Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum’s singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman. “As long as ...

The music of one of the Arab world's greatest divas is still enthralling audiences in Paris, 50 years after her death.

Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer ... Kulthum has also been praised by Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, among other Western artists, and sampled by Beyonce and ...

Robert Plant and Bob Dylan all paying tribute to her. "She is one of my favourite singers of all time," Dylan once said. More recently, Shakira and Beyonce have sampled her songs. The Umm Kulthum ...