As belly dancing gains popularity internationally, young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home, pushing back against decades of stigma to reclaim the dance as part of their ...

CAIRO - An Egyptian court Saturday rejected the second of two lawsuits brought by ultraconservative Islamists accusing a Christian media mogul of insulting Islam when he relayed a cartoon online of ...

Oriental dancing did not emerge from an open culture that advocates getting comfortable with our bodies as per Latin American cultures where dancing is an integral part of living life to the fullest, ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A top Egyptian court has upheld a decision to expel an academic from her university job after she published a video of herself belly dancing, according to court ruling seen by ...

Who’s to blame for the rise of violence and extremism in the Middle East? Repressive dictators? Osama bin Laden? Islam? According to a top Egyptian state official, it’s Tom and Jerry, the feuding ...

In response to offensive cartoons published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo, the Muslim Brotherhood announces the formation of a joint Egyptian-French legal team to seek redress and censure The ...