A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine
by
Nicholas Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, and rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century...