Mahmoud or Mahmud Shalaby or Mahmood Shalabi is a Palestinian actor born on July 19 1982 in Acre Israel He has appeared in several films produced or coproduced 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 hiphop 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 nondocumentary film He was interviewed in 2008 in the documentary Slingshot Hip Hop by Jackie Reem Salloum which covered Palestinian hiphop 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 JewishAlgerian 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 adapted from a short story of the same name by the exiled Palestinian novelist Samira Azzam 19271967 He also played Naim a young Palestinian from Gaza whose mother was played by Hiam Abbass opposite a young Israeli woman Tal played by Agathe Bonitzer in a film directed by Thierry Binisti A Bottle in the Gaza Sea The film was released in France on February 8 2012 The film was inspired by a novel by Valérie Zenatti Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza In The Other Son by Lorraine Lévy released in France on April 4 2012 Shalaby played Bilal ostensibly the brother of Yacine Mehdi Dehbi but in fact the brother of Joseph Jules Sitruk accidentally exchanged at birth in the confusion created by a bombing With an interest in Sufi music Shalaby plays the kawala a traditional Egyptian flute that is seen and heard in The Other Son Shalaby was shortlisted in the category of Most Promising Actor for the 38th César Awards in 2013 for his appearance in A Bottle in the Gaza Sea Source Article Mahmoud Shalaby from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30
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