00:00:36 - The story behind his name and opportunities for acquiring his PhD
00:15:43 - An offer to be granted the Kuwaiti citizenship in the early eighties
00:16:55 - An offer to be granted the Kuwaiti citizenship in the early eighties
00:22:10 - Going to a girls’ school
00:25:32 - His beginnings in reading books
00:36:38 - The beginning of his relationship with cinema
00:44:50 - The radio in middle school
00:55:55 - His beginnings in making and screening movies
01:09:59 - His interest in acting and applying to the High Cinema Institute in 1963
01:25:48 - Studying English Literature at Cairo University
01:30:31 - The war of 1967 and joining volunteer student brigades and the futuwwa camps
01:47:17 - On his relationship with his parents
02:13:41 - On his brother
02:20:24 - His passion for learning languages
02:32:48 - The experience of studying English Literature at the university
02:49:15 - CineClub at the Science Museum in Cairo
02:58:14 - A comparison between life in El Mahalla El Kubra and Cairo
03:07:22 - Details of experiencing the 1967 war and on Jamal Abdel Nasser
03:40:48 - Serving in the Egyptian army in 1969 and on the war of 1973
03:45:57 - The experience of applying to work for the Second Channel on the radio and being accepted on the condition of finishing his military service
04:05:14 - More on his military service and the war of 1973
04:48:55 - Writing children’s stories and for “Al-Masaa” magazine during his military service
05:11:27 - His relationship with poetry
05:34:48 - Details of experiencing the war of 1973
05:47:18 - How he met his friend Ahmad
06:02:43 - More on the war of 1973
06:14:40 - The moment the war began
06:32:30 - Peace talks and the Camp David Accords
06:40:50 - Starting to write with political inclinations for the leftist “Al-Talee’a” magazine
07:20:07 - Life and work after finishing military service and considering moving to Kuwait
07:33:25 - From the Cinema Archives” Television program, and the story of his being banned from television, radio, the press and CineClub, and the closure of “Al-Talee’a” magazine
08:03:07 - His first visit to Kuwait in 1976
08:13:51 - His first marriage in 1974
08:25:43 - His meeting Mohammad Al-Sanousi and his decision to stay in Kuwait
08:38:12 - CineClub
08:51:27 - Searching for the ideal woman and his second marriage
08:55:12 - Meeting his current wife Nadia (Um Omar) and their marriage
09:26:01 - CineClub and the television program “CineClub”
09:53:04 - On Vanessa Redgrave and hosting her in Kuwait in 1979
10:16:33 - Other activities during the eighties
10:33:51 - The Americana commercials
10:44:18 - The Iraqi occupation of Kuwait: situations he had been through with the Iraqi authorities prior to the occupation
11:39:17 - Details of experiencing the occupation
11:56:08 - Hamed Al-Mulla
12:49:43 - Operation Desert Storm
13:05:05 - After the liberation: filming the remains of martyrs and working with Western media
13:30:04 - Filming the oil fires for Ron Fricke’s film “Baraka”
14:07:17 - Resuming work at Kuwait TV after the liberation, and other works
14:47:42 - Producing films for the Kuwait Oil Company in the seventies
14:57:35 - The experience of parenthood
15:02:06 - Reflections
15:17:22 - Being offered the Kuwaiti citizenship
15:25:23 - The Palestinian Film Festival in 1982
15:31:16 - Working on an international scale
16:25:18 - Other topics and works
16:38:16 - 2008: His relationship with religion and the Holy Quran
17:18:07 - On cancer and his treatment
17:30:16 - His published books
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