Leyla Bedir Khan

Leyla Bedir Khan's birthdate is disputed, but it was likely 31 July 1903 as she was born in Constantinople.

Her first years she passed in the Ottoman Empire, but her family soon settled in Egypt, where she grew up with the diplomatic society in Cairo and Alexandria.

While staying in Paris, she studied dances of the Indian and Persian cultures as well as of the Zoroastrian rites for a year.

[7] She was the first Kurdish ballet dancer to appear at the opera house La Scala in Milan in 1932[2] and performed in the New York Worlds Fair of 1939.

[2] After World War II she decided to end her career as a performing dancer and opened a dancing school in Paris.