👉Book recommendations

Good books on the Zar include anthropologist Hagar El-Hadidi´s  "Spirit Possession, Music and Healing Rituals" 

and

Yasmin Henkesh’s book "Trance Dancing with the Jinn: The Ancient Art of Contacting Spirits Through Ecstatic Dance"

and 

Hans Winkler´s "Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt"

 Many of the articles and ideas about the zar are a little bit off-base, speculating that women can take revenge on their patriarchal circumstances and lack of control over their lives by needing a Zar & these seem to derive from, or are based theoretically on: Janice Boddy, Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan 

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👉Recommendation from Charlotte Hussey, one of our beloved dancers in Joana Saahirah´s World community

Jewelry historian and archaeologist Sigrid van Roode, the author of “Silver of the Possessed,” about Egyptian silver Zar jewelry, has a wonderful website called bedouinsilver.com.

She has courses on jewelry, scents/ perfumes, and much more about Middle Eastern women’s attire and the history and folklore behind it.

Replay of Sherifa Zuhur´s Masterclass - Part #1

Replay of Sherifa Zuhur´s Masterclass - Part #2

Replay of Sherifa Zuhur´s Masterclass - Part #3

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