Rana's Favorite Links
- See Rana as a featured dancer in a music video for "Let Her Dance" by Indianapolis-based progressive Scots-American Celtic-folk rock band Highland Reign
- Shira's website, All About Belly Dancing - A great source of information on the history of belly dancing and more!
- Bhuz.com, the Internet nexus for all things belly dance
- Moondance Bellydance, a great source for costume pieces
- Radio Bastet, a wonderful source for vintage belly dance music in an hour-long podcast format
- ListenArabic.com, a great site that live-streams radio from Beirut, Lebanon
- Find music you can't find on Amazon.com, here
- The website of Karim Nagi, one of the great drummers of the modern age
- A compendium of drumming history, general information, and rhythms can be found here
- Project Bellydance, a reality show competition for belly dancers
- Mahin's "In the Ears, Out the Hips" blog - Includes an option to sign up for a "daily bellydance quickie" email to your inbox!
- Ansuya's website
- The Bellydance Superstars, North America's only professional belly dance troupe
- The Dancers Eye, a fantastic fine-art bellydance photography studio based out of St. Louis
- The Malaika Dancers, a dance troupe based in St. Louis and under the direction of Naia Abal, a former classmate of Rana's