CAIRO -- Egypt's foreign belly dancers have been given their marching orders. The government says it wants to protect homegrown practitioners of the seductive Middle Eastern dance form and is no ...

A Russian belly dancer faces charges in Egypt for alleged "incitement to debauchery" after a video showing her scantily-dressed went viral, security sources said. The sources said the woman identified ...

AMMAN, April 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Egyptian lawmakers have called for stricter surveillance of women on video sharing apps after the arrests of a popular social media influencer and a well ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UK-based Egyptian refugee and activist Shrouk El-Attar belly dances in drag to protest Egypt's treatment of LGBT+ people. Rough ...

CAIRO, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A high-profile Egyptian belly-dancer, Sama el-Masry, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 300,000 Egyptian pounds ($18,500) on Saturday for ...

Egypt’s prominent belly dancer Fifi Abdou has asked the Egyptian Taxation Authority (ETA) to reduce a LE15.5 million ($2.5 million) tax bill levied against her claiming that the government should not ...

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 ...