Kuwait

Since its inception, Sirdab Lab has hoped to positively impact Kuwait’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, aiming to become a hub and gathering space for all the country’s startups and entrepreneurs. The group, founded in 2014, helps members of its growing community to launch their business ideas and innovations. While its strength is in tech startups, it caters...

Two young Arab architects studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Design are working to address political and social issues in the Gulf region through a radical thought experiment in urban planning. Hamed Bukhamseen from Kuwait and Ali Karimi from Bahrain have conceived an alternate future for six underutilized islands in the Gulf, concocting an...

Farah Al-Nakib discusses Kuwait City's transformation from a small traditional town of mud brick courtyard houses into a modern city with marble-fronted buildings.

The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington hosted a book launch with Farah Al-Nakib, who presented her new release “Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life.” Al-Nakib is an assistant professor of history and the director of the Center for Gulf Studies at the American University of Kuwait. AGSIW Visiting Scholar Hala Aldosari...

Abolish 153 is an awareness campaign started by a small group of women in Kuwait to eradicate domestic violence in the country. The initiative’s main target is Article 153 of Kuwait’s penal code, which stipulates that a man who murders his wife (or daughter, sister, or mother) after catching her in an adulterous act can...

April 20 marked the end of the first oil workers’ strike in Kuwait since 1996. Some 7,000 workers (out of a workforce of around 13,000) walked off their jobs in Ahmadi, home of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) – a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation – to contest proposed amendments to public sector wages and...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis that encompasses environmental, economic, and political concerns related to the issue of water security.

Nuqat is a Kuwaiti, non-profit design initiative started in 2009 by Wakim Zeidan, Sara Al Nafisi, Hussa Al Humaidhi, and Dana Al Hilal. The founders run Nuqat while maintaining full-time jobs; Sarah and Hussa work in a design branding firm, Wakim works in advertising, and Dana works in public relations. Nuqat’s target audience is “everyone...