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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Israel’s ambassador to Egypt Amira Oron tweeted about a request from her mother during her first visit to Cairo 25 years ago, to visit the grave of the late Egyptian singer Farid Al-Atrash.
When my mother came to visit me for the first time in Cairo 25 years ago, and I was working for the Embassy of the State of Israel in Egypt at the time, she asked me to visit her grave. I put a rose on him, it is more than love for his music, there are memories with his songs of beautiful moments in life. https://t.co/HA1Z3U1Dgu
The ambassador said in her tweet: “When my mother came to visit me for the first time in Cairo 25 years ago, and I was working at the Embassy of the State of Israel in Egypt at the time, she asked me to visit her grave. I put a rose on him, it is more than love for his music, there are memories with his songs in beautiful times. In the life”.
Oron cited the Israeli embassy tweet on Monday in which he remembered the Egyptian artist, saying: “Today is the 110th anniversary of the birth of the great Egyptian artist, Farid Al-Atrash.”
She added: Farid Al-Atrash was one of the most influential singers in Arabic classical music, and for many generations in Israel, I was raised with his famous songs like ‘Because there is no one but you’ and ‘Live You’, and even today her beautiful voice echoes through the streets of Israel.
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