 Clockwise from left: Egypt's Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni and Dominique Baudis (L), President of the Institut du monde arabe posing next to a portrait of Umm Kulthoum by Egyptian painter Adel El-Siwi at the opening of the Paris exhibition last Monday; Umm Kulthoum at the Pyramids plateau, photo by Antoune Albert; Star of the East, Umm Kalthoum, portrait by Egyptian artist Chant Avedissian; Umm Kalthoum in 1945 (Georges Mikaelian collection)  Clockwise from bottom right: Umm Kulthoum in Nashid al-Amal directed by Ahmed Badrakhan in 1937 (R); and Umm Kulthoum, as depicted by Swiss artist Golo in his Carnets du Caire (2003); Umm Kulthoum visiting her home village of Tamay al-Zahayra in 1972, photo by Antoune Albert; singing in Paris in 1967; and Umm Kulthoum in the early 1930s parent page (26 June - 2 July 2008, issue #903) |