Omar Sharif 's father was from Homs , Syria .
Omar Sharif , whose adopted surname means `` noble '' or `` nobleman '' , was born as Michel Dimitri Chalhoub in Alexandria , Egypt , '' Omar Sharif : 'It is a great film , but I 'm not very good in it ' '' , The Independent to a family of Melkite Catholic descent : he belonged to a small ethnocultural minority known as the Lebanese 'Antiochian ' Greek Catholics of Egypt ( Rum Katuleek al Shawamm ) , an offshoot of the Greek Orthodox Church of AntiochHis father , Joseph Chalhoub , a precious woods merchant originally from Zahle , Lebanon , moved to the port city of Alexandria in the early 20th century , where Sharif was later born .
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