Umm Kulthum was born on December 31, 1898, as Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi, was a singer, composer, and film actress from Egypt.
She was granted the honorific title “Kawkab el-charq” (‘Oriental Star’). She is regarded as a national figure in Egypt, and has been dubbed “The Voice of Egypt,” “Lady of Arabic Song,” and “Egypt’s Fourth Pyramid.”
Umm Kulthum parents: Meet Ibrahim El Beltagy, Fatma al-Maliji
Umm Kulthum hailed from a low-income family where her mother, Fatma al-maliji, cared for the children and the house, and her father, Al-Shaykh Ibrahim Al-Sayyid Al-Baltaji, was a local Imam in Tammay al-Zahayra.
Her father enrolled her in al-Kuttab, a religious school, when she was five years old to acquire Qur’anic recitation.
Umm Kulthum hailed from a low-income family where her mother, Fatma al-maliji, cared for the children and the house, and her father, Al-Shaykh Ibrahim Al-Sayyid Al-Baltaji, was a local Imam in Tammay al-Zahayra.
