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Amal al-Atrash (Arabic: آمال الأطرش‎‎ Āmāl al-Aṭrash; 25 November 1912 – 14 July 1944), better known by her stage name Asmahan (أسمهان Asmahān), was an Egyptian singer and actress of Syrian origins who lived in Egypt.

Five films later, the unmarried couple broke up in a bitter fight. She then spent six years in the Jebel Druze, living as a Druze princess. He was much impressed by the performance, and suggested the stage name of Asmahan to her. He later commented in a radio interview that the use of those newspapers was his first positive experience with the print media.

The former princess eventually sang in clubs to support her children, and allowed Farid to sing in school events.

As his fans know, this advice worked, and remained a theme that lasted through his career, and clearly earned him the label of the “sad singer.”

Al Wasat magazine describes a story about Farid’s love of music as a child, in which he admired a singer in a coffee shop, but could never afford to buy a cup of tea there to listen to him.

When the marriage first broke up, she left for Egypt immediately, even before she had obtained the bill of divorce. That led him, as he developed his talent, to perform in a university concert honoring the Syrian rebellion, a performance that got the attention of the art community but revealed his true identity as a member of the Atrash clan, causing his dismissal from the French school.

After the Allies secured Syria during the Syria-Lebanon Campaign, General Charles de Gaulle visited Syria. While in Damascus in May 1941, she met again Hassan al-Atrash. She also sang the compositions of Mohammed Abdel Wahab and her brother Farid al-Atrash, a then rising star musician in his own right. Her voice was one of the few female voices in Arab music world to pose serious competition to that of Umm Kulthum, who is considered to be one of the Arab world's most distinguished singers of the 20th century.

On 25 November 2015, Google celebrated Asmahan's 103rd birthday using a Google doodle.

Remembering Farid al-Atrash
By Sami Asmar (Published with his permission) – Reference website: Turath.org

The leading family that spearheaded the rebellion against the French in Syria’s Druze Mountain after World War I was a family that produced two of the most renowned Arab artists of this century.

The Druze agreed, even though some groups did not receive word in time and fought the invading forces. The same information is stated by Edward Spears in his memoirs.

On 14 July 1944, a car carrying Asmahan and a female friend crashed and went into a canal at the side of the road, after the driver lost control near the city of Mansoura, Egypt.

After the French came into power, the family returned to Jabal al-druze.

Following the Adham Khanjar incident in 1916, the al-Atrash home in al-Qrayya (a town in Jabal al-Druze) was bombed by French forces. He then asked her to sing again. In her final confrontation with her cousin at Mena House Hotel in Giza, she told him, "I stood with you for independence and liberation, I did.

She agreed on three conditions: that they live in Damascus rather than Jabal al-Druze, winter in Cairo, and that she would never be required to wear the traditional hijab. His “lighter” songs like “Nura Nura,” “Hallet Layali,” and “Gamil Gamal” remain at an incredible height in popularity to this day.

The hard-working young man was highly recommended by Sunbaty, and sang in privately owned Egyptian radio stations in the 1930’s. Farid showed a nationalistic side in his song “Busatir Reeh” [Flying Carpet], a conceptual tour sampling the musical styles of the Arab world, a well-accepted theme. Asmahan's father, fled the country with his children and pregnant wife.