Eighteen-year-old Sanaa Nabil is the rising star of classical Egyptian song. With considerable grace, the young girl rises to the challenge of singing as the great-grandniece of the timeless diva Oum Kalsoum. While she respects the centuries-old traditions of Arab music, Sanaa Nabil is also an artist of our time who uses song to claim her freedom of expression and asserts her presence in the media world. Endowed with a warm and wonderfully nuanced voice that has been exercised since childhood, this former student of oud-virtuoso Ahmad Aballah, will be accompanied by "Les Cordes Croisées", an ensemble of exceptional Egyptian musicians. She will perform songs of Oum Kalsoum, Fayza Ahmad, Layla Murad, Asmahan, and Huriya Hassan.