Cairo, EGYPT — Legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum will feature in a hologram concert in Cairo next week, the city’s opera house director said Saturday. The hologram projection of the Arab diva — ...

The “Sound and Image” music show is preparing to present its first night in Cairo, following its huge success during the Riyadh Season in Saudi Arabia. Taking take place on Thursday at the iconic ...

“Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum, the most accomplished singer ...

The ubiquitous artist's politics and sound evolved over the years, pointing to culture's potential to shape and shift society, memory and identity. For 40 years, every first Thursday of the month, ...

"All Arabs agree," reads The Rough Guide to World Music. "Umm Kulthum is indisputably the Arab world's greatest singer." The name Umm Kulthum may not strike a chord to Western ears, but she was a ...

It took Mona Zaki more than a year's preparation to take on the hardest role of her career -- portraying Umm Kulthum, the Arab world's most iconic singer — Abdel Majid BZIOUAT It took Egyptian actor ...

Hands down, Umm Kulthum – nicknamed the fourth pyramid, the Lady, the star of the east – is the most legendary Arab singer. At least once a week, my father will lay back on a couch, put on an Umm ...

CAIRO — Legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum will feature in a hologram concert in Cairo next week, the city's opera house director said Saturday. The hologram projection of the Arab diva — dubbed ...

Umm Kulthum defined Arabic music all over North Africa and the Middle East. Those who witnessed her live performance often sent into a meditative, trance-like state of pleasure. She died in 1973 after ...