“Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum, the most accomplished singer ...

"All Arabs agree," reads The Rough Guide to World Music. "Umm Kulthum is indisputably the Arab world's greatest singer." The name Umm Kulthum may not strike a chord to Western ears, but she was a ...

Fifty-one years after the death of the 'Star of the East', archival records and historical accounts show how the Arab world's greatest singer was seen as a strategic threat to Israel Portraits of Umm ...

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It took Mona Zaki more than a year's preparation to take on the hardest role of her career -- portraying Umm Kulthum, the Arab world's most iconic singer — Abdel Majid BZIOUAT It took Egyptian actor ...

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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, ...

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