CROATIA, culture beyond the borders

It is now eighteen years, more than four million inhabitants of the Yugoslav Adriatic coast woke up living in a new country: Croacia, Croatia. This nation, independent former many times in its history, belonged from 1945 the Yugoslav Federation, the only country that had known all those taken into Croatian 1991 under 46 years old.

The 3 February 1975, shocked four million Egyptians took to the streets was accompanied by thousands of people who had moved to Cairo and, in the distance, other million the world who wept with them. The army took to the streets, stalled the radio and television, and declared official days of mourning. It was not the end of the world, but the end of a world: Um Kulthum died.

Dice Michael Goldman, director of the superb documentary "Oum Kelthoum, a voice like Egypt "that she" had the musicality of Ella Fitzgerald, the public presence of Eleanor Roosevelt, and hearing Elvis Presley”. Had and has: for 75 years old, Kelthoum Oum is the undisputed number one in the Arab world, which continues to sell more records, which is scheduled more frequently in radio, on TV, more portraits that have hung on the walls of the grocery, coffees, from Medina Casablanca to Baghdad burning, through Dakar, Khartoum, by Paris. In the mountain villages, where they do not reach the TV or their stars poppy, listening to Oum Kelthoum; in large cities, respectable families as an expression of love to Arab classical refinement, and the bad boys of college adore her for her singing torn, well the accompanying smoked hashish clandestine. She is for everyone and at all times. A Kulzumis indisputable.