The Kuwait Cultural Centre is currently under construction on the Gulf Road and the video above is a guided tour of the construction site. The tour is 40 minutes long and in Arabic but you can skip through various sections of the video if you just want to get a rough idea on the current status of project. [YouTube]
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A lavish venue for their ancient tribal music with their tribal instruments. Seriously, hearing these guys blast their “music” from their cars wasn’t enough.
When a banana republic suddenly acquires treasure, it skips a step and ends up wealthy but having a ludicrous culture.
Anyway, the plus side is more jobs for expats (Indian subcontinent) for cleaning & maintaining. Wonder how the Kuwait government aims to reduce expats to one million to 2022. Quite the dilemma.
what a racist and uniformed comment, just because you don’t understand our music or culture dosn’t mean we don’t have one.
apparently you’re just jealouse and try to blame us for having “wealth and no culture” which is a ridiculous claim, seriously haow can you define culture?!
if you hate kuwait or khaleeji culture in general than just leave you’re not welcome in here anyway, not with that attitude…
jealous**
Jealous? Far from the truth. Kuwaitis assume that if they buy and use designer clothes and cars from Europe, then they have enriched their culture. Its so funny to see designer dress and ululation and tortured maids.
They forgot that once they lived in poverty. They had absolutely nothing. People who don’t have anything won’t give any focus to music and arts. They had to feed and cloth themselves. Saudi and Kuwait were full of tribes living like this (mostly).
So I don’t blame them for having some uncivilized music. The instruments (I have seen and heard) used are so prehistoric and unsophisticated.
Culture is not about clothes and automobiles. Its about morals,knowledge, customs and how all of that incorporates in your behavior and attitude.
Even when Kuwaitis had no money, Indians and Pakistanis used to treat them nicely and that is how people from culture rich countries behave. Now Kuwaitis treat them with racism. Tortured employees, separate driving laws for whites and browns. Forgot their poor history.
There is no need to find the poor past shameful. Trying to erase with extravagant buildings is needless. They should just change their behavior. won’t cost any money.
Most of Kuwaiti music isn’t related to tribes
Kuwaiti music is (mostly) from maritime activities, like pearl diving and seafaring
useful links:
https://brownbook.me/ya-bahr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aevmTZN4dBA
Kuwaiti music is nice https://www.qdl.qa/en/hidden-treasures-reflections-traditional-music-kuwait
Exactly. All Kuwaitis were peasants doing all sorts of menial jobs. When other cultures like China, India, Japan had palaces, theaters, bridges Kuwait had absolutely nothing. Hence they didn’t have the opportunity to evolve their instruments, music or culture.
The peasants suddenly got money and couldn’t respectively evolve their music,culture or attitude.
A banana republic that found treasure.
Kuwait had palaces, theatres and bridges. They were demolished when oil was discovered.
Just because you don’t understand Arabic and our culture doesn’t mean that we don’t have a developed culture.
Most Kuwaitis weren’t peasants, many Kuwaitis were merchants. Merchants have always been a big community in Kuwait, especially back in the old days
Kuwait had palaces, theatres and bridges. They were demolished when oil was discovered.
You don’t understand Kuwaiti language and our culture. Kuwaitis have a developed culture, you don’t understand it
Most Kuwaitis weren’t peasants. Merchants have always been a big community in Kuwait, especially back in the old days
I really do respect you opinion. However, as expected, you will receive not just replies, but bias replies. Firstly, some facts you stated are not exactly correct, but that isn’t what we are discussing here. Secondly, I believe you judged a whole population based on the number of citizens you have seen form this country, although it is wrong to generalize a whole population based on what was exemplified from a number of Kuwaiti’s. (Not all successful/wealthy Kuwaiti’s like to flash around their money, nor abuse the advantages or benefits that come along with it.) I also think this project was not created exclusively for cultural music, but to motivate our youth in such fields like these, were seem to come short in (compared to other fields). Lastly, we cannot miss the flaws this country has, but I do believe one step at a time (this project included) we could slowly improve the condition of this country.
Awesome! I’ve always wondered though about those lines on the buildings that form the titanium stars and whether they’re going to get dusty and unclean.