“Raks Sharki” would be the proper term for what most of us call “bellydancing.” And, of course, like most things we dumb down for our own consumption, the mutation of a centuries-old artform into an ...

I went to Egypt in search of music. Music that lives inside of dance. Music that inspires freedom and laughter. What I found was more surprising than I imagined. I’d heard of Whirling Dervishes that ...

IN THE Orient -- that once-mysterious swath of land that arced from the Middle East to the Far East encompassing Egypt, Turkey, Persia and India along the way -- a hip shimmy, a pelvic thrust or an ...