Leona Wood: From the Kamarinskaya to the Danse du Ventre, by Susan Marshall Touring with the Ali Souissi Dancers, by Aisha Ali Salomé’s Dance of the Seven Veils: Oscar Wilde, Esoteric Thought, and the Dancer, by Andrea Deagon, Ph.D. Dance and Jurisprudence in the Islamic Middle East, by Anthony Shay, Ph.D. Wizards and Harlots: The Tainted Status of Musicians and Dancers, by Laurel Victoria Gray The Rebirth of the Sacred Dancer, by “Shahrazad” C. Diallo-Huisman Ethnography of an Epiphany: Physiological/Psychological Indications for Trance-like Behaviors in Middle Eastern Dance, By Marguerite Kusuhara with Richard Adrian Steiger Peptides and the Mind/Body Orchestra: Shamanic Healing in the Zar and Sema Rituals, by Katya Faris The Rapid Healing of the Sufi Dervishes, by Ron Iverson Looking Beyond Despair: Zainab Salbi, Changing the World, One Woman at a Time, By Stephanie Heuer
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