Youssef Nabil is fascinated by belly dancers (who isn’t?), so the Egyptian artist has made a new video featuring Hollywood star Salma Hayek as a slinky dancer strutting her stuff. I Saved My Belly Dancer is due to go on show today (6 November) at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris (until 4 January 2016). Salma pops up in a cowboy’s dream as a symbol of the golden era of Egyptian cinema in the 1950s. According to the gallery, “the video explores shifting perceptions of the position of women in the region, with the amplified sexualisation of their bodies a growing problem in the new social constructs”. Other themes include Nabil’s “fraught relationship with his home country”, as well as exile and rebirth.