As belly dancing gains popularity internationally, young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home, pushing back against decades of stigma to reclaim the dance as part of ...

My experience was corroborated by girlfriends who came to Egypt from the West. One had expressed an interest in putting on a belly-dance performance for the American University's talent show but was ...

Belly dancers from Eastern Europe, Russia, Latin America and elsewhere have dominated the scene in recent years in Egypt -- long regarded as the birthplace of belly dancing.

Egypt”s top religious body has demanded Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014 a new belly-dancing TV show be suspended for ”corrupting morals” and serving ”extremists” who could use it as a pretext ...

An Egyptian security says vice police have arrested the owner a TV station specialized in belly dancing performances for allegedly operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and ...

Reality shows rarely fall short when it comes to controversy, but they don’t often get pulled from the air on governmental orders. Not so in Egypt, where a TV belly-dancing talent search was ...

As belly dancing gains popularity internationally, young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home, pushing back against decades of stigma to reclaim the dance as part of ...