” Kafr Rouma. November 2011. 

Clip 5.2

“Yalla Irhal Ya Bashar” (also known as “Syrian Revolutionary Dabke”) by Ibrahim Qashoush

Clip 5.3

“Nahna Rijalik Ya Bashar” by Rami Kzaour

Clip 5.4

“Syria – Assad Soldiers Dance as Rebels Outlaw Music – Freedom VS Jihadi Islamist Slavery” posted to YouTube on May 2015

Dabke session in the military barracks

Clip 5.5

FSA fighters dabke during a break

Clip 5.6

posted to YouTube on May 2015

“Syria Soldiers dance Dabke as FSA Opposition Outlaws Music & Dance”

Clip 5.7

posted to Liveleak in 2013

Syrian officers dabke around a compound

Clip 5.8

posted to YouTube on February 2018

“Syrian Army soldiers dancing before the start of the Battle of Eastern Ghouta”

Clip 5.9

Originally posted by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on Twitter.

Raqqa Women’s Council opening celebration. Raqqa, Syria. August 2018

Clip 5.10

Original caption: “The Syrian Observatory monitors “Women Dabke dance” within the sit-in of Tal Abyad to denounce the Turkish military operation on the east of the Euphrates.” Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Tal Abyad demonstration, 2019.
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