Who killed Asmahan?
Who killed Asmahan?
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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