Grandmother's Secrets

"Come, sit by me," says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world." So Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother''s first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. Grandmother''s Secretsalways circles back to this grandmother and this young girl, echoing the circular m...