Eman Zaki, left, during a fitting for American belly dancer Alison Trow in her Cairo workshop. Trow was traveling from her New England home to Egypt for the first time.

The Peninsula’s only belly dance troupe, Shula Azhar (Flaming Flowers, in Arabic), took the stage to loud applause.

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 ...

No bombs. No bloodshed. No bin Laden. Belly dancing is the theme Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch says can best communicate the Arab world to the West and reconcile cultural differences. &quot ...

Arab belly dancers and oriental dance teachers from Egypt, Jordan and Morocco will head to Israel to participate in the world’s biggest belly dancing festival, local media reported.

Japanese dancer and choreographer Farida Yumi is working to deepen cultural exchange between the Arab and Japanese worlds by bringing the complex rhythms and expressive movements of belly dance to ...

Exponents of the art of belly dancing - a unique element of Egypt's national cultural heritage - believe it is undergoing a crisis and is in danger of being driven underground. Two years ago, the ...

Belly dance, she says “is a term that was invented by the French colonialists in Egypt. They took it back to France and called it danse du ventre (dance of the stomach), but we never call it that in ...

I think dance-enthusiasts from all over the Middle East would be into MERASH.” AB: What separates you from other belly dancing teachers? GA: “Other teachers only teach oriental dancing.

In one post, the Los Angeles–based belly dancer and artist is pictured in full belly dance gear, sporting a bedazzled gold bikini top and a glinting headpiece.