Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1962 Um Kalthum Singer Cairo Concert - 2-Page Vintage Article Original, Vintage Magazine articlePage Size: Approx. 10 1/2" x 14" (26 cm x 35 cm)Condition: Good MightyVoice of Um KalthumAt 10 p.m. Cairo time on the firstThursday of most months a curi-ous change overtakes much of theMiddle East. Traffic in the streets ofCairo gets noticeably lighter. In Casa-blanca some 2.500 miles to the westold men in coflee shops leave theirtrictrac games. In Baghdad 800 milesto the east wealthy Arabs get up fromthe bridge table, their minds on oth-er things. And between these geo-graphical extremes, in the deserts thatcover much of the Moslem crescent,travelers crouch quietly in their tents,waiting.They are waiting, all of them, fora radio program to begin. It is a five-hour program, broadcast eight limes ayear, and it features a woman singernamed Um Kalthum. Um Kalthumis almost totally unknown in the West.Bin she has such an enormous follow-ing in the Klidclle East that she mustbe ranked among the world's mostpopular entertainers.For 35 years this woman has beenthe sensation of Islam. “More Arabshave heard her name,” says oneEgyptian scholar, “than ever heardof Fatima or Khadija or Ayesha.”(Fatima was the prophet Moham-med's daughter and the other twowere his wives.)“Imagine a blend of Kale Smith,Bing Crosby, Will Rogers, MauriceChevalier, Frank Sinatra and JackBenny,” says an American who haslived a long lime in the Middle East,“and you get a slight idea of what UmKalthum means to the Arabs.” Herconcerts are sellouts and she getspaid up to $15,000 each lor them, afee that few of the world's performerscan command. She is a millionaire inher own right probably the onlyArab woman ever to achieve thatstatus. Offstage, crowds follow her insuch numbers that she has virtuallyslopped appearing in public exceptprofessionally. Her marriage was anevent of such magnitude in Egyptthat it was announced in what wasvirtually a government communique.When she became sick a few yearsago the U.S. government treated herwithoutchargeina U.S. Navy hospitalas an expression of goodwill towardthe Arab world.So magic is Um Kalihum's effectamong the Moslem peoples that dur-ing World War 11 her voice was usedby both the British and Germans onrecords, and without her consent tointroduce their Arab-languagc propa-ganda broadcasts. She has been dec-orated by five Arab countries: Egypt,Iraq. Lebanon. Jordan and Syria.Hard test forWestern listenersThe object of all this affection isa short, rather dumpy woman ofabout 60 who is not considered pret-ty even by her most avid admirers.She stands barely five feel tall andweighs about 130 pounds. She isround-faced and swarthy, and she isbeginning lo look her age.If non-Moslems find her appear-ance unprepossessing they find hersinging barely tolerable. ’'No West-erner," an Arab leader has said, ’’canreally understand the Arab mind un-til he can understand the singing of... 13790-620601-05
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