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 ...

Male belly dancers, known as zennes, have wiggled into popularity in Istanbul over the past few years. Photo: Mathias Depardon for The Wall Street Journal ISTANBUL—In the dimly lighted and ...

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 around ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TUNISIAN BELLY DANCER, ACHREF EL ABED, SAYING: "I started dancing when I was very young. Like any other little boy, they would put me in the center of a party at home, wrap a ...

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 around ...

James Brantley is an Air Force computer specialist by day. After hours, he is “Shadid,” male belly dancer. Brantley, a former Marine Corps sergeant from nearby Ft. Worth, took up the traditionally ...

ISTANBUL, July 31 (Reuters Life!) - At Istanbul's Club Fox on the Sea of Marmara coast the belly dancer's hips gyrate and tassels swirl to the music but the stomach is a little hairier than usual -- ...

When Segah dances, everybody cheers. His hips slope then shake; the muscles on his stomach vibrate with the coin belt across his loins. The drumbeat speeds up. The glitter on his chest and the gold ...

The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest discoveries. This week, he ...

Ozy co-founder Carlos Watson tells NPR's Arun Rath about an Instagram artist with a social conscience, one man breaking into the world of belly... A Male Belly Dancer, Social Activism On Instagram, ...