This is a short version of longer text I wrote for the Jewish Music Research Centre, with Prof. Edwin Seroussi, a few years back: An Egyptian song by the Egyptian Jewish composer Daoud Husni, composed in 1932 for Layla Mourad, a young Egyptian Jewish singer. At the passing of time, Layla Mourad convert to Islam, after being one of Egypt's first movie stars, and one of its greatest singers of the 20th century, even competing with the great Oum-Kalthoum. She disappears from th