Aabed has never ceased succumbing to her charms. “I am crazy about Oum Kalthoum. Not only because of her musical talents, but because she symbolises a happy past,” he says. An aeronautic engineer in ...

Literature essayist Sayyed Mahmoud gave a talk this month on two legendary Egyptian figures who were both born in December novelist Naguib Mahfouz and singer Oum Kalthoum While the last month of the ...

Saudi Arabia held a hologram-based concert for late Egyptian diva Oum Kalthoum on 25 January as part of it’s Winter at Tantora Festival. The concert featured the Sounds of Egypt Orchestra, which began ...

The Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris is holding a special exhibit on the leading women in the Arab art secene over the past century. The exhibit started on May 19 and will go on until September 26.

Franco-Lebanese trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf was the first instrumentalist in 29 years to win the top "Victoires de la musique" French world music award in 2014. He's reached star status here in ...

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 ...

The golden age of Arab cinema and music of the 20th century is being revisited through its female stars — women who became powerful symbols of feminism, Arab independence and identity. Through film ...

Fatima Ibrahim as-Sayyid al-Beltagi (Arabic: فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي), known as Umm Kalthoum (Arabic: أم كلثوم), also spelled Oum Kalsoum (or Om-e Kalsūm in Egyptian dialect) or sometimes Umm ...

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 ...