Like Taheyya Karioka, Samya Gamal started her performing career as dancer in Badiaa Massabni's troupe. Her love story with Farid Al Atrash, the famous royal prince of the Lebanese druz who went to Egypt and became one of the most famous singing composer and actor led to an artistic collaboration between the two of them that was never matched.

  Farid composed many of Samya's dance music as well as co-starred in almost all the films in which she appeared.

  Samya Gamal's classical ballett schooling was very apparent in her style of dancing as well as the Hollywood influence that she brought into the Egyptian dance. She also appeared in films that were made in Hollywood.

  Like Taheyya Karioka, it is an honour and a pleasure to know that at the time of making this volume of "The Stars of Egypt" Lady Samya Gamal is still alive but regretfully has retired from the dance world, after a comeback of a year and a half that was preceded by a previous fifteen years of retirement. She has left us this valuable wealth of dance performances that we will always treasure.