“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods,”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horatius
Following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, certain circles attempted to silence Umm Kulthum’s voice on the radio due to her perceived ties to the royal era. Upon hearing of this decision, Gamal Abdel Nasser intervened and blocked the initiative with these historic words:
"What are you doing? Are you going to dry up the Nile? Are you going to tear down the Pyramids?"
This intervention solidified that Umm Kulthum was more than just an artist; she was an asset equivalent to Egypt’s national identity. From that point forward, she became the most powerful figure of cultural diplomacy for Egypt across the Arab world.
🇮🇷 In the 1988 Batman comics, the Joker meets Ayatollah Khomeini, and they strike up a friendship.
🇺🇳 The Ayatollah even appoints the Joker as the representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations.
An Iranian analyst on the Qatari Al Jazeera listening to Arabs analyzing and making suggestions, while they do not control their own destiny and have no free will.