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 ...

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 ...

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 ...