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    Hip Replacement -- At Last!

    Hello Everyone... I just got word from my physiotherapist that I am just a year away from getting my hip replacement. I'm getting really excited. It will be a prototype replacement and I shall be the first to receive it. There are risks, yes, but I am willing to take the leap if it gets me up...
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    "Sa" and "Ke" what exactly are they?

    Hi all... Okay, noobie here. I have pretty well established what a doum and a tak (tek?) is but I have come across two new terms which are "Sa" and "Ke". Could someone please explain to me how these fit in relative to a doum or tak? I have come across sites for Carnactic music where the guru...
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    Bashed, battered and badly bent

    Hi... I just got out of the hospital after two days in the emergency for injuries and emergency dental surgery. Some idiot at the grocery store was not watching what he was doing while backing out of a parking lot and knocked me out of my wheelchair. I now have two fat lips, two broken teeth...
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    Finally Graduated, Yay!

    Hi... Just wanted to share with you all that I graduated this month from med school specializing in cardiology. :clap: I now have to do a five-year internship. A headhunter for the WHO almost got on her knees and begged me to become part of the team. :D I have not forgotten belly dancing. In...
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    "Klapp" instead of "Ting" learning the Zills

    Hello Everyone... Well, it has been about two months now that I have been trying to learn how to play zills. I have mastered the "gallop" pretty well but that is boring after any length of time. I have been trying to learn a rhythm that involves striking one zill with the edge of the other. But...
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    Is my avatar's costume makeable?

    Hello Everyone.... I am wondering if the costume depicted by my avatar is something that can actually be made. (There are larger pictures in my profile.) I think most of it can but the collar has me wondering. I would think, though, that a collar like that would chafe the back of one's neck. I...
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    My first sagat

    Hi... After searching all over Ottawa, my brother located and bought for me two sets of sagat. According to him, he was told by the shop owner that they are "tempered Indian bronze." They look nice and sound nice to my ears. My only concern is that they are pitched differently -- the bronze...
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    Hiding unsightly scars

    Hi... I know that when I have reached the stage when I can dance in public, I shall have to deal with the scars on my back. I have had five pelvis surgeries and although the surgeons did their best when sewing me back together, everything from my lower back to my buttocks looks like it has been...
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    What is the meaning of the word "foah"

    Hello everyone... I am wondering what is the meaning of the word "foah" that is used so often at the beginning of Arabic songs and can often be draged out or repeated for as long as a minute before the song actually begins. I am guessing from context that it means something like "behold"...
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    Plausible combination for a belly dance trio

    Hi... I am gathering information for a story I'm trying to write and could use some help in choosing components for a plausible belly dance trio that will fit in with the characters. Right at this moment I am wondering: voice, veena, tabla voice, rababa, tabla voice, oud, ney voice, ney...
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    The gender and number of the word "Sagat"

    Hi... I would be interested in knowing the gender and number of the word "sagat" I am thinking that it is feminine plural or possibly feminine dual. If that is the case is the singular something like "sagah"? I'm really just guessing here. :confused: Thank you all in advance for your help...
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    Need song suggestions for a story.

    Hi... I am gathering information for a story I am working on in which there is a belly dancer putting on a performance. I would like to set some suggestions of some Arabic song lyrics that praise the beauty and grace of a belly dancer. If I could get a transliteration of the first few lines and...
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    A Budding Author

    Hi... As the title says, I'm a budding author trying at this moment to gather some information on belly dancing for a story I'm planning. I love belly dancing but for me it is only as a spectator. You see, my legs and pelvis were broken in a car accident and I have to get around in a...
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