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Raqs sharqi performance on a tourist Nile cruise ship in Cairo in 2007 Raqs sharqi ( Arabic : رقص شرقي , [ˈɾɑʔsˤ ˈʃæɾʔi] ; literally "oriental dancing") is the classical Egyptian style of belly dance that developed during the first half of the 20th century.
Arab folk dances (Arabic: رقص عربي, romanized: raqs ʿarabiyy), also referred to as Oriental dance, Middle-Eastern dance and Eastern dance, are the traditional folk dances of the Arabs in Arab world. Arab dance has many different styles, including the three main types of folklore, classical, and contemporary.
A Sa'idi (Arabic: صعيدى) is a generic term used in Egypt to refer to a person from Upper Egypt (Arabic: صعيد مصر Sa'id). [12] The word literally means "from Sa'id" (i.e. Upper Egypt), and can also refer to a form of music originating there, [13] their style of dance, or to the dialect spoken by Sa'idis. Sa’idi dance is a folkloric ...
The traditional dances of the Middle East (Arabic: رقص شرق أوسطي) (also known as Oriental dance) span a large variety of folk traditions throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. For detailed information on specific dances of the region, see the main entries as follows:
Tahtib (Egyptian Arabic: تحطيب, romanized: taḥṭīb) is the term for a traditional stick-fighting martial art [1] originally named fan a'nazaha wa-tahtib ("the art of being straight and honest through the use of stick"). [2] The original martial version of tahtib later evolved into an Egyptian folk dance with a wooden stick.
Hacha'a poetry, also known as Tajleebah, from Arabic تجليبة which means bringing back, is about bringing back emotional things like memories, a lost love, mending a broken heart, and so on. [1] Hacha'a poetry is sung in the Hacha'a mode, and describes the suffering of love. The audience hand-claps and interjects verbally with "hacha'a ...
Baladi (Arabic: بلدي baladī; relative-adjective 'of town', 'local', 'rural', comparable to English folk, with a lower-class connotation) can refer to an Egyptian musical style, the folk style of Egyptian bellydance (Raqs Baladi), or the Masmoudi Sogheir rhythm, which is frequently used in baladi music. It is also sometimes spelled in ...
Pages in category "Arabic non-fiction books" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.