As a young woman in the 1920s and 1930s in Cairo, Umm Kulthum learned to limit her contacts with and comments to the press and the public generally. However, the autobiography or memoir had become a popular genre in Cairo for many performers in the late 1920s and 1930s, and, in 1937...
Personal Reflection UMM KULTHUM By David Stupplebeen As I worked to find just whom I would write a biography on, I found myself attracted to the idea of the anti-hero, who in the public mind of her country would still be somewhat well thought of, someone along the lines of Eva Peron...
Also known as: Kawkab al-Sharq, Om Kalsoum, Oum Kulthoum Written by Virginia L. Danielson Richard F. French Librarian, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Author of"The Voice of Egypt": Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century. ...