BEAUTIFUL BELLY DANCE

Farid al Atrash's music is not easy to dance to. It is dense and complex musically, in some cases over-orchestrated . There are genuinely beautiful sections and certain songs which are standard repetoire for belly dance. Some are not appropriate for dance. I find them challengeing and good for the development of musicianship. One of my long term practice habits is to dance to music I don't particularly like that is challengeing. This will give you real musicianship and a good understanding of the particular maqam.

Contemporary musicians are now breaking these musical conventions and compositional rules. example EUCD 1363 the songs are broken off and do not have the requisite phrases which signal the end of the song. That happens from cutting the songs down to size and trying to tweak the arrangements so they can get them into some arbitrary time frame.

Namira

Planet Egypt

http://www.planetegypt.co.uk/

Tours to Egypt!

Mohamed Ali dba Isis Imports PO BOX 4802 Albuquerque N. M., USA 87196 1(505) 293-0945

E-mail >mohamed@flash.net

Direct Importer

http://www.flash.net/~mohamed/home.htm

Little Egypt videos of Magdy el-Leisy, Wafaa Badr , Aida Nur
http://www.littleegypt.com/

Raqia Hassan
http://www.cairolive.com/newcairolive/zaieem/belly2.html

At the bottom is the link for employment in Cairo

Egypt 7000 Las Vegas

http://www.egypt7000.com/

Raqs Assaya

http://www.bellydanceuk.co.uk/pagestickdance.html

The above page will not find stick dance for you. So do this: click the URL in the white page. When that URL is in your address bar at the top of your screen, then simply type in the rest of the URL which is > /pagestickdance.html

Remember this little trick! It is often the only way you can get into a cache or an archive.

The original martial arts page

scroll down to >Middle East Tahtib http://www.alliancemartialarts.com/tahtib.html

To hear that martial tahktib sound go to Nicolai Ruskin's site

http://www.nikolairuskin.com/ Go to >Middle East traditional , last tune >tahktib

Keti Sharif -UK

http://www.ketisharif.com/canedance.html

SONG TRANSLATIONS!

Yousry Sharif & Nourhan Sharif

Egyptian Academy

http://egyptianacademy.com/

HALA DANCE

Raqia Hasan's ahlan wa-salan videos

new music arrangements

http://www.haladance.com/

Zaza Hassan

links to Egypt culture

http://www.zaza-centre.org

shopping in Cairo

search >Madam Abla on google

This discussion covers the shops in Cairo selling costumes

http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum1/html/000477.html

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Raqs

http://www.raqs.co.nz/

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Alaa Ashmawy

note on pronunciation

The 2 A's in this name have a long aa sound. Such a sound is not found in the English language. In Arabic it is extended a bit like the baa baa black sheep children's song. Academics indicate it with a diacritic . That's a line horizontally drawn over the top of one a or just written as 2 A's as you see it in Alaa's name. Some keyboards don't have a key for that diacritic.

Go to >Entertainment for Egyptian MUSIC

http://www.http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/cairo/index.html

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Pyramid Fever

http://www.ancientnile.co.uk/site.html

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NILE COMMERCE

HTTP://WWW.NILECOMMERCE.NET/ORIENTAL_FURNITURE/CABINETS.HTM

Dr. Zahi Hawass

http://www.antiquityofman.com/

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