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Kuwait

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

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Kuwait

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  1. Kuwait

  2. Kuwait Location

  3. 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 382.76yd • Umm an Namil Island has an area of 382.76yd. It is located inside Kuwait bay. • Shuwaikh Island the island's name means former island. The area is 13.123yd. • Kubbar Island has an area of 120.30yd. • Qaruh island has an area of 38.276yd and is the furthest away from Kuwait. • Umm al Maradim Island with of an area of 710.85yd.

  4. 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 16th 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.

  5. History of Kuwait continued • During the late 1700’s the Ottoman Empire was part of Kuwait. • Oil was discovered in Kuwait in the late 1930s. • 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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.

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

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