'Sham' is the Arabic name for the region of Greater Syria, Syria-Palestine or the Levant.
The term 'Shamstep' was coined by the Jordanian-Palestinian band 47Soul to describe their music.
'[4] The band has stated that it believes the region of Sham is "too divided with borders...
[6] Other musicians who play similar forms of Dabke using electronic instruments include Omar Souleyman, and Egyptian groups like Islam Chipsy, whose music is seen as part of the Egyptian new wave called Shaabi or Electro Shaabi.
[7] AlAraby has described 47 Soul's music as a "reinterpretation of traditional Arabic instruments, modal scales and rhythms found in chobi and mijwiz wedding music - and paralleled in the Egyptian electro-shaabi scene".