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Costume Gallery Links
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1001and1de
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Photos of dancers from Turkey and Egypt.
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Africatower
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Three pages of pictures in their special 2005 article on belly
dance.
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Aleena's Belly Dance Gallery
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A gallery of pictures of American
belly dancers that can provide ideas of costuming used in the United
States. |
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Allure of the belly-dance
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A picture of dancers in modern
assuit.
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Arab Fashion Show
in Dundee
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From the show by Kuwaiti Haifa Alanjari. |
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Assuit
– An article and one
fabulous picture. |
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Belly
Dance Museum
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Lots of fantastic pictures
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Belly Dancer at
the Cairo Hilton
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Belly
Dancer in Instanbul
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Belly
Dance Saray
- Pictures of Turkish belly dancers.
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Belly Dancing Costumes
- Feature article from Tour Egypt with
pictures.
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Cairo Costume Disasters –
Article by Leyla Lanty with pictures of modern Egyptian belly dance
costumes she considered to be disasters.
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Cleopatra Costumes on Stage
and in Film –
A great site! Lots to see and learn. Articles and
pictures with a time line ranging from the costuming of the real Cleopatra
to the Hollywood era. |
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Cultural Couture: Palestinian
Heritage Foundation Nurtures the Fabric of Arab Life and Tradition in the
U.S.
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A very interesting article
about fabrics from the Middle East as well as pictures.
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Dina
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Dina from Egypt has unique
belly dance costumes.
New
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Farida
Fahmy
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In Assuit
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The Ghawazee - or Dancing Girls of Cairo
– Antique
lithograph shows 18th century costumes.
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The Ghawazee -
1999 picture of the Benat Mazin sisters.
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Grandes
figures de la Danse Orientale – Pictures of
the most renowned belly dancers in history.
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History
of Costumes –
Egyptian, Moors, and Turks costumes 1861-1880
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Hossam
Ramzy's "The Stars of Egypt" –
Pictures and articles about
famous Egyptian belly dancers.
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Images of Marrakesh –
Picture gallery showing some of the dancers
and musicians at the 1995 Marrakesh Folk Festival in Morocco and includes
scenes in and around the city. |
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Judnick.com -
Historic costuming on postcards and recent dancer photographs.
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Kalasiris
Virus:
Tracing the Fabric and Fashion Evolution of Ancient
Egypt’s Most Renown
Garment
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Only one small picture but a really good article.
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Keti Sharif's Gallary of Egyptian folkloric and cabaret belly dance
costumes.
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Lamsa
Traditional Dresses from Saudi Arabia
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Lots of pictures shown
by region of the country.
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Lisa
Guiraut (Leila)
– Picture from the movie "From
Russian with Love"
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Little Egypt –
People thought this costume was obscene. |
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Lucy
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A modern beledi dress.
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Mata Hari
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The following are several links to pictures of Mata Hara. Some represent
her
dances of India and some are belly dance.
Portrait of Mata Hari
Pictures from propaganda postcards
Picture from a France museum collection
Picture from historynet
Three pictures
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Mishaal's
pictures of Oriental Dancers in Turkey
– Recent pictures taken in Turkey showing modern cabaret style costumes. |
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Morocco
- picture of dancer in a folkloric dress. |
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Morocco
- picture of dancer in a bedleh.
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Morocco
- picture of dancer in beach costume?
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Nabila Metwali from Lebanon |
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Omphalo-Stepses:
Bellydancers and Harem Girls
– A gallery with thousands of pictures.
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Orient
House in Istanbul |
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Oriental Costumes, Their Designs and Colors
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A scholarly article with many
pictures.
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Oriental
Suite
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Four 19th century photographs by
Roger Fenton and an article describing his art. Two of the
pictures have nice costume concepts for folkloric dancers.
More interesting is the article. Learn the myths of what appears to be
documented fact. |
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Palestinian Costume
Archive
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Numerous pictures of costumes
from Palestine and several from other parts of the Middle East as well as
articles. Visit this site! |
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Palestinian
Fashion
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Five pictures. |
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Persischer
Tanz
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Numerous drawing of Persian
costumes. |
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Raqia
Hassan - 2nd Annual Cairo Oriental Dance Festival
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Includes several pictures of
Dina. See the link "Masters." |
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Regional
Turkish Costumes |
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Ruth St. Denis
– A fantastic
picture of Ruth St. Denis. |
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Samia Gamal
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Links to several pictures:
A famous picture
A costume
that you could make
Another simple and beautiful costume
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Scenes from Turkey:
Oriental Dance–
Pictures of belly dancers
by
Julie Elliot. |
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Successful Shopping in Cairo
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Places to shop and pictures. |
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Tahia
Carioca
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One very nice cabaret picture.
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Tahia
Carioca –
One very nice folkloric picture.
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Traditional
Lebanese Costumes
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A few pictures |
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Traditional women's clothing in Moslem Countries –
Lots of fantastic pictures |
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Turkish and Persian Women's Clothing
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A series of pictures followed
by an article |
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Turkish Belly Dancer |
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Turkish Delights
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Belly dance pictures are near
bottom of page. |
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Uzbek
Dance and Culture Society
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Ugly Belly Dance Costumes I |
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Ugly
Belly Dance Costumes II
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Women's Headdresses in Turkish Folklore
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Many great pictures. |
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Yasmina's Vintage
Belly Dance Photos |