Kuwait is planning to hire prayer leaders and muezzins (callers) from mainly Morocco and Egypt, two countries with strong Islamic Sunni traditions. Al Qabas daily said that the Kuwaiti religious authorities wanted to bring in 100 people to help meet requirements and that the focus would be on Arab countries, mainly Morocco and...
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Kuwaitis have called for a study of the phenomenon of Kuwaiti women taking up foreign husbands after records for the first five months of this year indicated that 1,020 Kuwaiti women got married with non-Kuwaiti men. The mixed marriages make up a slight figure of the 11,258 weddings celebrated between January and May and...
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Kuwait has expressed reservations about a Libyan-Yemeni proposal to turn the Arab League into an Arab Union, diplomatic sources have said. “The establishment of an Arab Union that includes the formation of a regional Arab security system to defend Arab member countries, requires huge financial burdens with no guarantee of its effectiveness in light...
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