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Magazines

• Arabesque
• Baltimore (October 1967)
• Greek magazine (1996)
• Habibi
• Newsweek (6/20/66)
• Parade Magazine (1961)
• Playboy Magazine This Week in Baltimore cover photo (August 11-16, 1966)
• Pleasure Guide Playtime (May 1964)
• Swing (Adriana and Fairouz) (June 1968)
• U.S. News and World Report (6/26/67)
• WAMEDA
• The Washingtonian (October 1972)
• This Week in Charlotte – cover photo (8/27/66)
• Zaghareet Magazine (March/April 1998)

Newspapers/Newsletters

• Alumni News (NID) Alumni Society (June, July, August, 1967)
• The Baltimore Sun (“Belly Dancing is Grueling, Good Way to Get Exercise”) (1960s)
• (“Man About Town” by Steve Gavin) – feature article
• The Sun Magazine (“Housewives in Harem Dress Learn How to Belly Dance”) (3/17/68)
• Bulletin of the National Council of Auxiliaries, American Medical Center at Denver (4/67)
• The Cedar Tree (Tall Cedars of Lebanon – Baltimore) (November 1970)
• Columbia Flier (11/24/76)
• Dorchester Argus Citizen (MA) (5/31/73)
• Gourmet/Maryland Living (Baltimore, MD) (10/22/67)
• Informs (The Forms Manufacturers’ Association (April/May-June, 1974)
• Journal Tempo (Rockville, MD) (“Leading with Their Bellies”) (1970s)
• Knight Chatter (Knights of Columbus, Rock Creek Council 2797) (5/68)
• Ledger-Star Beacon (Virginia Beach) (4/13/65)
• Library of Congress Gazette (7/25/97, 1/30/98)
• Mental Health Association of Montgomery County News (June-July, 1974)
• Montgomery Journal (“Bellies, Bumps, and Grinds”) (2/21/74)
• New Carrollton Blade (“A Whole Lotta Shakin’ on Sara Street”) (12/5/74)
• The New York Times Style section (1960)
• New York Sunday News (7/10/66)
• The New American “Table Talk” column by Jimmy Colimore (numerous references in 1960s)
• Reston Times (9/6/73)
• Service Stripes (Walter Reed Medical Center) (11/5/70)
• Washington City Paper (1/30/98)
• The Washington Post Arts Section Feature (1963)
  Potomac Magazine – centerfold (10/22/61)
  Style section (1960s, 6/11/67, 1972, 6/18/76, 2/1/98)
  Weekend Section (1/12/79, 4/27/01)
  http://www.washingtonpost.com
• The Washington Star – feature story (9/20/67)
• Yeniyuzyil (Turkish newspaper) (2 Temmuz 1998)

Television and Radio

• Hardin & Weaver 10th Anniversary Radio Show in Washington, DC
• Channel 11 in Baltimore
• Reston Cable TV Channel A8 (performed and interviewed)
• Penelope=s Greek Hour - 2 shows: Greek Dancing and Belly Dancing (performed and Interviewed)
• WTTG Channel 5
• Channel 9 PM Magazine Program

Reviews

• Arabesque magazine’s Ibrahim Farrah called her the “most popular dancer of the 60’s and 70’s.
• “A floor show will be presented, complete with adriana, the internationally famed belly-dancer, who any ‘red-blooded male’ will not want to miss.” (NID News)
• “An elderly man who opted for anonymity volunteered his opinion ‘its’ them girls. I’m 72, been going out all my life and never seen nothing’ like them before’.” (Washington Post Potomac Magazine, 10/22/61)

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