Kuwait
(see also Iraq, Gulf States & Gulf War, 1991-Present)
Basics
Björn
Kumm's Note
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
World Guide (Montevideo)
Kuwaitis Pack Up Camps in Potential War Zone. Juan O. Tamayo, San Jose Mercury (2/14/03). Desert camping as elite pastime.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Middle East Research & Information Project (Publishes MERIP Report, an indispensable source).
In the Library: Articles
An Observer. "Oil for underdevelopment & discrimination: the case of Kuwait," Monthly Review 30,6 (1978):12-21.
Blanford, Nicholas. "Kuwait hopes for answers on its Gulf War POWs," Christian Science Monitor (12/1\23/02). 600 still unaccounted for; & Iraq still has possession of Kuwaiti National Archives.
Enloe, Cynthia. "Women & children: making feminist sense of the Persian Gulf crisis," Village Voice (9/25/90). On circumstance of women in Kuwait.
MacShane, Denis. "Gulf migrant labor: working in virtual slavery," Nation (3/18/91).
Rossant, John & William Glassgall. "Kuwait puts its $100 Billion War Chest to Work," Business Week (10/1/90).
Sherry, Virginia N. "What the democratic forces want," Nation (11/5/90). Hopes for a post-Gulf War democracy in the emirate.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Amnesty International. Iraq/Occupied Kuwait: Human Rights Violations Since August 2, 1990 (NY, 1990).
Kelly, Michael. Martyrs’ Day. Chronicle of a Small War (NY, 1993). Reporter’s account of first Gulf War.
Sasson, Jean P. The Rape of Kuwait: The True Story of Iraqi Atrocities Against a Civilian Population (NY: Knightsbridge, 1991).
In the Library: Fiction
Hays, Tony. The Trouble with Patriots: A Novel (Bridgehampton NY: Bridge Works, 2001).
Paine, Tom. The Pearl of Kuwait (NY: Harcourt, 2003).
White, Robin A. Angle of Attack (NY: Crown, 1992).
In the Library: For Young Readers
Alshalabi, Firyal. Summer 1990: A Young Adult Novel (Boulder: Aunt Strawberry, 1999).
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Photography
"Three Kings" [1999], dir. David O. Russell, 135m. In video stores.