In the opening chapter of The Unknown Past: Leila Mourad, Egypt’s Jewish Muslim Star, its author Hanan Hammad highlights the pains to which screen…
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In the opening chapter of The Unknown Past: Leila Mourad, Egypt’s Jewish Muslim Star, its author Hanan Hammad highlights the pains to which screen…
A new book sheds light on the importance of the art of Koranic recitation in Egypt, showing how the art form grew, excelled, and then declined over…
In the early 1920s, Umm Kulthum left her rural Egyptian village for Cairo, where she began performing concerts. Back home, she had built a network of…