Dr. Enas Abdel Dayem, Minister of Culture, directed the opening of Umm Kulthum Museum "in Manial" affiliated to the Cultural Development Fund sector, free of charge for a week, on the forty-seventh anniversary of the departure of the planet of the East Umm Kulthum, who left our world on this day, February 3, 1975 .
The UAE National Archive and Library had gifted the museum copies of the book "Umm Kulthum in Abu Dhabi", to be in the museum's library to allow readers and researchers to learn about an important station in the life of the planet of the East. The book also details her trip to Abu Dhabi, and her lyrical creations.
The book also documents an important page in the cultural history of the United Arab Emirates, and preserves in word and image Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's reception of Mrs. Umm Kulthum at Al-Manhal Palace, where he honored her visit and surrounded her with his appreciation.
Umm Kulthum, who was born on December 31, 1898, in the village of "Tamay Al-Zahayra" affiliated to the Sinbillawain Center in Dakahlia Governorate, was her starting point when she met the poet Ahmed Ramy and then the composer Mohamed Al-Qasabgy. Music is an alternative to the turban lining that was always with her, when Rose Al-Youssef and the theater launched an attack on her lining. Perhaps this is what made her father give up his role as a vocalist and withdraw with Sheikh Khaled. About a year later, Umm Kulthum took off the headband and abaya and appeared in the dress of Egyptian women, and in 1928 She released the monologue "If I Forgive and Forget Asyah", which made her very famous, to participate with her voice in the movie "Awlad Al-Zawat" in 1932.
Then Umm Kulthum joined the Egyptian radio when it was established in 1934, and she is the first artist to enter the radio, and she participated in several films and then sang only, and one of the most important songs was "You are my life, the ruins, the love of what, A Thousand and One Nights, and patience has limits" and she sang many One of the national songs, and in the seventies she suffered from kidney infection, as she traveled to London for treatment, until she died on February 3, 1975
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