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Emirati journalist who is a walking encyclopedia of the UAE's history
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2/17/2025
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Al-Jazeera
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Now, this project, we can say, started in 1984,
00:10
weekly pages in Al-Jazeera newspaper,
00:14
and covered different areas of UAE,
00:19
interviewing people, I mean, the old people of,
00:24
I mean, fathers and, I mean, you can say fathers and grandfathers,
00:28
like in different fields for the trade purposes and this and this,
00:33
and also agriculture life, desert life, social life,
00:38
economical life, cultural life.
00:40
Then, of course, it was weekly, after this five years,
00:44
and meeting, for example, more than two, three hundred,
00:47
I selected and separated, you know, the subjects,
00:52
like the memory of the sea, cultural life, social life,
00:57
and economical life.
00:58
So then, after selecting and rewriting and correcting this,
01:02
and adding more photos,
01:05
I published already a series of four, of five.
01:09
So, one will be published soon,
01:13
which is a series of five, it will be.
01:16
Then, it was, there is a book translated into English,
01:21
Between Sips of Coffee.
01:23
It was published two years before, three years before.
01:25
After this series, which includes the memories of human beings,
01:33
you can say, memories of people, oral history.
01:36
And that, King Abdullah, me and Muhammad.
01:41
Then, I started doing another series,
01:45
which is memory of places, or memory of the land, you can say.
01:51
So, I spent in Al-Tahar newspaper until 23 years.
01:56
I was a deputy managing editor for Dubai and North in Emirates.
02:02
And then, I went to Al-Khalid, in charge of local news.
02:07
Then, I went to Abu Dhabi to establish this Leewa magazine
02:12
for the center of documentation and research.
02:18
They lost many, many, many, because all my journeys,
02:22
I used to have a cameraman with me.
02:26
Then, I gave it to TV, Abu Dhabi TV, or gave it to Dubai TV.
02:32
I used to work, made many, many documentaries for TV, radio.
02:36
I went to work with some big projects in media,
02:40
private company called Media CPR in the safe zone, from the beginning.
02:45
Even my, Muhammad, who put, it was a Saudi investment,
02:49
with many European and American.
02:54
And, you know, I'm the only Arabic person with them.
02:57
Muhammad, who put the visibility study for this project.
03:02
During that time, they called me to Abu Dhabi for this Leewa magazine.
03:08
And then, I went to Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi.
03:14
As a researcher, many research and projects,
03:18
and this experience, for seven years, I was there.
03:22
I used to have also some private projects in the media field.
03:26
After this half century of passion to my career as a journalist,
03:35
and which is, I like to be a journalist in the field,
03:39
which is always new things, new information, new wealth,
03:45
comes from the fields, you know.
03:48
Of course, one of the main important things,
03:53
that my son, Muhammad, always was with me, since he's a child.
04:00
And I used to take him to different conferences, different events.
04:05
And most of the time, in the newspaper.
04:07
And he likes the field, so he become, alhamdulillah, he's also a writer.
04:12
Supported me, of course, and always, and still,
04:16
supporting the projects we work together.
04:20
I think he can share his experience with you.
04:24
I mean, this is a certificate from Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi,
04:29
ruler of Sharjah.
04:30
Dr. Al-Ghaghi is looking at my book.
04:33
Award from Rashid Abdullah, the Foreign Minister before.
04:40
He made them in Ajman.
04:43
The Department of Culture and Information in Ajman,
04:49
they used to make everywhere, every year, you know,
04:53
like competition or something like this.
04:56
So I have award from them.
05:00
This is Journalism Association.
05:04
This is Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Center.
05:09
I'm a lecturer there.
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