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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Until he was 12, Khalifa attended elementary school in Baghdad, where his Iraqi-born mother went to live after her husband died. Khalifa learned English at a private academy in Cairo, and like every Kuwaiti who wanted a college education before Kuwait University was inaugurated in 1966, went abroad to...
A mere generation ago, the people of the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf led a life little different from the one their ancestors had led since the advent of Islam. During migrations in search of water and trading locations, mainly from the Najd region of what is today the...
When the oil money started accumulating seriously in the early 1950s, the Sabahs concocted a sophisticated scheme for distributing the windfall. Kuwait City, where 80% of the population still lives (or lived before August), was a town of mud huts. The Emir set about building a modern metropolis, a place...
It is not that the Kuwaitis were ungenerous. The welfare-state umbrella covered non-Kuwaitis almost as well as it protected the natives. Expatriates could prosper, and many did. But everything about the rest of a foreigner's life in Kuwait was demonstrably second class. As naturalization was almost impossible...
A long-overdue merit system will probably take shape in New Kuwait. But many of those who supported such a move when it was only a theory may recoil when faced with it in reality. Many will also be upset by a shrinkage in the welfare state's blanket coverage...