| Newly updated and reissued in an appealing new format, this classic book is a lavishly illustrated celebration of female dancers of the Arab world and their impact on the West. An articulate book that speaks with many voices of the glory as well as the shadows surrounding the oriental dance of yesteryear and today. Buonaventura's amalgamation of materials, textual and visual, evoke a work by someone whose respect for the subject is both tasteful and thoughtful... Arabesque salutes the authoress. - Arabesque Magazine Wendy Buonaventura |
