and movies which depicted belly dancers as coquettes, prostitutes or home wreckers,” said Shaza Yehia, author of a 2019 book on the history of the dance. “It feels like the Egyptian dancer is ...

Aya Youssef said she had returned to work as a teacher on Tuesday In Egypt ... Belly-dancing is said to date back to Pharaonic times but it is often frowned upon now for women to dance in public.

Women-only clubs are now a trend in morris dance, the 500-year-old English pastime that was once mostly male. And men in Turkey are performing as belly dancers, as they did in the Ottoman Empire.

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Egyptian belly dancer Dina has denied all rumors of her fleeing Egypt and going off to Paris after a scandal of her involvement in pornographic movies with businessman Hussam Abdul Fatih ...