Dina egyptian belly dancer biography

(Raqs sharqi stars from the 1990s and 2000s)

Profile and Background of Dina

Dina (دينا) has been considered the last big Egyptian star of Raqs sharqi and indeed she is the last one who has starred in a considerable number of movies and TV programmes from the early 1990s.

I have found most of the details about her life in Dina’s autobiography (Talaat and Guibal, 2011).

She started dancing from the age of nine in a folkloric troupe.

However, her father did not agree to her dancing Raqs sharqi.

Dina said in an interview to El Safy (1993b, para. 9): ‘When I started belly dancing it was a big problem.

Now my mother and father speak to me after three years’.

Dina comes from a wealthy Egyptian family and she has a degree in philosophy, so her background is different from that of most dancers of the past, who came from a poorer background.

As Dina explains in her autobiography (Talaat and Guibal, 2011, p