As you are undoubtedly aware, a great deal of America's attention of late has been focused on the Middle East, what with the war in Iraq, the ever-simmering Arab-Israeli conflict, and the outrageous ...

During the World Stage concert at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, Meesha Tayoun, right, dancer for Joseph Tayoun and his Mid-East Ensemble, performs belly dancing to the audience on Tuesday ...

More decades ago than she will admit, Nancy Bartlett went to a community college and signed up for the only exercise class available — belly dancing. Now performing under the stage named Isis, the ...

CHITRESH DAS FINDS east everywhere. It's, of course, in the rising sun, as it is in his ancestral and spiritual birthplace in Calcutta. But he feels east present as well in his West Coast home of San ...

The DC-Dabkeh Troupe, which performs traditional Middle Eastern folk dances, performs at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 10, in Bates College’s Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The public is ...

For local Middle Eastern LGBTQs, finding a space where their own culture and music can be enjoyed was limited to the Bibi dance parties. When that event's organizers left town, Ghazwan Alsharif, a gay ...

After the plumbers, builders and baristas, here come the musicians. A new wave of eastern European performers are colonising the British dance scene, as artists combine post-communist edginess with ...