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Umm Kulthum Museum Royalty Free Stock Photo

Sign at the entrance to the Umm Kulthum Museum in Cairo Royalty Free Stock Photo

Monument to Umm Kulthum by Adam Henein, at the Umm Kulthum Museum in Cairo Royalty Free Stock Photo

Sculpture outside the Umm Kulthun Museum in Cairo Royalty Free Stock Photo

A relief featuring Umm Kulthum in the Qasaba of Radwan Bey souk in Cairo, Egypt.

Pictured is a relief featuring Umm Kultham on an outside wall of a restaurant in the Qasaba of Radwan Bey souk in Cairo, Egypt. Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer, songwriter and film actress from the 1920s to the 1970s. She is considered a national icon in her native Egypt. She has been dubbed `The Voice of Egypt`, `Lady of Arabic Song`, and `Egypt`s Fourth Pyramid`. She was given the honorific title `Kawkeb el-charq`, English translation `Star of the East`.