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1 The term “folkloric” here refers to the state-sponsored dance companies in Egypt, not to the traditional indigenous dances found throughout the country.

2 Anthony Shay, Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), 135.

3 Anthony Shay, “The Male Dancer in the Middle East,” 77.

4 Quoted in Shay, Choreographic Politics, 147.

5 The two films, Igaza Nisf as-Sina (1961) and Gharam fil-Karnak (1963), follow Hollywood musical formulas such as those starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.

6 Quoted in Shay, “The Male Dancer in the Middle East,” 77.

7 Shay, Choreographic Politics, 149.

8 Shay, “The Male Dancer in the Middle East,” 76.

9 Shay, Choreographic Politics, 145.

10 Quoted in Shay, Choreographic Politics, 146.

11 Franken, “Farida Fahmy,” 275.

12 Quoted in Anthony Shay, “The Male Dancer in the Middle East,” 77.

13 Dance ethnologist and performer Carolee Kent (Sahra Saeeda) emphasizes this difficu Farida Fahmi - Viquipèdia, l'enciclopèdia lliure FYHET