Mahmoud (or Mahmud) Shalaby, or Mahmood Shalabi (Arabic: Ù…Øمود
شلبي‎; Hebrew: מחמו×" ×©×œ× ×'י‎ or מחמו×" של×'×™),
is an Arab-Israeli actor born on July 19, 1982, in Acre, Israel. He
has appeared in several films produced or co-produced in France and
received the award for best male actor at the Film Festival of La
Réunion in 2011 for the role of Naïm in the film A Bottle in the
Gaza Sea, directed by Thierry Binisti and adapted from the novel Une
bouteille dans la mer de Gaza by Valérie Zenatti. He was honored with
two other awards at the same festival.Shalaby grew up in a poor
neighborhood in Acre in marked by urban violence. With his friends, he
started a rap and hip-hop group, MWR, which is now dissolved. He then
managed a café before being contacted by director Keren Yedaya, who
gave him his first role in a non-documentary film. He was interviewed
in 2008 in the documentary Slingshot Hip Hop by Jackie Reem Salloum,
which covered Palestinian hip-hop in three geographic areas: Israel,
the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.Shalaby played the role of Toufik in
Jaffa, directed by Keren Yedaya and released in 2009, and the role of
the Jewish-Algerian singer Salim Halali in Free Men, directed by
Ismaël Ferroukhi and released in 2011.In 2010, Shalaby appeared with
Mohammed Bakri in an Arabic short film, The Clock and the Man (Arabic:
الساعة والإنسان‎, Hebrew: ×"שעון ו×"× ×"× â€Ž),
adapted from a short story of the same name by the exiled Palestinian
novelist Samira Azzam (1927-1967).
شلبي‎; Hebrew: מחמו×" ×©×œ× ×'י‎ or מחמו×" של×'×™),
is an Arab-Israeli actor born on July 19, 1982, in Acre, Israel. He
has appeared in several films produced or co-produced in France and
received the award for best male actor at the Film Festival of La
Réunion in 2011 for the role of Naïm in the film A Bottle in the
Gaza Sea, directed by Thierry Binisti and adapted from the novel Une
bouteille dans la mer de Gaza by Valérie Zenatti. He was honored with
two other awards at the same festival.Shalaby grew up in a poor
neighborhood in Acre in marked by urban violence. With his friends, he
started a rap and hip-hop group, MWR, which is now dissolved. He then
managed a café before being contacted by director Keren Yedaya, who
gave him his first role in a non-documentary film. He was interviewed
in 2008 in the documentary Slingshot Hip Hop by Jackie Reem Salloum,
which covered Palestinian hip-hop in three geographic areas: Israel,
the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.Shalaby played the role of Toufik in
Jaffa, directed by Keren Yedaya and released in 2009, and the role of
the Jewish-Algerian singer Salim Halali in Free Men, directed by
Ismaël Ferroukhi and released in 2011.In 2010, Shalaby appeared with
Mohammed Bakri in an Arabic short film, The Clock and the Man (Arabic:
الساعة والإنسان‎, Hebrew: ×"שעון ו×"× ×"× â€Ž),
adapted from a short story of the same name by the exiled Palestinian
novelist Samira Azzam (1927-1967).
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