Google Egypt Celebrates Thuma's Birthday

It turned out that the 4th of May is not only the birthday of our current president Hosni Mubarak but it was also the birthday of Um Kulthum despite we are not sure of the correct day but Google Egypt decided that it was her birthday.

Google Egypt surprised us today with this wonderful doodle dedicated to the lady to Thuma
Is not it beautiful !??
For those who do not know about the Dame of Arab tarab , I recommend that you read those two wonderful features about her in NPR : The Voice of Egypt and The lady of Cairo
 NPR ran these two stories covering the release of Umm Kulthum : A Voice like Egypt DVD
Whether she was born in December 1898 or in April 1904 Happy Birthday Thuma , you were and are still voice like Egypt.
A Voice like Egypt

And to the man who is celebrating his birthday today in Sharm El-Sheikh , I would like to say
Give me my freedom, release my hands
I've given you and did not try to retain anything1
Notes
1. after the six days war defeat Um Kulthum sang her wonderful "Ruins" at the Olympia theatre in France , when she reached to those two verses the whole theater went crazy as during that time specifically these two verses in an epic love poem by Ibrahim Nagi turned in to a powerful political message sent from the people to Nasser.
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