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OPENING NIGHT: EL SETT dir. MARWAN HAMED

  • Brooklyn Academy of Music [BAM] 30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11217 United States (map)
EL SETT (OUM KULTHOUM) / MARWAN HAMED
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From a small Nile Delta village where as a girl she sang disguised as a boy, to her final concert as a woman battling illness — El Sett traces seven decades in the life of Umm Kulthum (1904–1975), the Egyptian singer who became the Voice of the Arab World.

Starring Mona Zaki in a career-defining performance, the film follows her journey from provincial obscurity to Paris, Cairo concert halls, and global legend — a woman whose voice Bob Dylan, Maria Callas, and Robert Plant all claimed as an influence.

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RT: 155 mins.

Director: MARWAN HAMED

 
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