Born into a lineage of whirling dervishes, Mohamed Adel, 20, takes great pride in the uniquely Egyptian interpretation of the centuries-old ritual known colloquially as "tanoura", or skirt in Arabic. ...

Tanoura, literally “skirt” in Arabic, is widely popular at Sufi and non-Sufi festivals in mostly Muslim Egypt. “Tanoura is as tough as performances at the circus. Both require high physical ...

“While Sufi whirling from Turkey is well known, the Egyptian form called Tanoura, identified by the multi-coloured skirts worn by the whirlers, is not very well known and it’s a spectacle ...

Tanoura is an Arabic word, which means skirt in English. Tanoura dance is a traditional folk dance in Egypt, where the dancer in colorful skirts spins to the tunes of songs.(Photo: Xinhua ...

On Wednesday night, an open-air Tanoura dance, staged in historic downtown Cairo, carried local and foreign audiences away, as dancers' spinning off their skirt-like colorful outfits turned the ...

The Tanoura dancers, almost in a trance, whirl on the notes of cymbals and drums in their rainbowy skirts which can weigh upto 40 kg and appear as a blur. To be held on April 4 at 6 pm.

Born into a lineage of whirling dervishes, Mohamed Adel, 20, takes great pride in the uniquely Egyptian interpretation of the centuries-old ritual known colloquially as tanoura, or skirt in Arabic.

“While Sufi whirling from Turkey is well known, the Egyptian form called Tanoura, identified by the multi-coloured skirts worn by the whirlers, is not very well known and it’s a spectacle ...

Born into a lineage of whirling dervishes, Mohammad Adel, 20, takes great pride in the uniquely Egyptian interpretation of the centuries-old ritual known colloquially as “tanoura”, or skirt in ...

Born into a lineage of whirling dervishes, Mohamed Adel, 20, takes great pride in the uniquely Egyptian interpretation of the centuries-old ritual known colloquially as "tanoura", or skirt in Arabic.