Pre-modern Middle Eastern female performers

type of female entertainers in the Middle East

right|thumb|A dancing girl in an Orientalism| Orientalist painting by [[Fabio Fabbi]]

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.

slave singer and poet of Umayyad period

Al-Andalus poet

harpist

mistress of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar

politician

ethnic group

Egyptian dancer