Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn ...

Legends deserve to be celebrated, honored and cherished and that is exactly what happened with timeless Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum ... by religious songs, ones that Kulthum would mimic and iterate.

Rawan remembers Umm Kulthum coexisting with the “old greats, not to mention our important traditional and revolutionary songs.” The first song she learned to sing was “Lissa fakir” (Do you still ...

“She was incredibly strong and completely in control of every detail — her songs, her image, her choices in life,” she added. In Cairo, a bronze statue of Umm Kulthum stands looking out on ...

Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title Kawkab el-Sharq.Wikipedia Prominent Egyptian director Marwan ...

“She was incredibly strong and completely in control of every detail — her songs, her image, her choices in life,” she added. In Cairo, a bronze statue of Umm Kulthum stands looking out on the Nile ...

"She was incredibly strong and completely in control of every detail -- her songs, her image, her choices in life," she added. In Cairo, a bronze statue of Umm Kulthum stands looking out on the Nile ...

"She was incredibly strong and completely in control of every detail -- her songs, her image, her choices in life," she added. In Cairo, a bronze statue of Umm Kulthum stands looking out on the ...

More recently, Shakira and Beyonce have sampled her songs. The Umm Kulthum cafe along al-Rashid Street in the old city of Baghdad. Photo: AFP Her influence was not just musical. Her voice became ...