00:01:13 - His birth and upbringing in Sharq in 1939
00:12:26 - The house he grew up in
00:18:11 - His preliminary education at al-mutawa’aa, then at Al-Najah school, and Al-Sideeq school
00:34:28 - His relationship with his father and family
00:43:23 - The Year of Rain of 1954
00:46:54 - The strong relationship with the neighbors
00:51:04 - Al-mutawa’aa Fatimah and family relations
01:02:54 - Al-Najah and Al-Sideeq schools in the fifties
01:49:50 - On childhood and the boy scouts
02:41:49 - The beginning of his political thought
02:55:30 - Al-Shuwaikh High School in the fifties, and leaving school for work
03:02:23 - Working at the British Bank of the Middle East, the Post, and studying in Beirut
03:24:57 - Finishing high school education, getting a scholarship to study in Cairo, and his life in Vienna
03:45:26 - His marriage and family life in the sixties
04:07:26 - Studying economics in Cairo
04:14:03 - His work at the Post and Kuwait University in the seventies
04:18:24 - Joining the Arab Planning Institute and studying in England
04:50:14 - Communist Leftist thought
05:06:02 - Working at the Kuwait Foreign Trading, Contracting and Investment Company in the eighties
05:18:44 - Living in Al-Jabriya in the mid seventies
05:24:25 - Working at Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait
05:33:02 - The late eighties and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
06:22:29 - The liberation of Kuwait
06:40:09 - His political work in the nineties
06:51:39 - His work in the field of human rights
07:21:06 - Working at the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
07:40:30 - Working at Al-Jabriya Cooperative Society
07:52:12 - - 07:52:12 Running for parliamentary elections and working with the Kuwait Democratic Platform
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