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A New Look at Kuwait

Front of Dust Jacket





The Position of Kuwait

Zahra Freeth:
Born in India in 1925, Zahra Freeth spent her childhood in Kuwait where her father, H.R.P Dickson (died 1959) , was Political Agent. Although she learned to speak Arabic and she inherited from both her parents (Violet her mother died (1991)) knowledge and love of Arabs. She has previously written two books on Kuwait was my home (Published 1956) and Kuwait: prospect and reality with Victor Winstone (Published 1972), and one on Guyana, Run softly, Demerara (Published 1960), based on the four years she spent three with her husband. Zahra Freeth has two children and now lives in Essex in UK.

Aerial view of Kuwait, 1968





Naif Gate, 1947

Jahra Gate, 1969






Seif Place

A New Look at Kuwait:
In Kuwait: prospect and reality Zahra Freeth collaborated with Victor Winstone to produce a comprehensive history of Kuwait. In this present book she returns to more personal theme, with highly readable portrait of the great new city that has now replaced the more vividly described in Kuwait was my home.

Bazaar,1952




Old Kuwait,1952

Patterns in concrete



Commercial Area, Kuwait Town 1969




Violet receiving vistors from Saudi Arabia

Kuwait has changed not only in its outward appearance, where mud-built houses have replaced by an ever-spreading concrete landscape, but more significantly in out-look way of life of its people. Since Zahra Freeth spent her childhood in Kuwait in days before oil was discovered, she is able to draw telling contracts between old and new, and her recollections of scenes now totally disappeared throw into sharp relief her description of modern Kuwait. Every aspect of Kuwait has been affected by the fabulous prosperity of the past twenty-five years, and by introducing us to wide variety of Arabs from every social group the author shows us how individual Kuwaitis, both townsmen and badawins, have adapted to changing society. In particular her embassies changes in the life of women, as the young educated girls find new freedom outside harem.

Street scene outside the National Assembly Building

Kuwait National Petroluem Building

Included among her portraits of Kuwait personalities is Violet Dickson, the author mother, who has lived most of her life in Kuwait and through whom Zahra Freeth is able to keep in touch with sections of Kuwait life unknown to journalists and casual visitors.

The Hindal family

A Shop in Kuwait market ,1952

There may be some whom still think of Arabia as a land of camels and nomad tribes. This book will show them the new Arabia. Even those who are familiar with the scope of oil development in the Gulf will gain from it a closer knowledge of the people of the area and how, in a comparatively short time, they have moved out of the Middle Ages through their own industrial revolution and into the twentieth century.

Arabs traders in Kuwait Town

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A Kuwait supermarket, 1969

Camels feeding around Umm al Aish communication tower

Contents

Preface
A City Built upon Oil
Heirs of the Golden Age
New Scenes and Old Memories
Englishwoman Extraordinary
The Sea-front
Shopping
Preserving the Past
Various Personalities
To Jahra and Beyond
The Oilfields and the Desert
Badawin in a Changing World
From Tents to Suburbia
Index

Illustrations

Map

The position of Kuwait

Plates

Aerial view of Kuwait, 1968

Patterns in concrete

Old Kuwait, 1952

Naif Gate, 1947

Jahra Gate, 1969

Seif Palace

Steet scene outside the National Assembly Building

Kuwait National Petroleum Company building

A Kuwait Supermarket, 1969

Arab traders in Kuwait town

A shop in Kuwait market, 1952

Commercial area, Kuwait town 1969

Bazaar, 1952

Dhow construction, 1969

Dhow construction, 1969

Violet receiving visitors from Saudi Arabia

The Hindal family

Camels feeding around Umm al Aish communication tower, 1970

Back of Dust Jacket

Reference:
A new look at Kuwait by Zahra Freeth