In 1973 Sami got a scholarship for a course of studies at the U.S.A. He spent the first year at the Vermont College improving his English. While at Vermon he was able to locate the Art College he was looking for .At Johnson Institute for artist in Princeton, New Jersey Sami found everything he had been dreaming to learn. He soon became familiar with bronze casting and other mediums and techniques. During the last part of his two years training there he was chosen to hold three study courses on anatomy related to sculpture.

In 1976 Sami was back in Kuwait. His contact with the outside world had expanded his vision, but he was still uncertain, still trying to discover his real self, his true purpose and identity in art.

For sometime, since his return from U.S.A. Sami was troubled by a persistent question "What do I want? ". In his quest he has been experimenting long and hard and producing a wealth of works in painting and sculptures verging on many fields of inquiry, but the nagging question persisted till, finally he seems to have emerged with a formula that encompasses his true self as an artist.

His deep involvement in the human saga has promoted him to record bits of news on human atrocities of which he has a substantial archive. Everything that spells tragedy and suffering interests him.

From the eighties Sami has been striving to be on his own, to be independent in thought and performance; the first result was the so called "Box " phase, which incidentally still betrays the influence of Louis LUTZ in his work "For a better world ".