Umm Kulthum

Quelqu'un qui veut ce qui n'est pas donné.

Oum Kalthoum.

Comment auriez-vous souhaité rencontrer cet endroit ? Et qu'est-ce que vous pensez de Paul et moi ? Je sens trop d'histoires.

Un grand espoir.

Mm-hmm.

Sing for Abdel Halim or for Umm Kulthum.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? Pita bread, the hummus, the falafel.

The power is within, within your hands.

You have to click delete on either Umm Kulthum or Fairuz.

Who are you deleting?

Can I pick Abdel Halim Hafiz? [laughs]

[laughs] You can, but you have to donate now.

You're skipping the, the, the real question.

Okay, so, okay, so honestly, I'm not a big Umm Kulthum fan.

I, I'm, I'm not gonna lie.

You hate listening to, for example, you know, filthy music and dirty pop music and things like that, that tell you to do all sorts of things.

Isn't that correct? We know the pop world, don't we? What's the pop music? You tell a common person, hey bro, they say is it halal to listen to music? If I said yes, what are they going to listen to? Beethoven? Beethoven or whatever his name is? You know, the old singers Umm Kulthum and Fayruz, they're old school, the Arabic ones.

No one even listens to Michael Jackson anymore.

That's old school.

And the reason why I kind of wanted to talk about it is because every time you talk about, you know, legends and you talk about, you know, especially when it comes to music, I don't feel a lot of Arab names are being mentioned there.

You have Umm Kulthum, you have Abdul Halim, you have Abdul Wahab, you have many artists who has done so much.

And I would say in the world, Umm Kulthum's voice is incredible.

And again, like I said, You don't need to even understand what she's saying.

But yeah, she sings about home.

And unfortunately, that comes with listening.

And, you know, it's not very often that you can find 45 minutes to listen to an Oompa Loompa song.

So when you're driving from Calgary to Kelowna...

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