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 de Carvalho Michel de Carvalho Michel Ray de Carvalho (born 21 July 1944) is a British financier, former Olympic skier and luger, and former child actor in films such as "The Brave One"," The Tin Star", and "Lawrence of Arabia" (under the name Michel Ray). Born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, his father was a Brazilian diplomat and his mother British. de Carvalho appeared in several films as a child and teenager, including the 1962 epic film "Lawrence of Arabia" (where he played the character Farraj), "The Divided Heart" in 1954 and "The Brave One" in 1956 where he plays a young Mexican