| 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 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) 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 |
| Miss Lola Lee, Circa 1909 |
| Tahia Carioca |
| Cultural and Informational Art & Books A Pictorial History of Turkish Dancing, Metin And, Ankara, Turkey 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. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Edward William Lane, Jason Thompson Arabic Art Autobiography of Sol Bloom - Sol Bloom Basic Production for Belly Dance - Roger Wood Behind the Veil in Arabia, Woman of Oman – Unni Wikan Belly Dance, the Dance of Mother Earth – Tina Hobin Belly Dancing Basics – Laura A. Cooper Beyond the Veil of Darkness – Esme G. Branner Birds Without Wings - Louis De Bernieres Dreaming of East, Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient, Barbara Hodgson Dreams of Trespass, Fatima Mernissi Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn A. Early Flaubert In Egypt, A Sensibility On Tour - Gustave Flaubert & Francis Steegmuller Grandmothers Secrets – Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi Halide's Gift, A Novel - Frances Kazan Harem, The World Behind the Veil– Alev Lytle Croutier Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition, Dwight F. Reynolds Indian Classical Dance (Tradition in Transition) – Leela Venkataranaman & Avinash Pasricha Jodette – Various historical books on dance legends – www.jodette.com Looking for Little Egypt – Donna Carlton Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, Melody Ermachild Chavis Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar, Emily Ruete Miniskirts, Mothers & Muslims, Christine A. Mallouhi My Forbidden Face, Growing up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman’s Story – Latifa with Preface by Karenna Gore Schiff Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Woman - Geraldine Brooks Oriental Belly Dance – Kemal Ozdemir Orientalism – Edward M. Said 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 Sisters of Salome, Toni Bentley Snake Hips, Anne Thomas Soffee Tangier, the Novel - Ms. Diane Skelly Ponasik The Afghan Amulet, Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad – Sheila Paine The Art of Belly Dancing by Dahlena The Art of Mehndi - Sumita Batra The Bookseller of Kabal – Asne Seirstad The Dance, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets The English Woman in Egypt - Sophia Poole & Azza Kararah The Great American belly dance, Daniela Gioseffi The Hidden Language of the Vintage Belly Dance, Amir Thaleb The New Art of Belly Dancing, Adla Vergara with Roman Balladine & Sulu The Red Tent - Anita Diamant The Secrets of Belly Dancing, Roman Balladine & Sulu The Tribal Bible – Kajira Djoumahna The Voices of Marrakesh, Elias Canetti They Told Me I Couldn’t – Tamalyn Dallal Unveiling Islam, An Insider’s Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs – Ergun Mehmet Caner & Emir Fethi Caner Veiled Courage, Inside the Afgan Woman’s Resistance – Cheryl Benard Woman as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting –LynneThorne Woman for Afghan Women, Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future, Sunita Mehta 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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