It has been 40 years since an estimated four million people paid their last respects to the “Lady of Arab singing,” Umm Kalthoum, who died on 3 February 1975. The death of the most prominent of all ...

In my recent salon class on global divas, I featured a song called “Ala Baladi Elmahboub” which translates as “to my beloved country” from a 1936 Egyptian classic film called Widad. Umm Kulthum (her ...

An open letter about intellectual and artistic spaces being used to quash a side of the debate, to delegitimize voices and valid criticism instead of engaging in much needed intellectual debates.

I did not really understand Umm Kulthum's mystique. That's because I grew up in the U.S. listening to Bob Dylan records with my dad, who came here from Syria as a young graduate student. For his part, ...

An Israeli orchestra that released a video this week marking the 50th anniversary of the death of the late Egyptian music icon Umm Kulthum has been accused of stealing Egypt’s heritage. Firqat Alnoor, ...

(Abdel Majid BZIOUAT/AFP/AFP) It took Egyptian actor Mona Zaki more than a year's preparation to take on the hardest role of her career -- the iconic singer Umm Kulthum, a legend in the Arab world.

When walking through Luxor Market, you are likely to hear the voice of Umm Kulthum emanate from Umm Kulthum Café, one of the market’s distinctive landmarks that has attracted tourists for more than 80 ...

State-run Saudi cultural channel Al-Thakafiya TV resumed broadcasting on Tuesday for the first time in 30 years one of the most renowned and influential Arabs singers, the late female Egyptian diva ...

"I was intrigued by the scales, initially, and obviously the vocal work. The way she sang, the way she could hold a note, you could feel the tension, you could tell that everybody, the whole orchestra ...

It has been 40 years since an estimated four million people paid their last respects to the “Lady of Arab singing,” Umm Kalthoum, who died on 3 February 1975. The death of the most prominent of all ...

It has been 40 years since an estimated four million people paid their last respects to the “Lady of Arab singing,” Umm Kalthoum, who died on 3 February 1975. The death of the most prominent of all ...