When I turned 17, I wanted just one thing for my birthday: belly-dancing classes. The dance's beauty, grace and creative costumes, along with its strong connection to Arabic music, made it a natural ...

CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s top religious body demanded Wednesday that a new belly-dancing TV show be suspended for ‘corrupting morals’ and serving ‘extremists’ who could use it as a pretext to depict ...

It is 1:30 in the morning at the packed Al Rashid nightclub, and the scene is “Arabian Nights” crossed with Studio 54. A private nurse wearing an Islamic veil attends to a heavy-set Saudi man in robe ...

CAIROCAIRO — Egypt’s vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution, a ...

Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in Cairo's Shobra district and strutted his stuff. He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head around ...

“It’s not stripping, and it’s not intended to seduce men,” says Katrina Valenzuela of Yarmouth Port. More commonly known by her Egyptian name, Khadija, she teaches the art of Egyptian dance, or belly ...

At a Cairo wedding hall, Russian belly dancer Anastasia Biserova shimmied to the dance floor in a bright, high-slit skirt and an elaborately sequined bra top. She swirled her diaphanous pink shawl and ...

CAIRO — Studs sparkled on Diana Esposito's dress as she ticked her hips on a Nile boat thousands of miles away from the place she calls home: Brooklyn. "I have a full-time job doing what I love," said ...