Farewell prince of Kuwait
Today Prince "Emir" Jaber Al-Ahmed El-Sabah died today, the 15th of January in his country Kuwait after long struggle with unknown illness as I used to read.
The prince was 77 years old when he died today, despite he didn't look so because of the black color he used to cover all the white hair in his chain or his moustache.
He got no son yet his crown prince; I guess his cousin will rule Prince Saad, who is also said to be sick!!
The prince is the third to rule the Kuwait since its independence in the 60s and attended both the Iraqi invasion to his own country and the American invasion to Iraq.
He supported the women's rights in political life and already the Kuwaiti women took some of their rights that their sisters in other gulf countries already don't have.
Kuwait despite all what is said about it , got some democratic life ,rare one in the Gulf ,despite this democratic life doesn't cross the limits and reach to El-Sabah royal family.
They have an active parliament; in fact it was the first in Gulf
The funeral has n't started yet according to Cairo local time or Kuwait local time
The late prince has joined the late prince of Dubai who I read after his death conspiracy theory about his death similar to the one in "Syriana " Movie
New changes in the regions is happening, but as my grandmother said "well he is old after all, what do you expect to stay forever"
May God bless his soul.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/15/kuwait.emir/index.html
His heir apparent, Sheikh Saad, should legally be Amir, regardless of whether the late Amir has sons.
ReplyDeleteThis has been the custom, as the Emirate of Kuwait is governed by two branches of a royal family; the Salems and the Jabers, both being Sabahs.
Each sitting Amir is assigned, by family consensus, an heir apparent from the cousins branch.
The process as a whole is tribal and based on traditions rather than written law. It's worked so far.
Thank Alif ,I never knew this valuable information , well it is not working only so far but it suits as policy for such soceity
ReplyDeleteI guess Saudia Arabia works by the same policy
According to my Saudi friends, the king of Saudi Arabia is given to the sons of Abdel Azziz (the founder of the family). So far only his sons has ruled. There has been some talks about what is next since all sons are getting older. I am not sure how they plan to move the rule to the grandchildren generation. Probably they will start by the oldest grandson.
ReplyDeleteInteresting post, and i think in fact for your sharing with our ex-ruler of my country, but yes we can say whatever to al-sabah family, if they pass the lines tward me, only our prince "Amir" has my respect and i have to listen to him and never argue him, this what i have learned from my ex-ruler prince Jabir, thanks again for your words
ReplyDelete@ Egyptian in USA ,well it is only reasonable thing they have to do already the Abd El-Aziz sons all crossed the 70s
ReplyDelete@Daredevil,welcome my dear kuwaiti brother to my blog and I share the sadness of your people ,after the late Prince despite all the pros and cons he had like human ,built a nation and make his people live in diginty