Umm Kulthum and the years of the war effort

Throughout her long life, Umm Kulthum played several roles in our modern history, and her presence varied and diversified to suit the stage and its men. But after 1967, and after Umm Kulthum absorbed the tears of the setback, she was possessed by a youthful spirit full of hope and capable of overcoming hardship. Her presence as the most important female voice in Arab history was heightened by political and national presence, as Umm Kulthum advanced the artistic scene, and armed herself with her voice to highlight her existence in the battlefield as a symbol of the brave Egyptian will that refused to be broken by defeat. She became a model for the artist who was not broken by hardship and whose voice was not silenced, or perhaps as a new image of the Egyptian goddess Isis, who was resurrected this time from beneath the rubble of the battle to realize the limits of duty and to appreciate the scale of the tragedy. She rose and stood behind the war effort, traveling across the earth from east to west, in an attempt to revive and breathe new life into Osiris, the god embodied in the people who granted her sanctity and infallibility, elevating her to the ranks of the prophets of the homeland and heroines of popular legends.