(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TUNISIAN BELLY DANCER, ACHREF EL ABED, SAYING: "I started dancing when I was very young. Like any other little boy, they would put me in the center of a party at home, wrap a ...

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, ...

ISTANBUL, July 31 (Reuters Life!) - At Istanbul's Club Fox on the Sea of Marmara coast the belly dancer's hips gyrate and tassels swirl to the music but the stomach is a little hairier than usual -- ...

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 ...

Mesbaah was performing at the opening of the Old-Time Moon Cafe, a gig that -- along with weddings, birthdays, night clubs and circumcisions -- is typical for belly dancers. Untypical, at least in ...

The Arab world isn't known for its progressive outlook on queer culture or fluid gender roles. But Lebanese dancer Alexandre Paulikevitch isn't letting that stop him from freely expressing himself, in ...

Get those hips swinging, because Saturday, May 10, marks this year’s World Belly Dance Day. The website Days of the Year attributes World Belly Dance Day to the World Belly Dance Alliance, but other ...

BEDFORD, Texas -- James Brantley is an Air Force computer specialist by day. After hours, he is "Shadid," male belly dancer. Mr. Brantley, a former Marine Corps sergeant from nearby Fort Worth, took ...

The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest discoveries. This week, he ...