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Bidon Waraq: How a Kuwaiti media start-up recreates the ‘diwaniya’ for the digital age

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By Yousef Alshammari
| Middle East Eye Verified
Most media companies have a fast-paced office area and a vibrant studio; a space for operations and the other for production. Nestled in Kuwait City's old Qibla neighbourhood, Sard Group's headquarters, the company behind Bidon Waraq (Unscripted), one of the Gulf Arab region's leading podcasts, similarly hosts offices and a dedicated studio,  with one extra distinction: the diwaniya. Historically, the Kuwaiti diwaniya is a social saloon where people discuss the ins and outs of life around them.
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What Ever Happened to Fayeq Abdul Jaleel?

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By Yousef Alshammari
| GQ Middle East Verified
By 1 august 1990, Iraqi troops stood more than 100,000-strong, nervously waiting outside of Kuwait’s northern borders. At 2am the following morning, the first wave of the invasion began. Iraq’s general Army, largely amassed by laymen civilians – some conscripted, some volunteers, some forced into service – were tasked with flooding Kuwait’s streets, overwhelming police precincts, and disrupting the country’s regular flow of life.
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Who truly belongs? The story of how Kuwait's citizenship crackdown is affecting thousands across the nation

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By Yousef Alshammari, Yousra Samir Imran, Sarah Khalil
| The New Arab Verified
In recent weeks, shockwaves have rippled across Kuwait following the government's decision to revoke citizenship as part of a campaign to 'clean up' the nationality register, triggering a wave of denaturalisations since early 2024 and impacting an increasing number of figures long regarded as integral to the country's public life. At present, tens of thousands of people have been impacted, with the total number of individuals stripped of their citizenship now exceeding 35,000.
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