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Street Games Kuwaiti Children Played
Hila, darbaha, maqsa, anbar and the Eid swing. What each one needed, and the rules the players made up themselves.
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Getting Around Old Kuwait: Donkeys, Camels, Carts and the First Cars
People walked, hired a mule to move goods, and rode out to the desert on a caravan. Then bicycles arrived from India, and pickups began calling for passengers in the street.
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Shuwaikh Beach: The City’s Open Ground
Before the seawalls and the port, families walked or rode out on a Thursday, spread mats on the sand and stayed until sunset.
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The Kuwaiti Diwaniya: A Room That Works Like an Institution
Before newspapers and before feeds, this was where news travelled and disagreements were settled. The coffee rules, the political turns, and what it has become now.
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The Daraa and the Bukhnaq: How Kuwaiti Women Dressed
A long loose gown cut by hand from cloth chosen in the souk or in India, and a girl's headscarf edged with fine gold thread. What each one signalled, and when it was worn.
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The Kuwaiti Mud House: Walls Built for the Climate
Sun-dried brick, palm-trunk roofs and teak doors from India, arranged around a courtyard. How it was made and why it kept the heat out.
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The Old Freej of Kuwait: When an Address Was a Corner
No street names and no numbers — you said the name of the quarter and the mosque beside it. What each one held, which are still named today, and what the arrangement taught.
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The Three Walls of Kuwait: What Each One Was Built Against
Around 1760, 1814, and the last raised in days in 1920 — six kilometres, five gates and twenty-six towers. And the gate names that became districts.
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The Nakhodas: Who Commanded a Pearling Ship, and What They Had to Know
A crew of forty to sixty, a summer season called the great dive, and a captain who read the wind, the currents and the location of the beds.
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The Old Souks of Kuwait: The City’s Working Heart
Mubarakiya, the gold row, the money changers, Wajif and the fish market. What each one sold, and which names survive only in memory.
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Kuwait: A Story That Began at the Sea
From a caravan stop and a few fishermen's huts to a port on the Gulf. Where the name comes from, why 1752 matters, and what trade built before oil.