September 2014

Reality TV shows rarely fail when it comes to controversy, but they are not often taken off the air by order of the government. This is not the case in Egypt, where a search for TV talent for belly dancing was put on hold…

CAIRO - Egypt's highest religious body on Wednesday demanded that a new belly dancing television show be suspended for "corrupting morals" and serving "extremists" who could use it as a pretext to portray Egyptian society as anti-Islamic.…

Few breathed better than Egyptian belly dancers when the Muslim Brotherhood was ousted last summer. But his successors hardly smiled at the profession either. This week, Egypt's first X Factor-style belly dance show - al-Raqisa, or The…