In a fitness studio in Saudi Arabia, dozens of women sway to Arabic music as they practise belly dancing -- an activity that many feel compelled to keep secret.

WOMEN in Henley are being offered the chance to learn belly dancing. Cherie Marshall, 27, has begun running classes at the Christ Church Centre in Reading Road. She works part-time as an agency nurse ...

Bill Noren is a musician and composer. He sat down at his computer to order a new doumbek — a goblet-shaped drum — that he’d use to keep the beat with his Middle Eastern belly dance drum group. Noren ...

A music video unfolds in a world glowing with neon lights and shadowed alleys. It has stylised figures dancing and partying. The focus seems to be on a woman swaying alone at its centre. The beat is ...