AlmaazahLinks

Below are links for various websites that may help you in your quest for information on bellydance. Please let me know if you would like to be added to my link page by contacting me through the e-link above. If you have any great links that you would like to share, include that in your e-mail.

These links are purely for your enjoyment. I have not ordered from many of these sites and can't guarantee any of the services offered.

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Arabic Music

Bellydance Magazines

Bellydance Resources

Bellydance Organizations

Bellydancers

Costume Supplies

Events

Middle Eastern Art and Poetry

Middle Eastern and Moroccan Recipes

Streaming Radio

Costume Supplies

Artemis Imports. Costume items as well as videos. http://artemisimports.com/

Audrena's website http://www.aleena.com/audrena/index.html

Baladi Boutique, Bellydance costumes and videos http://www.baladiboutique.com/

Bellydance Costumes http://home.earthlink.net/~bellydance/

Bohemian Market. A site that has mostly harem pants and choli tops. http://www.BohemianMarket.com/

Cost Less Bellydance Costumes. These are the most amazing coin and metal type costumes around. Truly an investment that keeps it's value! http://www.costlesscostumes.com/

Craft India Overseas. This site has lots of really inexpensive costumes and accessories. Many look more indian than arabic, but a good site to find interesting stuff. http://www.craftindia.net/product.html

MadameX. This site has costumes as well as patterns and other costume accessories http://www.madamexcostumes.com/home1.html

Making Costumes Resources with lots of links and suggestions. http://www.joyofbellydancing.com/costuming.htm

Saroyan Zils. Site for zils, coins and scimatar purchases. http://www.saroyanzils.com/

Sugar Petals Dance Accessories. Leotards and unitards with power mesh midriff inserts among other items for the bellydancer. http://www.sugarpetals.com/

Sultan Dance Costumes from Turkey http://www.sultanbdc.com/

The Costume Goddess http://www.costumegoddess.com/

The Costume Closet. Great information and costume supplier links http://webpages.marshall.edu/~matson1/costume.html

Turkish Emporium (very economical costumes!) http://www.turkish-emporium.com/

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Bellydancers

Adam Basma Middle Eastern Dance Company http://www.adambasma.com/

Anastasia, Austin, Texas -- One of my previous students who has gone on to teaching as well as performing. http://anastasia.planetaustin.net/

Amaya, Albuerquerque, New Mexico -- Spanish Gypsy influences make Amaya's dancing truly unique. http://www.mandala.net/amaya/

Bahaia, Austin, Texas -- A dear friend and promotor of HOT Seminars of Texas http://www.bahaia.com/

Dunya, New York City -- The master instructor who gave me my dance path as well as my dance name (which means diamond in arabic). Dunya is an amazing person as well as instructor that has greatly influenced how I teach and perform. www.dancemeditation.org/

Karen Barbee, San Antonio, Texas -- Master teacher and performer who's locks and shimmies leave you dazed! http://www.karavansa.com/karavansa/

Shakira, Columbus, Ohio -- New sister in dance who also has a song written for her and titled "Shakira" by Ibrahim El Samahi. www.ShakiraTheDancer.com/

Suhaila Salimpour, San Francisco, California -- 2nd generation dancer who's teachings have greatly influenced how I approach classes and seminars. http://www.suhaila.com/

Z-Helene, Austin, Texas -- A Goddess in her own right and a master of playing zills. http://www.zhelene.com/

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Events

BellyJam 2003, April 5 in Cincinnati, Ohio -- BellyJam.doc

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Middle Eastern Art and Poetry

Bellydance clipart http://www.neferchichi.com/

Belly Dancing in Poetry and Art http://www.shira.net/arts.htm

Bellydanceart.com. Beautiful paintings inspired by a passion for the dance. http://www.bellydanceart.com/

Jan Padover. Wonderful paintings and notecards of middle eastern images. http://www.janpadover.com/

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Arabic Music

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Doumbek http://www.blackroot.org/drumming/drumming.html

Amisource, The latest and greatest in Arabic Music http://members.aol.com/amisource/

Araby Music http://www.arabymusic.com/

Aziza Sa'id's Dancer Music Store. Great links to all kinds of music for the bellydancer. http://www.zilltech.com/MusicStore.html

Maqam Arabic Music http://www.maqam.com/

Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ website. Great site for learning and listening to various rhythms. http://www.ghawazee.org/rhy/rhythm.html

Mobile Ringtone Downloads. These are downloads from India so they may not work on your type of mobile phone. They have an extensive list of arabic tunes to download from -- one titled Almaazah as well! http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/tune/arabic31.html

Nott's Doumbek Rhythms http://www.ionline.net/~bmassel/rythm1.html

Rashid Music Sales http://www.rashid.com/

The Arabic Music Network. Information, searches, downloads and listening to sample songs. http://www.mazika.com/eindex.html

Translated Arabic songs into English http://www.shira.net/lyrics.htm#Arabic and http://www.romanysaad.com/arabiclyrics/

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Streaming Radio

Arab-Radio, choose from six different types of streaming arabic music http://www.arab-radio.com/Welcome/welcome.html

Arabic music and videos http://www.art-tv.net/channels/artmusicnew.asp

Bisher Rihani's site has an extensive listing of online radio. Choose from arabic top 40, modern, love songs, khaleegi, rai and many more. Also has links to various arabic tv streams. http://arabic.jeeran.com/1-nojava.html

Beur FM, this is in French but a great site for streaming North African Music http://www.beurfm.net/index.php

Radio Aghany http://www.aghany.com/

Media1. Music from Morocco http://www.comfm.com/live/radio/?c=ma

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Middle Eastern and Moroccan Recipes

Links to all kinds of arabic and mediterranean cooking http://www.goodcooking.com/mideast.htm

Middle Eastern Recipes http://www.ummah.net/family/recipes.html

Nadia's Middle Eastern Cooking Site http://www.twdg.com/cooking/

Paula Wolfort's website has lots of recipes online and information about her cookbooks. She has one fabulous Moroccan cookbook that I can testify is excellent and authentic. http://www.paula-wolfert.com/recipes.html

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Bellydance Magazines

Jareeda Magazine http://jareeda.com/

Magazine list for USA and around the world. Almaazah-Zines

The Gilded Serpent Bellydance E-Zine http://www.gildedserpent.com/

Zaghareet Magazine http://www.zaghareet.freeservers.com/

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Bellydance Resources

Antique photos and illustrations of bellydancers and harem girls http://shanmonster.lilsproutz.com/belly/gallery/index.html

Belly Dance Web. Extensive link page for bellydancers, musicians, etc. http://www.bellydanceweb.com/index.html

"Belly Laughs" by Rod Long. A collection of funny stories about and by bellydancers. Almaazah's reflections on her day on the big screen set of "Waiting for Guffman" is included in the book. http://www.talion.com/laughs.htm

Bellydance History website http://www.joyofbellydancing.com/bdhistory2.html

Bellydance Museum, this site has a great collection of antique postcards, posters and photos of bellydancers http://www.belly-dance.org/index.html

Bellydance New York http://www.bellydanceny.com/toc.html

Bellydancers Online http://www.bellydancersonline.com/

Bhuz.com (nice site for various types of information, event listings, costumes and a discussion board) http://bhuz.com/

Teacher and Dancer Directory Listings http://www.shira.net/directory.htm#Listing

Discovery Belly Dance's website has a wealth of general information and articles all about this dance form that we are so passionate about. http://www.DiscoverBellyDance.com/discoverbellydance/default.htm

Middle Eastern Dance Resource Guide http://www.bdancer.com/med-guide/toc.html

Middle Eastern Dance Resource Research Database http://eres.geneseo.edu/farrellk/web/

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Bellydance Organizations

Austin Bellydance Association http://www.abda.org/index.htm

IAMED, International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance http://www.bellydance.org/

MECDA, Middle Eastern Culture and Dance Association http://www.mecda.org/

NADI, Northwest Associaton of Middle Eastern Dancers International http://pages.prodigy.net/nadi/

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