A Belly Dancer Shakeout in Egypt To Protect Locals, Foreigners to Be Denied Work Permits November 15, 2003 More than 21 years ago Summary By Paul Garwood ...

Belly dancing has its origins more than 3500 years ago in Northern Africa. Egyptian women would dance for each other and older women would instruct younger ones. The goal was to build strength and ...

Rakia Hassan, 62, a retired dancer, recalls that in her childhood, males peddled their skills along with women on Muhammad Ali Street, then a one-stop shop for belly-dancer hires.

Belly dancers can join performance troupes, such as the ones that will be performing at Central Market Oct. 7 during Harvest Day, or they can incorporate the moves they learn into almost any kind ...

A famed belly dancer is feeling sick to her stomach after a crook busted into her car in Brooklyn and stole thousands of dollars in heirloom costumes and a sword, cops said. Layla Isis was unpackin… ...

Rakia Hassan, 62, a retired dancer, recalls that in her childhood, males peddled their skills along with women on Muhammed Ali Street, then a one-stop shop for belly-dancer hires.

And at a very young age discovered what some people would call male belly dancing, but which he refers to as 'Oriental dancing' — owing to it's longer, nearly 6,000-year lineage.