The year was 2018. I still remember the exact moment I was about to talk to Egypt’s legendary ballerina. They say that the most powerful way to remember someone is how they made you feel, and although I met so many people and spoke to several in that year alone, I can only remember how I felt on that particular day when I spoke to Egypt’s first prima ballerina: Magda Saleh. So many phone calls, emails, and texts drifted with time and have escaped my memory, and my mind no longer tries to chase time and remember them all. But with Magda Saleh, my mind immediately holds me by the hand and takes me back to that exact scene, as though it had always been wanting me to recall that specific event. Sometimes our minds know far more than we do, tucking away memories we do not yet realize we will need later on. They hold onto moments that, at the time, may not seem all that significant, moments we never would have guessed would stay with us. But somehow, as if our minds already sense the turns that…
