COLONIE — Taj Jaleel was a longtime Colonie hair studio owner. Taj Batouk was a stage and screen personality in Syria in the early 1960s.
Both names belonged to the same woman with the same unmistakable charisma.
“I remember being really young and having my childhood friends super fascinated by her because she was just this really glamorous, beautiful, captivating lady,” her daughter, Nuhar Jaleel, recalled. “I was probably 5-ish by the time I noticed there was this mystique around Taj.”…