“Looking for Oum Kalthoum”, the film that revolves around the legendary star of the orient, Oum Kalthoum, had faced fierce criticism in the home country of Oum Kalthoum while receiving a warm welcome ...

The Ministry of Culture announced free entry into Oum Kalthoum Museum for a week starting 3 February on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the Star of the Orient’s death. Oum Kalthoum, one of the ...

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 ...

Literature essayist Sayyed Mahmoud gave a talk this month in honour of two legendary Egyptian figures: novelist Naguib Mahfouz and singer Oum Kalthoum While the last month of the year is often ...

To go along with my A&E cover story on shopping for international CDs in small ethnic stores across Portland, I'm posting a track today by the incomparable Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum.* I've posted ...

Oum Kalthoum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Asmahan, and Mohamed Abdel Wahab were not simply singers who appeared in films. They were, at the time, the cinema. Their voices carried the emotional w ...

The Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris is holding a special exhibit on the leading women in the Arab art secene over the past century. The exhibit started on May 19 and will go on until September 26.

Franco-Lebanese trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf was the first instrumentalist in 29 years to win the top "Victoires de la musique" French world music award in 2014. He's reached star status here in ...

It's hard to overstate the importance of Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum in 20th century music -- when she died in 1975, 4 million people attended her funeral. Though she's passed on, she remains one of ...