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The Cradle of Arabic Sawt Music: The early musician generations in Kuwait
Who were the founders of traditional ṣawt music and why did their musical journey start in Kuwait?
The Cradle of Arabic Sawt Music: The early musician generations in Kuwait
Historical Profile: Kuwait
An overview of the key moments from the history of interaction between the British and Kuwait, as illustrated through the India Office Records.
Historical Profile: Kuwait
Finding Aid: IOR/R/15/5 Political Agency, Kuwait (1904-1949)
An overview of the records created by the UK’s Political Agency at Kuwait between 1904 and 1949, and an examination of some of the subjects covered.
Finding Aid: IOR/R/15/5 Political Agency, Kuwait (1904-1949)
Interlocking Patterns Meet Arabic Poetry: musical genres in the Upper Gulf region
The people of the upper Gulf coast have created a rich and multifaceted musical culture. Unfortunately, these musical genres are hardly known outside this region and there is a risk that some of this heritage will be lost forever.
Interlocking Patterns Meet Arabic Poetry: musical genres in the Upper Gulf region
Kuwait’s Majlis Movement: National and regional developments brought into focus, 1938
The movement for political reform in Kuwait in 1938 signified change in the region and highlights the country’s – and Britain’s – response to the ideas and forces that delivered it.
Kuwait’s Majlis Movement: National and regional developments brought into focus, 1938
Sketching Empire: The scrapbooks of civil servant and artist Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis
The scrapbooks of Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis reveal the eye of an artist within the life of a nineteenth-century administrator.
Sketching Empire: The scrapbooks of civil servant and artist Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis
‘Calls himself an Englishman’: The shifting loyalties of Harry Philby
How the anti-British sentiments of a British adviser assisted the foundation of Saudi Arabia.
‘Calls himself an Englishman’: The shifting loyalties of Harry Philby
Shaikh Ahmad goes to England: The Politics of Official State Visits
Despite inauspicious beginnings, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ’s official visit to England in 1919 proved a success.
Shaikh Ahmad goes to England: The Politics of Official State Visits
The Kuwait Cat’s Meat Crisis
The arrest of a British Subject on spurious charges makes plain Britain’s dominant position in Kuwait in the late 1930s.
The Kuwait Cat’s Meat Crisis
Kuwait, Carnegie, and Terrestrial Magnetic Observations
How geophysicists working in the Gulf were able to contribute in the 1930s to the scientific community’s understanding of the earth’s magnetic field.
Kuwait, Carnegie, and Terrestrial Magnetic Observations
A Rich Culture Expressed in Music: musical instruments in the Upper Gulf region
The music of the upper Gulf region is well known for its intricate rhythms, hand-clapping and sung poetry. In addition to this, its musical instruments have evolved or been incorporated into various genres.
A Rich Culture Expressed in Music: musical instruments in the Upper Gulf region
Hidden Treasures: Reflections on traditional music in Kuwait
Kuwait has maintained a thriving traditional music culture; in particular bahri, or sea music, and ṣawt have remained at the heart of the music scene.
Hidden Treasures: Reflections on traditional music in Kuwait