“The Shield of the Nation” knew me when I was young… and I knew her as an old man -2-
In the biography of the prestigious “Shield of the Nation” magazine, coinciding with its celebration of its fiftieth year, accompanying this country in its charitable journey and its celebration of the golden fiftieth, we continue the talk of love and celebration of beautiful things.
When Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan, may his soul rest in peace, visited us at the end of the school year, and attended our school celebrations in which we present sports performances, under the supervision of the Egyptian coaches “Ahmed Al-Jundi” and “Fathi Al-Alam”, the artistic under the supervision of the Iraqi artist “Amer Al-Bayati”, and the music under the supervision of Egyptian artist Abdel Azim Mohamed, and we present plays led by Egyptian director Ahmed Maher. My photos were published, because I am a major participant in these activities in the wealthy high school. As for my first picture, I appeared in it, when I was in middle school, while giving my first speech in Facing the public on the occasion of the Prophet’s birthday.
During my university studies, I was cut off from “The Shield of the Homeland” magazine for four years, and its numbers were cut off from me except from time to time. TV and film journalist, abandoning journalistic work, and I kept cooperating with the magazine by publishing my photographs, which I took in a semi-professional spirit, until they topped the magazine’s inner covers. I also published some of my stories in the magazine’s cultural section, where I got to know closely the editors whose names I saw on its pages As a young student, I got acquainted with the Sudanese journalist “Farouk Hamid”, the Sudanese artist “Abdul Qadir”, another Sudanese writer and writer who edited the cultural pages “Al-Fateh Mika”, and the Pakistani photographers “Kermani” and “Shaheen”. But the magazine, which is one of the specialized military magazines and the oldest in the Arab world, became sluggish, like the magazines that did not inject new, promising and innovative blood into it. It stumbled, changed its orientation, and became more specialized than a comprehensive journalist. Time and professional slackness, so it reduced its size, made it more modern, and gave the professional artistic image its right, and its presence in the magazine, and went towards being a cultural magazine inclusive of all fields of knowledge, without forgetting that in the end it is a military magazine, directed to members and officers of the armed forces, which was A short experience, but effective, because the magazine took that line, and followed it for a while, then I left for Paris to study journalism, and I stayed in contact with the magazine through a monthly chapter I called “a travel ticket” which is a survey about a country or city, I try to read It contains the place, its history and its people, and I search for its culture and customs, and it is accompanied by artistic pictures that I take myself. There were visits to Sarajevo, Venice, Yemen, Cairo, Paris, and many cities. With nostalgia, he will remain calm in his chest for that large magazine that used to cover the chest of the young military cadet, and holds him beautiful gifts of knowledge every month.
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