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 internationally for groundbreaking epic “The Yacoubian Building,” more recently shot “El Set,” a biopic of Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum, who is considered the Arab world’s greatest singer. Kulthum has also been praised by Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, among other Western artists, and sampled by Beyonce and […]