Sami was born in 1943 in the Sharq district of Old Kuwait Town in modest family surrounding.
From early childhood he was betrayed artistic potential in the way of making mechanical toys and little figures
of people and animal in clay. In his early school days one of his teachers, Mansoor, discovered his artistic inclination
and encouraged him to practice. Other teachers took an interest in his talent and soon he was making drawings for
them to hang in their classroom.
In 1956, during the Nationalization of the Suez Canal and the animosity it evoked throughout
the Arabian world Sami's school principle charged him to make lots of little figures to stage a battle ground,
Sami made about 60 of them representing fighting soldiers and civilians. At the inauguration of the display, that
covered the entire school stage, he was awarded first prize. For Sami that was the turning point in his life. From
that day art became the ruling spirits of all his undertaking and thoughts, the school atelier became his playground.
He was also good in music, in the 60's he was the first dilettante playing the lute on Kuwaiti
TV.
Mr. Shouky Desuky, his art teacher at the Secondary School of Shamya, introduced him to the
art of ceramic. He was about twenty years old when Sami left school and started working. At about that same time
the Government Free Atelier was opened and from the start it became the Mecca of every dilettante in town. No sooner
Sami heard of it than he presented himself with some drawings and was accepted. There he met other young sculptors
and painters, his teacher Shouky Desuky was teaching there. For two years he frequented the G.Atelier regularly
till he was given official grant to become a free artist, and part of the pioneering group in the plastic arts
movement in Kuwait.