Nadim sawalha biography of abraham
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Sawalha, Nadim
PERSONAL
Born in Jordan; brother of Nabil Sawalha (an actor and stage producer); married Roberta Lane (a dancer); children: Dina, Nadia (an actress), Julia (an actress). Education: Studied acting at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.
Addresses:
Agent—Associated International Management, Fairfax House, Fulwood Pl., London WC1V 6HU, England.
Career:
Actor, director, and producer. British Broadcasting Corp., worked as writer and producer of Arabic-language productions for radio and television; writer and producer of commercials.
Awards, Honors:
Muhr Award, best actor, Dubai International Film Festival, , and Jury Award, best actor, Newport Beach Film Festival, , both for Captain Abu Raed.
CREDITS
Film Appearances:
Arab pilot, Yellow Dog, Scotia-Barber,
Nighttime hotel manager, A Touch of Class, Avco-Embassy,
Zubair, Shaft in Africa, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
Museum guide, The Return of the Pink Panther (also known as Blake Edwards' "The Return of the Pink Panther"), United Artists,
Padilla, Callan (also known as The Neutralizer and This Is Callan), Cinema National/Magnum Films,
Syndicate member, Gold (also known as The Great Gold Conspiracy), Allied Artists,
Sherif of Wazan, The Wind and the Lion (also known
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Abraham
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Reu
Biblical figure
For other uses, see Reu (disambiguation).
Reu or Ragau (Hebrew: רְעוּ, romanized:&#;Rəʿū; Biblical Greek: Ῥαγαύ, romanized:&#;Rhagaú), according to Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Peleg and the father of Serug, thus being Abraham's great-great-grandfather and the ancestor of the Israelites and Ishmaelites.
In scriptures
[edit]According to the apocryphalBook of Jubilees, Reu is said to have been born to Peleg and Lomna of Shinar at the time when the Tower of Babel was begun.
'Behold the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar.' - ()[1]
His wife was Ora, daughter of 'Ûr, (the son of Kesed) (Jubilees ).[2]
According to the Masoretic text (Genesis ), Reu was 32 when Serug was born and lived to the age of (when Abraham was either 18 or 78).
The Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch state that his age on fathering Serug was , and the Septuagint thus gives age at death as
In popular culture
[edit]The biblical film Abraham () features Nadim Sawalha as a minor character named Reko, a name phonetically similar to Reu.[3]