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 ...

Jo Anne Zingo-Hargis, a thrill-seeker since birth, used to climb telephone poles for a living. The Connecticut native moved to Kansas in 1978 after she heard Southwestern Bell was “looking for women ...

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 ...

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 — Egypt’s foreign belly dancers have gotten their marching orders. The government says it wants to protect homegrown practitioners of the seductive Middle Eastern dance form and no longer will ...

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 ...

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 ...