When I turned 17, I wanted just one thing for my birthday: belly-dancing classes. The dance's beauty, grace and creative costumes, along with its strong connection to Arabic music, made it a natural ...

The government says it wants to protect homegrown practitioners of the seductive Middle Eastern dance ... performance in Egypt, and she said she was baffled and devastated, asking: "Are belly ...

And this season, she is Cairo’s reigning belly ... and performance, the Egyptian dancer holds her watchers in thrall for an hour. Dina represents the pinnacle of Oriental dance--belly dance ...

The shrinking Egyptian belly-dance community happily accepts ... that may or may not result in licenses for public performance. “We pay to dance,” said Aleya Pena, a California-born dancer ...

Salma Abdel-Salam, a performance theorist and instructor ... And according to Hassan, “today the art of belly dance in Egypt stands at a crossroads; we either save it and take it up to its ...

Famous Egyptian belly dancers receive up to $10,000 for a few hours of work, while the foreigners accept $500 for each performance. Congressman's 6-year-old steals the show on House floor June 4 ...

Greenfield business owner and belly dancer Elizabeth DeNeeve and South Deerfield belly dancer Emily Gaylord having been ...

Thanks to a heroic performance from the oldest player ... then when can you belly dance? Egypt will now play Cameroon in the grand final on Sunday night as they seek to secure a record-extending ...

Egyptian belly dance is quite earthy ... props and music – for a single performance, so specifically defining its cultural significance is no easy task, particularly when it is comparable ...

Backlash as performer accused of misrepresenting Egypt at US music fest Egyptian performer Mohammed Ramadan appeared wearing an outfit likened to a belly-dance costume at a recent US music festival.