middle eastern

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• - Features questions and answers, brief history, description of styles, articles and photos. Also features a technical forum with a guest instructor.
  
• - Discussion board and directory for Middle Eastern dancers. Includes articles, stories, interviews and Arabic song lyrics and translations.
  
• - Features poetry, translated song lyrics, a glossary of belly dance terms, tips and tricks, finger cymbal rhythms, and Egyptian goddesses.
  
• - Information about Raqs Sharqi. Article covers information on the different Middle Eastern dance styles, instruments, costuming, and props.
  
• - Several articles exploring topics related to belly dancing that are particularly slanted to the needs of older women, but interesting even for younger ones!
  
• - Sells bellydance costume how-to book. Also includes costume and bellydance art galleries, tips and caricatures.
  
• - Quotes, suggestions on finding dance music, lyrics to a couple of songs translated into English, and a glossary defining more than 50 terms.
  
• - Middle Eastern dance video production company and information on dancers Artemis and Yasmin. Includes current and in production titles.
  
• - Instructions on making belly dance costume items, plus a gallery of antique photos/dance art.
  
• - Articles and a collection of links.
  
• - Offering the Stars of Eqypt video series and featuring old photographs of dancers.
  
• - Article about belly dancing that appears on the InnerSelf web site.
  
• - Photo galleries, costuming suggestions, articles, FAQs, video reviews and opportunities to contribute.
  
• - Egyptian music,dance,and culture. Includes vintage film clips of popular Egyptian dancers and music available to download
  
• - Information on the origins of oriental dance, stories and photos of Fifi Abdu, Beba, Soheir Zaki, Samia Gamaal, Farida Fahmi and Mona Said. Features photos of oriental dance costumes from the 1700's, 1800's and the 1900's. In English, French, German and
  
• - Production company created by Middle Eastern, Gypsy dancer Monique Monet. Offers inspirational, philosophical, and historical articles on dance and personal development.
  
• - Author, costumier, dancer and historian. Books, links to her articles, a quarterly e-zine on costuming and details of classes in Milpitas. Includes a glossary of belly dance and cultural terms.
  
• - Photographs and links of belly dancers. By Jeff Oberman.
  
• - Belly dance music downloads, jewelry, CDs, current events and festivals, bookstore and videos, glossary, photos and cultural information.
  
• - Renaissance performance guild who portray an Ottoman Turkish Trading Caravan of the mid-1500's. Includes historical information about mid-eastern music and dance.
  
• - An online community for Middle Eastern arts. Includes a directory, event listings, discussion boards, articles and an auction area where dancers, musicians and merchants may buy and sell items.
  
• - An online survey that explores how belly dancing has helped breast cancer patients through the recovery process. Includes both the survey questions that you can respond to and also the results so far.