Perhaps we are very used to Saudi intellectuals, writers and public figures writing their memoirs and biographies after great experiences in life, in order to highlight their achievements or works for the general reader and for new generations, and many books appeared in this field, monitored by Dr. Abdullah Al-Haidari in (90) biographies, in his article: "The Biography in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" published in Al-Jazirah newspaper (November 6, 2020), but for a woman to write her biography or prepare a book about her memoirs, this has not happened much in the cultural arena in the Kingdom. 

The biography of the writer and novelist Laila Al-Juhani was the first biography of a Saudi female writer and was titled: "Forty: In the Meaning of Growing Older" (Dar Al-Adab, Beirut 2010), followed by a biography of the novelist Omaima Al-Khamis titled: "Past Singular Masculine" (Dar Al-Intishar Al-Arabi, Beirut 2011), then a biography of Huda Al-Daghfaq: "I Tear the Burqa to See" (Dar Jadawel, Beirut, 2011), which are biographies that address the levels of personal life, reality and the horizons of writing for them, with concentrated depictions and intermittent scenes that form side by side some secret features in their literary experiences. It is noticed that female writers were the ones who started writing biographies, preceded by an incomplete attempt by the writer and poet Sultana Al-Sudairi in 1989, who had published some of its episodes in Al-Yamamah magazine. 

But the first biography outside the scope of literature is the biography written by the physician Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi titled: "Memoirs of a Saudi Woman" and published by Dar Madarek for Publishing, which is a biography that presents a Saudi Arabian international human experience. 

A difficult labor: 

Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi is a Saudi doctor and a breast cancer survivor. She is the first Gulf woman to be nominated for the Board of Directors of the International Union Against Cancer in Geneva, and an international activist in the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation in the United States of America. 

Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi says in the introduction to her memoirs: "I carried these memoirs for years, and I hesitated to publish them several times. The labor was difficult, it took time from my life and a price from my health. When it was finished and finally saw the light, I carry it to put it in your hands with all fear and awe, mixed with the joy of a lover who gifts to those he loves and wishes to see something in the eyes of loved ones. ...

If my letters upset you, forgive me, for I did not mean this. If memory fails me in a matter, forgive me too, for these are the letters of a human who makes mistakes and gets things right.

Finally, all I want is for you to read with your hearts, and leave them open to everything inside the human woman who poured her memories and memoirs as a perfume, hoping that the moments will change and become of a different fragrance." . 

Al-Amoudi's memoirs included nine chapters and fell in (480) pages, and the chapters came as follows: Childhood and Youth, Medicine and the Specialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Marriage and Children, Literature and Media in My Life, Work in the Private Sector, My Affliction with Cancer, the Partnership Program with America, the Chair and the Center, Medical and Community Empowerment, and Health Rights. Under these titles fall dozens of titles that formed the human experience of the author, as she tells about her story as a mother, doctor, survivor, and writer starting from her date of birth, which became of strange significance years later, and her childhood through which she moved, as she says: "From my mother's kitchen to the White House."

Studying medicine: 

The writer tells about a time when studying medicine was fraught with obstacles and how her generation was able to dig through the rock and pave the way for subsequent generations so that the march of the Saudi female doctor would be a model for women's resilience. 

She also tells about her love for literature and writing and her passion for letters through her journalistic beginnings since she was a student and how women's writing beginnings were. 

The turning point for the writer was her diagnosis with breast cancer in April 2006 and how she called it: A message of love from d and how she challenged the disease and dedicated her life to cancer awareness until she turned into a symbol of patience and giving. 

The writer began her memoirs with childhood, the first school and the first teacher, and her relationship with her mother who used to sit her on a chair in the kitchen when she was four years old and teach her the Holy Quran: "I grew up and my dreams grew. My mother suffered from deprivation, and the biggest was her deprivation of education, and she was compensating for that with reading and culture." The writer talked about the stages of her education until she entered medical school: "When I was in high school there was no medical school here, and what was available was to work as teachers." But with the issuance of a decision by King Faisal – may d have mercy on him – to establish a medical school in the city of Jeddah, the writer joined the medical school, and the writer narrated the stage of her education at the College of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah until the graduation ceremony on Thursday, 7 Jumada al-Akhira 1402 AH / 1982 AD, and it was the first batch to include (24) female doctors. 

In the White House:

The writer narrates after chapters the news of her obtaining the International Women of Courage Award in 2007 from America, and she is the first Arab woman to obtain it in the field of breast cancer. "On Wednesday, January 9, 2008, a call came to her from (Susan Ziadeh) from the US Embassy in Riyadh and she informed me that the White House had sent to them telling them of their desire that I meet the President of the United States of America" who would be on an official visit to the Kingdom in this period. And she tells about her entry into the White House after that on October 7, 2008: "And indeed we entered and in front of me were high-level security men, and the First Lady came as usual every time I see her, smiling and humble, making you feel that you are one of her close acquaintances, and we exchanged greetings and dialogue for minutes, and they asked us to stand for a commemorative photo. And so d willed for me and I entered the White House and met the First Lady in her home, and my meetings with her were repeated again so that my entry into the White House would remain a fragrance and a memory." .