Jihan Jamal

Jihan is an internationally respected dance master who has been performing and teaching Near and Middle Eastern dance disciplines throughout the United States, U. S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Egypt and the Czech Republic, for the past 34 years, beginning in November 1979. In 1984, Jihan, as a board member of the AACC (Arab-American Cultural Cent... er) and on their behalf, hosted the radio program "The Arabic Hour," on South Florida's public radio station WDNA, FM 89.9, featuring music and poetry of Arab American artists in the USA, and local community announcements of Arab-American residents in the South Florida area. In 1987, Ms. Jamal became the first Oriental Dance Artist from Miami, Florida to win the title of "Miss America of the Bellydance", in San Francisco, CA, crowned by renowned artist and sponsor Magaña Baptiste. She was awarded, by popular vote the title of "Best Instructor of the Year 2000" by Zaghareet magazine; a USA based international dance publication. In 2000, Ms Jamal was commissioned to choreograph a contemporary dance piece for closing credits segment for the PBS documentary , "A Woman's Place? Voices of Contemporary Hispanic-American Women" by Cuban-born film maker, Amy Serrano and Globe Link Productions, Coral Gables, Florida. In 2002, Jihan achieved one career-long dream, performing for the first time in Cairo, Egypt at Raqia Hassan's " Ahlan Wa Sahlan" Dance Festival. Since, she returned to Cairo in 2005, fulfilling another career-long dream, teaching as well as perform, at the "AWS" 6 th Annual International Dance Festival. Recently, in 2009, Jihan was featured as one of South Florida "Movers and Shakers" in the locally based publications, "Yallah Magazine", and was chosen as F ebruary 2010's Goddess of the Month by Leticia Saints of the Goddess Tribune dance web site. On October 22, 2010, Jihan founded the Women Of the Silk Veil (WOSV) MidEastern Dance Arts and Culture Club, holding monthly meetings and promoting dance and music artists, as well as members of the local South ...Read More