The members of Tufts Middle Eastern Dance, a campus group dedicated to performing various folkloric and regional dance styles from the Middle East are performing their first fall show this evening.

MOORHEAD - Belly dancing often conjures up images of a scantily clad woman seductively shaking her hips for bunch of men. But the true performance art, known as Middle Eastern dance, is very pro-woman ...

Since 1989, Cassandra Shore has been creating theatrical versions of Middle Eastern dance for the concert stage, almost always with a live orchestra consisting of male musicians. This weekend, however ...

During the World Stage concert at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, Meesha Tayoun, right, dancer for Joseph Tayoun and his Mid-East Ensemble, performs belly dancing to the audience on Tuesday ...

KALAMAZOO -- Belly dancing gets a bad rap. "People think of it as burlesque or worse,'' said Na'imah, a belly dancer from Grand Rapids who goes by her stage name. ``My mom is frightened of it.'' But ...

At a Haza party at Bushwick club The Sultan Room, classic Middle Eastern hits, Egyptian mahraganat, Palestinian dabke and Arab electronica weave through U.S. chart-topping pop, hip-hop and Afrobeat ...

A husband who wouldn't take her dancing led Judy D. Fox to find the Middle East at the YMCA. The La Crosse woman enrolled in a Middle Eastern dance class. For 30 years, it's kept her hips moving. "I ...

The first thing you think when you walk into the new Kairo Kafe at 909 Franklin on a Saturday night is, "Wow. Well, this is different." If the iron figurine of an ancient Egyptian playing the harp on ...

Sedonia Sipes, member of Nile Breeze Dance Company and faculty co-sponsor of the Middle Eastern Dance Enthusiasts, says most Americans don't know what a good belly dance looks like. Sipes believes our ...

All preconceived notions about belly dance were proven wrong during a surprisingly captivating theater production Thursday night. Shadia Dahlal and the Purple Roses of Cairo, along with drummers, a ...

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...