DAMMAM, 9 October 2006 — A documentary serial film on the life of the late King Abdul Aziz, founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, will shortly be shown on television channels in the region. The documentary will be presented in five episodes of 90 minutes each, Al-Yaum newspaper reported yesterday.

Khaled Al-Showaish Al-Khaledi, head of the folk literature and heritage division of the King Abdul Aziz Museum’s Eastern Province branch, has produced the film. A number of veterans who associated or met with King Abdul Aziz during his lifetime will appear in the film and tell their experiences. These include leading personalities, tribal leaders, heads of important families and oral narrators of the history of the region.

They will talk about the king’s relations with the tribal leaders in the Kingdom and the Gulf, the wars for the establishment of the Kingdom, his poems, discourses, customs and practices, and other memorable events from his life.

Khaled Al-Khaledi earlier presented about 200 radio broadcasts on Saudi history; the radio shows included leading personalities, folk poets and oral historians in the Eastern Province.