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Kuwait

Kuwait Location

Kuwait’s Islands � Kuwait has 10 islands on the Persian golf. � Warbah Island is a island bordering Kuwait and Iraq Warbah island is 9. 3 miles long and 3. 1 � Bubiyan Island is the largest costal island Kuwait owns with an area of 333 sq. mile � Miskan Island has an area of about. 28 of a mile. � Failaka Island has an area of 7. 72 miles � Auhah Island at a area of 382. 76 yd � Umm an Namil Island has an area of 382. 76 yd. It is located inside Kuwait bay. � Shuwaikh Island the island's name means former island. The area is 13. 123 yd. � Kubbar Island has an area of 120. 30 yd. � Qaruh island has an area of 38. 276 yd and is the furthest away from Kuwait. � Umm al Maradim Island with of an area of 710. 85 yd.

History of Kuwait � Kuwait was started by the Bani Utbah tribe in 1709 � Bani Utbah was a name for many Arab tribes that came together and became one big federation in the early 16 th century. � The Bani Utbah first called Kuwait Guraine and their first town was called Kuwait meaning little fort. � From 1709 to 1760 Kuwait mostly made money by pearling making boats and fishing. � In the year 1760 however Kuwait started to trade with India and major ports on the Mediterranean Sea. � In 1775 many Basra's leading merchant families moved to Kuwait because of the Persian invasion. This made Kuwait's economy greatly increase.

History of Kuwait continued � During the late 1700’s the Ottoman Empire was part of Kuwait. � Oil was discovered in Kuwait in the late 1930 s. � On June 19 1961 Kuwait became independent fully separated from the British and United Kingdom. � In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. � the United States helped out in 1991 and The United States liberated Kuwait from Iraq after a three year war. � in 1994 Iraq agreed apron the UN approved border with Kuwait.

Presidential Election in Kuwait � A Kuwaiti citizen must live in Kuwait for 30 year to be able to vote. � Currently half of Kuwait is not permitted to vote. � Kuwaiti women were granted the privilege to vote in 2005 under. � Women gained further independence when in May 16, 2009 four women were elected for national assembly. � The Al Sabah family has been Kuwait's ruling class since � Mubarak branch is the ruling family of Kuwait the Amir must come from this family � Although the ruling class is aloud to vote many of the family choose not to.

Sheikhs of Kuwait 1. Sabah bin Jaber (1718 -1762) 2. Abdullah Sabah (1762 -1813) 3. Jaber bin Abdullah (1813 -1859) 4. Sabah bin Jaber (1859 -1866) 5. Abdullah bin Sabah (1866 -1892) 6. Mohammed bin Sabah (1892 -1896) 7. Mubarak al-Sabah (1896 -1915) 8. Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sadah (1915 -1917) 9. Salem al- Mubarak al-Sadah (1917 -1921) 10. Ahmad al Jaber al Sadah (1921 -1950) -----modern election 11. Adbullah al- Salem al-Sabah (1950 -1965) 12. Sabah al- Salem al-Sabah (1965 -1977) 13. Jaber al-Ahmed al Jaber al-Sabah (1977 -2006) 14. Saad al –Adbullah al-Salem al-Sadah (January 15, 2006 - January 29, 2006) 15. His Highness Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (2006 -current) sheikh: means elder the definition of sheik is an Arab leader of a family and or village Amir: means prince

Crime watch � Over a dozen people in Kuwait have been charged with insulting the emir this crime get a two to five year sentence. � A teacher was recently charged 11 years in jail over a tweet online. five years for publicly instigating a overthrow of government, five years more for insulting the emir, and one year for insulting the Islamic faith. � The police force have done hate crimes against transgender men that have changed their sex to female. They do not usually attack female since the crime of harassing a woman is vary sever. Any citizen of Kuwait imitating the opposite sex can serve up to one year in prison and pay a $3, 500 fine for their offence. � Dalia is transgender male that has been made female. She got a flat tire one afternoon in Kuwait and a police officer stopped to help out. He asked her for her drivers license and saw that on the license she was a male. The police officer arrested her and booked her for her offence of imitating the opposite sex. � Kuwait has done an execution on two Egyptian prisoners on live TV at 7: 30 a. m. on June 18, 2013. One of the Egyptians was charges with rape and the other with murder charges.

Sources � http: //www. hrw. org/middle-eastn-africa/kuwait � http: //www. da. gov. kw/eng/index. php � http: //www. historyofnations. net/asia/kuwait. html