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Belly Dancers
Belly Dancers

BELLY DANCERS

Les Almées, danseuses orientales

Directed by Jocelyne Saab
Lebanon, France, 1989
Documentary, Short

Synopsis

Curvaceous and always dressed in sequins, the belly dancers — the Alma’ — are present at weddings and circumcision parties. Mainly lower-class, they come from every corner of Egypt and dream of becoming the queen of the Cairo dance palaces. Dina, star of the 1980s, made this dream come true.

Synopsis

Curvaceous and always dressed in sequins, the belly dancers — the Alma’ — are present at weddings and circumcision parties. Mainly lower-class, they come from every corner of Egypt and dream of becoming the queen of the Cairo dance palaces. Dina, star of the 1980s, made this dream come true.