Tip of the month!!  If you REALLY want your event listed on this website, send us a personal email with the details listed as they should appear. Mass email flyers and Facebook group invitations are a lot of work to rewite and it sometimes doesn't happen.

This website last updated 3rd March 2010



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PLEASE NOTE THAT, BY POLULAR REQUEST, WE NOW ACCEPT PHOTOS FROM TEACHERS to go alongside their listings.

UPDATE SUMMARY:
3rd March   Workshops with Josephine Wise listed in Newcastle and Hartlepool for the 15th & 16th of May.

2nd March  Dates and info for the JWAAD Summer School are now online on our August Workshops page. More info about JWAAD courses is available on our Teacher Training page.
ALSO.... The Barefoot Festival is now taking bookings (August workshops) and Raqs Britannia bookings are now open (June workshops)
AND ....Updates and additions to the following pages:
Greater London teachers, March workshops, April workshops, May Workshops, June workshops, November workshops, June haflas and shows, September haflas and shows.

23rd February  Due to a glitch with the booking of the NADA AGM venue the times for the afternoon session have been revised. Please click on the banner above to see the changes. The glitch is my fault - not the venues.

19th February  Too many updates to list

18th February Update to June haflas.

12th February  Updates on April workshops and Lincolnshire Teachers pages.

8th February  Updates this morning on February workshops June workshops March Haflas and March workshops, May Haflas, June Haflas, April Haflas, and April Workshops.

30th January New events listed in February and March plus a new review of the Pyramid awards by Helja Laukkanen

26th January:  DETAILS OF THE 2010 NADA AGM ARE NOW ONLINE ON THIS WEBSITE! Click on the banner at the top left of this page. The AGM will be held in LINCOLN on the 20th March 2010. BOOK NOW to assure your place on the workshops or if you plan to take advantage of the open stage or Middle Eastern buffet lunch. The souks, AGM (for NADA members) and discussion are open to all

16th January: My apologies to all who received a spam email from my markahurd@hotmail.com account. It seems that this account has been hacked and used by spammers who also deleted my entire contact list and changed my settings so that any emails from people not on my contact list were automatically deleted as junk (that’s fixed).
Over the next couple of weeks I will be closing down this account and redirecting all email to markahurd@googlemail.com.

January 12th 2010  Apologies for delays in updating while I chased around after a hypochondriac mother. We now have oodles of updates on more pages than I can mention. Suffice it to say that I've been adding stuff for the last 3 hours with more to go.

January 2nd 2010  New classes starting in February in GRIMSBY!!
Hilary's Bazaar (Edinburgh) has moved, see our Retail Shops page for details. Also, welcome to Patricia of Ockbrook (Derby) who joins our East Midlands teachers listings.

16th December  More updates today than you can shake a very large stick at. 2 reviews, more holiday info, more workshops in December, February, March, April, May, July and October. More Haflas and shows in January, February, March and November. The JWAAD 2010 foundation course schedule is now here and also news of a belly dance DVD production thing from Imman.

2nd December   A DVD of the Shimmychicks IV hafla is now available
Please click here to find out more.

29th November  3 new reviews by Karen of 1) Pink, 2) Huntingdon, 3) Zubaidah. Also a small selection of photos from the Banat El-Raqs hafla in September. 


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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