 | The Belly Dance Book : Rediscovering the Oldest Dance
Buy used from: $28.80 a good mix of articles with practical, useful information
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 | Belly Dancing Basics by Laura Cooper
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $3.49 good pictures illustrating moves, put together well, good info.
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 | Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.49 written more like a story but has movement descriptions and such
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 | The Compleat Belly Dancer by Julie Russo Mishkin
Buy used from: $1.24 out of print, old but good, covers the very basics of moves +
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 | Costuming from the Hip by Barry Brown
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $27.50 good for those interested in making their own costumes
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 | From Turban to Toe Ring by Dawn Devine Brown
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $19.12 good for those interested in making their own tribal costumes
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 | Bedlah, Baubles, and Beads by Dawn Devine Brown
Buy new: $23.95 another good costuming book
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 | The Tribal Bible, Exploring The Phenomenon That Is American Tribal Style Bellydance by Kajira Djoumahna
Invaluable resource for the american tribal style (ATS) dancer
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 | Style File: A Visual Vocabulary of Middle Eastern Dance Costume by Dawn Devine Brown
Buy new: $12.95 good costuming resource for recognition of different costume items
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 | Serpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab World by Wendy Buonaventura
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $19.29 Good resource on dance history I reccomend it for everyone interested in dance history
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 | Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality Through Movement and Ritual by Iris J. Stewart
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $14.81 good for those interested in goddess worship or dancing as part of your spirituality, somewhat of a good history resource
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 | Ancient Egyptian Dances by Irena Lexova
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $4.85 good for those interested in dance history and/or pharonic dancing. Well researched!
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 | "A Trade like Any Other": Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt by Karin van Nieuwkerk
Buy new: $22.46 / Used from: $9.50 Good research into the more modern history of bellydance (19th century to 1980's). Highly reccomended read!
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 | Looking for Little Egypt by Donna Carlton
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $7.48 another good read for those interested in dance history. Focuses on Little Egypt and the Chicago World's Fair.
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 | Harem: The World Behind the Veil by Alev Lytle Croutier
Buy new: $18.25 / Used from: $2.50 Good history book that looks closely at what the harem really was.
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 | Oriental Belly Dance by Kemal Ozdemir
Buy used from: $68.27 I'm iffy on this book. It does have some good history infor in it but not compleatly accurate. Stunning photos but some may find certain photos offensive.
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 | Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love by Anne Thomas Soffee
Buy new: $17.90 / Used from: $3.50 Good read. Story of a woman and her journey of discovery through dance.
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 | Embellished Bras: Basic Techniques by Dawn Devine Brown
Buy new: $21.99 Good information for making your own dance costumes
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 | Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Dance, Music, and the Visual Arts of the Middle East by Sherifa Zuhur
Buy new: $24.50 / Used from: $9.31 good book on the golden age of egyptian cinema and entertainment. Good for info on the old egyptian stars
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 | Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States by Evelyn Shakir
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $14.21 Good book to help familiarize you with women in arab culture.
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 | Secrets of the Harem by Carla Coco
Buy used from: $29.82 Good history of turkish harems
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 | Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatema Mernissi
Buy used from: $5.14 Good cultural read for undrestanding the role of women in Islamic societies.
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 | Khul-Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by Nayra Atiya
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $3.20 Good read. Five egyptian women tell their stories making for a good cultural read, it is from the 70's though so a little outdated but still valid enough
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 | Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds by Kristen Brustad
Buy new: $35.96 / Used from: $22.00 Good book for learning arabic
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 | Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part One by Kristen Brustad
Buy used from: $3.50 good book for learning arabic
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