KUWAIT CITY, Dec 30: What began as a promise of marriage ended in deception, financial loss, and emotional trauma, after a ...

Maha Alasaker, “Djinane Alsuwayeh, 29, art director and photographer” (2015) (all images courtesy the artist) While living in New York, Maha Alasaker, a Kuwaiti visual artist, quickly became fed up ...

Impersonating the opposite sex online. That is the charge that got Maha al-Mutairi, a trans woman, sentenced to two years in Kuwaiti prison earlier this month. She's previously been arrested numerous ...

KUWAIT CITY — It all started over yoga. When an instructor in Kuwait this month advertised a desert wellness yoga retreat, conservatives declared it an assault on Islam. Lawmakers and clerics ...

A court in Kuwait has sentenced a transgender woman to two years behind bars for “misusing phone communication” by “imitating the opposite sex.” Maha al-Mutairi, who also received a fine of 1,000 ...

Kuwaiti women are angry after the military, having allowed female soldiers in combat roles, decided they need the permission of a male guardian and banned them from carrying weapons. Activists have ...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — It all started over yoga. When an instructor in Kuwait this month advertised a desert wellness yoga retreat, conservatives declared it an assault on Islam. Lawmakers and clerics ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - A Kuwaiti woman was arrested in Saudi Arabia for trying to drive her father to hospital, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday, a week after Saudi women protested against a ban on ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait on Wednesday put to death seven prisoners in a rare mass execution in the small, oil-rich nation despite facing international criticism over its plans. The ...

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