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Priscilla Adum
Costa Rica
Priscilla Adum is a dancer of Lebanese heritage who enjoys researching the golden era of Egyptian dance as well as the lives and careers of the people who influenced it. She has an ever growing collection of articles and flyers from vintage Middle Eastern newspapers and magazines which she often translates from Arabic into English and Spanish and publishes them on her website. She is a frequent writer of articles related to the golden era of dance. Priscilla has studied dance extensively under Lebanese dancer and Master Instructor Suha Deeb. She currently resides in Costa Rica where she teaches raqs sharqi.
Articles on Gilded Serpent by or about Priscilla Adum
- 10-8-15 Translations of 1930s Gossip Column in a Local Cairo Paper, “New and Second Hand Costumes: Our Elegant and Not So Elegant Dancers” & "Madame Badia Masabni" , This article is from the early 1930s and it talks (gossips I should say) about the famous bellydancers of the time and their costume quirks, though not always in a very flattering way. Thank you to KF for the very kind help. [Editor's Note: This article supliments Pricilla's articles in The Belly Dance Reader 2, page 38.