{"id":165,"date":"2010-02-28T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=165"},"modified":"2014-06-25T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:22:58","slug":"belly-dancing-in-arab-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/belly-dancing-in-arab-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Belly Dancing in Arab Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Belly dancing (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0642\u0635 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0642\u064a<\/span>) is an important aspect of Arab and Middle Eastern culture. It is controversial, and there are many views about it in the Arab world as well as in the West. Some regard it as an exploitation of the female body and therefore associate it with negative sexual stereotypes while others regard it as an art and as a form of visual expression. I believe that both views are valid because belly dancing is practiced in many contexts for different purposes. Belly dancing is mainly performed by female dancers (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0631\u0627\u0642\u0635\u0627\u062a<\/span>), and it has distinctive costumes (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0645\u0644\u0627\u0628\u0633<\/span>), music (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u0645\u0648\u0633\u064a\u0642\u0649<\/span>), and moves (<span dir=\"rtl\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u062d\u0631\u0643\u0627\u062a<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicdance.net\/galleryphotos\/reflectivefeather.jpg\" aria-label=\"Reflectivefeather\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"\u0631\u0642\u0635\" width=\"294\" height=\"520\" \/ src=\"http:\/\/www.arabicdance.net\/galleryphotos\/reflectivefeather.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt;\">(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicdance.net\/galleryphotos\/reflectivefeather.jpg\">http:\/\/www.arabicdance.net\/galleryphotos\/reflectivefeather.jpg<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The status and perceptions of belly dancing in the whole world are changing rapidly, and it is gaining more appreciation and recognition as an art. It is even being formally taught at colleges throughout the world. Many dance courses are offered in each and every city and town in the western world. In the town where I live in the UK, there are at least four places that offer belly dance classes. Belly dancing has recently become associated with fitness, work-out and weight loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"198\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/02\/reflectivefeather-198x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/02\/reflectivefeather-198x350.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/02\/reflectivefeather.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><p>Belly dancing (\u0627\u0644\u0631\u0642\u0635 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0642\u064a) is an important aspect of Arab and Middle Eastern culture. It is controversial, and there are many views about it in the Arab world as well as in the West. Some regard it as an exploitation of the female body and therefore associate it with negative sexual stereotypes while others regard&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/belly-dancing-in-arab-culture\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3532,3537],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-arabic-culture","tag-belly-dancing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/9255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}