Her death was confirmed by Diane Hakak, another former principal dancer in the Cairo Ballet. Ms. Hakak, who lives in New York, said that Tarek Saleh, Ms. Saleh’s brother in Cairo, had informed her of his sister’s death. Like the United States, Egypt did not have a permanent national-scale ballet company until the 1950s, although it had a grand opera house in Cairo. Americans, however, had seen ballet productions; major European ballet companies have performed in the United States since the 19th century. In Egypt, ballet recitals were mostly confined to private dance schools, often run by British teachers, where the students usually came from upper-middle-class families like Ms. Saleh’s.

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Persons: Magda Saleh, Diane Hakak, Hakak, Tarek Saleh, Saleh’s, Saleh, Jack Josephson Organizations: Bolshoi, Cairo Ballet Locations: Cairo, New York, Shelter, N.Y, United States, Egypt