In his interview with the episode 20/2022 of the "Al-Muqabala" program, he indicated that he reached the position of a member of the Political Committee of the Islamic Movement in Kuwait in the early eighties, but he clashed with what he describes as the "Makki era" in the presidency of the Political Committee, before submitting a memorandum Joint with Dr. Abdullah Al-Nafisi and former Minister Gamal Shehab, demanding transparency and shura, which the committee considered a rebellion against it and decided to dismiss them.

Saad Al-Barrak talks about his intellectual formation, as he was initially inclined to the liberal left, and then pursued Arab nationalism, as he was associated with revolutionary thought and Palestinian resistance, especially after the 1967 war. After moving to study in the United States, he joined the Islamic movement in order to preserve his Islamic identity, and coincided That was with the defeat of the Arab nationalist movement after the October 1973 war.

Regarding his joining the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, Saad Al-Barrak explained that the Islamic group in Kuwait did not call itself the Brotherhood, but rather had another name, which is the Social Reform Society, and the goal was to be a Kuwaiti Islamic association that does not have any external extension, despite the fact that it was influenced by some The literature of the Muslim Brotherhood.

practical path

As for the story of his transfer to ITS, the well-known Kuwaiti economist reveals that this happened after he finished his master's study in the United States, where he received an offer to work as a lecturer at the university, but - after completing the first lecture - decided to resign, Where he discovered the depth of the gap between the reality in the country of freedom in which he studied and the situation in the Arab world.

After that, Al-Barrak received an offer to work in the "ITS" company affiliated with the Kuwait Finance House, and was able to work on restructuring it to achieve profits since the first year of his work in it.

In 2000, while Al-Barrak was on a long vacation in Lebanon after his resignation from ITS, which placed him in the ranks of international companies, he received a phone call from a close associate of the well-known businessman Nasser Al-Kharafi, who urged him to cut his vacation and return to Kuwait to meet Al-Kharafi and negotiate a settlement. Managing the business of "Zain" Telecom Company.

Al-Kharafi says that it was not encouraging for him, as he wanted a break from work, and moreover, he was fully aware of the deteriorating reality of Zain, which lost its capital 3 times.

Out of respect for Al-Kharafi, Al-Barrak went to Kuwait and met the man, but he deliberately set impossible conditions in the hope that Al-Kharafi would abandon his candidacy for the position, but the latter would very easily agree to all the conditions placed before him because of his confidence in Al-Kharafi’s capabilities and capabilities.

Al-Kharafi was not mistaken. In less than 7 years, Al-Barrak was able to raise the company’s capital from $2 billion to 32 billion, as well as raising the number of subscribers from 400,000 to 75 million, and the company now covers 23 countries around the world to become the fourth among Major global communications companies.

The company covers a geographical area of ​​16 million square kilometers, with a team of more than 16,500 employees. The company's revenues amounted to $8 billion in 2009, and total profits amounted to about $3 billion in the same year.

And about the most important deals made by Zain, Al-Barrak talks about the acquisition of Cell Tel, which operates in 13 African countries, and the competition at the time was with the South African “MTN”, and the acquisition was then at an amount of 3.5 Billions of dollars, and it was sold after 4.5 years for 11 billion dollars, which was considered a global success at the time, and some studies were conducted on it.

On the other hand, Saad Al-Barrak refused a concession contract for Zain in Tunisia in 2010, which was coming through the son-in-law of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. .

Regarding his political ambition and his candidacy to take up some ministerial positions or the proposal to enter parliament, Saad Al-Barrak affirmed his refusal to join any ministerial formation or run for parliament, because the current situation is not commensurate with his personality, in addition to a huge gap between the democratic wing represented by parliament and the executive wing represented by the government, according to Recipe.

Saad Al-Barrak was born in 1955, received his secondary education in Kuwait, and moved to America in 1973 to receive his university education there, despite his strong hatred for it at that time.