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This year I celebrated the International Women’s day in Istanbul where I gave a lecture, with the Divine 9 dance, about FeMale Leadership in an old Chapel from the 16th century! Unforgettable experience! When I entered the space, I felt overwhelmed by emotions, sad...

I was born and raised in North-Africa, sun, sea, desert… As a child I always dreamed of mountains covered with snow, of pine trees camouflaged under a thick layer of powder snow… looking like elegant ladies wearing white evening dresses and ready to dance...

I was always afraid of depression. I come from a family with a long ‘depressive history’, with many depressive women (and men, but these won’t admit it of course). By nature I am a joyful optimist person. But every Dutch winter (I live in beautiful Amsterdam), I get...

The last time I celebrated Christmas with my family was … 20 years ago. I love my mom and my mom loves me. But we cannot be together more than few hours without having an argument. We argue always about the same old subject: religion and life style. My...

I remember so well how the 17-year old Klara came to my dance classes for the first time, with her bouncy blonde curls and still wearing braces on her teeth. When I asked her why she wanted to learn this ancient Arab dance, she answered ‘My dream is to...

My beautiful Goddesses, Greetings from Tunisia. I send you here a little film I took in this beautiful museum, an old Arab house. The subject of the film is an old Arab Sex Lamp (300 years old!!), to protect women’s sexual right to pleasure! To make sure...

Writing this from Tahiti-French Polynesia, to be more specific from a boat sailing along the coast of the magnificent island Huahin, meaning… Vagina! I thought it was a joke, but it’s real. French Polynesia in general and Huahin in particular has in every...

I was watching an interview with of one my inspiring female leaders, Michelle Obama where she slams women who voted for Trump and asking women ‘What’s going on in our heads? We’re still at that stage where we’re trying to figure out what it means to be...

"Attractive wins and ugly loses in today's rat race" was the summarizing headline when the concept of 'erotic capital' was introduced, back in 2011. Even more so today "the financial returns of attractiveness equal the returns of qualifications". Many...