What do you get when you mix a belly-dancing Salma Hayek with 1950s Egyptian screen sirens and a flannel-clad cowboy on a white horse? The answer is Youssef Nabil’s newest work, “I Saved My Belly ...

Stomachs undulating with the beat of Persian drums, about 20 women in coin-lined scarves and baggy harem pants belly-danced in a mirror-lined dance studio at the Jewish Community Center. Bellybuttons ...

There were no hand cymbals or sequined harem pants, and no Middle Eastern music was playing in the background. And yet the rhythmic, wavy movements of an Iraqi woman's abdominal wall muscles resembled ...