Male belly dancers, known as zennes, have wiggled into popularity in Istanbul over the past few years. Photo: Mathias Depardon for The Wall Street Journal ISTANBUL—In the dimly lighted and ...
Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in Cairo's Shobra district and strutted his stuff. He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head around ...
Ozy co-founder Carlos Watson tells NPR's Arun Rath about an Instagram artist with a social conscience, one man breaking into the world of belly... A Male Belly Dancer, Social Activism On Instagram, ...
CAIRO -- Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in Cairo’s Shobra district and strutted his stuff. He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head ...
Male belly dancers, or “zennes,” were a mainstay of Turkish culture during the Ottoman Empire. Though Turkey today has been guided by its socially conservative Islamic government and culture, Istambul ...