| Dalia Saad |
She is the first Egyptian ballerina. She grew up in Cairo with 3 siblings, an Egyptian father and a Scottish mother. She began learning ballet at an early age. She joined the Conservatoire School in Alexandria, which included a ballet department supervised by teachers from the British Royal Academy. She returned to Cairo, where she worked as a professor and then dean of the Higher Institute of Ballet. 17 years after the fire that changed her life, she was appointed director of the new opera house. In 1992, she traveled to the US, where she began teaching at New York University. She officially retired from dancing in 1993 due to back problems, and married an Egyptologist at the New York Institute of Fine Arts, Jack Josephson, and participated in the documentary A Footnote in Ballet History.
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