Mahmoud Shalaby

Mahmoud (or Mahmud) Shalaby, or Mahmood Shalabi (Arabic: محمود شلبي; Hebrew: מחמוד שלאבי or מחמוד שלבי; born 19 July 1982), is a Palestinian actor, rapper, and musician. He has acted in several films produced or co-produced 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. He was a member of the Palestinian hip hop group MWR, which toured Palestine, Europe, and the United States.