Omar Sharif to world film and cultural diversity. The medal, which is awarded very infrequently, is named after Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Only 25 have been struck, as determined by the agreement between UNESCO, Russia's Mosfilm and the Vivat Foundation. Omar Sharif Omar Sharif (, ; born Michel Dimitri Chalhoub ; 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor of Lebanese origin. He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but is best known for his appearances in both English and American productions. His films included "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "Doctor Zhivago" (1965), and "Funny Girl" (1968). He
Claude Chalhoub composed and arranged the latest of Majida El Roumi's albums 'Ghazal'. After many years in Beirut working among others as Dean of the chamber music department at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music he now lives in Vienna, Austria. A film biography on Chalhoub’s life and career called ‘Singing on the Violin’ by German director Boris Penth (2007) has been broadcast internationally, among others on TV channels WDR, 3Sat, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ABC1, Arte, Euro arts, www.medici.tv, etc. Claude Chalhoub Claude Chalhoub () born in Qaa, Lebanon in 1974, from a Christian musical family of 11 children, attended the Lebanese