At 2.00 a.m. on 2 August 1990, Iraqi troops invaded
Kuwait, suddenly and without any previous notice.
This political earthquake happened during my annual
vacation in my home town of Alexandria, in Egypt.
Like many other people, including both Kuwaitis and
foreigners working in Kuwait, I was completely
shocked. I tried hard to accept this new situation and
survive the catastrophe, but I could not stop thinking
of my office, my databases which took fifteen years
of my life to build, my home, my cars, my club and
my friends who were there during the invasion. I
attended the IFLA Conference in Stockholm later that
month to try to forget this harmful event which was
about to destroy fifteen years of my life.
