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kuwait
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Persian Gulf country, named for its capital city (said to have been founded in current form 1705), which is from Arabic al-kuwayt, diminutive of kut, a word used in southern Iraq and eastern Arabia for a fortress-like house surrounded by a settlement and protected by encircling water, and said to be ultimately from Persian. Related: Kuwaiti.
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Wikipedia
Kuwait ( ), officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in Western Asia. Situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf it shares borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. , Kuwait has a population of 4.2 million people; 1.3 million are Kuwaitis and 2.9 million are expatriates.
Oil reserves were discovered in 1938. From 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization. In the 1980s, Kuwait experienced a period of geopolitical instability and an economic crisis following the stock market crash. In 1990, Kuwait was invaded by Iraq. The Iraqi occupation came to an end in 1991 after military intervention by United States-led forces. At the end of the war, there were extensive efforts to revive the economy and rebuild national infrastructure.
Kuwait is a constitutional emirate with a high income economy backed by the world's sixth largest oil reserves. The Kuwaiti dinar is the highest valued currency in the world. According to the World Bank, the country has the fourth highest per capita income in the world. The constitution was promulgated in 1962, making Kuwait the most democratic country in the region.
From 2001 to 2009, Kuwait had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the Arab world. Only 30% of the population are Kuwaiti citizens, while 70% of the population are expatriates. Kuwait ranks highly in regional metrics of gender equality, as it has the region's highest Global Gender Gap ranking.
Kuwait is a group of approximately 40 paintings made by Nabil Kanso in 1990-91 on the Gulf War and Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. The works in the series were first exhibited in Kuwait in March – April 1992 at the Free Atelier Art Center and traveled in June to Caracas for a special exhibit at the Palacio de Gobierno in honor of the Emir of Kuwait’s visit to Venezuela. Then, the exhibition proceeded to Geneva and was held at the Red Cross Museum in July – August 1992.
Usage examples of "kuwait".
Bin Ladin, whose efforts in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait.
The six GCC states are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.
In particular, the Saudis now forbid us to fly strike missions from their air bases, insisting that they be launched instead from Kuwait, Bahrain, or carriers in the Gulf.
These have even led Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, lordan, and Yemen, among others, to establish parliaments where the people at least have a forum to air their grievances, if not yet a mechanism to govern themselves.
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the Persian Gulf.
In fact to handle that many aircraft, we would probably need bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Turkey.
Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and Qatar all have lively parliaments, which, though possessing little actual power, allow for popular participation in the process of government--and whose sentiments are not lightly dismissed by the true policy makers.
Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Yemen have instituted democratic changes that appear to be building momentum for greater reforms.
He believed that the proved oil-bearing country that runs down from Iraq through Kuwait, Dahran, Bahrain and Qattar would be found to continue, swinging south-east along the line of the Jebel mountains, through Buraimi and into the independent sheikhdom of Saraifa.
And every now and then a tanker passed them, decks almost awash, with oil from Kuwait, Bahrain and Dahran.
KSM grew up in Kuwait but traces his ethnic lineage to the Baluchistan region straddling Iran and Pakistan.
United States would be unwilling to tolerate high costs, and particularly heavy casualties, to liberate Kuwait.
The admiral had played a key part in the logistics buildup that helped force Iraq out of Kuwait and had later counseled that the drawdown of forces from Saudi Arabia following the successful conclusion of the war, leaving only a small trip-wire force in Kuwait and massive military stockpiles in the Saudi desert, was premature.
Iraqi forces from Kuwait and to deprive Saddam of the ability to threaten his southern neighbor again by destroying the Republican Guard divisions that had rolled into the tiny Gulf state and later taken up positions south of the Euphrates.
Tora Bora was going, Franks voiced to his staff dissatisfaction with Lieutenant General Paul Mikolashek, his successor at Third Army, who was overseeing the land war in Afghanistan from Camp Doha, Kuwait.