![]() reminds us that this type of violence is everywhere-whether it’s in the Gulf or in Hollywood. He recounts several other occasions where men have sexually assaulted him one man rubbed against his genitals at the Oscars, another grabbed him in public. Here is an honest portrayal of what rape and sexual assault can look like when it is perpetrated against men-particularly gay men-and the taboo of talking about it. reveals that he was raped, abused and belittled by a sheikh he worked for in the GCC (Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf). The most devastating part of the memoir is when Omar Jr. As the book ping pongs back and forth between his struggles and the glamorous world he inhabits, my emotional response to it ping pongs between empathy and disappointment. ![]() There’s a strong contrast between his experiences of immense privilege and the more difficult parts of his life, including his experiences of sexual assault by powerful men. While a dozen pages are devoted to his childhood, in which he describes being bullied at school in Montreal and the luxurious summer vacations he spent in Egypt being passed between his grandparents (his grandmother was famous Egyptian actress Faten Hamama), the bulk of the book takes place during Omar Jr.’s adulthood.ĭespite the humorous tone at the onset of the memoir, we soon find out that the young actor/activist’s life takes some dark turns. ![]() They include: Junior, the popular student at Queen’s University in Kingston the mama’s boy in suburban Montreal the go-go dancer in the city’s gay village the half-Jewish, half-Muslim man in Canada and in the Arab world the party gay in Mykonos the assistant to a closeted sheikh in the Gulf the actor in L.A. writes about the many lives he’s lived trying to establish himself as his own person, separate from his grandfather. In A Tale of Two Omars, his first book, Omar Jr. The famous polyglot started acting in the 1950s-over 30 years before the birth of his grandson in Montreal, in 1983. gets his name from his grandfather, the famous Egyptian actor Omar Sharif, who successfully straddled the worlds of Egyptian cinema and Hollywood, while also starring in British, French and Italian productions.
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