{"id":15426,"date":"2026-04-17T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/from-abdel-halim-to-ziad-zaza-music-continues-to-write-egyptian-cinema\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:40:08","slug":"from-abdel-halim-to-ziad-zaza-music-continues-to-write-egyptian-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/from-abdel-halim-to-ziad-zaza-music-continues-to-write-egyptian-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"From Abdel Halim to Ziad Zaza: Music Continues to Write Egyptian Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-post\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oum Kalthoum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Asmahan, and Mohamed Abdel Wahab were not simply singers who appeared in films. They <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the time, the cinema.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their voices carried the emotional weight of entire films, such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-RHgvrG69iU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gana El Hawa <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Love is in His Way to Us) in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abi Foq Al-Shagara<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (My Father On Top of a Tree, 1969). A single song could stretch for forty minutes, while the camera lingered on the expression of faces that seemed to renew with every modulation of the melody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet that marriage between film and music has never really ended. It has only changed with time, and today, a new&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/2026\/04\/15\/from-oum-kalthoum-to-ziad-zaza-music-continues-to-write-egyptian-cinema\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Oum Kalthoum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Asmahan, and Mohamed Abdel Wahab were not simply&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-1192"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}