Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

A tale of two Omars, a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab spring, Omar Sharif Jr

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memoirs

A tale of two Omars

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Omar Sharif Jr

a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab spring

The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father's side and Holocaust survivors on his mother's, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents' Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When, in the wake of the Arab Spring, he made the difficult decision to come out in the pages of The Advocate, he knew his life would forever change. What he didn't expect was the backlash that followed

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Tale of 2 Omars