Raqs Sharq [IG Storytime]

Guest Contributor: Angie Assal

Date: November 22, 2021

Subject: Angie discusses the career of dancer and owner of the most important dance schools to ever exist, Badia Masabni. She gives a glimpse about the lives of the famous dancers that went to her school such as Samia Gamal and Taheya Kareyoka.

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