The Fan Veil Dance is a fusion fantasy dance choreographed by Jane Chung How, one of Suhaila’s longtime students and...

The Ouled Nail are a semi-nomadic tribe from the Algerian mountains.  Some of the girls are trained from an early age...

Suhaila Salimpour Photo Gallery 1977-1990 Click on a photo to see the caption including year and photographer information. Load MoreEnd...

An original advertisement mock-up for Suhaila Salimpour's Bellydance Fitness Fusion Series. In 2004, I embarked on an ambitious project that...

Suhaila began her certification program in 1998. At that time, students traveled to a workshop to learn needed content to...

Many women (Western and some Middle Eastern) who practice belly dance ascribe to the ideas of the dance being empowering,...

While American audiences might have sought out the nightclubs to see women dance, there were many men who became involved...

The era of the Middle Eastern nightclub in the United States stretched from the early 1950s to the early 1970s,...

The Veil as Dance Prop The veil as we know it in belly dance—a three-to-four yard of lightweight fabric used...

Jamila was very much against the Hollywood image of the belly dancer; she felt American films took the stereotype entirely...