Is he refering to Kochek dancers who danced in Egypt when the Ghawazee were expelled..that would just about eek into the hundreds of years? ( and yes I do know they are Turkish but they took the opportunity)
And I suppose if depended on your take on wether something is social or folkloric dance.
Certainly men have a much shorter history in the Raks Sharki we identitfy as performance belly dance today.
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