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  • 2/12/2025
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Founder of Salem Al Saman Group, which included Salem Travel Agency, Commercial Services Agency, Salem Cargo International, Al Manara Jewellery and Al Manara Magazine.
Born in 1938, Al Saman was born in Ras Al Khaimah in 1938, and worked as a merchant on a ship at an early age since 1955. By the early 1960s, Al Saman was ready to move on and become an entrepreneur in Abu Dhabi.
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00:00Yes, I was in Rastakhim since I was born in 1938.
00:06I was with my father most of my travels.
00:11I learned about travel, business, companionship.
00:15I learned about etiquette.
00:17I learned about principles of speech.
00:21I learned about honesty and honesty.
00:23I learned about many things.
00:26It made it easier for me to be a captain of a ship in the 1950s.
00:35The situation at that time was not good.
00:45No one had money.
00:50There was no happy life at that time.
00:54But for me, everything was easy.
00:59My father worked a lot.
01:06He had enough wealth.
01:11He loved me, my family, and my friends.
01:14He gave them everything.
01:17I followed the same path.
01:22There is a saying,
01:27A son like his father is not unjust.
01:33I followed my father's path.
01:40At that time, I was thinking
01:44I had to change my style and my theory.
01:51I was trying to improve myself without relying on anyone.
01:58I was the captain of the ship.
02:03I was a cook, a tailor.
02:08I had everything in this ship.
02:11It was full of men, goods, shops, and drinks.
02:18I still remember that I had to leave the tent.
02:26I left the tent.
02:29I stayed outside the tent from 1955 to 1959.
02:37In 1969, I left Paris to go to Iran.
02:45I was a merchant there.
02:48I was married there.
02:51It was my destiny in life.
02:54We didn't have electricity or water.
02:59There was no comfort.
03:01There were no roads.
03:03There was nothing.
03:06But I was patient.
03:09I had to change my face.
03:12I had two partners.
03:15The first was Majid Al Futaim.
03:21The second was Saleh Bin Nasser Al Luta.
03:24The third was a citizen from Abu Dhabi.
03:27I was able to settle down.
03:30The change gave me lessons.
03:34I learned how to deal with people
03:40that I had never dealt with before.

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