Ihab Al-Laweeh
Yalladabka founder and social and IT entrepreneur building community through Dabke, facilitation, and cultural exchange.
Leadership Perspective
“In Dabke, everyone enters the same rhythm. We hold hands, move together, and become part of one shared body. In that moment, language matters less, because the dance itself is what unites us.”
Ihab Al-Laweeh
Reach
Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Stockholm, Ramallah, Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Pavia, Turin, Milan, Cabezon, and Beziers
Formats
Dabke Roots, DabkeFit, open community evenings, workshops, and performances
Context
Schools, festivals, organisations, public events, and artistic collaborations
Professional Overview
Ihab Al-Laweeh is the founder of Yalladabka and a Palestinian-German social and IT entrepreneur working through Dabke, facilitation, and community exchange.
Profile
Ihab is a Palestinian-German social and IT entrepreneur based in Germany. He founded Yalladabka in Berlin in 2017 to bring the art and culture of Dabke into communities across Europe and Morocco.
Core practice
His work combines Dabke coaching, workshop leadership, community facilitation, public events, and the continued development of social formats through Yalladabka.
Signature format
DabkeFit connects traditional Dabke movement with fitness and coordination training so the practice stays energetic, social, and accessible.
Yalladabka
What began as an open invitation in Berlin developed into a recurring community practice built around movement, cultural continuity, and shared experience.
Founder and Practice
This page presents Ihab Al-Laweeh consistently as Yalladabka founder and as a social and IT entrepreneur building community through Dabke.
For Ihab, Dabke is more than choreography. It is a social language of rhythm, belonging, and memory that helps people meet one another without needing long explanation.
His work moves between teaching, facilitation, and community building. The focus is the moment when a room of strangers starts to move as one and trust begins to form through shared motion.
From Berlin, this approach has grown into workshops, courses, performances, and community formats across Germany, Europe, and Morocco.
Contact
For workshops, collaborations, artistic partnerships, and cultural programming.
- yalladabka@gmail.com
- @yalladabka
- https://www.yalladabka.de/en
Selected Initiatives
Key initiatives, workshops, and public formats led through Yalladabka.
Hamburg / January 2025 - present
DABKA & DABEKAH
A Dabke course for children, women, and mixed groups that creates a shared dance space across different backgrounds.
Rabat / January 2025 - present
Rabat project
An ongoing exchange exploring how Levantine and North African rhythms can meet in one room through movement and facilitation.
Berlin / 2016 - 2018
Cooking and Dabka evenings
A social format where cooking and dancing helped strangers sit together, talk, and step into the same circle.
Hamburg / 2020
COVID-19 online series
A digital continuation of the practice during lockdown, keeping community rhythm and participation active online.
Hammer Park, Hamburg / 2020
Open-air Dabke
Outdoor sessions that brought Dabke into public space as an open invitation to gather, move, and connect.