Omar Sharif a foreigner of some sort. He bridled at travel restrictions imposed by the government of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, leading to self-exile in Europe. He was a lifelong horse racing enthusiast, and at one time ranked among the world's top contract bridge players. Omar Sharif, whose adopted surname means "noble" or "nobleman", was born as Michel Dimitri Chalhoub in Alexandria, Egypt, to a Melkite Catholic family, either of Syrian or Lebanese descent: he belonged to a small ethnocultural minority known as the Levantine 'Antiochian' Greek Catholics of Egypt ("Rum Katuleek"), an offshoot of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch.
My Name Is Albert Ayler (documentary) My Name Is Albert Ayler (documentary) My Name Is Albert Ayler is a 2005 Swedish-American documentary film about the American Jazz musician Albert Ayler, written and directed by Kasper Collin. It was produced and edited over a period of seven years (1998 to 2005) and among its participants are Donald Ayler, Edward Ayler, Carrie Roundtree, Ann Westerman, Sune Spångberg, Lionel Marshall, Bengt Frippe Nordström, Sunny Murray, Bernard Stollman, Gary Peacock, Michel Sampson, George Wein, Bill Folwell, Val Wilmer, Mutawef Shaheed, Mary Parks, Elliott Landy and Ed Michel. It has been dubbed by "JazzTimes" as "one of the most starkly beautiful