Belly Dance Home Page
Articles and a collection of links.

Belly Dancing - Art Of Middle Eastern Dance
Features poetry, translated song lyrics, a glossary of belly dance terms, tips and tricks, finger cymbal rhythms, and Egyptian goddesses.

Middle Eastern Dance and Healing
Information about Raqs Sharqi. Article covers information on the different Middle Eastern dance styles, instruments, costuming, and props.

Ottoman Traders Guild
Renaissance performance guild who portray an Ottoman Turkish Trading Caravan of the mid-1500's. Includes historical information about mid-eastern music and dance.

Belly Dance Gallery
Photographs and links of belly dancers. By Jeff Oberman.

Belly Dancer Breast Cancer Survey
An online survey that explores how belly dancing has helped breast cancer patients through the recovery process. Includes both the survey questions that you can respond to and also the results so far.

Forbidden Dance
Article about belly dancing that appears on the InnerSelf web site.

Zaida Bellydancing for Older Women
Several articles exploring topics related to belly dancing that are particularly slanted to the needs of older women, but interesting even for younger ones!

Bellydance Museum
Collection of rare postcards, film posters, engravings and other paraphernalia on Oriental dance.

Madame Mozuna's Caravanserai
Quotes, suggestions on finding dance music, lyrics to a couple of songs translated into English, and a glossary defining more than 50 terms.

Omphalo-Stepses
Instructions on making belly dance costume items, plus a gallery of antique photos/dance art.

Dawn Devine Brown
Author, costumier, dancer and historian. Books, links to her articles, a quarterly e-zine on costuming and details of classes in Milpitas. Includes a glossary of belly dance and cultural terms.

Serpentine Communications
Middle Eastern dance video production company and information on dancers Artemis and Yasmin. Includes current and in production titles.

The Egyptian Castle
Egyptian music,dance,and culture. Includes vintage film clips of popular Egyptian dancers and music available to download

JJ's Place
Offering the Stars of Eqypt video series and featuring old photographs of dancers.

Bhuz.com
An online community for Middle Eastern arts. Includes a directory, event listings, discussion boards, articles and an auction area where dancers, musicians and merchants may buy and sell items.

The Costume Goddess
Sells bellydance costume how-to book. Also includes costume and bellydance art galleries, tips and caricatures.

Magic of Oriental Dance
Discussion board and directory for Middle Eastern dancers. Includes articles, stories, interviews and Arabic song lyrics and translations.

Bellydance Museum
Information on the origins of oriental dance, stories and photos of Fifi Abdu, Beba, Soheir Zaki, Samia Gamaal, Farida Fahmi and Mona Said. Features photos of oriental dance costumes from the 1700's, 1800's and the 1900's. In English, French, German and Dutch. Lists events in Belgium.

Learn to Belly Dance
Features questions and answers, brief history, description of styles, articles and photos. Also features a technical forum with a guest instructor.

Belly Dancing for Full Figured Women
Photo galleries, costuming suggestions, articles, FAQs, video reviews and opportunites to contribute.

Desert Spirit Films
Production company created by Middle Eastern, Gypsy dancer Monique Monet. Offers inspirational, philosophical, and historical articles on dance and personal development.

Khaalida's Middle Eastern Dance
Belly dance music downloads, jewelry, CDs, current events and festivals, bookstore and videos, glossary, photos and cultural information.