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 ...

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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 ...

Inspired by her nomadic ancestry and the snake dances of the ancient lands of the Middle East award-winning dancer and choreographer, Nejla Yatkin is bringing an interactive, solo dance theater ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...