Amal came to be interested in bellydancing after learning about its history within Western, Middle Eastern, and Indian popular culture. An artist by education and a cultural anthropologist by trade, she is most intrigued by bellydance's ubiquity and sees it as a constantly evolving, globalized art form. 
She believes that music and dance bring people together and that they are essential elements for peace, joy, and empathy on a cross-cultural scale. She is interested in developing choreography for Middle Eastern and Indian pop songs of the 1960s and 1970s. Her goal is to one day get up the courage to pair bellydance with classic bluegrass murder ballads.
On Leave.