When I turned 17, I wanted just one thing for my birthday: belly-dancing classes. The dance's beauty, grace and creative costumes, along with its strong connection to Arabic music, made it a natural ...

Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes. By Anna Kisselgoff Magda Saleh, a Bolshoi-trained Egyptian ...

Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when Egyptologists took a closer look, they were able to piece together how the art form ...