Cairo is going to hell...

BBC reports that Cairo's once famous nightlife is going down in flames. Yeah, I knew that already but once a big news conglomerate like BBC reports on it...it must be official! It's depressing especially when you watch one of those old Egyptian black and white films from the 50s. Now the new Egyptian films are usually boring and full of stupid sha3bi music about fruits, vegetables and donkeys. Ugh....vomit.

Charmouta alert!

This is not your traditional ra's shar'i that Samia Jamal, Tahia Carioca, Naima Akef or countless others have done. All the class and elegance is gone. This is just total skanktastic-ness!

Dina fears the art of belly dancing is dying out

Ya Dina, ya Dina! Conservative Islam is big in Egypt. Very big. Bigger than Ahmad's "hoo haw" underneath his galabiya. So big, you might bleed to death by just looking at it.

It wasn't always this way. Egypt use to be one of the more liberal countries in the region and a testament to the heady days of Egyptian liberalism can be found in cinema before the 1980s.

One of the casualties of this new wave of conservatism is the art of "el ra's asshar'i" or belly dance. Check out the article from UAE's The National: Belly dancer fears her art is dying.

In less depressing news, Dina was featured on W magazine. I love the photo spreads!!!

Cairo by Philip-Lorca diCorcia.