From the Sunday Mail (UK):

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26 February 2006
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
STAR TREK'S Alexander Siddig has boldly gone to beat Hollywood hunks Denzel Washington and Vin Diesel to a dream role.

Alexander, who plays Dr Julian Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, will soon be seen in a BBC epic about Hannibal, the Carthaginian general.

He shot Hannibal in Bulgaria but he had to learn Arabic to play a Middle East prince in his new film Syriana with George Clooney.

Syriana is out on Friday.