Oh wow, the comments here are hilarious.

I said it's a wedding because I have seen things like this at a wedding, Dabke is usually performed at weddings.

The empty tables and so on is natural, usually weddings last until 5 am and most people leave while the core family stays to celebrate further. I had to stay at a wedding till 4 am once filming. It got crazier the less people were there.

And jesus please stop homogenizing all arabs into neat lil' Islamic boxes you developed watching Fox News.

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>> ^Throbbin:
I'll get you a video of a square dance back home, where it's rocking so hard that there is actually a cloud of condensed sweat in the gymnasium, and you can feel it collecting on your skin. Now THAT's amazing!


Ewwwwww.

>> ^alizarin:
Can anybody explain why they are dressed non-conservatively (no hijab or whatever)... is this an arab wedding in the west or do the rules lax this much at family functions like weddings?


Nobody said they were Muslims.

The info on youtube says "Two girls in a discotheque in Syria". Not sure why Farhad thinks this is a wedding but I'm not saying he's wrong, either. He probably knows the culture better than most of us.

>> ^alizarin:
Can anybody explain why they are dressed non-conservatively (no hijab or whatever)... is this an arab wedding in the west or do the rules lax this much at family functions like weddings?


All the tables are empty so this is definitely a rehearsal, if it's even for a wedding. Also, the attire doesn't match an Islamic wedding - even if the family wasn't conservative, traditional clothes would almost definitely be worn.

A burqa is worn when a woman leaves the home, so it may not be required in a closed indoor setting.

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>> ^MaxWilder:
^I'm gonna guess it's because the Arab world is very large, and only a few places actually mandate the traditional dress codes. We're seeing a lot of the repressive side of the Arab traditions in the last few years, but that doesn't mean they all live that way. Far from it. That would be like looking at Utah and thinking that all westerners practice Mormon traditions, when in fact only a small percentage lives that way.


So you're saying that only a small percentage of Arabs live by the Islam traditions (hijab)?

>> ^EDD:
nochannel
music
teens
cute
and we've needed a dance channel for ages.
>> ^Farhad2000:
>> ^residue:
wigs
Not wigs, big hair and high lights.

Why then would the one dressed in silver be holding her hair like that 1:40-2:00?


I like the fact that when the money gets thrown onto the stage, they actually have to move, since doing what they where doing on a now loose surface, would have meant that this video ended up on break rather than youtube.

*nochannel
*music
*teens
*cute
and we've needed a *dance channel for ages.

>> ^Farhad2000:
>> ^residue:
wigs
Not wigs, big hair and high lights.

Why then would the one dressed in silver be holding her hair like that 1:40-2:00?

>> ^residue:
wigs

Not wigs, big hair and high lights.