Well, I've learned a lot from you and Yasmina. You guys are my real teachers of Khaleejyyat, although the drunken Saudis, Iraqis and Moroccans also helped me a lot with my Khaleeji
Oh the memories 3ala DC 3arabyya!
You've told to me of the North African/Moroccan influences on modern Khaleeji. There's gotta be a Iraqi connection too but where the Iraqi influence ends and where the Maghrebi (Moroccan) connection beginnings is hard to tell. The "shaking head" thing I've seen in Iraqi and Maghrebi is absent in Khaleeji from what I've seen...hmmmmmmm...
How long is your hair now??? Your hair is probably longer than mine now...although it's coming back, Mashallah!
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Originally Posted by Kamilia
Oh, Mark. You flatter me so much, but I learned my most valuable material from the infamous Yasmina, and all the Bedouin adventures she has let me be part of.
(My hair is getting longer, btw! I know we were planning on whispering motivating quotes to it, but I think it's doing fine now!)
I think all of the pro-short hair advice on here is great, but I just wanted to add one more thing: recent trends in migration, specifically that of Moroccan and other North African women to Gulf states, might have had an influence on hair movements in khaliji dance. Some of the fancier head moves, even done by folkloric dancers, look suspiciously Moroccan/North African. Some of the dancers do, too, but anyway...
Yasmina had the fortune of learning this dance from older generations of Gulf women, whose few hair moves consisted of gentle tossing. Like most other people have said here, the key to most Gulf head movement seems to be just that: movement of the head. The hair just seems to go along for the ride.
And I heart Etab!
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