Little Egypt: Little Egypt. Actress: Gideon. Belly dancer Little Egypt was born Lorraine Shalhoub on December 20, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York. Of Syrian descent, Little Egypt claimed in several newspaper interviews that she was the great granddaughter of a previous famous belly dancer who used the same pseudonym and caused a big stir at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. Little Egypt grew up in Brooklyn in the Syrian...