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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...