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Who killed Asmahan?

Who killed Asmahan?

  • Authors: Screenplay by Nadia Hathroubi-Safsaf, Drawings by Laure Ibrahim
  • Publishers: ALIFBATA
  • Date of Publication: 2024-10-11
  • Availability: Available
  • Return Conditions: 2025-10-11
  • Pages: 128
  • Cairo, July 14, 1944. Asmahan dies in a mysterious car accident, the famous singer whose voice and beauty seduced the whole world Arabic. Asmahan (The Sublime) was not only that beauty which captured so Although the spotlights and the lights of the cabarets, she was above all a woman free and controversial. Married three times, criticized for her excessive lifestyle Western, she desperately tried to find her place between Cairo, Beirut and Jerusalem. Spy for the Allies during World War II world, she would also have been approached by the Nazis... Her premature death gave rise to countless speculations. Had she been murdered by the English embarrassed by this overly talkative spy? By the Nazis? By the Druze? By King Farouk of Egypt? Or by her on-stage rival, Oum Kalthoum? In the form of a political thriller, the album traces the life of a enigmatic diva who has spanned the history of the Middle East.
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