The Gilded Serpent presents...
Dee Dee Asad
Dee Dee Asad lives in Dallas, Texas where she and her husband Ahmad own “Little Egypt”, the largest Egyptian store in the Southern United States. She is a native of Cairo Egypt and came to the U.S. in 1982. Dee Dee has made her home in Texas and has spent 23 years in the Lone Star State. The Asads have three children, Nora, Nelly and Nader.
Dee Dee travels to Egypt an average of 4-5 times per year. Although her trips are mainly for business, she manages to make time to spend with her mother and sister who still reside in Cairo. Dee Dee returns with costumes, jewelry, statues, and other items for the “Little Egypt”.
The Asads began hosting workshops in 2003. They bring the best of Egyptian instructors and dancers to the United States, such as Raqia Hassan, Dina, Aida Nour, Dandash, Magdy El-Leisy, Mona el Said and many others. In 2005 the Asads launched their “Queen of Raks Sharki Competition” during the Ahlan Cairo Nights in Dallas, Texas. The winner’s prize was a trip to Egypt to perform in one of the grand gala shows that is part of Raqia's Ahlan wa Sahlan Festival held in Cairo.
Dee Dee has always loved watching belly dance and being involved within the community. “After all,” she says, “ it’s in my Egyptian blood!”
E-mail: DD@littleegypt.com
Web sites: www.littleegypt.com
www.egyptworld.com
Articles on Gilded Serpent by or about Dee Dee Asad
- 10-4-05 Raqia's Response
I visited her in the Masr el Dawly Hospital, near where Raqia lives in el Dokki, the next week. Raqia was unable to travel to Sweden while sick!
Events produced by Dee Dee and Little Egypt
- 7-16-07 Fifi Reloaded! Review of Fifi Abdo Workshop and Show
Sponsored by Little Egypt Holiday Inn Select, Dallas, Texas May 18-20, 2007 - 9-14-06 Territorialism Undermines Event Sponsor's Efforts, Interview with Dee Dee Asad
Open discussions of such issues will help dancers, musicians and those people who surround and support them, to recognize similar patterns in their own local environments. - 4-20-06 Photos of Saturday Workshop & Evening show from Aida Nour & Magdy El-Leisy Workshop 2006
Sponsored by Little Egypt held on Feb 25, 2006 in Los Angeles, California- CASUALS- Show photos still coming! - 3-17-06 Photos of Friday Evening show from Aida Nour & Magdy El-Leisy Workshop 2006
Sponsored by Little Egypt held on Feb 24, 2006 in Los Angeles, California - 1-10-06 The Dina Show!
Event sponsored by Little Egypt on May 28-30, 2005 at the Crowne Plaze in Miami, Florida - 12-8-04 Mona el Said in Dallas, Part 2
- 12-7-04 Mona el Said in Dallas, Part 1
Sponsored by Little Egypt at the Holiday Inn, Dallas Texas September 3 - 5, 2004. It's always nice when you find that someone, whom you've put up on a big pedestal, is down to earth, just "folks" like the rest of us. - 8-24-04 Dina in LA
On May 14-16 of 2004, Nora, Dee Dee & Ahmad Asad of Little Egypt presented Dina of Cairo in a teaching workshop and show at the Radisson Hotel at the Los Angeles Airport. - 4-3-04 Aida Nour & Magdy El-Leisy Badr in Dallas, Texas, January 9-11, 2004 sponsored by Little Egypt Part 2
The Featured Stars Aida Nour & Magdy El-Leisy and Wafaa Badr
