Khalid

PHOTO DESKKHALID

84 photographs, 1989 to 2024 — Khobar, Germany, Orlando, Portland, Washington DC, and a football club in the Eastern Province that I have never quite left. The archiving habit this whole site is built on started in one of these pictures, in 2009, and I did not know it at the time.

Childhood — Khobar, 1989–1998

The first years, in my grandfather’s Khobar. Several of these overlap with the family archive next door.

With my grandfather Abdullah and my father Salah — three generations. — 1989With my grandfather **Abdullah** and my father **Salah** — three generations.

1992The clown at the same 1992 birthday.

1997In Egypt — the same country my grandfather travelled to for the shop, thirty years earlier.

1997A visit to the Harley-Davidson store in Dhahran.

—A newspaper notice for my first birthday.

School years, 2002–2006

Khobar and school, with two summers in Germany, ending with graduation.

Heide Park Resort, Germany, with my brother Nasser. — 2002Heide Park Resort, Germany, with my brother **Nasser**.

2004In King Khaled Airport in a school trip.

2004A screenshot of Messenger — the era this whole website is a museum of.

2005Saudi National Day on the Khobar Corniche.

Orlando, Florida — 2007

I went to the United States to study English. The first time abroad on my own.

2007Minnesota, in December — a long way from the Gulf, in every sense.

2007The house I lived in with Ms. Garcia while studying English.

Al-Qadsiah

In 2008–2009 I volunteered at the club as vice-president of the media centre. That is where the archiving started — the habit that eventually became this entire website. The later pictures are matches in Khobar and Riyadh.