Pada puncak kariernya, pada tahun 1950, Umm Kulthum menyanyikan komposisi kutipan Sonbati mengenai apa yang Ahmad Rami anggap sebagai pencapaian kariernya: terjemahan dari bahasa Persia ke dalam bahasa Arab klasik dari kuartet Omar Khayyám (Rubayyiat el Khayyam).
It seems to me extraordinary that this continent, which exported the idea of representative government and parliamentary democracy, which carried the seeds of democracy to far continents where they found fertile soil, should now have taken the axe to the ancestral tree here in Europe. All of us are diminished by that process.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix