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Egyptian Director Marwan Hamed on Portraying the Arab World’s Greatest 20th-Century Performer Umm Kulthum and Why She’s Still ‘Influential’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Prominent Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, best known for 'The Yacoubian Building,' recently shot 'El Set,' a biopic of Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum.
Kulthum has also been praised by Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, among other Western artists, and sampled by Beyonce and Shakira. In the process, Kulthum recorded some 300 songs over a 60-year career, while conquering millions of fans and disrupting gender norms with her powerful, often politically charged, music. Talk to me about working with Mona Zaki who of course is coming off the recent success of female empowerment thriller “Flight 404,” which is Egypt’s Oscar contender and has travelled outside the region.
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