“Core Connections: Cairo Belly Dance in the Revolution’s Aftermath” by Christine M. Şahin, published w/ Oxford University Press (2024), is available to readers worldwide! This is a dance ethnography based on fieldwork in Cairo between 2015-2020 - a key time in the city’s rich dance history remaining highly relevant today. Explore contemporary class-stratified sites of dance in relation to embodied socio-political values & knowledge. Deepen your understanding of Cairo raqs sharqi dancers’ lived realities, commercial performance circuits, and dance’s entwinement with history, culture, & local, intra-MENA, and global politics.”
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