Despite getting a teaching degree to appease her mother, Sherry Brier never saw herself as being a teacher. But when the Tiburon resident stumbled upon a belly dance troupe performing at a summer fair ...

Shrapnel from the bomb sank so deeply into the toddler’s arm that the doctors wanted to amputate. Fortunately, the girl’s grandmother knew something about herbs and salves, and she announced that no ...

This article was first published on the Metropolitan Museum of Art site. The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of Printed Ephemera in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints ...

SEQUIM — Laura Samperi-Ferdig has been studying belly dance since she was 8 and teaching since she was 16. “Belly dance is one of the oldest known art forms,” she said. “Its true name is Raks Sharki ...

A flyer and a simple “Do you like good music?” from a promoter led to an obsession. At the time, Rebecca Williams was 17 or 18 and went to a concert for a band she had never heard of, Beats Antique.

CHICO — Devin “Kaira” McBain was still learning to walk when she started belly dancing in her mother’s footsteps. Now a mother and professional dancer and teacher herself, McBain is also a Belly Dance ...

At first glance, Alia Mohamed’s Instagram account appears like a fantastical throwback, reminiscent of Middle Eastern record covers and black-and-white movies of the ’50s and ’60s. In one post, the ...

1 Video: ResistDance Honors Renée Good & Alex Pretti in DC As a dance that was created by women of color, is amenable to a wide diversity of bodies, and is often described by its disciples as ...

In Arab communities, belly dancing has been form of artistic expression, entertainment and a staple of classic Egyptian cinema — Fayez Nureldine In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women ...