Randa kamel biography

Introduction to Randa Kamel

Randa Kamel is extremely famous among practitioners worldwide because she travels a lot for teaching and also because her very energetic style is very appealing to foreigners.

She is one of the first Egyptian dancers who is more famous abroad than she is in Egypt.

I found all the information I have about Randa’s life and dance views online, in interviews that she has given either for blogs (El Safy, no date b; Sullivan, no date; Zahara and Shahin, 2012) or on videos that are available on YouTube or Vimeo (Beltran, 2010; OrientExpressTV, 2010; Dubinina, 2011; Samir, 2013) or on DVD (Senkovich, 2008).

The reason why she is not so famous in Egypt could be because she has not appeared in any movies or on TV, so the general public does not know her, as much as they know, for example, Dina or Fifi Abdou.

According to Sullivan (no date, para.

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