Egyptian dances

Arabic dance

thumbnail|Image of two ancient Egyptian men practicing tahtib on an [[ostracon]] Tahtib () is the term for a traditional stick-fighting martial art originally named ''fan a'nazaha wa-tahtib ("the art of being straight and honest through the use of stick"). The original martial version of tahtib later evolved into an Egyptian folk dance with a wooden stick. It is commonly described in English as a "stick dance", "cane dance", "stick-dancing game", or as ritual mock combat accompanied by music. Nowadays, the word tahtib'' encompasses both martial practice and performance art. It is mainly practi

type of female entertainers in the Middle East

thumb|250px|Group of Ghawazi dancers (c. 1880) Ghawazi (also ghawazee) () are female dancers who danced in return for money in public settings, and the streets and most of them originally came from Upper Egypt. There were male dancers as well, including men who performed movements associated with women and who were pejoratively called khawal.

Egyptian dance

Baladi ( ''''; relative-adjective 'of town', 'local', comparable to English folk, with a lower-class connotation) can refer to an Egyptian musical style, the folk style of Egyptian belly dance (Raqs Baladi), or the Masmoudi Sogheir rhythm, which is frequently used in baladi music. It is also sometimes spelled in English as 'beledi' or 'baladee'.