All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. Thus, Umar accepted her as his wife ...

Fatima bint Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Sayed Al-Beltagy, who was known as “Umm Kulthum”, was born in 1898 in the Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, and she passed away on February 3, 1975 at the age of 75 ...

For 40 years, every first Thursday of the month, Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum would perform new music ... That's why people saw her as bint el balad (daughter of the country)".

Bridget Kendall examines the extraordinary rise and continuing legacy of Umm Kulthum, with expert guests Virginia Danielson, Yara Salahiddeen and Salwa el-Shawan Castelo-Branco. Show more Umm ...

Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum died 50 years ago this week. She remains arguably the most influential Arab singer in and outside the Arab world. In Paris, there were three days of concerts to pay homage.

4 Extra Debut. Novelist Ahdaf Soueif chooses acclaimed Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum as his great life. With Humphrey Carpenter. From November 2002. Show more Novelist Ahdaf Soueif chooses legendary ...

The renowned Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is the only Arab star featured in the ranking of the 200 greatest singers of all time published by the Rolling Stone magazine. “Umm Kulthum has no real ...

Egyptian star Mona Zaki will play Kulthum who from the late 1920s onwards became the first prominent Arab singer to disseminate her work to the masses via the new technologies of the times ...

The Haifa Municipality announced earlier this month that it intends to honor famed Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum by naming a street after her, according to the AFP. Umm Kulthum, the Egyptian ...

Iconic Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is getting her own biopic, and luckily Sofia Essaïdi has been chosen to play the role of one of the most memorable singers in the Arab world. The French ...