Talk:Alexander Siddig

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[edit] Describing Alexander Siddig

Describing Alexander Siddig as "half Arab and half British" is, to me, pure nonsense. "Arab" in this context refers to his ethnicity, whereas "British" clearly refers to his nationality. You might as well describe someone as "half Black African, half South African" (to indicate that one parent is Black African in ethnic origin and that the other comes originally from the Republic of South Africa) or "half white European, half British" (to indicate that one parent is white European from the ethnic standpoint and that the other comes originally from Great Britain).

Hence, the original contributor who wrote this should indicate the "halves" from the point of view purely from ethnicity, given the fact that the article makes clear that Siddig's parents come originally from the Sudan and from Great Britain. Christopher Crossley 02:20, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The accent that Siddig affected in Kingdom of Heaven cannot be described as "Saudi Arabian" -- as the Saud Kingdom simply did not exist at the time of the Crusades! --Shannonr 08:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Change it to Arabian then.--Greasysteve13 11:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Define an "Arabian" accent. Indeed. That's why I deleted the reference. --Shannonr 05:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
An accent destinct to the Arabian Peninsula?
So that would be "Arabic-accented English" then? A meaningless statment. And we're back to the beginning. --Shannonr 04:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Searching for "critically acclaimed" citation

This is what I've found:

Next question: why I put this much effort into the search. :) --Diogenes00 23:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Birthday

Alexander Sidding will be 41 years old on 2006-11-21, and he does have some amazing roles for his characters

prove it. ... aa:talk 22:30, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Jaheer El Hezbollah El Hamas El Abdullah El Mohammed El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi <---- Is this seriously his full name, or is someone trying to vandalize the page?Sarc37 19:38, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

2 Mohammmeds, a Hezbollah, & a Hamas? I suppose someone could name a kid "Hamas" ("zeal") but "Hezbollah" ("Party of God") isn't even a proper personal name. Vandalism. Ventifax 00:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig El Abderahman El Mohammed Ahmed El Abdel Karim El Mahdi is his full name. You can find it in his official biography at [SidCity.net]. MelSidCity 22:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
"Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig El Abderahman El Mohammed Ahmed El Abdel Karim El Mahdi" is correct. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 22:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

The Arabic doesn't quite match the name listed on sidcity.net. It's close, and to my ear the Arabic makes more sense. But who says they need to match, or make sense? Whatever he calls himself, he'll still be a great actor. :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.228.10.133 (talk) 04:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Somewhat ironic and cool ressemblance

Maybe I am just looking too much here, but isn't it interesting to see what seems to me to be a striking ressemblance betweem Siddig, and James Callis? And the fact that one is Arab, and the other Jewish, is even much cooler, and oh so ironic... on many levels Themalau 13:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Am I the only person in the world who doesn't think those two men look that much alike?? I knew Callis from some British TV shows he did before BSG and I knew Siddig from ST:DS9 and "Hamburg Cell"... and even after starting to watch BSG it never even occured to me until I read all those "OMG Dr Baltar and Dr Bashir look so much alike I thought they were the same actor!" threads in every possible online forum. I would never mistake one for the other.

Anyway, if they do look alike, I don't see why that would be particularly unusual or ironic. I can think of qutie a few cases of Jewish actors playing Arabs, for instance Israeli actor Oded Fehr played an Arab (and a Muslim fundamentalist) in "Sleeper Cell". You may as well say that it's strange and ironic that, say, some Russian or English person looks like some German person. Nightandday

[edit] Directing

I think that disassociating remarks Siddig made about directing should be included. For non-Trekkies, Paramount, in spite of plummeting ratings and fan votes, have a history of making really awful Ferengi 'joke' episodes, which Quark's actor, Armin Shimerman, is not at all pleased about. When Siddig directed "Business As Usual", an actually touching episode regarding Quark and Jadzia's friendship, and Quark's sense of ethics, Siddig actually listened to what Shimerman says about his character. Paraborg was not pleased, so in "Profits and Lace", it reverted back into idiocy, that Siddig himself was most displeased about. Without explanation, "Profit and Lace" listed as a directing work of Siddig, just makes him look really bad...isn't it enough that his name attached to that thing has already killed the directing career he wanted in the first place? http://www.agonybooth.com/extras/trek/profit_lace/ - MG, wincing in sympathy and remembered agony —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.226.57.123 (talk) 02:33, 23 September 2007 (UTC)