Tahia carioca biography of christopher
Tahia Carioca was the most stunning and long-lived of the Arab world's Eastern dancers (belly-dancers, as they are called today).!
Edward Said wrote of Tahia Carioca, who he considered the “finest belly-dancer ever”: As in bullfighting, the essence of the classic Arab.
Taheyya Kariokka
Egyptian belly dancer and actress
Taheyya Kariokka | |
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Taheyya Kariokka, c. 1941 | |
| Born | Badaweya Taheyya Mohamed Ali Elnedany Kareem (1915-02-22)22 February 1915 Ismailia, Egypt |
| Died | 20 September 1999(1999-09-20) (aged 84) Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Occupation(s) | Actress and dancer |
| Years active | 1935–1998 |
Taheyya Kariokka (Arabic: تحية كاريوكا) also Tahiya Carioca (born Badaweya Taheyya Mohamed Ali Elnedany Kareem (Arabic: بدوية تحية محمد علي النيداني كريم)), (February 22, 1915[a] – September 20, 1999) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress.[1][2][3]
Early life
Born in the Egyptian city of Ismaïlia to Mohamed Ali Elnedany and Fatma Elzharaa.
Her father was a boat merchant who had married 6 times. It is said that Badawiya's father was around 60 years old during the time her mother was in her early twenties.[4][5] Badawiya was