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O.K. The Abu Dhabi vid is good but it's Sohair in her younger days when supposedly her style was simpler. In fact, most of the videos available of her, plus most of the movie tableaux are of her younger days and younger style.

Two Egyptian dance experts whose opinions I trust (Aziz of Salt Lake City and A'isha Azar of Spokane) have described to me how much more complex her style became in her later years of dancing (late 80s early 90's). Unfortunately, other than the Sweet Star vid, there is no easily accessible (for us in the US) footage of her during these later years that I know of.

The footage A'isha has, that I have seen but not studied carefully, is an old worn out VHS tape that was converted from a pal VHS tape that came from Momo Kadous in Germany, where Sohair did some shows in the early 90's after she had begun to retire. If you go to Momo's website, and click "bazar" you will see some of these (search for "saki"). However, I have written to him and he only has them in pal VHS format. I have thought a couple of times about buying them, but they are expensive and I don't have a way of converting them.

I wish he would put them out on DVD.

Sedonia