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The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It hosts a collection of modern Arab and international art. The building has always served as an educational institution; it was built in 1939 to house the Madrasa Al Sharqiya, or Eastern School in which generations of prominent Kuwaitis studied, including the current Emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad.
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Zahra Dickson-Freeth, a British author and daughter of the late HRP Dickson, a widely popular former British Political Administrator of Kuwait (from 1929-1936), died last month (20 May 2015) in Colchester, England. She was 90 years old. Zahra was the remaining direct descendant of the famous Dickson family of Kuwait. Her mother, the late Dame Violet Dickson (d. Read more...
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Sheikh Mubarak was the first to build a koshk in Kuwait. The one now preserved in Souq Mubarakiya was the seat of Sheikh Mubarak, where he would meet the people of the country and listen to the problems of citizens and provide various kinds of assistance to them and solutions to their problems. The koshk was located in a Read more...
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This musical dancing fountain is one of the world’s largest fountains and is located in Kuwait City. It was established in 1983 and covers an area of 16,000 m². The main fountain has 220 subsidiaries all distributed through three major fountains. It operates by 22 organized circuits that control the water up – flow to multiple heights reaching 35 m. Read more...
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The National Library of Kuwait is the national library and legal deposit and copyright library for Kuwait. It was founded in 1923 through the efforts of several Kuwaiti writers, and received its collection from the library of the Kuwaiti Charitable Society, which was founded in 1913. The library is currently located on Arabian Gulf Street. In 1994, Emiri Decree #52 officially ordered the creation of Read more...
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At Al Sadu House, Bedouin craftswomen teach sadu (Bedouin-style) and other weaving techniques for both beginners and those with more experience. It’s a terrific venue and they also run one-off family and children’s workshops. Check with the Kuwait Textile Arts Association Read more...
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