
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-AutardDance 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
Before They Were Bellydancers by Kathleen W. Fraser
A Trade Like Any Other by Karin van Nieuwkerk
Egyptian Bellydance in Transition by Heather D. Ward
Raqs in the City by Heather D. Ward
Looking for Little Egypt by Donna Carlton
Popular Dance and Music in Modern Egypt by Sherifa Zuhur
Zills: Music on Your Fingertips by Dawn Devine
The Voice of Egypt by Virginia Danielson
Resources for Dancing
Sahira
https://www.youtube.com/@SahiraBellydances
April Rose
https://www.youtube.com/@aprilrosedance
Dance Cohesion Collective https://www.thecohesioncollective.com/waitlist/
Jasirah
Resources for Learning
Al Raqs Conference
Nisaa Online Lecture Series https://www.bellydancewithnisaa.com/special-topics
Nisaa’s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bellydancewithnisaa
Mahin’s Lecture Series with various presenters https://bellydancequickies.com/online-bellydance-events/
Dawn Devine
Dawn’s Patreon