The search for Nawaf

After Khalil al-Rawaf settled in Saudi Arabia, he didn’t forget about his son Nawaf. He returned to the United States with Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, where attempts were made to take custody of his son without a success.

"Nawaf" disappeared with his mother and al-Rawaaf repeated the visit and the research in 1987, but to no avail.

Asia said that Constance met famous Egyptian poet Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi and married him a year after her divorce. Abu Shady adopted "Nawaf" and was labelled “Abu Nawaf," or father of Nawaf.

After a strenuous search, an investigator identified "Nawaf Khalil al-Rawaf" as "Clive Wilman”. Clive, found his birth certificate with a different name and asked his mother who told him the whole story.

Clive’s mother married a British man and they went back to America where he participated in the Vietnam War in the US Army. 
He said, “when I asked my mother spontaneously about my father," she said, "talk to the Saudi embassy."

Nawaf or Clive addressed the Saudi embassy with four letters asking for information about his father, but did not receive any answer. Nawaf's mother said that she was afraid that Nawaf’s father would take his son from her so she changed his name.

She said that her son was finally able to contact his real father, Khalil al-Rawaf who died in 2000.

Khalil Al-Rawaf, had a Hollywood experience as he was the first Arab actor to participate in an American film before Egyptian actor Omar Sharif and Lebanese George Nader.

Rawaaf appeared with famous American actor John Wayne in the film "I Cover the War,” in 1937. Sheik Khalil Al-Rawaf role in the film was that of a Bedouin guard in the Iraqi desert.

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