ADULTS 18+ ONLY  Umm Kulthoum, perhaps the greatest of Arab singers, and whose recordings still outsell many recent popular releases, was born to a poor family in the Delta around the year 1904. When she was still a child, her father, who was the village imam, gave her the opportunity of singing in his troupe by dressing her as a boy. She moved to Cairo in the 1920s and was frequently employed to sing in the homes of the richest and most influential women in Cairo whose style and manners she soon adopted. Her determination and ambition soon brought her success and after Cairo Radio went on air in 1934 she became adept at using the media with great success. From 1934, until 1972, just three years before her death, she gave performances on the first Thursday of every month which were broadcast by the Voice of Cairo across the Arab World. But questions about her personal life persisted, despite all her attempts to keep her private and public lifes as separate as possible. These rumours, which included a highly unlikely contention that she had had a brief affair with king Farouk, continued until she married an eminent skin doctor - Hasan al-Hifnawi. Even then, however, many claimed it was a marriage of convenience. But little is known of where her real amorous inclinations lay. Was she in love with another man or men, or did she have a secret lesbian life ? Read more gay history - Second Century - Roman Emperor's favourite drowns in the Nile. xClick here Twelth Century - Salah El-Din - Egypt's gay hero. xClick here Fifteenth Century - Cairo Slave Boy Market. xClick here. Twentieth Century - Terrorists threaten penis shaped Cairo Tower - Click here. Lots more gay history - xClick here ! Don't care for history ? Try a shockingly depraved story - click here ! Is your right hand exhausted by sordid sex stories ? Browse GayEgypt.com's multi-country personals section - click here ! Discover gay destinations in Egypt - click here or Learn some Arabic sex slang - click herex ! |