Staff Writer Suli Adams reached out to Yasmina Ramzy to ask her thoughts on organizing dance troupes. The following article was...

By Dawn Devine ~Davina At some moment, long lost in the mists of time, the Meditteranean performance art we call belly dance lept from...

Oriana of Fanoos Magazine sat down with Vanessa to discuss troupes, choreography and how to direct without losing your mind. Jawaahir...

Yesenia Lauzurique When I first began teaching Middle Eastern dance, I in no way imagined I would be sitting here 17 years later still...

Alia Thabit Art is a lifeline we hold out to ourselves and to the world, a human expression driven, perhaps, by a desire to communicate...

Shining Peacekeeper instagram.com/shiningpeacekeeper Nabaweya Mustafa is a lesser-remembered but still prominently featured dancer of...

by Nizana El Rassan Nizana: Thank you for taking the time for this interview, Khadijah! The first time I heard of you, I lived in the...

Join Asmara Bellydance Initiative and special guests on November 12, 2023 at 3pm EST, at Rhythma Dance Studios, Atlanta, GA for the...

Columbia Strawberry Cunha Americans have been told that Khyria Mazin of the Banat Mazin is the last “true” Ghawazi dancer of Luxor. This...

Suli Adams Dance has been a part of human culture from the most primitive times as seen in cave paintings, all over the world. Cave...

By HayatiDance Creative collaboration develops and evolves over time. In fact, dancing with others is similar to any romantic...

by Suli Adams Mankind has acknowledged the importance of writing for tens of thousands of years. In ancient times we find engraved or...

From A Year in the Sky (my first belly dancing class) A Year in the Sky (All Colors of the Rainbow): Mikado, Lena, Harrison, Christopher,...

by Nataša Kočar What is the first thing that crosses your mind when you hear about the connection between writing and dance? Description...

by Nizana El Rassan This past April, I had the pleasure of teaching and performing at the annual Spokane Bellyfest in Spokane,...

by Jennifer Ordonez There I was, hanging out with several of my dance colleagues I had known for many years in the living room of our...

By Yasmina Ramzy, Copyright 2023 This memoir is a work in progress to be published later in 2023. Working titles are: So Where’s the...

Fanoos sat down with Author and Dancer Alia Thabit to discuss, writing, publishing and illustrating.

By Tamalyn Dallal “Why do you want to go through all the effort and expense to write a book?” That is an important question one must ask...

“Costuming from the Hip: 30th Anniversary Edition” By Dawn Devine True Confession: I am a reader, writer, and collector of books. If we...