Nour El-Sherif ( ar, نور الشريف; 28 April 1946 – 11 August 2015), born Mohamad Geber Mohamad Abd Allah ( ar, محمد جابر محمد عبد الله) was a prominent Egyptian actor. He has 6 films in the

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list. El-Sherif was born in the working-class neighbourhood of

Sayeda Zainab Sayyidah Zaynab ( ar, السيدة زينب, as-Sayyidah Zaynab; meaning "Lady Zaynab"), commonly known as Sitt Zaynab ( ar, ست زينب), is a town in the Rif Dimashq Governorate of Syria, south of Damascus, the national capital. With a popu ...

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

. El-Sherif was married to

Poussi Poussi, Poussy or Boussy ( ar, بوسي) real name Safenaz Moustafa Adry ( arz, صافيناز مصطفى قدري; born 26 November 1953) is a Cairo-born Egyptian actress. Filmography * ''Shey Min El Khouf (“ A Taste of Fear “'', 1969) ...

(1972–2006) and together they had two daughters, Sarah and Mai. He got divorced from Poussi in 2006 and they reunited in early 2015 during the difficulty of his illness. He also played soccer before choosing acting as a career. Nour El-Sherif is sometimes credited as Nour El Cherif, Nour El-Cherif or Nour Al-Sharif. He died on August 11, 2015,

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Death

Nour El-Sherif died from

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissue (biology), tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from tran ...

in Cairo at the age of 69 in 2015 after a severe struggle with the disease.

Tribute

On 28 April 2021,

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celebrated his 75th birthday with a

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Filmography

References

* Habib, Samar. ''Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations''.

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, July 18, 2007. , 9780415956734.

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