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Middle Eastern Dance Periodical BENNU
BENNU OnLine 5#4 Women of Power
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HAREM: THE FORBIDDEN CITY
Excerpt from “Secrets of the Harem”
by Carla Coco
Rise and Fall of the "Reign of Favored Women": when women's wiles...
and astute political minds... ruled the (Ottoman) world.
To achieve real power it was not sufficient merely to remain in the monarch's favor; it was necessary to give him a son and to fight to place this son on the throne.
OTTOMAN WOMEN OF POWER
Ottoman Women of Power: Hurrem Sultana (Roxalena, a Russian) /
Nur Banu Sultana (Cecelia Baffo-Venier, Venetian) / Kosem Sultana (Greek) / Nakeshedil Sultana (Aimee debucq de Rivery, French)
Profiles of the women who rose from hareem slavery to wield absolute power and their struggles and stratagies to keep it.
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN EGYPT
The Ottomans ruled in Egypt from 1517 when Selim the Grim conquered the Mamluks until Napoleon's invasion in 1798.
PURE: Dance of Power, Dance of Peace
by Jezibell
The PURE project:
Public Urban Ritual Experiment
An account of one of the most exceptional expressions of compassion, healing
and humanity through World/Middle Eastern Dance idioms in New York City;
a changing application in a changed world since the 9/11 tragedy.
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