During the production of my book The Cloth of Egypt: All About Assiut, Alisha, my photographer and co-author, and I had the opportunity to seek out private collections throughout the greater Bay Area to photograph some of the finest assiut in…
My co-author and photographer, Alisha Westerfeld, and I took thousands of photos prior to the release of The Cloth of Egypt: All About Assiut. At public appearances and lectures, I’m frequently asked, “How did you get such nice photos?” Well,…
If you’ve been following my blog, you have probably read some of my DIY costuming books devoted to Middle Eastern belly dance costumes. However, I find that many novice seamstresses purchase my products and find they need advice on basic…
International belly dance instructor and performer Sara Shrapnell, author of Teaching Belly Dance, now on amazon.com, recently taught a highly informative workshop on professional quality makeup application techniques for a polished and bulletproof performance face. She went over the entire makeup…
While we were taking the photos for the book The Cloth of Egypt: All About Assiut, we held more than 30 photoshoots, and our models were so amazing, that we often had a difficult time selecting the images for the…