Russian Red
And just like that, I found myself in Brighton Beach. My favorite place in all of Brooklyn. I didn't think I'd make it here during this emergency trip back 'home,'…
How to Attract an Arab Boyfriend (for real)
When I was a baby belly dancer in New York City, a woman almost ten years my senior in age and in dance wanted to learn something from me. It…
DROP THE PROP: Dancing to Mawwal
Hello! And thank you for your interest in Drop the Prop, my groundbreaking series of online Egyptian dance workshops! The topic of my first workshop is ' Dancing to Mawwal.' If you’ve already purchased this…
Dance or Die
Dubai The following is an excerpt from Fire In The Belly, a memoir by Zaina Brown. I've known Zaina for more than ten years now. We go back to Yosry Sharif…
Naked Navel
I wrote this last year while I was still in Cairo. I did not want to publish it at the time, for obvious reasons. A slightly different version of it…
Thoughts on China
These are some of my reflections on China (or rather, Beijing) after spending ten days there. I present this not as the truth, but as my truth, based on my…
Oppression– In the Eye of the Beholder?
I’m going to take a break from trying to be FAMOUS! to be a little more intellectual. Just for now. This might be long and dense, so I apologize in…
Midnight Musings
Disclaimer: I wrote this while suffering from severe PMS. This might sound a little strange, but I'm haunted. Not by ghosts or ghouls, but by the fact that my life…
Dala3 on Steriods
I wrote this sometime in 2014 but never published it. Oops. I did it again. I just shot another music video. This time with an unknown singer who wants to…
Egypt’s Identity Crisis
I wrote this in 2014 but I didn't publish it back then. Two things you don't want to be while living in the Muslim world: gay and atheist. The consequences…
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