The Invisible Kuwaitis
Kuwait systematically denies citizenship to a population that has lived there since before the state existed.
Illustration by Meg Studer.
The 2019 suicide of Ayed Hamad Moudath drew the world’s attention to one of Kuwait’s dirty secrets: its apartheid-like treatment of its Bidoon minority.Moudath had been unable to secure identity documents and lost his job because, like most of Kuwait’s approximately one hundred thousand Bidoon, he was stateless. Protests followed, and the Kuwaiti parliament considered, […]
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