One of my favorite things to do while growing up in Kuwait was going to the Kuwait International Book Fair. I loved walking through the aisles and aisles of mostly Arabic and some English books while having ice-cream. Since this year’s book fair is opening its doors today (Wednesday the 19th), I thought it would be fit to write about books in Kuwait.
Kuwait was the first Gulf country to hold a book fair with the first being held back in 1975. It was a platform for readers, writers, bookstore owners and publishers to connect with each other directly. Whats sad is that although other Gulf countries only recently started holding book fairs, they have already surpassed Kuwait’s book fairs with their activities and list of international writers and affiliates.
Yes people do read here even though the attention span of an average human being is probably 3 minutes thanks to social media but I am still a strong believer that anyone can get into a book if they chose a book based on their interest. With all of that said, censorship is an issue, its my issue, its your issue, its our issue! Working at q8bookstore with publishers, schools and writers has brought up the subject quite a bit, and although there may be some grounds on why censoring certain books is necessary when it comes to children, the books censored in Kuwait have often if not always not made sense in my humble opinion (I am trying to be diplomatic). Historical atlases of Kuwait and books with hocus pocus and three little pigs for example make it to the list of banned books in schools! Some of Orhan Pamuk, Haruki Murakami and motion picture books (which btw get played in the theaters) also are examples that make it to the list of banned books in bookstores!
Don’t we as citizens have freedom of speech? Shouldn’t we be able read and write what we want? The Kuwaiti constitution mentions in article 36 and 37 the freedom of research, right to publish, conduct research and so on (wont bore you here with tough legal words, that lawyers invented). But seriously who decides whats to be censored and how is it done legally? Well a lot of the information is not available to the general public but with dedicated work, Sout Al Kuwait; a non-profit organization that aims to protect personal freedoms and other constitutional rights have published a booklet on censorship in Kuwait. Here are some interesting points:
– For a local book to be sold in Kuwait it has to go through the Ministry of Information, if there is some doubt on the content of the book, it is transferred to a committee. The committee is supposed to meet once a week but according to Sout Alkuwait when they visited them in April of 2010, they had not met for 3 months and had 120 books pending (surprise, surprise)
– In the 2009 International Book Fair, 25% of the banned books were fiction (get ready for the sad part), 11% poetry and 10% scientific journals
– 24 social organization have signed a petition to review censorship in Kuwait, hopefully this time with avail
Although Mark and I will give you the freedom of speech to post as you wish under here (maybe we can have a religious debate, or lets talk about how mark isn’t Kuwaiti?), either way, I would love to hear about your thoughts and stories on censorship in Kuwait.
Post by Fajer Ahmed – Legal Counsel
The legal opinions expressed in this post are those of the author Fajer. Opinions expressed by Mark or any other writer on mark248am1.wpenginepowered.com are those of the individual’s and in no way reflect Fajer’s opinion.
68 replies on “Censorship of books in Kuwait”
Well I’ve never read a censored book, which should have censored based on your post. But then again, the last time I bought a book in kuwait was a long time ago…
The censorship that annoys me is in the movies, just stop underage people from BUYING the tickets.
What annoys about movie censorship in Kuwait is that they don’t just censor nude/sex scenes, But they even censor innocent kisses. Which really pisses me off. I don’t think this should be censored at all. If you check movies runtime in Kuwait, there is usually like 10 mins or more removed.
Stop exaggerating. 10 minutes removed isn’t usual
1hr 30 mins were removed from The Wolf of Wall Street.
Most movies in Kuwait don’t have 10 minutes cut off, stop exaggerating dude.
Most of the time, the censorship in movies is minor. Minor as in LESS than 10 minutes removed.
1 hour and 30 minutes from removed The Wolf of Wall Street in MOST Gulf countries
Most movies in Kuwait don’t have 10 minutes cut off
10 minutes is not usual
Check the movies runtime for all movies since 2000, USUALLY they remove 1 minute
50 mins were removed from the same movie in Dubai. Dubai claim that they’ve received an “edited” and already censored version.
Theres been a LOT more than 10 minutes removed from some movies – not an exaggeration at all.
It’s an exaggeration, MOST movies don’t have 10 minutes removed
Look at the movie runtime of MOST movies since 2001, usually they remove 1 minute
that’s the average
a minority of movies have 10 minutes or more removed, not the MAJORITY of movies
Well I’ve never read a censored book, which should have censored based on your post. But then again, the last time I bought a book in kuwait was a long time ago…
The censorship that annoys me is in the movies, just stop underage people from BUYING the tickets and show it to the targeted audience.
Didn’t think the first one would get posted :p
@Nixon,
“The censorship that annoys me is in the movies, just stop underage people from BUYING the tickets and show it to the targeted audience.”
In 1986, I was in kindergarten and I remember seeing some of my friends showing pages of playboy magazines.
Today, my 3.5 years old daughter knows her way around the iPad and goes to youtube where she somehow always find the videos that she like and explore even more views she like. She also calls me on skype whenever she pleases.
If four years old kids in 1986 were exposed to porn, and 2014 four years old have access to the internet… then I really REALLY doubt that there is anything in this world that a 12 years old have not yet seen.
The whole cinema censorship thing is hypocrite. Its only implemented because of people like this one…
https://instagram.com/p/q5ITCsPHlb
though you’ll need someone to translate for you ;/
I speak Arabic lol
But I can’t watch the vid now
True, u bring up some good points, but what’s the point of age ratings? Even though kids saw censored stuff why keep showing them more of it in the movies, just ban them.
This is an issue, that I think, we should just need to copy other countries in handling it.
Fajer, what are the store timings?
Nevermind, just found it on your instagram.
The booklet link is not working
its working just strangely, i was only able to download the pdf using speed download, i couldn’t download it but just right clicking and saving as.
Aha, just downloaded it thanks
just in case someone else is having a problem, this is the link:
https://soutalkuwait.com/booklets/censorshipbook-web.pdf
Kindle app, buy any digital book. Or hell pirate it if you need to. I stopped buying physical books long time ago. Not because of money issues, but because my smartphone or tablet is always next to my hand and I can continue where I left off, search etc..
It is the content of the book that is important not the physical aspect of it. Reading is good, people should read more.
I can have thousands of books in my phone/tablet and I can travel and have all my books with me instead of carrying bags of books that can wrinkle and get old. And also a waste of space. Same with music, I stopped buying physical discs long time ago. It’s all digital now.
What he said =p
Books in Kuwait are ridiculously overpriced too.
And if your gonna take the Amazon route, if the book is not banned, customs officials will be sure to damage the books anyway or their favorite cut into them with their box cutters. All in the name of national security of course.
Proud of a Kindle, the answer to abusive custom officials and non regulated censorship.
I love my Kindle. It solves all these problems of not being to find a certain book in Kuwait.
“Don’t we as citizens have freedom of speech? Shouldn’t we be able read and write what we want? ”
We forfeited our right when we decided that our priorities are to wear Rolex and Audemars Piguet watches, Cartier and Chopard jewelery, study anywhere and get any degree to acquire any morning government job and have any side project in the evening.
We valued ourselves with the dinar, we got the dinar… and lost everything else.
When there is no more dinars left, we’ll look around for anything to value about ourselves… all what we’ll have is our dignity, and that will slowly go away (based on observation from neighboring countries that were doing far much better than us some 50 years ago and look at them now).
Some Quranic verses about that.
[4:134] Anyone who seeks the materials of this world should know that GOD possesses both the materials of this world and the Hereafter. GOD is Hearer, Seer.
[7:169] Subsequent to them, He substituted new generations who inherited the scripture. But they opted for the worldly life instead, saying, “We will be forgiven.” But then they continued to opt for the materials of this world. Did they not make a covenant to uphold the scripture, and not to say about GOD except the truth? Did they not study the scripture? Certainly, the abode of the Hereafter is far better for those who maintain righteousness. Do you not understand?
[9:69] Some of those before you were stronger than you, and possessed more money and children. They became preoccupied with their material possessions. Similarly, you have become preoccupied with your material possessions, just like those before you have become preoccupied. You have become totally heedless, just as they were heedless. Such are the people who nullify their works, both in this world and in the Hereafter; they are the losers.
[11:15] Those who pursue this worldly life and its material vanities, we will pay them for their works in this life; without the least reduction.
[11:116] If only some of those among the previous generations possessed enough intelligence to forbid evil! Only a few of them deserved to be saved by us. As for the transgressors, they were preoccupied with their material luxuries; they were guilty.
[28:60] Everything that is given to you is only the material of this life, and its vanity. What is with GOD is far better, and everlasting. Do you not understand?
[38:32] He then said, “I enjoyed the material things more than I enjoyed worshiping my Lord, until the sun was gone.*
[42:20] Whoever seeks the rewards of the Hereafter, we multiply the rewards for him. And whoever seeks the materials of this world, we give him therefrom, then he receives no share in the Hereafter.
[42:36] Whatever you are given is no more than temporary material of this life. What GOD possesses is far better and everlasting, for those who believe and trust in their Lord.
[43:32] Are they the ones who assign your Lord’s mercy? We have assigned their shares in this life, raising some of them above others in ranks, in order to let them serve one another. The mercy from your Lord is far better than any material they may hoard.
[43:35] Also many ornaments. All these are the temporary materials of this lowly life. The Hereafter-at your Lord -is far better for the righteous.
[100:6] The human being is unappreciative of his Lord.
[100:7] He bears witness to this fact.
[100:8] He loves material things excessively.
What the ….????
Btw, there is a huge giveaway of who you are. Nice try though. Please leave me out of your agenda… I have nothing for you or anyone else 😉
Mark, please approve this message. Thanks.
What agenda. I have no agenda. This all from the Quran talking about material things. Which you say is a problem in today’s society.
3azeez, you’re right.
Right about what?
@Ahmed, nothing concerns you ;/
well put
What really is annoying is that at this time everything is online. You can easily download a book or a movie. It just seems stupid that the censorship doesn’t realize that or maybe they just choose to ignore it.
No one has a right to tell me what I should and shouldn’t read. I am not a child, i decide on my own what is and isnt appropriate. Add Censorship to a list a things i believe to be gotten rid of.
is it only arabic books or will there be english books too, and what booklet link was M2 talking about. Would love to go and check if there are english books available.
Alot of english books are banned. Depending on the topic.
I would argue that most banned books are Arabic.
You know why?
‘Cuz most publishers are Arabic!
Genius… no?
English books are banned from entering Kuwait in the first place.
No they’re not
stop trolling
I think the idea of censorship that the government do its wrong. its not related to book or movies only. its in everything.
its like we people dont know what is right and what is wrong for us. we should decide not them.
They dont have the right do decide this good for you and this not.
each person should have the right to do whatever he want. but there should be boundaries, the government can put this boundaries not harm other peoples.
for example. you can buy a play book from library (only if you are 18+) and (you cant read this book in public) but you can read it at your home. cause some people wont like to see a person sitting beside him reading a playboy book or it might be kids around.
government should put boundaries but not decide for us.
Government censorship is in place to please the conservative segment of the society, who are the majority of the people, and who keep electing conservative parliaments.
PS: to the dude who posts statistics about how Kuwait is not conservative compared to other Gulf countries, spare me.
The government is revoking the citizenship of the conservatives (bedouins and Islamists), the government does not care about the conservatives. There is no pleasing to be done. Some Islamists are stateless right now because the government recently revoked their citizenship
You’re fooling yourself if you believe that the Kuwaiti government cares about the conservative segment of society, especially after the government recently revoked the citizenship of many prominent bediouns/Islamists (conservatives) – they are stateless right now
Also, if you know anything about Kuwait’s history you will realize that this censorship didn’t exist in Kuwait in the 1960s and 1970s and Kuwait was more democratic in the 1960s and 1970s than right now. Kuwait was very liberal in the 1960s and 1970s, most Kuwaiti women didn’t wear the hijab and the country had a liberal parliament. The Islamist revival is a trend, Islamists have dominated the parliaments of most Arab & Muslim countries since the 1980s, this doesn’t mean most Arabs and most Muslims are ultra conservative. Before the discovery of oil, Kuwaitis were more open and more tolerant than they are now. Islamism is the dominant rhetoric in the Arab world, the same way liberal Arab nationalism was dominant in the 1960s and 1970s. Most Kuwaiti women didn’t wear the hijab in the 1960s and 1970s. This is because Arab nationalism dominated the Arab world. Kuwaiti society is vulnerable to regional changes, we are not immune to Islamism. But you should remember that Kuwaitis were more open and more liberal in the 1960s and 1970s than right now. The censorship issue isn’t conservatism, it’s Islamism.
It’s unfortunate that censorship of books mostly impacts Arabic readers and hurts Arab authors. If an English book is banned (which is less likely to happen than Arabic books), it’s easy to legally obtain a copy of the book electronically through Kindle, iBooks, or many other legal e-book services. However, when an Arabic book is banned, the most common way for readers to access the book is through pirated PDF copies. Thus the author loses income and control on his intellectual property.
Arab publishers have been slow to adopt technology and get on the e-book bandwagon. Meanwhile, our governments continue to foolishly think they can control and indoctrinate us by control what we read and how we think. I visited the Kuwait International Book Fair for the first time last year and sampled the type of books which had the biggest sales crowds. I found some books by local and regional authors which were shockingly sexually explicit but were approved and being sold in the fair. Their authors were there proudly singing copies too. Meanwhile, incredibly useful books such as Mohammed Al Yousifi’s three-part history of Kuwait were banned. After the fair I ordered Al Yousefi’s book online from neelwafurat.com and it arrived in Kuwait without being held for censorship!
There’s two simple problems with censorship.
1. Who is or are the individuals who created the censorship? By what authority are they concluding that something should be censored? For example, let’s say it’s based on religious sources. The problem with that is many times with those types of sources a lot of things can be up to interpretation, that’s why Sharia law is different among Arab countries. I feel that when something can be left up to interpretation, it creates many issues with acceptance of it, because it may not align with people depending on tons of factors, and that is why unfortunately it’s not always the best choice to be used for censorship laws.
2. Censorship assumes that censorship is required. As an adult, why is it required for you to cut something out of a movie that I may or may not find suitable? For example, a kiss is cut from a movie. I’m a married adult male who kisses my wife, why is it required to remove these images from movies? If you are going to use the children argument, you’re opening up a whole new set of issues known as the “think of the children” fallacy. The answer simply to this issue is to establish a system similar to the United States and other countries where there are restrictions to enter to watch the movie. This keeps the children safe from viewing explicit imagery and lets me as an adult watch the movie that I want to watch without cuts.
The funny thing about censorship is that not even the biggest countries in the world agree on it. In the United States, showing women’s breasts is taboo, but a movie can be full of violence, blood and gore and it will only get a 17 rating. In Germany on the other hand, women’s breasts can be seen even on national television with no censorship, but if a movie has excessive blood and gore it will get an adult rating.
I don’t have the capacity to say what is right or wrong censorship at a governmental level because there are tons and tons of factors that go into it, but my position is, let me make my own decisions as to what I want to watch and see, don’t make it for me. And I’m leaning more towards Germany’s style of censorship, where violent images can be more harmful or damaging to adults/children compared to sexual images. I mean, we’re living in the world where celebrities get naked with the intent on “breaking the Internet” and who got famous for being in a sex tape, but we bring them to the Kuwait to open a milkshake store, and yet, they still put black marker on magazines like Shape just for showing a bit of skin?
People in the western hemisphere seem to live a more prosperous life because they have the freedom to do or say or think what they want (as long as it is not physically hurting someone). They have become more patient, more tolerant and more accepting.
That’s something to think about!
There are plenty of banned booked in the Western Hemisphere.
Hey fajer, I have a question.
do these same laws apply to Movies and Tv shows ?
as I understand there are laws for books “قانون المطبوعات”
and other laws for TV and movies “المرئي و المسموع”
how are they different? or they practically the same
I decide myself what I want to say, what I want to read, hear or what I should or shouldn’t believe.
I’m an adult and free to make my own decisions in life and won’t make concessions in this regard.
Censorship is a way of suppression. The thought that another person can decide to limit my personal choice about what I can or can’t read or watch, seems horror to me.
Of course I’ll never accept that. I will never live as a slave of social and moral ‘values’.
For anyone who disapproves my atheist way of life, well, it’s your right.
Feel free to name me whatever you want. Kafir or whatever, I don’t mind.
It’s part of freedom of speech and expression. Your right, so to speak.
Same as I have mine.
I thought this blog isn’t supposed to talk about political issues? Book censorship is a political issue.
The book censorship doesn’t make sense because several books at the Kuwait International Fair are shockingly sexually explicit whereas some banned books are scientific journals about food chemicals!
Authorities who dictate what to censor are made up of people who decide for us what we should read and watch and what we should not. That is not fair. Movie censorship does not annoy me as much as book/scientific journals censorships, as this is where we get most of our knowledge and information from. Withholding that information from us is somewhat scary because as its been iterated already, they are making a choice FOR us.
Every time a book or movie is banned I try to find out why, and sometimes the reasons just don’t make any sense to me. The best movies are always banned, HER, Dracula Untold, Gone girls etc..(why would they ban HER?)
Knowing that there are authorities who have the power to do this is, again, scary. I am all for self-censorship, the freedom to choose for ourselves what we want to see/read.
The last time I went to the movies in Kuwait was to watch Avatar. I thought surely, nothing to be censored when the characters are some weird made-up alien figures. I was wrong! That brief 2-second kissing scene between the avatars was wiped out.. Mental.
As for books, I’ve been able to order all sorts of books from Amazon.. Even got Rushdie’s Satanic Verses intact and unharmed.. So can’t complain about that.
The censorship in Kuwait is very random and illogical
No amount of logic can justify the censorship
They banned harmless scientific journals about chemistry
YET
they allow sexually explicit books to sell at the Kuwait Book Fair
Many books at the book fair are sexually explicit, yet they’re not banned.. at the same time, harmless scientific journals get banned
Oh, and why is vox.com blocked in Kuwait?
You must realise that the governments of Kuwait or Saudi Arabia all hear you and would love to remove all the restrictions like censorship/women driving/women’s wear but the governments will be attacked by the opposition for anything and everything.I remember a Saudi prince telling in a documentary. Change can come only slowly once people are willing to accept that and be broadminded. Comments on this forum indicate that many people are willing to relax the censorship rules. However we are only on the internet. It will take time, a long time maybe like after one generation when everybody agrees this is silly and has enough MPs in parliament supporting their ideas and bringing in laws to change. This is part of life and something not highlighted. It is true Kuwait was much more modern and liberal in the 60s and 70s and that change to a conservative society was gradual. Similarly changing back again will take time and will depend on if the majority of people want to change. We are getting the will to change because we have social media and we get everything on kindle and the internet and we realise that we are losing out on choice and then we slowly collectively move towards that goal. It could turn the other way where we all decide yes we do need censorship.
That’s just a silly attempt at trying to justify dictatorships and autocracies. Change comes from within the government. Turkey became secular due to government-mandated secularization. The Kuwaiti government is responsible for Kuwaiti society’s Islamization because Kuwait’s government began Islamizing Kuwait in the 1980s. At that time, the most serious threat to the monarchy came from home-grown secular democrats. As a result, Kuwait’s rulers began persistently Islamizing Kuwaiti society by giving the Islamists total control of several state agencies, such as the Ministry of Education. The Islamists were able to colonize many ministries. The Kuwaiti government gerrymandered electoral districts in the 1980s to over-represent the Islamists. Consequently, the Kuwaiti parliaments in the 1980s were dominated by Islamists. Even though Kuwaiti society only became predominantly Islamist after 1990, most Kuwaiti women didn’t wear the hijab up until 1990. After the Gulf War, everything changed and the Islamists became the majority in society.
The Kuwaiti government is responsible for the Islamist monster it created. There is no point in whitewashing the government’s actions.
Right now, the Islamists have turned against the government so the government is revoking the citizenship of several famous opposition members.
Funny book I found at That el Salasel Airport, The Wolf of Wallstreet with the movie poster as a cover, and you can imagine the rate of cursing and profanity per page 😀
I have very recently visited the press censorship department in the Ministry of Information because to ask about the fate of my book which was submitted to them about 2 weeks ago. It is a small department with about 6 or 7 employees who are responsible for reading the books and determining if they are to be approved or should be submitted to the second committee.
The place was a mess! Piles of books here and there, some in boxes, some on the offices floors. When I asked the manager there about how they manage to process all these books she said that it is a very hard work and sometimes they have to take some books home with them in order to finish reading them. She also said that the work load exponentially multiplies before the book fair.
That’s not the big deal. I havent met all the employees in the department and I don’t know about their qualifications. But some of them are really young! I don’t want to be judgmental but how would a freshly graduated 20 something girl decide if a book written by, let’s say, some professor with 20 years or so experience is valid for publishing or not! It was shocking to me to put faces on the people who control what I can and can not say in this country!
I gave up on buying books from Kuwait a long time ago. Instead i used to order from Amazon. Then the Kindle was available and it was an ANSWERED PRAYER. No more physical copies for me !
Wowie! What a huge leap of faith to get a conversation started, living in Kuwait that is clearly detached from burgers or getting fat and well; actually, dwells on books or the lack of interest in them, anyway. Censorship or no censorship books will always play second fiddle to pinkberry
and macchiato as popular pastimes in Kuwait.
Seriously, I am not having a laugh here but do they censor Gray’s anatomy text for medical students in Kuwait because it contains explicit illustrations of a sexual content or just the relevant chapters on the Male and Female genital systems receive the black ink treatment?
No, they do not censor anatomy text for medical students in Kuwait. The relevant chapters of male/female genital systems are not censored.
I’m still not sure if you’re being serious or not
@getting Kinokuniya….I will have you know that bird watching, sexual harassment in a public space and juvenile delinquency (in no particular order) are national pastimes here displacing junking on fast food to a distant fourth or fifth column 🙂
In an ideal world it’s not just about books, film and music- in a wider context, there ought to be lifting of censorship of thought itself.
thank God for the paper white kindle! It’s pointing a finger at “the they don’t really care about us,” posturing of you know who.
I dont believe in Censorship, if i buy something i deserve to get it uncensored.
If its censored it means i am ripped off of my right.
If i am old enough to read it, then it shouldn’t be censored.
Keep religion and state segregated, in kuwait as a kuwaiti, we have enough problems with sunni and shia clash, and Islamic radicals such as ISIS.
This is kuwait, and i believe just focus on what the country wants for its people.
First of all, the censorship has NOTHING to do with Islamic Law
Kuwait does not follow Islamic Law. Most of Kuwait’s laws are secular
Many people in this site don’t seem to understand what Islmaic Law is
In Islamic Law, all women MUST wear the hijab. Flogging and stoning are legal necessary punishments in Islamic Law. Here is Islamic Law:
– Islamic dress code for everyone – mandatory hijab
– Flogging is punishment for alcohol consumption, adultery, pre-marital sex, other forms of illicit sexual relations, drug use, theft
– Stoning is punishment for adultery and other forms of illicit sexual relations
– Amputation is punishment for theft and various other ‘crimes’
– Islamic Law governs the commercial law, interest is ILLEGAL and you have to pay jiziya
– Kuwait’s commercial law is secular, Kuwait does not have an Islamic Law based commercial law
– In Islamic Law, ALL women need their husbands/sons permission to drive, work, travel, study, etc. and ALL women need a male guardian (usually their husband or son)
– In Islamic Law, music is strictly forbidden
– Apostasy is punishable by the death penalty
– Homosexuality is punishable by the death penalty
According to the United Nations, Kuwait’s legal system is derived from many sources of law, the United Nations say Kuwait’s legal system is a mixture of British Common Law, French Civil Law, Islamic Law and Egyptian Civil Code. British Common Law + French Civil Law and Egyptian Civil Code are secular… Islamic Law is only ONE of Kuwait’s sources of law
Kuwait’s legal system is based on the civil law system. The civil law system is secular in nature
Unlike other Gulf states, Kuwait does NOT have Sharia courts. Kuwait has a secular court system. In Kuwait, the secular civil courts handle the Sharia-based personal status law
The UAE and Qatar have more Islamic Laws than Kuwait. Amputation, death by stoning and flogging are legal punishments in the UAE and Qatar. Homosexuality in the UAE and Qatar is punishable by the death penalty, homosexuality in Kuwait is not punishable by the death penalty. Apostasy is punishable by death penalty in the UAE and Qatar, apostasy in Kuwait isn’t punishable by the death penalty.
UAE has Sharia courts. Kuwait does not have Sharia courts. As previously mentioned, the court system in Kuwait is secular https://www.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/kuwait/resources/factsAndFigures/factskuwait.aspx
It is true that Kuwait has relatively secular laws but was are slowly becoming more conservative. You can see if you go through the earlier news papers that the current opposition(Islamists) came nearly close to implementing Sharia just a few years back and nearly changed the constitution but this was rejected at the last stage by the Amir as his excellency said that we are already considering Islamic law in our constitution. We would have had this change and that parliament was voted to power by the people. So if people’s opinions have changed, they should choose who they vote for and talk to their MPs what are their principles and tell them if you don’t agree with their policies. If you don’t make your voice heard to your MP, your MPs will not know what their constituency likes and will try to generate some random ideas that they have. Your ideas will not get reflected in updates to the constitution and what you want for Kuwait.
Good evening sir/madam.
I m a employee in private company just i want to known.According to Kuwait labour law . Private companies having any athourity to ask my debit card and pin number.
no they don’t have a right to your pin number
Censorship on books aside what we truly need to see more of is a censorship on fast food, visa trading, wasta and rampant abuse of maids and the blue collared in Kuwait.