Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79

Magda Saleh in an undated photograph. The Egyptian press called her Cairo’s first prima ballerina, but she often said that she was less interested in galas and glamour than in exposing people to ballet. Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making…

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