Ahalan Wa Sahaln! Welcome to Middle Eastern Dance. This site is to be used as an informational resource on Middle Eastern Dance. Although the main focus is on what is commonly called Belly Dance, I hope to include more and more information on the traditional folk dances of various Middle Eastern and Mediterranean regions. I have also included information on various off-shoots of Belly Dance which are dance styles that are based at least partially on Belly Dance such as American Tribal Style and Fusion. As the site grows there will also be more information on Middle Eastern culture such as On-line Arabic lessons, Biographies on famous Middle Eastern dancers and Musicians, Authentic Middle Eastern recipes, historical information on various Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Countries, basic information on Islam, and much more. My goal is to give people (dancers especially) easy access to understanding the dances and cultures from which they come. Check out the different pages by clicking on the buttons to your left. If you have any questions or comments you can e-mail them to me. If you are a dancer and would like to have a free listing in the Dancer's Directory, so people can contact you about performances and shows then just fill out this form. If you are a dance teacher who teaches Middle Eastern Dance and would like to be listed in our classes section then please fill out the following form. If you own a Middle Eastern or Mediterranean Restaurant or Deli and would like to list your Restaurant in our Restaurant section please fill out the following form. Visit the chat room and talk with fellow dancers. If you have a minute please take some time to vote in the polls.
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For frequent visitors you may have noticed that not much has been updated or changed to the site. For a while now I have been busy not only with special projects that hopefully will be ready to add to the site soon but just life in general. I do appologize to those who have submitted various entries to the dancer/class/restaurant directory because I have not added anything in quite sometime. I have only updated a few existing entries on request. However I am on vacation form classes right now and will do everything I can to update the site before they start back up in mid January. I hope I will also be able to add information to several pages which have not been expanded on but have been "under construction" for quite some time. I hope everyone had a happy holiday season and I hope you'll be back next year.
05/15/05
WE'VE MOVED! For those of you who entered using the old homestead address you should change your bookmarks. Although this site will remain up and running for a while I suggest updating your bookmarks to the new address. The site is now located at http://www.middleeasterndance.net. The homestead address and all it's features will remain working for quite some time but eventually everything will only be available at the new address. Also I've updated the mailing list and it will now be coming from a new e-mail address associated with our new web address.
04/28/05
Now you can chat with other dancers right here on the site in the chat room. I will be holding scheduled chat sessions on various topics from time to time but there are none scheduled as of yet. Suggest a topic and maybe it will make it into the scheduled topics. I will hopefully have a few topics scheduled in the coming months but it will depend on your suggestions so please do suggest a topic by visiting the room and clicking the suggest topic button.
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