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Samia Gamal Interview - part 1

The first part of an extensive interview with Samia Gamal, from Nora Magazine, 26 Jan1995. The interview revolves around Samia's marriage with Rushdy Abaza. Samia talks about the beginning of their love, their troubles as a married couple, and their divorce.

The translation from Arabic to English was done by Karim El Wazeir (huge thanks!).

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Collections

All items in the collections are original, owned by Badriyah. The museum has more than 300 items, only a part is uploaded online.

New items will be published every month. Stay tuned! To understand the division of the categories, please read this article.

Pre-Golden Era in Egypt

Discover antique newspapers, postcards, lithographs, and engravings depicting dancers from Egypt prior 1920.

Golden Era in Egypt

Discover a collection of magazines, advertisements, postcards, movie programs, press photos, and lobby cards from Golden Era of bellydance in Egypt.

Western world & bellydance

Browse a collection of newspapers, postcards, books, engravings, cartoons, and lobby cards of Western dancers and their versions of "oriental dance".

New articles

Samia Gamal Interview - Nora, part 1

19th Century Bellydancers in 3D

Taheya Carioca’s Dance Analysis – part 1

Support us

We are fully invested in gathering new historical items to create an interesting collection.

Do you want to support us and our museum?

Please, feel free to donate any amount

you wish or support us by purchasing

some of the online classes.

Thanks for your support, it helps a lot!

The Bellydance Museum

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In the neighborhood of the Dampoort Railway station

Ghent, Belgium

Badriyah