[3]: B19  Later, as she developed her professional career, Taj trained in belly dance in the United States and Germany, where she studied with Mo Geddawi of the Reda Troup.

[4][5] Taj has been contracted as an in-house solo Egyptian belly dancer throughout the Middle East,[6] including Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, where cultural and legal norms have been selective regarding who is eligible to perform.

[11] Taj also performed at the high-profile wedding celebration[12] of Middle-Eastern author and publisher Yara Michaels[13] and ophthalmologist David W. Shoemaker[14][15] that took place at Cà d’Zan at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Taj rejects the floorwork that is common in other approaches (such as the Turkish style), believing the upright posture of the classical Egyptian genre to be more culturally representative.

[9] The mainstay of Taj's repertoire for the organization is Journey Down the Nile,[3]: B1  a multi-media Egyptian cultural program which consists of regional dances of Egypt interspersed with film clips that explain them.