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Egyptian actor and director Nour El-Sherif is being honoured as today’s Google Doodle. Marking what would have been his 75th birthday on April 28, the illustration was created by Cairo artist Maged El Sokkary.
The doodle appears on the search engine s homepage in numerous countries around the Mena region, including Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE.
Who was Nour El-Sherif?
El-Sherif was born Mohamed Geber Abd Allah in Cairo on April 28, 1946. As a child, he loved football but had a passion for acting, which was evident in the small theatre roles he performed at the beginning of his career, according to his Google biography.