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UPDATE SUMMARY:
11th August 38 photos from the Chapel St Leonards Carnival now online.

2nd August 117 photos from Jacky Oruc's Mid Summer Hafla are now online here.

26th July   New review of the Brothers of the Baladi concert in Doncaster, by Trish.

24th July   220 (that's right, two hundred and twenty!) new photos from the Brothers of the Baladi concert in Doncaster last night (23rd July) are now online. Click here to go straight there without passing GO.

22nd July New event listed for April 2011 - Samantha Emanuel & Manca Pavli Workshop Weekend
ALSO News of the accreditation of the JWAAD Foundation Course with the Open College Network. Click here for details.

21st July The latest issue of the Banat El-Raqs newsletter is now online

14th July New event listed for May 2011 - the 2nd annual Cirque du Temps weekend listed under both workshops and haflas.

9th July The time for the Chapel St Leonards Carnival is rapidly approaching and once again Lincolnshire belly dancers will be dancing in the parade. It's on Sunday 1st August and if you'd like to dress up in your bling and join us for a slow, free dancing stroll to music through this traditional seaside town please contact the webmaster for times and locations to meet etc. This year the OD charity of choice will be www.differentstrokes.co.uk and if you want to walk with us and shake a collecting bucket instead of dancing that will be fine.

6th July New hafla listed in June 2011 (Wynne is uber efficient!) and a new, short review of Dans Satam's midsummer hafla.

1st July New hafla lsted in September - Sayuri & The Desert Lilies 1st Summer Hafla (Coalville, Leics)

21st June New review of Dans Satam's Midsummer Hafla - by Trish

19th June New event listed in July haflas and July workshops in Birmingham.

17th June New events listed in July - Workshops and haflas . Also, new event listed in Glasgow in August. LATER... Several more events listed in July and August, both in workshops and haflas/shows.

16th June New gallery of 116 photos added from Jewel of Yorkshire competition and show, April 2010.

14th June New gallery of 104 photos added from Jacky Oru's Good Friday hafla.

12th June Shiméa hafla tonight in Grimsby has been postponed until 9th October. New teacher listed in the North West. New events listed in August, July and October. New workshop with Ozgen listed in October.

9th June More events listed in June (check it out quickly before you miss them), August and September plus an update on the Farha holiday tour in Luxor in September

5th June New hafla added in July (Staffordshire). More belly music videos added... and then yet more belly music video clips.

ADVANCE NOTICE! BROTHERS OF THE BALADI, Grammy Nominated Middle Eastern / World Music band from the USA will be performing in DONCASTER on the 23rd of July.

NEW REVIEW! Trish Champion has sent in her latest review - She just got back from her trip to Cairo and has written it up already!

Galit Mersand has released her first Youtube video instruction clip on how to do the tummy flutter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVUdd0_RoQ If this is a move you have difficulty with you may find some help here. Hopefully this is the first of many from Galit.

4th March   JWAAD Summer School info moved to Holidays page,
Workshops with Melanie Norman and Chalf Hassan (The Arab Quarter) in London, note the date change from 27th June to 4th July.

SCAM WARNING REAPEATED AGAIN!!!
I received another scam email forwarded from Jenny, These seem to follow a pattern in that they are sent to dance teachers and claim that a group of tourists/students want daily lessons from you for a week or more with the suggestion that you will be able to earn a substantial sum teaching foreign tourists. These emails have all the hallmarks of phishing. You are tempted with a carrot and will probably be asked to give personal details or pay a deposit or some such in order to facilitate the deal. Of course, no dance students will ever materialise and if you paid a deposit it's history. If you gave your personal details you'd better kiss your identity, bank account and credit cards goodbye.

See our previous scam warning > Be aware that these emails vary but the gist is the same.

6th November While browsing on Snopes.com this morning after getting a forwarded hoax message I found the following link of a bride in a "revealing" beaded wedding dress titled "Dressed to Thrill".
Apparently this photo had been circulating on the internet and someone asked Snopes.com to find out the story ... LOL! Take a look, I'll bet any one reading this website could guess the correct answer within 2 seconds of seeing the photo.

SCAM WARNING REAPEATED!!
ALSO This seems to be a hoax day, in the same batch of emails I received a dance teaching request that was almost identical (but not as credible) to the one Zikaya received back in August. See the original warning I gave then here. If you get anything remotely like this in your email in box transfer it straight into junk.

Check out possible hoax emails on www.hoax-slayer.com. Browsing around their archives is a great way to educate yourself and some are really funny.

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