CAIRO -- Farid Mesbaah, male belly dancer, hopped on a car in Cairo’s Shobra district and strutted his stuff. He clanged metal castanets, magically converted his hips into pistons and twirled his head ...

Pole dancing shakes off ill Usually, it is seductive sirens who sashay to the mesmerizing moves of belly dancing. In China, however, the art takes on a very different flavor when it is the male ...

BRINGING SEXY BACK: Male belly dancers are thrilling audiences in Turkey and other European capitals, drawing on a tradition dating back to Ottoman times when men in the Sultan's palaces were ...