Life in Kuwait for 20 Years
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Nobody ever heard much about Kuwait here until the Gulf War. It is a very small country between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, across the Persian Gulf from Iran. It has almost no fresh water, so no one lived there until a few hundred years ago when they started bringing water from Iraq by ship. Now they have enough money from their huge reservoirs of oil that was discovered in the 1930s and exploited by the British (with some American help now and then) to desalinate the sea water for their own use. Thirty years ago when I arrived, Kuwait University (where I taught) was the only university in the country; now there are several more. Still only half of the population is Kuwaiti; the rest are foreign workers, mostly laborers. There will be a talk along with slides of the country and the people. Questions and discussion are encouraged.
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