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Kuwait, its first hours

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A scene with a message: “Try us again, if you dare.” 🇰🇼 . —Highway of Death, 1991.

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North Ahmadi area, August 1980.

[علي الصواغ @Alialswag30]

هذه الصورة في الكويت سنة الـ1980 منو يعرف
اي منطقه.........؟؟

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Kuwait, 1955.

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Students of Al-Shuwaikh High School in 1956.

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This frame captures Kuwait’s earliest group of female students, selected for the country’s first official women’s delegation sent by "the Maaref Department" to Cairo in 1956.

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Until that black fluid came…
- FYI, these were taken in Kuwait too.

[Omar @omar_dddg]

The Arabs of the Gulf really went from having the roughest and hardest life in the world to the greatest living standard. Tabarakallah.

You really dont understand how oppressively difficult their life was. Sailing and diving in that heat would kill most modern people in a week

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A mobile medical clinic purchased by the Emirate of Kuwait using oil revenues in December 1952, traveling through rural villages to treat patients unable to reach the capital.

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The Commercial Bank of Kuwait, with a Chevrolet Impala in front. photographed in 1965.

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Inside a Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) laboratory in the late 1960s, during early research on energy, the solar house project, and oil-based food production.

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Former Minister of Education Jassem Al-Marzouq at the opening of the Fourth Art Exhibition, May 1979.

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On Ali Al-Salem Street, 1952. beside Ismail Behbahani’s pearl and jewelry store.

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“Kuwait 10” (1973)
a title formally designated by the artist, derived from his observation of the burning oil fields; by William Congdon.

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Al-Safat Square, 1955.
By: Jean-Philippe Charbonnier.

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Captured by Bruno Barbey, circa 1965. a passing glimpse of Kuwait City near the “Al Adab Library"

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A. Hussain Ali Bay؛ Curry & Pans.
— Souq Al-Mubarakiya, 1955.

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Constituent Assembly.
— January 23, 1963.

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@aldamkhi_family @f_alabduljaleel @Q8_Heritage الله، تفتنني جدا الأماسي ذات الطابع المختلف في مواضيعها. موضوع يستحق فعلا أن يلتفت له، غالبا لن أحضر ولكن شكرا كثيرا للقائمين وتحديدا لصاحب الاقتراح.

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@Saadbintiflah البداوة نهج حياة اجتماعي؛ نسب ومصاهرة، عادات وتقاليد، وليست صورة نمطية تختزل في خيام وصحراء وبيت شعر. هذه ليست إلا مظاهر شكلية. في مقدمة ابن خلدون الباب الثاني عندما عرّف البدو قال؛ "أهل الصريح من النسب وبقي فيهم ذلك كما كان". بصراحه: حصر الموضوع على خيمة منظور سطحي.