Yes, her father was an ambassador to Italy for Egypt. So she grew up in Italy and went to catholic school.

Hi,
yes Dina was born in Rome because her father worked in italy (not in embassy, but something with means of comunications). I know that her mother worked in embassy (maybe indian [?]). Anyway she is the frist dancer graduated, and you know that it s unusual. She studied faculty of philosophy: arts, music and spettacle (I remember it because Im graduate in same faculty and same fields in Italy! huhuhuh). When she was young she had catholic/christian education. Actually she had a "good" family, not like fifi and others unlukly poors.

...sorry for my english... :S

now I have the magazine with Dina interview...and she said:
My real name is Dina Talaat El Sayed but I m simply called Dina. I was born in Rome (Italy). My father was working there, learning Telex, and my mother was working as a researcher in Indian Embassy in Rome.We returned in Cairo when I was 4 years old.