Omar Sharif -- Arab Org. Demands Apology for Slapping Woman

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Filed under: [url="http://www.tmz.com/person/omar-sharif/"]Omar Sharif[/url], [url="http://www.tmz.com/category/celebrity-justice/"]Celebrity Justice[/url]

[url="http://www.tmz.com/videos/0_gcw2ofe1"][img]http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/10/28/1028-omar-sharif-ex-video-credit-1.jpg[/img][/url]A leading Arab organization wants to make it clear ... Arabs don't condone the brutalization of women and they want [b][url="http://www.tmz.com/person/omar-sharif/"]Omar Sharif[/url] [/b]to apologize for slapping a woman in a fit of anger.

79-year-old Sharif wasn't arrested ... or even punished ... when he struck a female fan at a film festival in Qatar earlier this week.

But TMZ spoke with Mona Farroukh, a rep from [url="http://www.accesscommunity.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage"][b]ACCESS [/b][/url]-- one of the most prominent Arab organizations in the United States -- who tells us, "Omar Sharif has no excuse to use violence on a woman instead of communication."

"There is no reason to use violence toward anyone for any reason."

Farroukh adds, "The least [Sharif] can do is apologize and seek forgiveness from [the woman] in public.  My message to him is 'stay a gentleman Omar.'"


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