Thursday 10/Apr/2025 – 10:15 AM
Today, April 10, the birthday of the world star Omar Sharif, is one of the most prominent cinematic faces that came from Egypt to the world, to dig his name in the memory of the seventh art with a rare mixture of talent and charisma, and the ability to represent man before the character.
The anniversary of Omar Sharif’s birth
Omar Sharif was born in 1932 in the name of Michel Shalhoub, and he began his artistic career in Egypt with director Youssef Chahine in a film in the valley, in 1954, before he started towards the world in the early 1960s through the movie Lawrence of Arabia, which he was nominated for the Academy Award, and won the Golden Globe as the best assistant actor.
Despite the brightness of his star globally, Omar Sharif did not forget his Egyptian roots, and he was always proud of it, and he has repeatedly expressed this in his statements, where he said: Wherever I went, I was proudly saying: I am a representative from Egypt.
In one of his television dialogues, he spoke frankly about the price of fame, stressing: World cinema gave me everything .. money and fame, but they robbed me of more precious things, including the homeland and love.
Omar Sharif Arab works
On his relationship with the artist Faten Hamama, who considered her the love of his life, he said in a rare meeting: Faten was my life, and I did not like a woman as I loved her, we separated as a couple, but I did not separate from her in my heart.
Despite his involvement in global cinema, Sharif did not abandon the presentation of prominent Arab and Egyptian works, such as films: River of Love, and in his last years, Al -Sharif expressed his feeling of loneliness and nostalgia, where he said: I lived a full life, but most I needed is simplicity .. my mother’s laugh, and Cairo’s voices in the morning.
Omar Sharif left on July 10, 2015, but he left a immortal legacy, is not measured by the number of prizes or films, but rather with his love in the hearts of people, east and west.
