Last November, the former Empire cinema, itself a Grade II listed building, was declared surplus to requirement by Wrexham Council.

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These included the Majestic cinema, now the Elihu Yale pub, and the Empire which is the Seven Stars public house.

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In fact, the venerable Iraqi art of maqam was overshadowed during the Ottoman Empire, in large part by the emergence of Egyptian cinema music, and later the great diva of Arabic music in the last century, Umm Kulthum.

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