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There is nothing quite so Arabian in Lawrence of Arabia as an actor named Omar Sharif, a flashing dark fellow with the white Formica smile of a desert chieftain, the scowling fury of a sandstorm, and the overall dash of half a dozen swordsmen trained by Abdul Abulbul Amir. Actors like that usually come from Pasadena, or some similar place, but this one is an exception. He is a citizen of the United Arab Republic, born in Alexandria, raised in Cairo...
...outset of the vast trackless movie, when T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and a guide drink at an oasis, a rifle shot cuts down the guide. It is Sharif who has thus spoken; the oasis is his. Lawrence adroitly talks his way past this crisis and proceeds with Sharif as his new guide and eventual friend. For the remainder of four hours-through thick, thin and thaumaturgy-Sharif stays close to the side of the English Enigma. Women who have seen the picture say that they go away thinking about the fine performances of O'Toole, Alec...
...ears there was no chic-of-Araby in the sound of Shalhoub. He thought, he says, of Omar Khayyam and Omar Bradley, both familiar names several thousand miles west. He may also have thought of Matt Dillon and Gary Cooper. At any rate, he entered his profession as Omar Sharif...
...lost his head, pulled his revolver, killed one teacher and wounded three others. There was no revolution. Yet students and teachers rioted bloodily in Teheran, fought hand-to-hand skirmishes with police, paraded the dead man's coffin through the streets, and forced the resignation of Premier Jaffar Sharif-Imami. The Shah hastily installed a new Premier with orders to take drastic measures...
...independent, isolated Yemen and the British Protectorate of Aden, on the southern tip of Arabia, are, as one British diplomat put it, part of the "burden of empire." Last spring, Aden's British Governor Sir Reginald Champion added another straw to his imperial burden. An Adenese chieftain, the Sharif of Beiham, had asked that a frontier customs post be set up to tap the rich stream of smuggled coffee, skins and qat (an Arabian drug) which kept flowing into his territory over an ancient traders' trail from Yemen. Governor Champion ordered the post built, but the Yemeni launched...