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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.