The Masked Marauder in the turban Part 3, why don't you use Photo No. 21, me on the horse in the ruins, in the background

Begun in the mid-1970's , the early sections of "Sirat Al-Ghawazi" were first published under the title "The Mystery of the Ghawazi" in Habibi Magazine. The author, orientalist Edwina Nearing (writing under the nom de guerre "Qamar el-Mulouk"), intended the series to be an investigative report on what Lady Duff Gordon in 1865 called "the real dancing girls of Egypt." Now, in the decades since Nearing's Ghawazi series first appeared, it has itself become a part of history, its people, places and events almost as exotic and remote as those described in the 19th century works the author drew upon for background information. "The Mystery of the Ghawazi" was reprinted in 1984 by popular demand and updated in a 1993 article, "Ghawazi on the Edge of Extinction." Since then, most of Nearing's Ghawazi material has been out of print. Gilded Serpent is happy to be able to respond to the continued demand for these articles by making them available to our readers worldwide.

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Surplus
1] - surplus- 1860, not lanes time	2] -1890- surplus-- used in part 10
3] surplus ---used in part 10	4] -gerome- surplus
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6] - surplus	7] - gerome surplus
	8] - early- 1810 use in epilogue- doesn't fit elsewhere
9] Edwina- in the holiday in akaba, jordan, ~1988
Photos for Epilogue
10] - THE BEE, epilogue
11] -epiloge	12] epilogue
13] -epiloge	14] epilogue
	15] Dancing with Kharriya, where? use? 1990, post anything described in the aritcle.
Used
photos below from folder- graphics25 on gs used in "Khariyya struggles"	used in "Khariyya struggles" use again in part 3- Second Paragraph: Use photo of Faiza in vest-and-skirt outfit from "Khairiyya Mazin Struggles..." article. Caption: "Faiza, a ghaziyya cousin of Khairiyya Mazin, mid-1980s. The costume is still basically the type worn in the mid-1970s, when this part of "Sirat al-Ghawazi" was written. However, the "currents of change" referred to by the author would indeed soon seep this away; by the late 1980s, most ghawazi were wearing long gowns, and the type of costume shown in this photo disappeared entirely in the 1990s, supplanted entirely by the long gowns."
	The Masked Marauder in the turban
fathyya, ferial, and su'ad, khariyya's 3 older pictures , the orginal banat mazin dancers, part 6 or 7 wiht interivew with kahairyya in her house, description of dance	Khairiyya at around 18 years old used in "Khariyya struggles" and part3

Take out picture of pot dancer!  The picture you have on the bottom of the article the pot dancer, goes in the next (?) article, as does the picture of the male dancer and the other picture in the list I sent you yesterday.

The two pictures I need from this site for the article I'm sending you tonight are: 

• GOT IT-NEXT ARTICLE"Dance of Gergoulette" by A. H. Darjou (picture of pot dancer in red vest and skirt); and
• GOT IT"Arabian Nights" by Hans Zatzka (dancer in gorgeous gold-metal bra and belt with long strings of gold coins hanging down over her teal-color skirt; she holds a gauzy pale-violet veil high up behind her to frame her body.  This picture alone, if reproduced large, will sell the article -- I'd like it to be the "lead" picture, right at the top by the title . . .).
• GOT IT For an upcoming installment I need a picture of a khawwal; this one is a thin male dancer in typical 1890s ghawazi costume on postcardmann.net/Egypt; scroll down through 10-20 cards till you get to it.   The picture is enlargeable if you click on it; the site-master calls it "Egypt: Haywal".
• Maybe got it- The picture I need most for the article I'm sending you I already published when I first published the article in Habibi in late 1979 or early 1980.  It is nearly a quarter-page in size in Habibi, an engraving called "Village Dancers" from Ebers' 1878-79 book on Egypt, showing two dancers, one doing stick dancing, and one wearing a belt like the one described in the article with "triangular metal boxes" hanging from the belt.  If you have that issue of Habibi, the picture should be clear enough to use on GS since it is a line drawing.  Or you can find it on belly-dance.org/shop.php.  It's in the "Belly Dance Museum" -- scroll down thru a lot of pics till you get it, then click on the pic to enlarge it and then click on the " 1/1 " in the upper corner to make the picture clear.        
• NEED HELP ON THIS ONE-There is another picture on this website I would like for this article; it is an antique color postcard and shows two dancers standing in what look like 'assiut' gowns, with a guy holding a bottle of champaigne on a tray next to them.  Boo hoo -- the $$$ people who own this site have cut out part of the picture, the stuff in the background and sides and bottom, and also slapped their logo onto it, but by cutting out the background they make it easy for you to remove their logo, LOL.  Part of what they removed on the bottom said:  "Cairo, Dancing girls Ancien Eldorado"; I have this card in storage in Redwood City, with a 1908 postmark, and it's a lot clearer than what you see on this site, showing the 'assiut' better.  Maybe you can play with it to bring out the 'assiut' pattern in the gowns . . . This card is on a different page of the website from the "Village Dancers" -- if you can't find it, I'll look for it and send you the info.
• GOT IT Also for this article need the color picture of Shepheard's Hotel from searlecanada.org.  It's not essential but would be nice to include in the article.  Imagine the ghawazi performing on that terrace, or veranda or whatever, like Leland in the article says. . .
• GOT IT Finally, there's the painting "Woman from Cairo at her Door" by Gerome, on orientalist-art.org.uk/gerome.  I think the picture is enlargeable -- need it for next installment.

I have good captions for all of these pictures for the GS article and will send them when I know you have the pictures okay.  Now I'm going to take a last look at the article, "When Victoria Was Queen -- and the ghawazi Ruled," and send it to you  . . .

E

The third picture's caption:  

". . . their garments were of black from head to foot, with silver stripes" (postcard c. 1909, captioned "Cairo, Dancing girls Ancien Eldorado)       

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1-3-04 Khairiyya Mazin Struggles to Preserve Authentic Ghawazi Dance Tradition by Edwina Nearing
But when Khairiyya Mazin retires, one of the most distinctive traditions of Ghawazi dance may come to an end.

2-11-04 Sirat Al-Ghawazi, Part 1 by Edwina Nearing
Begun in the mid-1970's , the early sections of "Sirat Al-Ghawazi" were first published under the title "The Mystery of the Ghawazi." We are happy to be able to respond to the continued demand for these articles by making them available to our readers worldwide.
Part 2 -- 1976 posted 5-16-04
Part 3 - 1976 posted 8-8-04
Part 4 - 1976 posted 9-12-04
Part 5 - 1976 Posted 2-10-04
Part 6 - 1976 posted 7-5-05
Part 7 - 1976 posted 9-5-05
Part 8 - 1976 posted12-3-05
Part 9 - 1977 posted 1-?-06