This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

Bush before the beginning of the Iraq War telling him that Arabs were not like westerners and that Arab states were made up of sects resistant to becoming democratized. Sharif was given an honorary degree by the University Of Hull in 2010 and used the occasion to meet up with Hull City football player Ken Wagstaff. policy in Iraq and said Americans are ignorant.

He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.