كتب عنه .. د. مصطفى الآغا « معد ومقدم برامج رياضية في قنـاة mbc »

He wrote about it.. d. Mustafa Agha
« Producer and presenter of mbc sports programs »

⏹ I was still a young student at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Damascus / English Department.. On the evening of an autumn day, I met by chance a sports broadcaster whose star began to shine strongly. It was Yasser Ali Deeb.. The acquaintance was purely by chance.. We walked from the Faculty of Arts to the Baramkeh neighborhood, where he was The headquarters of Al-Ittihad newspaper, which had not yet completed its first year. A wall magazine in English, and I was in the tenth grade at Jawdat Al-Hashemi High School, and I was also one of the good “according to the grades I was getting” in the subject of expression.

I was not the type to open up to others, but I was shy to an intolerable degree, and the book was my only friend, specifically Russian literature, which was specialized in my uncles who encouraged me to read it.. So I read Chekhov, Aitmatov, Rasul Hamzatov, even Dostoevsky I read it before I entered the university..
I imagined that I might one day be a poet, a story writer, or a teacher in a school.. And the pinnacle of my dreams is to be a university professor.. But an orphan “walking” with Yasser and Nabil changed my life..

In the headquarters of Al-Ittihad newspaper, I entered with them, and there the two departed were a good elite, and shortly after that Adnan Bouzo came.. It was not easy for a young man like me to confront a man of Adnan Bouzo’s worth and stature, and I do not know how I controlled myself and made him feel that I was not afraid of meeting him.. He asked me: What do you do? My son ? I told him that he is a student at the Faculty of Arts, Department of English. He asked me: Have you ever tried journalism? .. My answer was vague.. Yes and No.. He said how? I said that I am a school journalist, but I have never worked for pay or for a publication that is read by more than 500 people.

At that time, Al-Ittihad was the center of attention in Syria, in which giants such as Adnan Bouzo and his brother Brigadier General Farouk, Tayeb Safwa, Adel Abu Shanab, Marwan Arafat, and Nur al-Din Traboulsi wrote on the second page, which was for the localities, and Yasser Ali Deeb, who had the diversified seventh page, and Fayez Wehbe on his fourth Arabiyat page, and Lutfi Al-Istwani On the global page, number five.. I do not remember if our colleague Salwa Damiri was there, but her page was sixth and it was for organizations.. The first and last were for coverages and articles, including in the heart of the editor-in-chief, and good morning to the great professor Adel Abu Shanab and the dean’s free zone .. Of course there were other workers As Sanaa al-Kubra, Mazhar, Abu Mahmoud, and later Abu Ziyad.

The newspaper's correspondents were also of heavy caliber, which is why it was sold to Al-Ittihad piecemeal, i.e. without return.

On that day, and in this orphan meeting, Adnan asked me if I could share some translations with them, and without hesitation I said yes..Yes, this changed my life..After these blessings, I felt challenged..
What should I do to impress Adnan Bouzo?! I became a “lover” about magazines and newspapers in the streets of Damascus because my budget could not afford it. I would never buy them from bookstores.
By coincidence, the street vendors provided me with a livelihood and changed my life as well.
An amount that does not exceed five pounds, “which is a large amount according to the custom of those who receive 125 pounds per month, in order to manage their affairs at the university. .
A sports magazine that was sold on the sidewalks for the beauty of its pictures is called (Sport Illustrated). It was the one that gave me the crossing point for the heart and mind of Adnan Bouzo.. I started writing articles instead of translating them, relying on my personal inventory and the accompanying photos.. Less than two weeks later, Adnan asked me if I was able to photograph A television reportage was broadcast on television. Without hesitation, I told him, "I'm ready. I'm the one who comes out."
How can I be prepared when I have never seen a camera in my life and never entered the headquarters of the Syrian TV in my life?
My certainty is that fate was directing me towards the media.. Indeed, Mr. Adnan put my name on the entry gate of the television, and at that time I had a chin that I had never shaved in my life.

The report was about badminton, where the Sports Federation brought in a North Korean coach, while the cameraman was the currently famous broadcaster Abdel Moein Abdel Majeed, accompanied by our colleague Hisham Mossadek. In filming and interviews, which later became one of its icons.. The report was funny and rich.. Thus, I began my career with Adnan Bouzoun on his famous program, Sports Stations. A few months later, I took over the editing of page seven in place of my colleague Yasser, who was busy with it. I started writing weekly articles such as “Every Saturday” and Clackett, and I was in direct contact with the readers.

I believe that I became a fan of Adnan, so I began to accompany him in the radio studio when he was presenting his sports station at eleven quarter past eleven.
Merely presenting moments on the radio was equivalent to winning a million dollars, as was seeing my name in the Al-Ittihad newspaper that I used to buy because I could not wait to get to the newspaper on Saturday morning to read my name in it.. As for my appearance on television, it was the peak of peaks for me.
Slowly, she entered the world of commentary, and the beginning was in Aleppo in the thirty-second and then the thirty-third World Military Championships.
Aleppo is the one that Adnan Bouzo loved and loved.

In Aleppo, I commented on the basketball and football competitions, and I was the only commentator there on TV. The final, Adnan kept me away from the match and commented on it, accompanied by Yasser Ali Deeb. This memory is still a lump in my throat until now.

Adnan Bouzo was kind and gentle, but at the same time tough and organized at work.
He often suspended me from work because of what he saw at the time as unjustified excesses.. Even the first English sports program in the history of the Syrian screen, which was called Sports Magazine, did not give me the honor of preparing it, but only presenting it and giving the preparation to Hassan Dakak.. Perhaps he had different visions from what I see. We may have disagreed a lot, but I never denied his grace in changing my life and teaching me the ABCs of commenting, presentation, and writing.
I remember once that Mustafa asked me, you said yesterday, during your comment on the Al-Ittihad and Al-Hurriya match, that the fans crawled to the stadium in the early morning.

Of course, his desires are orders, for he is the one with the opinion and the one with the decision.. The best thing about Adnan Bouzo is that he was polite, he did not curse or shout, no matter how small or even ridiculous the amount of compensation for him was.. And the most beautiful thing about him was that he took our opinion of us young people in his weekly article to the core »And believe me that he It was modified based on our opinions.
The most beautiful thing about him is his simplicity, spontaneity, and the accuracy of his observation. The most beautiful thing about him is his great organization of his work and his chaos in his personal life.
You may notice that I am using the present tense or the present tense when I am talking about it.. Why?
Because he is still alive inside me and inside everyone who knew him..
May God have mercy on you, Adnan..you have changed my life..all of my life..and perhaps what saddens me the most is that he did not live to see how the young men he trained and taught became..
Where did Ayman Jada, Yasser Ali Dib, Mustafa Al-Agha and many others become?
For everyone who reads these letters.. I hope that he will read Al-Fatiha on his pure soul.