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Shira's Folkloric Photo Gallery
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Photos Taken in 2011
Baladi Dress, Cairo Style
- Photographer: Michael Baxter, Santa Clara, California
- August, 2011
- Traditional baladi dress, Cairo style
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Melaya Leff
- Photographer: Michael Baxter, Santa Clara, California
- August, 2011
- Style of dress typically used for dancing with a melaya in Egyptian folkloric dance
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Palestinian Thobe
- Photographer: Michael Baxter, Santa Clara, California
- August, 2011
- Traditional embroidered style of dress from Lebanon and Palestine
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Sinai Thobe
- Photographer: Michael Baxter, Santa Clara, California
- August, 2011
- Traditional embroidered style of Bedouin dress from the Sinai region of Egypt
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Palestinian Thobe
- Photographer: Pixie Vision Productions, Glendale, California
- June, 2011
- Traditional embroidered style of dress from Lebanon and Palestine
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Moroccan Takshita
- Photographer: Pixie Vision Productions, Glendale, California
- June, 2011
- Moroccan-style costume and dance
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Khaleegy (Gulf) Thobe
- Photographer: Pixie Vision Productions, Glendale, California
- January, 2011
- Khaleegy-style costume and dance
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Saidi Costume
- Designer: Mamdouh Salama, Oriental Moon (In Egypt)
- Shoes by Aruba's Oasis
- Photographer: Pixie Vision Productions, Glendale, California
- January, 2011
- Saidi-style costume and dance
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Photos Taken in 2000
Assuit Saidi Dress
- Designer: Trish St. John (in California)
- Photographer: John Rickman, San Jose, California
- The dress is made of antique tulle bi telli (often called assuit)
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