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A tale of two Omars : a memoir of family, revolution, and coming out during the Arab Spring / Omar Sharif, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : Counterpoint Press, 2021Edition: First hardcover editionDescription: 212 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781640094987
  • 1640094989
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- Icon & iconoclast -- World's apart -- Funny boy -- Doctor Zhivago Jr. -- Che! (oy vey) -- New beginnings -- Omar of Gayrabia -- Trophy boy -- Rock the Casbah -- A tale of two Omars -- Epilogue.
Summary: "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's 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. From bullying, to illness, to attempted suicide, to becoming a victim of sex trafficking, to death threats by the thousands, to revolution and to be never being able to return to a country he once called home, Omar Sharif Jr. has overcome more challenges than one might imagine. Drawing on the lessons he learned from both sides of his family, A Tale of Two Omars charts the course of an iconoclastic life, revealing in the process the struggles and successes that attend a public journey of self-acceptance and a life dedicated in service to others"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: LGBTQIA+ Reads for Adults | Recent Rainbow Reads for Adults
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography SHARIF, O. S531 Available 33111010578611
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From bullying, to illness, attempted suicide, becoming a victim of sex trafficking, death threats by the thousands, revolution and never being able to return to a country he once called home, Omar Sharif Jr. has overcome more challenges than one might imagine. Drawing on the lessons he learned from both sides of his family, A Tale of Two Omars charts the course of an iconoclastic life, revealing in the process the struggles and successes that attend a public journey of self-acceptance and a life dedicated in service to others.

Introduction -- Icon & iconoclast -- World's apart -- Funny boy -- Doctor Zhivago Jr. -- Che! (oy vey) -- New beginnings -- Omar of Gayrabia -- Trophy boy -- Rock the Casbah -- A tale of two Omars -- Epilogue.

"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's 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. From bullying, to illness, to attempted suicide, to becoming a victim of sex trafficking, to death threats by the thousands, to revolution and to be never being able to return to a country he once called home, Omar Sharif Jr. has overcome more challenges than one might imagine. Drawing on the lessons he learned from both sides of his family, A Tale of Two Omars charts the course of an iconoclastic life, revealing in the process the struggles and successes that attend a public journey of self-acceptance and a life dedicated in service to others"-- Provided by publisher.

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