These two excerpts from the documentary film, "Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt," show the power and nuance of the great singer's voice. Umm Kulthum sings a love song composed by one of her rivals.

“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 ...

Umm Kulthum's deep, resonant voice enthralled the Arab world for decades and inspired western singers like Bob Dylan and Robert Plant AFP / Khaled DESOUKI Revered Arab singer Umm Kulthum returned to ...

StepFEED have uncovered a blast from the past: Black & white photos of the iconic Umm Kulthum during her world tour in France. The vintage shots were from a trip the Egyptian singer had taken to the ...

When Turkish singer Arif Altunkaya first heard Umm Kulthum’s voice at the age of 19, it stopped him cold. “I remember thinking, if what we’re making is music, then what is this?” Altunkaya said, ...

I did not really understand Umm Kulthum's mystique. That's because I grew up in the U.S. listening to Bob Dylan records with my dad, who came here from Syria as a young graduate student. For his part, ...

Prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, best known internationally for groundbreaking epic “The Yacoubian Building,” more recently shot “El Set,” a biopic of Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum, who is ...

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 ...

Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman. "As long as ...

She was one of the Arab world’s most revered singers, praised by Bob Dylan and sampled by Beyonce: the late Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum seems worthy of having a street named in her honor. But when ...