{"id":42811,"date":"2017-02-28T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/il-y-a-95-ans-un-28-fevrier-le-royaume-degypte-recouvrait-son-independance-malgre-le-stationnement-des-troupes-britanniques-sur-son-sol\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:49:27","slug":"il-y-a-95-ans-un-28-fevrier-le-royaume-degypte-recouvrait-son-independance-malgre-le-stationnement-des-troupes-britanniques-sur-son-sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/il-y-a-95-ans-un-28-fevrier-le-royaume-degypte-recouvrait-son-independance-malgre-le-stationnement-des-troupes-britanniques-sur-son-sol\/","title":{"rendered":"28 February, 1922: Protectorate is terminated, Egypt is recognised as an independent State"},"content":{"rendered":"

95 years ago, the\u00a028th of February, the Kingdom of Egypt regained its independence, despite the stationing of British troops on its soil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954 who make them packed-up, and get rid of the foreign influence of the Suez Canal. At that time, the diva Oum Kalthoum is at the peak of her career, viewed\u00a0by many as a Queen. President\u00a0Nasser asked her to collaborate with \u00a0Mohamed Abdelwahab, her greatest rival at that time, \u00a0to\u00a0composed one of the most famous songs of the singer, “Enta El Omri” (You Are My Life, words of Ahmad Shafik Kamel).<\/p>\n

Few months after Six-Day War, for\u00a0the unique\u00a0concert outside Arab\u00a0World, at the Olympia (Paris), \u00a0Oum Kalthoum sang “You Are My Life”\u00a0, for a show over 3 hours long. That was fifty years ago, in 1967.<\/p>\n

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