ISTANBUL, July 31 (Reuters Life!) - At Istanbul's Club Fox on the Sea of Marmara coast the belly dancer's hips gyrate and tassels swirl to the music but the stomach is a little hairier than usual -- ...

Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in Cairo’s Shobra district and strutted his stuff. He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head around ...

The dancer's hips gyrate seductively, skirt swirling, arms flowing, shoulders rocking rhythmically to the hypnotic beats. But this talented artist is not your average belly dancer. And his beard is ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TUNISIAN BELLY DANCER, ACHREF EL ABED, SAYING: "I started dancing when I was very young. Like any other little boy, they would put me in the center of a party at home, wrap a ...

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Princess Farhana wears a tiara in her driver's license photo. Though she may not be a true blue-blood, Farhana is a self-proclaimed diva who relishes the "royal" title. The Hollywood belly-dance star, ...

BRINGING SEXY BACK: Male belly dancers are thrilling audiences in Turkey and other European capitals, drawing on a tradition dating back to Ottoman times when men in the Sultan's palaces were ...