Website and resource site for music of the Middle East.
Also, Maqam's mp3 belly dance page, for previews and instant downloads
- Souhail Kaspar and Dr. A.J. Racy. Awzan: Arab Rhythmic Modes.
- Solace. Rhythm of the Dance. Available through iTunes.
- Various Artists. Aziza Raks! The Passion of Belly Dance.
Links to Janelle's Youtube playlists for reference:
Sa'id
Binat Mazin
Nile Delta Fellahin
Suez Canal and Mediterranean Coast
Western Desert and Siwa Oasis
Eastern Desert (not Beja) and Sinai Bedouin
Beja
Nubia
Orientale/ Bellydance 1940s and '50s
Orientale/ Bellydance 1960s and '70s
Orientale/ Bellydance 1980s and '90s
External links to websites, articles, and books:
General Reference, Education, and Enjoyment:
- AUC Cairo Press Online bookstore for the American University in Cairo
- The Best of Habibi Online article database from the archives of Habibi Magazine, a journal of Middle Eastern dance and arts.
- The Gilded Serpent Online article database. Biographies, product reviews, travel advice, etc
- Karin Van Nieuwkerk, A Trade Like Any Other: Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
- Max Tilke, Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors Fantastic online resource of scans directly taken from an antique German book, with beautiful color plates of clothing worn between North Africa to Japan. Originally printed circa 1922.
Binat Mazin, other Ghawazi, and Awalem history:
- Edwina Nearing's Article on Kairriyya Mazin for the Gilded Serpent
- Edwina Nearing's Article Archive for the Gilded Serpent
- Pepper Alexandria's Photographs of Binat Mazin family in 1979
- "Dances of Egypt" DVD by Aisha Ali
- "Aisha Dances: Vol. I"
- "Meetings in the Middle East" by Aisha Ali, a seven-part series of articles for Arabesque Magazine.
- Winifred S. Blackman, The Fellahin of Upper Egypt
Nile Delta and Northern Coast:
Bedouins and Berbers of Egypt and Areas Bordering Egypt:
- Suliman Salih Dirar, Beja Congress: "The Plight of the Beja People in Eastern Sudan" (2005)
- Researcher and photographer Zbigniew Kosc's entire online text about the Ababda Beja of the Red Sea Desert of Southern Egypt (2001)
- Zbigniew Kosc, beautiful photographs and mp3 files of this photographer's research and recordings among the Ababda Music files should automatically play when viewing the photographs in this online gallery (2001)
- Bernard Lewis, Race and Slavery in the Middle East Oxford University Press (1994)
- C. Klunzinger, Upper Egypt: its people and its products (1878, 2000)
- A.E.P. Weigall, Travels in the Upper Egyptian Deserts (1909 & 1913)
- L.A. Tregenza, The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt (1955)
- G.W. Murray, Dare Me to the Desert (1967 & 1968)
- G.W. Murray, Sons of Ishmaels: A study of the Egyptian Bedouin (1935)
- J.J. Hobbs, Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness (1989).J. Starkey, O. El Daly.(ed), Desert Travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence (2000)