• Zills: Music on Your Fingertips by Dawn Devine

  • When the Drummers Were Women by Layne Redmond

  • Belly Dance Rhythm Resource by Richard Adrian Steiger

  • Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt by Sherifa Zuhur

  • The Dancing Cymbalist by Jenna Woods

  • A Trade Like Any Other by Karin van Nieuwkerk

  • Before They Were Bellydancers by Kathleen W. Fraser

  • Looking for Little Egypt by Donna Carlton

  • Midnight in Cairo by Raphael Cormack

  • Egyptian Bellydance in Transition by Heather D. Ward

  • Raqs in the City by Heather D. Ward

  • The Voice of Egypt by Virginia Danielson

  • Farida a memoir by Farida Fahmy

What’s in my library?

  • Grandmother’s Secrets by Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi

  • 40 Days & 1001 Nights by Tamalyn Dallal

  • They Told me I Couldn’t by Tamalyn Dallal

  • Dancing with Life by Dhyanis Carniglia

  • The Tribal Bible by Kajira Djoumahna

  • The Belly Dance Handbook by Princess Farhana

  • Becoming a Bellydancer by Sara Shrapnell

  • Teaching Bellydance by Sara Shrapnell

  • Dance Composition
    by Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard

  • Dance Anatomy by Jacqui Greene Haas

  • The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy

  • Atomic Habits by James Clear

Recommended reading to get you started

  1. Before They Were Bellydancers by Kathleen W. Fraser

  2. A Trade Like Any Other by Karin van Nieuwkerk

  3. Egyptian Bellydance in Transition by Heather D. Ward

  4. Raqs in the City by Heather D. Ward

  5. Looking for Little Egypt by Donna Carlton

  6. Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt by Sherifa Zuhur

  7. Zills: Music on Your Fingertips by Dawn Devine

  8. The Voice of Egypt by Virginia Danielson