NO NO! The inside "Instructional" "INside" of one of Abdo's CD's is his sister Vina! Vina was not one of the models on the cover! (The inside "Instructional" credits the photo as being of Vina. One hundred percent Arabic girl!)

The girl with the odd looking figure in "Chainmail" costume is "Juliana" on one of the covers. The gorgeous model with the beautiful looking multi color veil (one arm holding behind her with plastic bangles) on another is Sultana Noga a British Jewish belly dancer. These record covers were taken by one of Aunt Rocky's old boyfriends, Tasso Mavris the Greek guitar player. In fact Rocky was dating him when Rocky talked my mother into belly dancing. Tassos showed Johanna how to play zil Greektown style. That's why my zil are so fuckin' good. Tassos knew his stuff! No one can play zil now. Or when they do, it sucks. They don't have any tone!

My mother and her first husband Bill met Juliana and and her partner Raphael back in the sixties when Juliana and Raphael were strictly Flamenco dancers. Raphael worked with my mother's husband Bill on his day job at the New York Times. Johanna and Bill have a few strange stories about those two! (Johanna and Bill AKA "Turhan" pioneered a man and woman dancing together outside of Greektown. Greektown NYC did not have "male" performers. Incidentally another belly dancer tried to copy their act and tried doing it over on the East Side with her partner. They sucked and it was a big flop.)

Years later, Juliana got into belly dancing and then included Raphael. Juliana was a character!

My mother remembers Sultana Noga very fondly. Said she was a very nice girl.