Emirati journalist who is a walking encyclopedia of the UAE's history

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00:00Al-Jazeera

00:04Now, this project, we can say, started in 1984,

00:10weekly pages in Al-Jazeera newspaper,

00:14and covered different areas of UAE,

00:19interviewing people, I mean, the old people of,

00:24I mean, fathers and, I mean, you can say fathers and grandfathers,

00:28like in different fields for the trade purposes and this and this,

00:33and also agriculture life, desert life, social life,

00:38economical life, cultural life.

00:40Then, of course, it was weekly, after this five years,

00:44and meeting, for example, more than two, three hundred,

00:47I selected and separated, you know, the subjects,

00:52like the memory of the sea, cultural life, social life,

00:57and economical life.

00:58So then, after selecting and rewriting and correcting this,

01:02and adding more photos,

01:05I published already a series of four, of five.

01:09So, one will be published soon,

01:13which is a series of five, it will be.

01:16Then, it was, there is a book translated into English,

01:21Between Sips of Coffee.

01:23It was published two years before, three years before.

01:25After this series, which includes the memories of human beings,

01:33you can say, memories of people, oral history.

01:36And that, King Abdullah, me and Muhammad.

01:41Then, I started doing another series,

01:45which is memory of places, or memory of the land, you can say.

01:51So, I spent in Al-Tahar newspaper until 23 years.

01:56I was a deputy managing editor for Dubai and North in Emirates.

02:02And then, I went to Al-Khalid, in charge of local news.

02:07Then, I went to Abu Dhabi to establish this Leewa magazine

02:12for the center of documentation and research.

02:18They lost many, many, many, because all my journeys,

02:22I used to have a cameraman with me.

02:26Then, I gave it to TV, Abu Dhabi TV, or gave it to Dubai TV.

02:32I used to work, made many, many documentaries for TV, radio.

02:36I went to work with some big projects in media,

02:40private company called Media CPR in the safe zone, from the beginning.

02:45Even my, Muhammad, who put, it was a Saudi investment,

02:49with many European and American.

02:54And, you know, I'm the only Arabic person with them.

02:57Muhammad, who put the visibility study for this project.

03:02During that time, they called me to Abu Dhabi for this Leewa magazine.

03:08And then, I went to Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi.

03:14As a researcher, many research and projects,

03:18and this experience, for seven years, I was there.

03:22I used to have also some private projects in the media field.

03:26After this half century of passion to my career as a journalist,

03:35and which is, I like to be a journalist in the field,

03:39which is always new things, new information, new wealth,

03:45comes from the fields, you know.

03:48Of course, one of the main important things,

03:53that my son, Muhammad, always was with me, since he's a child.

04:00And I used to take him to different conferences, different events.

04:05And most of the time, in the newspaper.

04:07And he likes the field, so he become, alhamdulillah, he's also a writer.

04:12Supported me, of course, and always, and still,

04:16supporting the projects we work together.

04:20I think he can share his experience with you.

04:24I mean, this is a certificate from Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi,

04:29ruler of Sharjah.

04:30Dr. Al-Ghaghi is looking at my book.

04:33Award from Rashid Abdullah, the Foreign Minister before.

04:40He made them in Ajman.

04:43The Department of Culture and Information in Ajman,

04:49they used to make everywhere, every year, you know,

04:53like competition or something like this.

04:56So I have award from them.

05:00This is Journalism Association.

05:04This is Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Center.

05:09I'm a lecturer there.

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