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Aisha Azar · 06-24-2008, 01:39 PM

Dear Caroline,
Interesting and true article, from what I have heard from dancers who worked there for years or still do.The only thing I would take issue with is that the article is portraying the social attitudes toward belly dancers as if they are new, when if fact it has always been that way, whether or not the dancer is foreign or Egyptian. Aside from a few very famous ( read that rich) dancers, the Egyptians put up with the same kind of treatment, and it is not just an attitude picked up from the Saudis. It has been there since the beginning for belly dancers, who were an element in of the wave of feminism that took hold in Egypt in the early 1900s.
Regards,
A'isha

06-24-2008, 01:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
Aisha Azar V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pacific Northwest USA Posts: 4,464	Article Dear Caroline, Interesting and true article, from what I have heard from dancers who worked there for years or still do.The only thing I would take issue with is that the article is portraying the social attitudes toward belly dancers as if they are new, when if fact it has always been that way, whether or not the dancer is foreign or Egyptian. Aside from a few very famous ( read that rich) dancers, the Egyptians put up with the same kind of treatment, and it is not just an attitude picked up from the Saudis. It has been there since the beginning for belly dancers, who were an element in of the wave of feminism that took hold in Egypt in the early 1900s. Regards, A'isha