The Google search engine is celebrating the 82nd anniversary of the birth of Abdelhalim Hafez today by a doodle showing in a drawing, in black and white, the singer on stage. Abdelhalim Hafez is considered one of the greatest singers that Egypt, his native country, and the Arab world, knew. He marked the 1960s as well by his songs and by his films. Its influence is always very present in new singers.
Google has accustomed us to celebrate certain events with a particular logo, visible on its page one, named Doodle. The last Doodle, for the Arab world, celebrated Ibn Khaldoun, sociologist and historian, since the firm of Mountain View pays homage to each culture by its own Doodle. The choice of Abdelhalim Hafez for the Arab world is not a way of reminding us that the Arab Spring is still in “our” hearts?
For the rest of the Google, and Internet users around the world, in the spotlight Le Solstice, June 21, the first day of the summer and longer of the year, obliges! To celebrate it, Google chose two doodles made by the Japanese visual artist Takashi Murakami: a sunny for northern hemisphere and the other in white for southern hemisphere.
Finally, without forgetting that June 21 is also traditionally the day of the music festival … maybe it would have been needed to be another doodle, unless Mountain View is made with one stone two strokes with that of Abdelhalim Hafez …
