More Frightening Than Fiction: Virulently Antisemitic Egyptian Film Impresario Honored by the Institut Français | Algemeiner.com
To Hollywood movie fans of my generation, Mideast history on the silver screen meant cinematic blockbusters like The Ten Commandments (1956) and Exodus (1960). The one Egyptian actor who stood out was the late Omar Sharif, featured first in Lawrence of Arabia (1961), who later won the hearts of American audiences playing Jewish gambler Nicky Arnstein opposite Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl. But for this very reason, he was boycotted by Egyptian audiences!
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