In the first in a series of essays on Arab identity and culture, Omar Khalifa looks at the quality of creation, the sincerity of expression, and the authenticity of musical icons such as Umm Kulthum, Fairuz and Abdel Halim Hafez
No question about culture and identity is ever going to be sufficiently answered in words alone. The complexities of identity – any identity – are in a million little details that beg a question not about what that identity is, but how it is shared, learned and passed down. How it is defined and redefined, examined and corrected, and how – if such be the case – it retains some parts of it intact as foundation.
Trying to answer this question is as an
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