Mona said biography

          Mona Said is currently a professor of economics at The American University of Cairo (AUC), Egypt..

          Laban Dance Style Analysis of Belly Dancer Mona al Said (5.6.3)

          About Mona al Said

          Biographical information about Mona al Said (منى السعيد ) is available from an article written by El Safy (1996) and from Mona’s own website (El Said, no date).

          She was born in Suez Canal and loved dancing folkloric dances at school.

          Mona Said is currently a professor of economics at The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt.

          It was not until she moved to Cairo, having had to leave Suez Canal because of the Egypt/Israel war in 1967, that her professional dance career started when she was only 13.

          However, she had to leave Egypt soon (only two months after she had started dancing professionally) because her father did not approve of her dancing.

          Mona recalls:

          I was very young and my father didn’t like me to dance. . . .

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          He wanted to kill me because he’s Bedouin and doesn’t like this — very shame(ful) for the family . . . my father was in Suez Canal. He came after me to Cairo .

          She was born in Suez Canal and loved dancing folkloric dances at school.

        1. Mona Ibrahim Wafa started dancing professionally at Her dancing meant she had to flee Egypt for Lebanon in to escape the anger of her conservative.
        2. Mona Said is currently a professor of economics at The American University of Cairo (AUC), Egypt.
        3. Mona Said is currently a professor of economics at The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt.
        4. Mona Al Said was born in Egypt and started dancing in Cairo at the age of 13, but she eventually had to move to Lebanon to avoid upsetting her family.

          5. . . I went to Lebanon.

          (El Safy, 1996, para. 25)

          Her Career

          During her career, from 1970 until the mid-1990