especially for silentq

a teapot purse!  It's so cute!

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Here's a nice review of Natacha Atlas' new album Mish Maoul, which happily provides song title translations and a basic gist of what some of the songs are about.  This bit at the end very much intrigued me:

Fashionably post-modern, Atlas thinks in projects. On her plate now is a cover of “Whatever Lola Wants” for a film by the Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch about an American bellydancer in Egypt (Atlas, a former bellydancer herself, describes the plot with relish)...

IMDB has just this for info:  A New York postal worker travels to Egypt to take belly dancing lessons from a legendary instructor.  And Natacha is the only cast member so far.  But it sounds super intriguing!