Anyone know when this documentary on Al Jazeera will be showing or if they’ve already shown it. The subject seems very interesting since its about reuniting class mates years after the 1990 Iraqi invasion. In 1990 I graduated from Sunshine School which ceased to exist right after the Iraqi invasion (later it became BSK). I never ended up seeing anyone ever again but with the help of the Sunshine School Facebook group I was able to get in touch with some of them again. [YouTube]
Update: Taken from the Al Jazeera website
On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded the emirate of Kuwait, which Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, had declared Iraq’s 19th province.
The occupation of Kuwait may have only lasted seven months, yet the memory of it remains strong, not least in the minds of the children of that conflict.
At the end of the school year of 1990, students in an international school in Kuwait said their final farewells as they headed off for the summer holidays. Many of them would never meet again.
Al Jazeera’s Nashwa Nasreldin was one of those whose family was forced to relocate following the invasion.
Twenty years on, she returns to Kuwait, the country of her birth, along with a group of her classmates as they organise a reunion to find out what happened to their friends – and their school – during the war that separated them.
Kuwait: The class of 1990 can be seen from Monday, August 2, 2010 at the following times GMT: Monday: 1900; Tuesday: 0600; Wednesday: 0300; Thursday: 1400; Friday: 0600; Saturday: 1900; Sunday: 0300.
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(later is became BSK)
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In similar story I hadn’t seen anyone I was at school with in Kuwait in 1990 (NES) until this year thanks to facebook.
Hahaha! Good old NES! I went to the school before and after the invasion and recognized 2 people who appeared in this clip! I still stay in touch with NES friends!
That is amazing! Facebook is doing wonders by reuniting people!
That’s interesting. I should check if there’s any group for GES folks. I was in Senior 2 when the war happened.
In 1990, during my last year I was Junior 4 and Sunshine School only had till Junior 4 (no higher classes) so we used to get invited to other schools to check out so we can register with them for our senior years. One of those schools was GES and the reason I remember my trip to GES over the other schools because they gave us pizza at the end š
Hi, i was at Sunshine school, in 1990 before the invasion, trying to get in touch with people, Samuel ( tap Dancer) John Olive who i think went to Boston.
Yeah, that reminds me that you could buy pizza for lunch. I think it was from Pizza Italia (not sure) and you could buy a slice for around 200 fils. I usually went for the peperoni slices.
I think the documentary will air on the 02August.Not sure what time.
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here you go… with the times n everything. https://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/2010/07/201072914823158361.html
Hi .. FYI
Kuwait: The class of 1990 can be seen from Monday, August 2, 2010 at the following times GMT: Monday: 1900; Tuesday: 0600; Wednesday: 0300; Thursday: 1400; Friday: 0600; Saturday: 1900; Sunday: 0300.
https://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/2010/07/201072914823158361.html
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thanks guys!
thanks for the heads up, mark. will def be tuning in!
Great documentary. I was in Kuwait during the invasion, from day 1 till its liberation. I was 6 years old, but I do remember a lot of things, the 2 Iraqi soldiers that I saw when I briefly peeked through the blinds and shutting them in horror afterwords. Our protest march in the streets. Bombings and gunfire. Going to see my dad before he was sent to |Iraq where he went through hell for helping foreigners escape the country, and seeing him again after 7 months, and much much more. I remember them as if they just happened yesterday. It’s almost impossible to forget an experience like this.