Documentary Videos Related to
Middle Eastern Dance, Music, & Culture

Table of Contents

Dance

These videos are listed in alphabetical order by title of video.

Poll Only?	Full Review?	Cover Image	Producer or Director	Title	Comments
X			Miles Copeland	American Bellydancer	About the beginnings of the Bellydance Superstars dance company.
	X		Roxalot	Belly Dance Television, Volume 1	Video magazine about belly dancing.
	X		Roxalot	Belly Dance Television, Volume 2	Video magazine about belly dancing.
	X		Keti Sharif	Bellydance Live, Part 3 - Folkloric Dance	Explores the genre of Egyptian folkloric dance.
X			Natasha Senkovich	Bellydancers of Cairo
X			National Geographic	Cairo Unveiled
X			Elle Empire	Crazed: The Bellydance	A look at the personalities drawn to belly dance.
X			Michelle Mahrer & Nicole Ma	Dances of Ecstasy	Examines movement meditation traditions.
X			Aisha Ali	Dances of Egypt
X			Aisha Ali	Dances of North Africa
	X		Estelle Asmodelle	Enchanted Dance	Dance in ancient Egypt.
	X		Morocco	Folk Dances of Egypt, Nubia, & the Sudan	Morocco's #6 video.
	X		Amaya	Gypsy Fire!	Explores possible connections between Arabic dance and flamenco.
	X		Ibrahim "Bobby" Farrah	Rare Glimpses
X			Fat Chance Belly Dance	San Francisco Baladi
	X		Cortney Armitage	Tribal Style - Becoming a Belly Dancer	Celebrates the friendships that form in the belly dance community.

Middle Eastern Music

These videos are listed in alphabetical order by title.

Poll Only?	Full Review?	Cover Image	Producer or Director	Title	Comments
X			Fatih Akin	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
X			Smithsonian Folkways	JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance, Middle East and Africa I, Volume 16, Turkey / Iran / Iraq / Lebanon / Qatar
	X		Smithsonian Folkways	JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance, Middle East and Africa II, Volume 17, Egypt / Tunisia / Morocco / Mali / Cameroon / Zaire / Tanzania
X			Smithsonian Folkways	JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance, Middle East and Africa III, Volume 18, Chad / Cameroon
X			Smithsonian Folkways	JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance, Middle East and Africa IV, Volume 19, Ivory Coast / Botswana / Republic of South Africa
X			Tony Gatlif	Latcho Drom
X			EMI Arabia	Life Story of Fairouz
	X		State University of New York in Binghampton	Music of the Middle East
X			Jeremy Marre	Romany Trail, Part 1: Gypsy Music Into Africa
X			Jeremy Marre	Romany Trail, Part 2: Gypsy Music Into Europe
X			Michal Goldman	Umm Kulthum - A Voice Like Egypt
X			Jack Janssen	We Loved Each Other So Much

Middle Eastern Culture

These videos are listed in alphabetical order by video title. See also the above section on music-related documentaries.

Poll Only?	Full Review?	Cover Image	Producer or Director	Title	Comments
X			Natasha Senkovich	Bellydancers of Cairo
X			National Geographic	Cairo Unveiled
X			Tania Kamal-Eldin	Covered: The Hejab in Cairo, Egypt
X			Diane Wolkstein	Inanna	Dramatic recitation of the Sumerian myth of Inanna's descent to the underworld.
	X		Palestinian Heritage Foundation	Palestinian Costumes & Embroidery: A Precious Legacy	Introduction to the elaborate traditional Palestinian embroidered dresses.
X			Sayed Badreya	Saving Egyptian Film Classics	One man's quest to preserve Egypt's silver screen legacy.
X			Mystic Fire Video	Secret Egypt	Narrated by Gabrielle Roth. Examines ritual and dance in modern-day Egypt.

East Meets West

These videos are listed in alphabetical order by title of video.

Poll Only?	Full Review?	Cover Image	Producer or Director	Title	Comments
	X			Belly: Overcoming Bulimia
X			Mark Bussler	Expo: Magic of the White City	About the Columbia Exposition of Chicago in 1893
X			Tania Kamal-Eldin	Hollywood Harems	How Hollywood portrays Middle Eastern women
X			A&E Entertainment	It's Burlesque	Traces the history of the entertainment form known as burlesque
X			A&E Entertainment	Mata Hari: The Seductive Spy	Biography of Mata Hari
X			Jack Shaheen	Reel Bad Arabs	Based on Shaheen's book of the same title
X			Sarah Kernochan	Thoth	About a performance artist inspired by ancient Egypt

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