Early Life
Omar Sharif was born Michel Demitri Shalhoub in Egypt into a Melkite Catholic Lebanese family. Sharif graduated from Victoria College, where he was a classmate of Edward W. Said. Sharif later graduated from Cairo University with degrees in both mathematics and physics.
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