Sheikh Hosein (Arabic: شيخ حُسَيْن) is an Egyptian Bedouin, MI6 intelligence informant and friend of James Bond. The character appears briefly in EON Productions' 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me and is portrayed by actor Edward de Souza.
Biography[]
A friend from Bond's days at Cambridge University, Sheikh Hosein lives the life of a Bedouin out in the Egyptian Desert but he also has ties to MI6. Bond meets with Hosein as he investigates the sale of megalomaniac businessman Karl Stromberg's Submarine Tracking System on the black market. The Bedouin provides him with a lead for his mission, advising him to contact the black market trader Aziz Fekkesh and then the businessman Max Kalba. Hosein then persuades 007 to spend the night at his house by having one of his wives offer him a rose. Bond accepts his kind offer and spends the night with the young woman.
Trivia[]
- Since the film includes snippets of Jarre's score to Lawrence of Arabia, and parodies the same, Sheikh Hosein may be arguably seen as part of that.
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