00:01:57 - Being born in Damascus, her family, and childhood memories
00:20:54 - The nature of society in Syria back then
00:25:04 - Her beginnings in reading
00:26:43 - Going to kindergarten
00:34:24 - Holidays in Syria
00:35:41 - Elementary school
00:46:42 - Childhood games
00:56:23 - Middle school and her beginnings in writing
01:02:04 - Her beginnings in reading English literature in high school
01:03:27 - On the passing away of her father and her relationship with her brother Ghassan
01:07:51 - High school
01:12:18 - Teenage
01:13:23 - Military training for girls (futuwwah)
01:18:37 - Going to the American University of Beirut on a scholarship
01:57:22 - Acquiring her master’s degree
02:01:49 - Political inclinations and activism during her university years in the sixties
02:07:02 - Working as a lecturer in Syria and Lebanon and continuing her postgraduate studies in London
02:17:27 - Meeting her husband
02:20:46 - On getting married and her wedding
02:35:28 - Returning to Syria in 1980 and teaching at Damascus University
02:51:36 - Working as an interpreter at international conferences for 15 years while teaching at the university
02:54:05 - Applying to work at Kuwait University and moving to Kuwait in 1993
03:23:19 - On the experience of teaching at Kuwait University
03:35:37 - Learning about the experience of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
03:44:51 - On the experience of being Chair of the English Department at Kuwait University
03:51:50 - Founding a postgraduate studies program at Kuwait University
03:53:16 - The first international conference for comparative literature to be held at Kuwait University and hosting Gayatri Spivak in 2001
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