A belly dancer was detained in Egypt for "using seductive techniques" in her dance videos posted to Instagram. Sohila Tarek Hassan Haggag, an Egypt-born and naturalised Italian, was arrested at Cairo ...

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 ...

The resident of Gahanna — a belly dancer for 19 years — learned about snake dancing after a friend, Kat Diedrich, started performing with a Burmese python.

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.

The dancer, on disability, had been seeking lifetime alimony of $850 a month from her estranged postman hubby, saying injuries she suffered in a 1997 car accident left her unable to work.

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.