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Dancing Fear & Desire: Race, Sexuality, & Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance
Dancing Fear & Desire: Race, Sexuality, & Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance (2004) is a book by associate professor of english Stavros Stavrou Karayanni (1965- ) at University blah blah why is it important

Summary
The book Dancing Fear and Desire takes a comprehensive look at the history ofMiddle Eastern dance and the intertwined connection between developments inculture and the influence these changes had on the dance. There are many factorsincluding race, gender, class, and imperialism that relate and have affected thetypes of Middle Eastern dances we see today. The Cypriot author of the book,Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, examines numerous writings and sources to provide athorough and  well  researched  analysis  of  belly  dance  and  its  relationship  with homosexuality and post-colonialism.

About the author
He is the author of Dancing Fear and Desire: Race, Sexuality and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance, the co-author of Sexual Interactions: The Social Construction of Atypical Sexual Behaviours and the co-editor of Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination (Brill, 2015). Since 2007, he is the Managing Editor of the multilingual journal Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus.