"Imagining Arab Womanhood" is not an easy read. However, its worth every minute and every dictionary and internet search it will demand of you.

I recommend it as a must-read for all my students and all belly dancers that believe that educating ourselves and wrestling with the complicated history of this dance, its impact and development, makes us better teachers, better women and men, and better representatives of this dance, particularly in the U.S.

No wonder it won the Gloria Anzaldua prize. Gloria would have been proud. Thank you Amira Jarmakani (author).