Belly dance legend Tahia Karioka

Tahia Karioka تحية كريوكا 1915 -------- 1999 Tahia Karioka was born in 1915 in Ismaileya Egypt her real name was Badawiya Mohamed Karim... and ran away from her home to tha capital Cairo by the age of 14 ; Tahia Karioka excelled at Brazilian dance called...

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Belly dance legend Samia Gamal

Samia Gamal سامية جمال 1924 - 1994 Samia Gamal real name is Zaynab Ibrahim Mahfuz; Samia's family moved to Cairo and settled near the Khan El-Khalili bazaar and after many years she found badia masabni whom give her the name of Samia Gamal and offered her to join the...

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Belly dance legend Nagwa Fouad

Nagwa Fouad نجوي فؤاد 1943 Nagwa Fouad was born in Alexandria, to an Egyptian father and a Palestinian mother from Nablus. Her parents went to Jaffa when she was three-months-old. There, she spent the first few years of her life..Her mother died a few months after Nagwa...

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The main character of the Egyptian belly dance

Badia Masabni was a Lebanese dancer who was the main charctor in changing the Egyptian dance scene. In 1926 she open the Casino Opera; which where the place that gathered most of the legends of belly dance Badia Masabni: (1893-1974) A rare short video clip for the legend...

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