dabke's all about freedom and happiness and gathering everybody together ina circle. idea of dub—key, it's breaking it basically down into two — it's the dub and the key. it's the key that our grandparents kept in their hands, hoping that one day they will come back to their homes that they were displaced from in 1948 as palestinians. but they still kept the key and they pass it on and this is like our very traditional, like it's one of the core foundations of our identity as people. because what made us as a people? it's our displacement. from the moment you displace people, they will always long for that place back and they will never forget it. we are refugees in our own homeland, and we are third—class citizens at the same time. so this is an action of reclaiming identity and reclaiming roots that we have been banned from acquiring and developing normally, as any normal society in the world. we are under apartheid. how can i accept that as a native, as indigenous? you know? impossible. i find music, it is very connected to war, in a way. it started with the first