The lost honor of Farid al-Atrash, Egyptian legend
2 يناير، 2015
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The lost honor of Farid al-Atrash, Egyptian legend Forty years after his death, a tribute to the singer who was tormented by the feeling that he’d never be an equal among equals in the Egyptian pantheon of giants. By Eyal Sagui Bizawe | Jan 2, 2015 | 04:19 PM
HAARETZ – Forty years after his death, a tribute to the singer who was tormented by the feeling that he’d never be an equal among equals in the Egyptian pantheon of giants.
He was a Druze prince who had to make a living selling textiles; the “king of the oud” who dreamed of composing for the Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum, but was rebuffed; one of the great singers of the Arab world, who felt he did not receive the esteem he deserved; and an eternal romantic, who fell in love time and again but never married.
