One of the reasons I allowed myself to come to Egypt was because I was burnt out.  Six years of nonstop reading, writing, and thinking about Middle Eastern politics will…

I’m always bemused by all belly dancers who tell me I’m “living the dream.”  Every time I hear that, I want to ask, really?  What dream?  I never dreamed of…

Let’s face it.  We foreign belly dancers are under a lot of pressure.  Not only do we have to look good, but we have to dance as Egyptian as possible. …

Because I have something to say about everything. ;) This year more than ever, I had really been looking forward to coming home.  I was homesick, missed my family, and…

I would have posted this earlier last week, but I've been insanely busy.  I apologize in advance, as there will be no sacred cows.  If you have any, don’t read…

“Egyptian women sexually harassed at anti-harassment rally,” read this week's headlines.  Well isn’t that ironic?  On Friday, a few hundred women staged an anti-harassment rally to protest the sexual harassment…

In the words of New York City firebrand, Al Sharpton, “no justice, no peace.” This is what came to mind upon hearing the verdict of the Mubarak trial two days…

“El-Tet” 24/7 Belly Dance TV Sorry, this is going to be long. I have a lot to say.  If there’s anything positive coming out of post-revolutionary Egypt, it is the…

Interview by Isis Zahara WEDNESDAY, MAY 09, 2012   "We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."--Marilyn Monroe  Luna of Cairo is an American Belly Dancer originally from…

Yes, I’m talking about that M. McDonald’s. The place in which no self-respecting American traveling abroad would be caught dead. We Americans who travel abroad suffer from a sort of…