Costumes

Costume only vendors and related sites on info and purchasing costumes.

Aliahs Closet

Baladi Boutique - Belly dance costumes & videos

Belly Dancing Bazaar

The Bellydance Shop

Features costumes and accessories imported from Turkey.

Bellydance Treasures Costumes

BellyRoll Costumes Tribal Style Bellydance Costuming

Bosphorus Market

Chandra's

Ganesha Bazaar
Ethnic and Tribal costumes

Hanezebs

Meleea's Bellydance Costume Bazaar

Middle Eastern and Belly Dancing Apparel:

Make and wear traditional and belly dancing apparel.

Salome's Tent

SharifWEAR.com

"Club Wear, Dance Wear, Salsa ... All Original designs by Nourhan Sharif. Salsa, Gypsy, Oriental, Egyptian, Belly Dancing Costumes."

Shop@Egypt

Sugar Petals

Yea, Sugar Petals is online! Vendor of the mesh midriff unitards and body covers.

Topkapi Designs -- Gorgeous Bellydance Costumes

TribalMax - Afghan Jewelry & Supplies

The Turkish Emporium

Uniquewear

WytchWorks!

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Dancers - Troupes

Adam Basma  

Afet

Aida Nour

Aisha Ali

Alaska Awalim

Amara Al Amir

Amira Mor

Angelika Nemeth

Ansuya

Anthea (Kawakib)

Arella 

Artemis Mourat

Atéa

Awalim Dance Company

Aziena

Aziza Nawal

Azmara

Aziza

Dahlena

Dalia Carella

David     

Delilah

Dina   

Elena Lentini

Fahtiem

Fat Chance Belly Dance

Fatima Al Wahid

Hadia

Hahbi ‘Ru     

Harmonic Motion

Hind

inFusion Tribal Belly Dance

Jalilah Sahar

Jamilla Al Wahid

Jasmin Jahal

Jessica

Jihan Jamal

Jillina

Jodette

Judeen

Kamaal  

Kismet Dancers of Miami  

Maja

Margo Abdo O’Dell

Ma*Shuqa

Melanie LaJoie

Mesmera

Morocco

Myriam Eli

The Naval Academy

Nefertiti

The Navel Academy

Nourhan Sharif

Raqia Hassan

Rising Phoenix Dancers    

Serena

Shoshanna

Soroya

Suhaila Salimpour

Taaj   

Tarik Sultan

Thia   

Tonya and Atlantis

Virginia

Yousry Sharif

Zahra Zuhair

Zorba

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General Info

Ancient Explorations
Offers tours of ancient countries. Click on Dancing Goddess Dance Trips for ME dance tours.

Arabic Song Translations
Great site to find song translations or to research how you can find translations elsewhere.

BABEL:arabic
For online Arabic lessons

 Bellydancer Museum

Egyptian Mythology Today

Encyclopaedia of the Orient

"This encyclopaedia contains more than 600 separate articles, photos, graphics, sound clips, music clips, and pronunciation clips. It covers the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, and Yemen."

Female Middle Eastern Names
Looking for a dance name? Here’s a great place to start 

Jas's-- Middle Eastern Rhythms FAQ
Great site to practice your Middle Eastern rhythms, either for dancing or drumming them yourself

Luc Devroye's List of Links for Arabic Fonts

Middle Eastern Dance

Cool site that presents directions on how to practice belly dance moves. Site is under construction, but the information that is coming is listed.

Middle-Eastern or Belly Dance Style Selector

Kind of interesting, fun web page where you fill in your dance preferences and it tells you what type of Middle

Eastern dance you like

Muttaqun Online Arabic Dictionary

Learn to speak Arabic

Mythology Gallery Directory

Neferchichi's Tomb

"Neferchichi's Tomb is full of treasure for kids, teachers, & amateur Egyptologists: free clip art & fonts, e-postcards, gift shop, lesson plans, fun & games, and lots of information about Egypt."

Omphalo-Stepses

Check out the "Historical/Cheesecake Gallery"! Very cool pictures of dancers and dance postcards.

Rakkasah

Info link to the largest bellydance festivals in the world on both the west and east coasts.

OrientalDancer.net

"The Belly Dance Hub."

Desktop Depot

“Customize your desktop to reflect your personality. Change the wallpaper, icons, sounds, cursors and even add a screen saver and new splash screens. free all over the web but very little with anything approaching a Middle Eastern theme. Here we are.”

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Journals  - Orginizations

Middle Eastern magazines or e-zines and organizations

Aie-wa!

Aljadid

A review and record of Arab Culture and Arts

ADOS

Atlanta Danse Orientale Society

AMEDA

Arizona Middle Eastern Dance Association

ASAmed

Associated Artists of Middle Eastern Dance

Bellydance NY
e-zine

Bhuz.com
The leading Middle Eastern community on the web! Features community boards, e-zine, event listings, artist directory, online store and it goes on. Yes, I'm listed in the directory!

Caravan Magazine

The Gilded Serpent
e-zine

Habibi Magazine

IAMED

International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance

Jareeda Magazine

MECDA

Middle Eastern Culture and Dance Association

MEDA

Middle Eastern Dance Association

SAMEDA

San Diego Middle Eastern Dance Association

WAMEDA

Washington Middle Eastern Dance Association

Wiggle Hips

Zaghareet's World

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Links - Info

Sites that have links to other sites. Some are VERY extensive. Between all

of them probably have every bellydance site around!

Al Bawaba

Arabic web portal

Aldoukan.com

Lebanese web portal. Interestingly enough, a lot of food is offered here.

Ajeeb

Arabic web portal with translation dictionary, Arabic site translation, The site also has TONS of phone ring tones, logos and picture messages (if your phone supports these).

Arabia.com

Arabic web portal

Arabic Search Engines

Arab2.com

Arab.net

Arabic web portal

Art Of Middle Eastern Dance, By Shira
One of the best, most extensive Bellydance info sites!

Aziza Sa'id's Middle Eastern Belly Dance Site

Belly Dance Florida
Your source for all kinds of information about the dance (whether you call it belly dance, Middle Eastern dance, raks sharki, Oriental Dance, or something else) for the state of Florida, USA. 

Belly Dance Home Page (Oriental Dance)

Belly Dancers Web
Teacher Directory  

Belly Dancing Costumes Buyers' Guide

Bellydance With Selket - Costuming & Accessories

BellyDancer.info

Boulder Belly

CafeArabica.com

Arab-American community portal

Egyptian Castle

Arabic web portal

Gaza.net

Arabic web portal

International Belly DancersArabic web portal

Kineret.com - Belly Links  

Middle Eastern Dance Resource Guide

Muttaqun Online

Arabic/Islamic web portal

Naseej.com

Arabic web portal. I f you happen to get the Arabic version, click on the "English" link.

Panta Rei's Bellydance Page

PlanetArabia.com

Arab community portal

Sphinx Records Belly Dance Web Links

Yasmina's Joy of Bellydancing

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Music - Videos

Vendors specializing in music and or videos only.

6Arab.com

Download middle eastern music and receive music news

Abadan

The largest Iranian music site on the Internet with over 800 Songs from various artists

Al Mashriq - Middle East - Music   

AMAL Services, Inc   

AMIR

Arabic Music Internet Reference is a database and a reference to Arabic music, singers and songs

Arabic Music and More   

ArabicWorld - Music  

Araby Music

Arabic Music CDs

ARAMUSIC, Arabic Music CDs   

ARC Music Home Page   
Infamous Arabic music CD store!

AsianSounds.com   

The Brothers of the Baladi   

CDconnection.com   

Egyptian and Arabic movies, CD, tapes, books and gifts   

eWorld Records: Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Persian and Turkish Music and Movies!

Hollywood Music   

Iranian Movies.com
Iranian/Persian Music and Videos

 Maqam Arabic and Middle Eastern Online Music Store   

Mazika.com

MoroccanMusic.com

This site has samples of Moroccan music and interactive pictures of Morocco

MusicArab.com   

 The Music of the Maghreb   

 Music from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia

Nagham Online   
Online Arabic music store. Great prices!

Nojom.com - Top Arabic Sites

Oghnia.com! Real Arabic Music

Oriental Tunes   

Music and Arabic videos

Radio Casablanca

All the stuff they're playing on the radio in Casablanca

Rashid Music Sales Co.

Sirocco   

Music of the incredible Armando Mafufo and Sulyman el Coyote

Solace

SyriaLive.net

Turkish Music Club

Turkish Music and Lyrics

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Vendors

General vendors that carry music, costumes, videos, etc.

Adira  

Arabian Nights Imports

Oriental furniture, tablecloths, essential oils, lamps, belly dancing

Artemis Imports   

Audrena.com - The Belly Dance Store   

Bohemian Market   

Chandra's -  Belly Dance Supplies   

Cleopatra's Closet   

Dahlal Internationale

Judeen's online store

Designs By Janie   

Eclypse

Esau's Boutique

Judeen's online store

Glitzy Gypsy

Jewel of India Imports

    Joharah International

Kamikaze Costumes

"Tribal Belly Dance Costumes and Accessories for the Urban Berber. Everything Tribal, All In One Place".

Lost Treasures Egyptian Imports    

Luxotica

"Fire Toys and Dance Accessories

Mid-East Mfg. Inc.

Ethnic musical instrument vendor. Carries all types on Middle Eastern instruments.

Nahari Silk Veils

Silk veil vendor, also offers custom products.

The Oasis Dance Company

Pink Gypsy   

Pyramid Imports   

Saroyan Mastercrafts

One of the finest zill and sword dealers!

ShimmyShimmy.com!   

Theora's Bellydance Boutique

Features items such as cholis, Ghawazee vests, tassels, etc.

Unicorn   

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