Raqs is an Arabic word for dance. It carries with it history and tradition and emotion. For Sabra Nelson, dance is about all those things and more. Nelson began dancing as a toddler and around age 15 ...
Bill Noren is a musician and composer. He sat down at his computer to order a new doumbek — a goblet-shaped drum — that he’d use to keep the beat with his Middle Eastern belly dance drum group. Noren ...