News: Celebrate the Palestinian who launched Umm Kulthum as "the planet of the East"

"The Planet of the East", "Nightingale", "Screen Monster", "The Lady of the Arab Screen", "The Cinderella", "The Prince of Tarab", " The King "and" The Plateau ".

The honorific titles that the public gives to their artists have weighed them and valued them, far from the publicity they are today.

Each artistic title has an unforgettable story, such as the story of "The Planet of the East", known by Umm Kulthum.

Romances in conflict!

The title of the largest Egyptian newspaper: The title that accompanied Umm Kulthum was launched by the advertiser Mohammed Fathi, famous radio Bakroan, who played concerts throughout the 40s, in order to distinguish them from others stars, the biggest stars of the East, the center And they follow that it was called "planet" of the East.

But living accounts of Palestinian intellectuals have confirmed that this title was obtained by Umm Kulthum, originally from Palestine, specifically from the city of Haifa.

The city of Haifa was a strategic center of the first degree during the British mandate in the 1940s. It was a city with special characteristics that was filled neither by extremism nor by the tensions that the British and Zionist movements had created to achieve their goals.

Historic Concert of Haifa

The media also contributed to the city of Haifa by adhering to these creative institutions that played an important role in Palestine and the Arab world, especially in the 1920s.

The Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum was among the invitations sent by the literary association of the club, active by the young people of the city of Haifa during the British mandate for Palestine, Umm Kulthum responded to the invitation and expressed his nostalgia and his heart, as mentioned by the magazine Egyptian photographer about this visit. I set foot for the first time.

In 1928, Umm Kulthum was in Jerusalem and sang on the stage of "Eden" in front of a large audience. The visit was described by the musician of Jerusalem, Wassif Jawhariyeh: "It was a memorable day from which Umm Kulthum went to Haifa by train Two nights, one in the street of kings and the second in the scene of the famous Annunciation before the Nakba. "

"Umm Fuad" Palestinian

In an old newspaper interview about his father, who was attending one of his concerts in Jaffa, Mustafa Kabha said that thousands of peasants came from the countryside to get to town and waited two days before arriving on the sidewalk.

At the end of this visit, Umm Kulthum was nicknamed "The Planet of the East" by a woman from Haifa called Umm Fuad, where she came on stage. She told him, "You are the planet of the East." As some historians have shown, they met this woman in the diaspora camps and talked about this historic visit to Planet of the East, as Palestinian writer Hanna Abu Hanna also written in one of his writings.

Abu-Hanna said Ms. Umm Fuad from Tira al-Carmel was delighted to sing Umm Kulthum. "Umm Kulthum is the planet of the East," she said.

Salim Naseeb, biographer of Umm Kulthum, admits that she won the title in the city of Haifa, but does not give more details.