Syro-Lebanese in Egypt Omar Sharif (born Michel Chalhoub) and Egyptian film director Youssef Chahine. The relations between Egypt and the Levant go back to ancient times. However, the earliest instance of modern Levantine migration to Egypt happened after 1724, when a schism in the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch resulted in a separate branch of Levantine Christians attached to Rome known as the Melkite Greek Catholics. Once the Syrian and Lebanese Greek Orthodox community was split, a migratory flow resulted in which Melkite Greek Catholics began leaving cities such as Damascus, Aleppo, Zahle, and Sidon to move to Egypt. Regarding an early Maronite
Michel Bisceglia Rocco Granata, who moved to Belgium when he was a young boy. Moreover, he composed the music for "Blue Bird", a feature film directed by Gust Van den Berghe that was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He has also composed music for Vincent Lannoo's "In the Name Of The Son" and "Little Glory", a film with Hollywood-actor Cameron Bright. At the 25th of October 2014 Michel Bisceglia’s soundtrack for the film Marina won the Public Choice Award at the World Soundtrack Awards. As composer As arranger / orchestrator: Short film Michel Bisceglia Michel