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The last time they met on screen, Omar Sharif was a small dot riding out of a desert mirage to join Peter O'Toole, the dashing and rebellious British army office TE Lawrence. Now, 42 years after the release of Lawrence of Arabia, widely hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, the two veteran actors have teamed up for a second time to make another historical epic.
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Sharif’s journey in life and art has been once likened to a nineteenth century novel where the hero oscillates from one state to the other. In his book Nogoum wa Shohob fî el Cinema el Misreyah, Ahmed Youssef sees that Sharif’s presentations on screen reflect a constant feeling of alienation. Escape from time, place or class dominates the heroes of his Arabic films. Similarly, the heroes of his international films are always strangers living away from home. Youssef connects that to Sharif’s own childhood: he could speak French, not Arabic, fluently, although he lived with his Syrian-Lebanese (Shawam) family, in cosmopolitan Alexandria. This feeling seems to have increased until Sharif decided to return home, to the place that had created the star Omar Sharif.
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Sharif, he says, was "like an empty bowl" when they met soon after arriving at university in 1994. "Omar didn't know much about the culture of his own family, his background," nor was he religious. "He didn't have a clue about Islam. He knew namaz [how to pray] and this and that, but an in-depth understanding was not there at all." Sharif was impressed by the diversity he found among young Muslims. "It was really exciting, coming out from isolation from where he was, where maybe he had not interacted with wider communities," Khan says.
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When Omar was born, his parents Joseph Shalhoub and Claire Shalhoub named him Michel Demitri Shalhoub. His birth place was Alexandria, Egypt. The date was April 10, 1932. His dad was a merchant in the timber trade.
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Omar Sharif is a First class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh. A right handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper, he appeared for Rajshahi Division in 2000/01, scoring 42 against Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
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Omar Sharif movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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