| Shadiyah's favorite links |
| Music / Musicians / Radio / Song Translations Ahmed Sennaoui - MD/DC/VA - Moroccan Oud Player - 703-342-2181 Al Hikmah, VA (excellent selection of Arabic Music & Books) 703-820-7500 American Recording Productions (Armenian & ME music) Ani's DJ - MD/DC/VA - Persian music for all occasions - 301-942-4322 Amir Naoum Chehade, NY (Doumbek) Arabic Song Translations Antoun Al-Masri, MD/DC/VA (Tabla player) Carmine Guida & Djinn, NY based instrumentalist Daveed Kurup (Drummer based in Baltimore, MD) Egyptian Party Radio (24/7 on the net) Elias Sarkar, NJ 201-641-7522 (master Oud player) George Stathos, NY - 212-353-0925 (wonderful Clarinet player) Greg BenAvram, MD, (Near East Music Society) Multi-talented Doumbek player & more! John Bilezikjian (World renowned Oudist & composer) Hollywood Music Center Hossam Ramzy Iranian.com Kamran - DC/MD/VA - Persian Oud player - 703-981-6858 Karim Nagi, Turbo Tabla Maduro, DC Maqam Music (great resource for Arabic cds, dvds, & more) Mary Ellen Donald, CA (Middle Eastern percussionist) Mazika.com Mohamed Amir, Arabi Band, MD/DC/VA (Moroccan musician & International DJ) Najeeb Shahin (virtouso Oud player - makes & restores Ouds as well) Naser Musa (Oud master, singer, songwriter) Nogomi, Arabic Music Community Orient Express Ostad Nassehpoor (Legendary Persian Vocalist) Outi of Cairo (translations) Pangia Radio Bastet Radio Javan.com (Persian music on the net 24/7) Rachid Music RomanySaad (Arabic Song translations) Sahel - Persian DJ 240-472-1494 Seido Salifoski, Macedonian Roma Shafik MD/DC/VA (Tabla player & Instructor) Sidqi, & World Music Folklife Center - MD/DC/VA (Darabuka player & Instructor) Shawkat Sayyad, MD/DC/VA - 240-401-7211 (master Oud player and Singer) Shira.net (tons of links and valuable information for all dancers) Simon Shaheen (virtuoso Oud and Violin player) Souhail Kasper (master percussionist & Instructor on Egyptian Tablah/Darabuka) Souren Baronian, NY - Reedman, percussionist extraordinaire TAK Live Music - MD/DC/VA - (Persian Classics & Pop at it's best) 443-538-2976 |
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| Tahia Carioca |
| Cultural and Informational Resources 40 Days and 1001 Nights, One Woman's Dance Through Life in the Islamic World - Tamalyn Dallal A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey - Leila Ahmed A Daughter of Isis: The Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi - Nawal El Saadawi A History of the Arab Peoples - Albert Hourani A History of the Romani People - Hristo Kyuchukov, Ian F. Hancock & Khristo Kiuchukov A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco - Suzanna Clarke A Pictorial History of Turkish Dancing, Metin And, Ankara, Turkey A Social History of Sexual Relations in Iran - Willem Floor A Street in Marrakech, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea A Trade Like Any Other, Female Singer & Dancers in Egypt – Karin van Nieuwkerk A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance, The Yogini’s Mirror – Roxanne Kamayani Cupta, Ph.D. Alexandre Roubtzoff. Une vie en Tunisie (Les Orientalistes , Vol 11) (Orientalists Series , Vol 2) (French Edition)-Patrick Dubreucq An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Edward William Lane, Jason Thompson Arabic Art Ataturk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey - Andrew Mango At the Drop of a Veil: Marianne Alireza - Marianne Alireza Autobiography of Sol Bloom - Sol Bloom Aziyadé suivi de "Fantôme d'Orient" de Pierre Loti - Alain Quella-Villéger & Bruno Vercier Basic Production for Belly Dance - Roger Wood Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom - Sulima & Hala & Batya Swift Yasgur Behind the Veil in Arabia, Woman of Oman – Unni Wikan Belly Dance, the Dance of Mother Earth – Tina Hobin Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, And Harem Fantasy - Anthony Shay & Barbara Sellers-Young Belly Dancing Basics – Laura A. Cooper Bellydancing for Fitness: The Sexy Art That Tones Your Abs, Butt, and Thighs - Rania Bossonis Belly Dancing for Fitness: The Ultimate Dance Workout That Unleashes Your Creative Spirit - Tamalyn Dallal Belly Dancing: The Sensual Art of Energy and Spirit - Pina Coluccia Beyond the Veil of Darkness – Esme G. Branner Beyond the Veil: The Adventures of an American Doctor in Saudi Arabia - Seymour Gray Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society - Fatima Mernissi Birds Without Wings - Louis De Bernieres Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey - Isabel Fonseca Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation, and Power - Anthony Shay Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) - Meyda Yegenoglu Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East - Sherifa Zuhur Dance as an Expression of Islamic Culture» in Dance Research Journal, 10, 2, Spring/Summer 1978, pp.6-14 - Al-Faruqi, Lois Ibsen Dance Crazy: Star Turns from Ballet to Belly Dancing (True Stories) - Natalie Jane Prior Dancing Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance - Stavros Stavrou Karayanni Danses du Maghreb d'une rive a l'autre (French Edition) - Viviane Lievre Daughter of Egypt - Farida Fahmy Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women's Movement, 1900-1960 (Arabic Edition) - Hind Wassef Dhananjayan on Indian Classical Dance - V.P. Dhananjayan Dreaming of East, Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient, Barbara Hodgson Dreams of Trespass, Fatima Mernissi Dynamic Belly Dance, The Joyful Journey of Dancemaking and Performing - Ramona Egyptian Customs And Festivals - Samia Abdennour Egyptian Rhythm: The Heavenly Melodies - Moustafa Gadalla Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism - Mari Yoshihara Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, (1st & 2nd editions) - Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn A. Early Flamenco: Gypsy Dance and Music from Andalusia - Claus Schreiner Flaubert In Egypt, A Sensibility On Tour - Gustave Flaubert & Francis Steegmuller Flute of sand: Experiences with the mysterious Ouled Nail - Lawrence Morgan Girls of Riyadh - Rajaa Alsanea & Marilyn Booth Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair : Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess - Ramaprasada Sena & Clinton Seely Grandmothers Secrets – Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Gypsies: An Illustrated History - Jean-Pierre Leigeois Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village - Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Hal Leonard Oud Method - John Bilezikjian Halide's Gift, A Novel - Frances Kazan Harem, The World Behind the Veil– Alev Lytle Croutier Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924 - Huda Shaarawi Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition, Dwight F. Reynolds Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and Arabic Writerly Culture: A Ninth Century Bookman in Baghdad (Routledgecurzon Studies in Arabic and Middle Eastern Literatures) - Shawkat Toorawa Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. - Amira Jarmakani Indian Classical Dance (Tradition in Transition) – Leela Venkataranaman & Avinash Pasricha In the Name of Honor: A Memoir - Mukhtar Mai Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East - Sherifa Zuhur In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom - Qanta A. Ahmed Introduction à la danse orientale - Virginie Recolin, L'Harmattan, 2005 (French) Jodette – Various historical books on dance legends – www.jodette.com Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - Deborah Rodriguez Kay Hardy Campbell - Writer, Lecturer, Middle East Specialist Kathak: Indian Classical Dance Art - Sunil Kothari Kuchipudi Bharatam or Kuchipudi Dance: A South Indian Classical Dance Tradition (Raga Nritya Series No 5) - K. Uma Rama Rao Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) - Nayra Atiya La muse de mauvaise réputation - Philippe Verrièle (French) Layla and Majnun: The Classic Love Story of Persian Literature - Nizami Les danses dans le monde arabe, ou, L'heritage des almees (French Edition) Les danses exotiques en France 1880-1940 - Anne Décoret-Ahiha (French) Looking for Little Egypt – Donna Carlton Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 - Gavin Maxwell Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire - Jason Goodwin Love in a Torn Land: Joanna of Kurdistan: The True Story of a Freedom Fighter's Escape from Iraqi Vengeance - Jean Sasson Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab - A. J. Racy Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abu I-Faraj al-Isbahani's Kitab al-aghani - (Routledgecurzon Studies in Arabic and Middle Eastern Literature) - Hila Kilpatrick Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (3rd Century AH/9th Century AD - 5th Century AH/11th Century AD) (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) - Stefan Sperl Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism - Abdellah Hammoudi Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, Melody Ermachild Chavis Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar, Emily Ruete Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak - Elizabeth W & Bezigan, Basima Miniskirts, Mothers & Muslims, Christine A. Mallouhi Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time (Public Worlds) - Alev Cinar Morocco Bound: Disorienting Americas Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express - Brian Edwards Music in Egypt: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture Includes CD (Global Music) - Scott L. Marcus Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series) - George E. Ruckert Music in South India: The Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music Series) - T. Viswanathan & Matthew Harp Allen My Forbidden Face, Growing up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman’s Story – Latifa with Preface by Karenna Gore Schiff Nadia, Captive of Hope: Memoir of an Arab Woman (Foremother Legacies) - Fay Afaf Kanafani Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India - Serena Nanda Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Woman - Geraldine Brooks Not Even My Name: A True Story - Thea Halo Nubian Ceremonial Life: Studies in Islamic Syncretism and Cultural Change - Robert A. Fernea On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era - Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire - Caroline Finkel Oriental Belly Dance – Kemal Ozdemir Orientalism – Edward M. Said Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy) - Naguib Mahfouz Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) - Dalia Cohen & Ruth Katz Performing Cairo: Orientalism and the City of the Arabian Nights in Making Cairo Medieval (ed. Nezar Alsayyad et al.), Lexington, Lexington Books, 2005, pp.69-93, Derek Gregory Petit Manuel de Danse Orientale. Laurence Alessandri et Kaltoum Mounhim, Marabout, 2004 Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City - Susan Ossman Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation - Viola Shafik Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World, Newly updated - Jan Goodwin Prisoner of Tehran: One Woman's Story of Survival Inside an Iranian Prison - Marina Nemat Ragas in Indian Classical Music - Anupam Mahajan & Ravi Shankar Réinventer les danses exotiques : Création et recréation des danses d’ailleurs au début du XXe siècle - Anne Décoret-Ahiha (French, pg 120) Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, And The Ottoman Harem - Reina Lewis Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco - Paul Rabinow Saudi Arabia Exposed : Inside a Kingdom in Crisis, Updated Edition - John R. Bradley Sacred Women, Sacred Dance – Iris J. Stewart Scheherazade Goes West, Fatema Mernissi Secrets of the Harem, Carla Coco Serpent of the Nile, Women & Dance in the Arab World – Wendy Bounaventura Shahhat: An Egyptian (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) - Richard Critchfield Sisters of Salome, Toni Bentley Snake Hips, Anne Thomas Soffee Sold - Patricia McCormick Something in the Way She Moves: Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna - Wendy Buonaventura Sruti Ranjani: Essays on Indian Classical Music and Dance - Viji Swaminathan Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire - Suraiya Faroqhi Tangier, the Novel - Ms. Diane Skelly Ponasik The Afghan Amulet, Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad – Sheila Paine The Art of Arabian Costume: A Saudi Arabian Profile - Heather Colyer Ross The Art of Belly Dancing by Dahlena The Art of Mehndi - Sumita Batra The Belly Dance Book : Rediscovering the Oldest Dance - Tazz Richards The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa - Michael Brett & Elizabeth Fentress The Bookseller of Kabal – Asne Seirstad The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem - Douglas Scott Brookes The Dance, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology) - Hormoz Farhat The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question - Marnia Lazreg The English Woman in Egypt - Sophia Poole & Azza Kararah The Great American belly dance, Daniela Gioseffi The Gypsies (The Peoples of Europe) - Angus Fraser The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World - Nawal El Saadawi The Hidden Language of the Vintage Belly Dance, Amir Thaleb The House of Obedience: Women in Arab Society - Juliette Minces & Michael Pallis The Imperial Harem of the Sultans: Daily Life at the Ciragan Palace During the 19th Century: - Memoirs of Leyla (Saz) Hanimefendi - Leyla Saz The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History) - Leslie P. Peirce The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years - Bernard Lewis The Music of the Arabs - Habib Hassan Touma The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity - Stephanie Lynn Budin The New Art of Belly Dancing, Adla Vergara with Roman Balladine & Sulu The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain - Maria Rosa Menocal The Politics of Public Memory in Turkey (Modern Intellectual & Political History of the Middle East) - Esra Ozyurek The Red Tent - Anita Diamant The Rom: Walking in the Paths of the Gypsies - Roger Moreau The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom - Sandra MacKey The Secret Language of Belly Dancing - Maria Strova The Secrets of Belly Dancing, Roman Balladine & Sulu The Time Of The Gypsies (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination) - Michael Stewart The Transmission of Oriental Dance in the United States: From Raqs Sharqi to Belly Dance - Michelle L Forner The Tribal Bible – Kajira Djoumahna The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb - Abdellah Hammoudi "The Voice of Egypt": Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) - Virginia Danielson The Voices of Marrakesh, Elias Canetti The Way of the Belly: 8 Essential Secrets of Beauty, Sensuality, Health, Happiness, and Outrageous Fun - Neena & Veena Bidasha The Yacoubian Building: A Novel - Alaa Al Aswany They Told Me I Couldn’t – Tamalyn Dallal Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo - Susan Ossman Tribal Signs (currently in German only) Tribal Vision: A Celebration of Life Through Tribal Belly Dance - Paulette Rees-Denis Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey - Bruce Clark Unveiling Islam, An Insider’s Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs – Ergun Mehmet Caner & Emir Fethi Caner Valide - Barbara Chase-Riboud Veiled Courage, Inside the Afgan Woman’s Resistance – Cheryl Benard Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society - Lila Abu-Lughod Veils And Daggers (Asian American History & Culture) - Linda Steet Vintage Tabla Repertory: Drum Compositions of North Indian Classical Music - Gert-Matthias Wegner Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film - Matthew Bernstein Walking Through Fire: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi - Nawal El Saadawi We Are the Romani People: Volume 28 (Interface Collection) - Ian F. Hancock We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco (Blackwell Studies in Discourse & Culture)-Katherine Hoffman Woman as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting –LynneThorne Woman at Point Zero - Nawal El Saadawi Woman for Afghan Women, Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future, Sunita Mehta Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (African and Caribbean Literature Translated from French) - Assia Djebar (Author) Women In Nineteenth Century Egypt, Judith E. Tucker Woman In the City of the Dead - Helen Watson Women of Sand and Myrrh : A Novel, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Catherine Cobham World of Middle Eastern Dance, Penni AlZayer Zoya’s Story, An Afghan Women’s Struggle for Freedom – Zoya with John Follain & Rita Christofari |
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