Egyptian born Abdul Halim Hafez’s real name is Abdul Halim Shabana. His last name, Hafez, was a nickname given to him by the head of the Alexandria radio station. Since birth, Hafez’s life was ...

Halim’s movies, and the recordings he made of songs that were originally performed by other singers, like Oum Kalthoum, Farid Al-Atrash and Layla Mourad, are all explained in this book.

Helmy Rafla, for example, engaged Abdel-Halim to produce arguably the best example of musical film in Egyptian Cinema in the The Female Idol. In this film, you cannot remove a song from its context.

When the late Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-77) first sang his patriotic songs in the 1950s and 1960s, he didn’t imagine that they would become a voice of the Egyptian revolution half a century later.

Hafez Abdel Wahab, a radio executive, discovered Hafez (then Abdel Halim Ali Ismail Shabana) and in turn, Hafez took Abdel Wahab’s first name as his last. According to John Storm Roberts, a writer for ...

The songs of Abdul Halim Hafez were a key that opened the hearts of people, his revolutionary songs were echoed by everyone.” ...

In the edited video, Shakira was singing a song by Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez titled: "Kamel Al Awsaf," and fans flooded the comments commenting on how scary the AI features are becoming ...

Abdel Halim Hafez Biography Born Abdel Halim Shabaana (عبد الحليم شبانة) in al-Halawaat, Sharkeyya (Delta of Egypt), graduated from the Higher institute of Arabic Music - Composing ...

Abdul Halim Hafez, one of Egypt’s most beloved crooners, will take centre stage at the Sharjah World Music Festival on January 14, 40 years after his death.

Forty-four years since his passing, a hologram concert in Cairo will bring back to the stage Abdel Halim Hafez, one of the region’s most beloved singers. Who was Egypt’s ‘Nightingale’?