Marrakech – The 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival showcased the world premiere of “El Sett,” an ambitious biographical film chronicling the life of legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum.

Woken by a phone call in the middle of the night, 19-year-old Wahab is summoned to his mother’s deathbed. A bus ride across an unnamed Western city, a snowstorm and a blizzard of memories later, he ...

It is to be expected that a piece of musical theatre about buried wartime trauma, estrangement from family, and impending death, complete with an Oum Kalthoum-inspired score, might trigger a deep ...

EDUCATION is being reshaped by artificial intelligence in ways that do not always affirm the human at the heart of teaching and learning. In response, Open University Malaysia (OUM) offered a timely ...

You might be surprised to learn that MP3 players still exist. Not only that, but they’re popular with people who take their music seriously – the kind that roll their eyes at lossy Spotify streams and ...

Arabic popular music produced several divas in the 20th century, with each blessed with a powerful distinctive voice. Some of them included the "Egyptian Immortal" Oum Kalthoum, who dominated Arabic ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Oum Ry Ban is a 79-year-old kickboxing instructor in Long Beach who went from the heights of champion fighting in Cambodia to battling for his own survival. "I fought in ...

Sumou Real Estate Co.’s board approved today, April 15, the appointment of Essam Kalthoum as Managing Director (MD), the company said in a statement on Tadawul. Kalthoum will begin his duties ...

Sarkodie, the Ghanaian hiplife and hip-hop recording artist, singer, and songwriter, has a new song, "Messiah," featuring Kweku Flick. The song is from Sarkodie's new album,# Rapperholic24, and is a ...

Hundreds of cultural professionals, including archeologists and academics, called on the United Nations to safeguard war-torn Lebanon's heritage in a petition published Sunday ahead of a crucial ...

Sam is a journalist based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in English literature with a minor in Creative Writing, cutting her teeth through her ...