Ok, my initial snooping has found this.
Male dancers til now have applied for union membership as folkloric dancers (something i have know for a while) You have to be affiliated to a company or organisation to get this. Tito I assume has this?
Female belly dancers do not have to be part of this union but need their permits from the police whom have a department and keep watch (The 13th Floor of the Mogamma Building in Midan Tahrir is the Police Adeb ( Vice).
They deal with prostitution, brothels and belly dance.
There is no law against male prostitution in Egypt, no restriction on mens behaviour at all. Even men caught using prostitues are released and the women fined.
Therefore the concepts of men dancing and the restriction applied should not count.
The probelm seems to be new applications from male performers who are stating 'belly dance' and not 'folklore', and it is perhaps the presentation of this new situation, they do not know how to deal with or the process.
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