January 2005 SnakeByte from the Gilded Serpent!
New Articles on www.gildedserpent.com -Web Magazine for Mid East Performing Arts

• 1-19-05 BDSS Auditions January 14-15, 2005, North Hollywood, CA
  -Inside the Bellydance Superstars Final Auditions by Michelle Joyce
  -"What have I got to lose?" by Zaheea
  -Photos by Lynette
• 1-17-05 The Traveling Costumer by Aziza!
  A new chapter in her series about her dance career- "More customers! New horizons! Travel! That’s what we needed!"
• 1-16-05 Photos from The Luna Gitana Festival, Santa Cruz, California photos by Monica Berini
  Event produced by Vashti on November 13, 2004
• 1-13-05 The Grand International Bellydance Tour or How We Fled India at Midnight, Eluding Our Captors and Evading our Go-Go-Dance Responsibilities. or What Would Fifi Do? by Michelle and Sandra
  It may not have been such a problem for us had the prostitutes not been posing as bellydancers!
• 1-12-05 Farida Fahmy Workshop review by Perizad
  What you know, leave at the front desk in a little bag.
• 1-11-05 Romancing the Stonewall Comic by Alexandria
  "Hi, dear, can you send me a payment?"
• 1-7-05 Unchained! by Monique Monet
  Who the hell is Miles Copeland? And, what is he doing in our ancient and sacred world of Middle Eastern dance?
• 1-5-05 Making Wise Choices in the Belly-Dance Wear Market-place by Susan Good
  We all love the visual feast of a fine dance in a sumptuous package, the glamour of dressing high-high up. A great costume can send a good show into greatness and almost make you forgive a poor one.
• 12-26-04 Undercover Belly Dancer in Iraq- “THAAWUMPFF” by Meena
  The women who work in the Ministry are brave women. At first they looked at me with suspicion, not sure of my ethnicity. I sometimes get thanked when they realize that I share the Arab blood.
• 12-26-04 Scott Wilson's CD "Efendi" review by Ma*Shuqa Mira Murjan
  Scott’s quest is to make Mid-East music more accessible to American audiences...
• 12-23-04 We Shop, We Bathe, And We Eat! Justine’s Culinary Adventures in Turkey, by Justine Merrill
  The Egyptian spice market in Istanbul is a wonderful place to be a new chef, not only does it hold a treasure chest in spices, it has the most charming men, who know how to cook.

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Little Egypt presents in 2005- DINA, Raqia Hassan, Aida Nour, Magdy el-Leisy, Faten Salama, Lubna Emam, Freiz, and the 1st ever Cairo Nights. More information www.littleegypt.com
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