It’s been noted recently that the art of belly dancing is dying in Egypt, that the profession is being taken over by a torrent of foreign dancers. But watch out for Fifi Abdo, one of Egypt’s top three belly dancers and perhaps the most “violent.” Abdo, who commands a fierce band of bodyguards, recently stormed the office of the censor after one of her performances had been censored for being too provocative, and is on the warpath against the “Russians” – the foreign belly dancers that she says are “giving a bad name to our traditional profession.” – Ha’aretz (Israel)