Several of my articles on dancing are available in pdf format:
2005 Belly Dance: An Urban Folk Genre. In Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, and Harem Fantasy. Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds. Pp. 28-50. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers.
2002 Dance in the Arabian Peninsula. In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 6: The Middle East. Pp. 703-712. New York: Routledge.Click here for pdf.
1998 Dance and Glance: Visualizing Tribal Identity in Highland Yemen. Visual Anthropology,11:55-102. Click here for pdf.
1998 “Middle East: An Overview. In International Encyclopedia of Dance. Selma Jeanne Cohen, editor. Volume IV:402-413. New York: Oxford University Press. Click here for pdf.
Najwa Adra