CAIRO — Sequins sparkled and beads jangled in a Cairo ballroom as students at a belly dance workshop imitated the teacher's undulations. "Step, twist, sit, shimmy, up!" came the commands, and their ...

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 -- 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 ...

CAIRO — When undercover police officers in Egypt swooped on an upscale nightclub on the Nile last spring and arrested a Russian belly dancer, the focus of their investigation was her costume — and ...

CAIRO -- Egypt's foreign belly dancers have been given their marching orders. The government says it wants to protect homegrown practitioners of the seductive Middle Eastern dance form and is no ...

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 ...

I went to Cairo to study belly dance because I’m a belly dancer. The Ahlan Wa Sahlan festival happens once a year. Dancers come from all over the world. I’d never been to the Middle East before. I ...

Egyptian authorities arrested belly dancer Sohila Tarek Hassan Haggag at Cairo International Airport, charging her with "corrupting public morals" over dance videos posted on social media, where she ...

CHICOPEE - Amateur and professional belly dancers from Belly Dance Western Mass. kicked off their 2018 performance season with a standing room only audience during their Cairo Cabaret Spring Show at ...