Links

General Middle Eastern Dance Information:

www.belly-dance.org
Information on the great Egyptian dancers and more...

www.wameda.org
The Washington DC Area Middle Eastern Dance Association -
For info and activities of our local dance community.

Rom sites:

www.patrini.com
www.romani.org
www.gypsyloresociety.org
www.romnews.com
www.domresearchcenter.com
www.kopachi.com
www.mywebpages.comcast.net/weiner.larry/esma.htm
www.voiceofroma.org

Friends of Artemis:

www.folktours.com - Tayyar Akdeniz and other guest dance and music teachers teach and perform in Turkey at Tayyar's Folk Tours and his Music and Dance Camp.

www.mysticmirage.net - International Dance Fest in Shalimar, Florida. Contact Daria.

www.chelydra.com - Newport News,Virginia. Contact Chelydra

www.mozuna.com - North Carolina. Contact Shibar

www.cicekpasaj.com - Montreal, Canada at McGill University. Contact Elise

www.shira.net - great Middle Eastern dance site

www.gypsycaravan.us - Portland, Oregon. Contact Paulette Reese-Denis

www.daughtersofrhea.com - Baltimore, Maryland and Mass. Contact Rhea from Athens, Piper from Baltimore and Melissa from Mass

www.alexiadance.com - New Jersey. Contact Alexia for classes and performances

www.tahya.com - Pennsylvania. Contact Tahya for classes and performances in dance and drumming

www.moonlightdancer.com - New York. Contact June Seeney for classes and performances

joharijoy7@aol.com - Baltimore, Maryland. Contact Devra Giles for custom costuming, classes and performances

www.joyofmotion.org - great dance schools in the Washington, DC area

www.blacksheepbellydance.com - California. Contact Kajira for merchandise, classes and performances

anatolianimports@aol.com - Great vendors of Turkish items. Contact Baha

www.caravanworkshops.com - Dayton, Ohio. Contact Kira La Fave and Little Egypt for classes and performances

www.anahidsofianstudio.com - New York City. Contact Anahid Sofian for information about her dance school, classes and performances

Bonita Oteri - Virginia. Contact Bonita for classes and performances (703) 569-8506

Recommended by Yasmin and Artemis:

Publications + Articles

www.bhuz.com
Middle-East Online
www.cairotimes.com
www.egypttoday.com
www.gildedserpent.com
www.zaghareet.freeservers.com

Music

Rashid Arabic Music
Oldest seller of Arabic music in the USA. In business since 1939. Some classic Arabic movies on VHS

Hollywood Music Center
Large selection of Arabic music for dancers - some authentic, some Americanized

Traditional Crossroads
Vending Turkish, Romany and other Balkan and Middle Eastern music.

Maqam Music + Videos
Another large Arabic music site

Piranha Music
An excellent producer of Arabic music in Germany

Music Lyric translations

Shira's Lyrics - Very GOOD compilation of web sites that offer translations of famous Arabic songs. You should know what the words mean for the song that you're dancing to!

Books

The American University in Cairo - Wonderful collection of books about Egypt, ancient to modern.

Costumes

The Belly Dance Store - Severna MD.

Sheherazade Imports - Rockville, Virginia. Also a wonderful tour organizer to Egypt!

Eman Nour - Virginia. Contact Eman for Madame Abla costumes from Egypt (703) 461-3213

Zills

Saroyan

Turquoise International

Sagat

Serpentine via Francevision

General Shopping

Sheherazade Imports - Rockville, Virginia

Dahlal

Cleopatra's Closet

Dancers

Kawakib - A teacher and performer in the Washinton, DC area

Eva Cernik - A teacher and performer of Turkish, Egyptian and fusion dance.

Dalia Carella - A teacher and performer of Turkish, Egyptian and world dance.