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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Umm Kulthum

From '4 Fantasies and a Monkey' by Yossi Berg and Oded Graf at the 2024 TLV Dance, August 1-10, 2024 (Courtesy Vojtech Brtnicky)
July 4, 2024, 11:27 am
TLV Dance event reframed with Israeli troupes only
The 24th year of the summer dance festival will take place at the Suzanne Dellal Center, with 19 performances and open rehearsals
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli Druze singer Mike Sharif is pictured during an interview with AFP in the northern Israeli village of Daliyat al-Karmel, on January 10, 2022. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
March 12, 2022, 6:02 pm
Can music bridge Palestinian-Israeli divide? A Druze pop star believes so
Nicknamed ‘the Druze prodigy,’ Mike Sharif sings in Hebrew in Hebron and in Arabic in Tel Aviv; ‘Politics does not bring people together this way,’ he says
By Delphine Matthieussent
Umm Kulthum at one of her last public concerts in 1968 (photo credit: CC BY public domain/Wikipedia)
July 28, 2020, 10:55 am
Bids by Israeli cities to honor Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum stir anger
Singer is adored by many Jews, but as Haifa joins Jerusalem and Ramle in naming streets after her, critics highlight her pro-Palestinian lyrics and support for Egypt in Six Day War
By AFP and ToI Staff
Umm Kulthum in Life Magazine, 1962. (Wikimedia, public domain)
February 29, 2020, 7:04 pm
Iconic Arab singer Umm Kulthum to ‘star’ in Cairo hologram concert
Projection of the Arab diva will appear in the city’s opera house next week
By AFP
Copies of audio recordings and films starring Souad Zaki that her son Moshe Zaki was able to obtain because they were sold outside of Egypt before the 1952 Revolution. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand)
April 29, 2014, 11:32 pm
Forgotten siren: From Cairo diva to Israeli single mother
Jewish singer Souad Zaki abandoned fame and fortune in Egypt for a Zionist dream
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Singer Nasrin Kadri performes with the Ashkelon Andalusian-Mediterranean Orchestra in Jerusalem, in December 2013. (photo credit: Yoram Blumenkrantz)
January 26, 2014, 12:56 pm
For the Israelis who love Umm Kulthum, music drowns out enmity
She supported Nasser and saw Israel as an enemy, but 50 years after her heyday, the Egyptian diva’s epic songs are being performed by a new generation of gifted Israeli singers, for ‘hysterical’ audiences
By Gavriel Fiske
Umm Kulthum at one of her last public concerts in 1968 (photo credit: CC BY public domain/Wikipedia)
October 17, 2012, 12:41 pm
Jerusalem gets Umm Kulthum Street
Egyptian diva was the most widely regarded Arab singer of the 20th century
By Gabe Fisher
May 19, 2012, 9:16 am
Sarit Hadad, backed by a symphony
Singer performs with the Rishon Lezion Symphony Orchestra — to the delight of some fans, dismay of others
By Michal Shmulovich
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