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.

Once again, Cairokee rules Egypt’s Youtube in mere days. The country’s favorite band released their latest song, Kan Lak Ma’aya, three days ago on the social media platform, and has already garnered ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an impressively longitudinal approach to audience engagement that began with last year’s Radio Cairo, a weekend of events, games, food stalls, music and poetry, with Amsterdam’s North African and ...

El Turk: Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother at Dutch National Opera Hattie Butterworth Monday, March 24, 2025 Bushra El Turk's new opera forced us to consider the musical icon of Oum Kaltoum and her ...

A viral video has ignited a heated online debate about showering habits after one woman shared her surprise at discovering that not everyone showers daily. "What inspired me to make the video was ...