What's wrong with Al-Khrafi?? (Updated)

Originally posted on 28-06-05

Recently, The Speaker of Kuwait's National Assembly -out of the blue- became the centre of Kuwaiti Media's attention.

Jasem Al-Khrafi started when reaffirming his abstention in every vote on Kuwaiti Women Rights, then his first press release against the US Ambassador to Kuwait speech.

Now, his statements are not only against the Americans, but also blaming the Kuwaiti Government.

The strange thing about his latest statement is blaming the Government in general and specifically the Foreign Ministry, as well as naming the Kuwaiti FM. I'm wondering why not the Kuwaiti PM!!??

Update Kuwaiti FM responses
Update2 Kuwaiti FM Meets Al-Khrafi
Update3 US Embassy: Inaccurate reports
Update4 AbduLateef Al-Duaij: Why Now?
Udpate5 Al-Rub'ey: Silly American Proposal
Update6 Muhammed Al-Shaibany: Liz Cheney
Update7 AbduLateef Al-Duaij: I changed my mind

All links are in Arabic

خيلي خوب

Last night I watched the Iranian Movie Leila (1996) ليلا. It was great, depressing though.




















I have only 3 Iranian movies (any recommendation?), watched them recently and I think they’re extremely better than Bollywood movies that Kuwaitis are obsessed with.

The Other 2 movies are:
-Hidden Half (2001)
-Secret Ballot (2001) راي مخفي

Cargo Tagging

I like the Idea of Cargo Magazine.
It has a page with 26 stickers, that helps you to tag pages you want to come back to later. So useful!

Dr Sabah Al-Ahmad

Kuwaiti Prime Minister received an honourary Doctor of Laws degree at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
June 30, 2005.

For more Information on the Ceremony (KUNA): Link

For more pictures from the Ceremony (Yahoo News): Link
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The one on the rights is Edward Gnehm (or غنيم) former US Ambassador to Kuwait (1990-1994).

A peice I found on the Daily Star by Edward Gnehm, it has some reference about Kuwait.
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UPDATE

More pictures from the Ceremony (KUNA)
(Click on the links)
Photo1 Photo2 Photo3 Photo4 Photo5 Photo6 Photo7 Photo8 Photo9 Photo10















From Right to Left:
(1) Stephen Trachtenberg, President of George Washington University
(2) Ambassador Nabeela Al-Mulla, Kuwait's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
(3) unidentified lady
(4) unidentified Gentleman
(5) Nada Al-Mutawa, from Political Science Department at Kuwait University
(6) Prime Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
(7) Lulwa Al-Mulla, Kuwaiti Women Rights Activist
(8) Tahani Al-Terkate, Media Attache at Kuwait Information Office (US).

لقاء نسائي مثير

Moved to my scrapbook

He'll be missed

اوف ... بس خلاص مافي وقت ... خلنا نخلص يا مسلم

















We will miss your abstentions & statements.

Podcasts

After reading Mark’s post about Podcasting, I updated my iTunes and entered the world of Podcasts.

I wish to listen to a Kuwaiti Podcast soon.

Thank you Mark