Naima Akef was a premier Belly Dancer from Cairo in the 40's. Naima danced at the Kit Kat Club there. This film was made in the late 1940's, can you imagine MGM trying to distribute this in the U.S. at that time?? HA! It would have been called porno. Naima is a traditional dancer and very sexy in her command of the floor. I grew up with the music of Muhammed El-Bakkar, my mother was Lebanese and I made some great coin in my college days playing the drum for Belly Dancers with my partner Husni Ziam.
