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Tahia Carioca: The Eternal Essence of Egypt.

Tahia Carioca was the most stunning and long-lived of the Arab world's Eastern dancers (belly-dancers, as they are called today).!

In Memory of Tahia

The first and only time I saw her dance on the stage was in 1950 at Badia’s Casino, in Giza, just below where the Sheraton stands today.

A few days later, I saw her at a vegetable stand in Zamalek, as provocative and beautiful as she had been a few nights before, except this time she was wearing a smart lavender suit and high heels. She looked me straight in the eye but my 14-year-old flustered stare wilted under what seemed to me her brazen scrutiny, and I turned away.

Tahiya Karioka was born Badawiya Tahiya Mohamed Aly Karim, in the Egyptian province of Ismailia, during 1915.

  • Tahiya Karioka was born Badawiya Tahiya Mohamed Aly Karim, in the Egyptian province of Ismailia, during 1915.
  • Tahia Carioca (born Badaweya Mohamed Kareem Al Nirani on 22 February 1919, died 20 September 1999), was a legendary Egyptian belly dancer.
  • Tahia Carioca was the most stunning and long-lived of the Arab world's Eastern dancers (belly-dancers, as they are called today).
  • Tahia Carioca was the most stunning and long-lived of the Arab world's Eastern dancers (belly-dancers, as they are called today).
  • Badaweya Mohamed Kareem Al Nirani (1919(?)-1999), professionally known as Taheyya Kariokka (Tahia Carioca), was an Egyptian actress and dancer.

    • I told my older cousin’s wife Aida with shamefaced disappointment about my lacklustre performance with the great woman. ‘You should have winked at her,’ Aida said dismissively, as if such a thing were even imaginable.

    Tahia Carioca was the most stunning and long-lived of the Arab world’s Eastern dancers (belly-dancers, as they are called today). Her career lasted sixty years, from her first days as a dancer at Badia’s Opera Square Casino in the early Thirties