LONDON -- The music being played was a famous song by the late Egyptian diva Umm Kalthoum. The dancing costumes were mostly imported from the Middle East, with hip scarves embellished with gold-plated ...

Boston University students looking for a study break from upcoming finals found it Friday afternoon with a master belly dancing class in Boston University’s Dance Theatre located in the Fitness and ...

CHICO — Devin “Kaira” McBain was still learning to walk when she started belly dancing in her mother’s footsteps. Now a mother and professional dancer and teacher herself, McBain is also a Belly Dance ...

TACOMA, Wash. -- Forget the movie stereotype of voluptuous 20-year-olds in skimpy chiffon outfits belly dancing to please a harem full of men in the desert. In a Tacoma, Wash., community center ...

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 ...

In Arab communities, belly dancing has been form of artistic expression, entertainment and a staple of classic Egyptian cinema — Fayez Nureldine In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women ...