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Originally Posted by bin_rodi
i really trust the internet
and i'll manage to get that book
have a nice day
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As a collage educated person, you should know that you can't trust everything on the internet as accurate. That is why collage professors do not accept websites as valid sources orf research informantion. Any one can make a website and post anything on it. But since you trust it so much here are two website about Badia Masabni who created the form of Raks sharki we see today in the 1930s
www.belly-dance.org/badia-masabni.html
http://www.venusbellydance.com/articles.htm#ghawazee
Believe me, we all know that the bedlah was invented by Hollywood and Europeans theater companies.
Another well written and researched book to find is A TRADE LIKE ANY OTHER: FEMALE SINGERS AND DANCERS IN EGYPT by Karin Van Nieuwkerk
This woman interviwed many dancer from Mohamed Ali Street who told her what they use to wear in the old days. The Mohamed Ali street dancers didn't start wearing beblah till the 1960s
ANOTHER BOOK
LOOKING FOR LITTLE EGYPT by Donna Carlton
She shows many pictures of dancers from Egypt, Turkey Algeria, Palestine and Syria who performed at the World's Fair in 1893. ALL of them were totally covered and wore traditional clothes.