Little Egypt

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Birth Name: Lorraine Shalhoub

Age: 94, born 20 December 1931

Country of origin: United States

Currently Residing In: United States

Description: Belly dancer Little Egypt was born Lorraine Shalhoub on December 20, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York. Of Syrian descent, Little Egypt claimed in several newspaper interviews that she was the great granddaughter of a previous famous belly dancer who used the same pseudonym and caused a big stir at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. Little Egypt grew up in Brooklyn in the Syrian section around Atlantic Avenue. She started dancing as a little girl initially for her family before going on to dance at church benefits and Arab gatherings. Word soon spread about Little Egypt in the Syrian community and by the ... (more)

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