Xavier Luffin Professor Xavier Luffin teaches Arabic Language and Literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He is a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences. He has published several books about Arabic Literature (in French), and he has translated c. 20 books (novels, short stories, drama, poetry) from Arabic (and also Turkish and English) into French. From Timbuktu to Cape Town: The place of Arabic in Africa before and during the colonial period Before and during the Colonial period, Arabic was widely in use in several parts of Africa, south of the Maghreb and in less expected areas like Eastern Congo,…

“The Kuwaiti dialect in foreign sources” a lecture presented by Dr. Yousef Al Bader. About the lecture:Many of the Arab researchers did not pay attention to the importance of the Kuwaiti dialect in foreign sources. Most of those who visited Kuwait from foreign travelers, political attachés and doctors at the American Mission Hospital noticed that the Arabic language spoken in Kuwait is very different from its counterparts in neighboring cities.  

Alison Shan Price MBE Founder and director of One World Actors Centre, UK, and Creative Director of TAQA Productions, Kuwait, Dr Alison Shan Price has lived in Kuwait for 34 years working with multi-national artists to bring cross-cultural history alive through the medium of original performance. In 2017, Alison was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth 11 in the New Year’s Honours List for Services to Dramatic Arts in Kuwait and the Middle East. Hajjiyah Um Saud: Dame Violet Dickson, 1896-1991 In 1919, a handsome young British officer walked into a bank in Marseille, he asked a young girl her name. A week later he sent a cable to ask…

Ziad Sayid Rajab Dr Ziad Rajab is the director of the New English School and a Tareq Rajab Museum board member. In addition to being a human resource specialist, he is involved in the arts, and has non-professional certifications in bookbinding, illumination, portraiture, oil painting and pottery. He is also an accomplished flautist. Islamic Chinese Calligraphy in the Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy. Arab and Persian merchants and traders have been plying the silk routes to China for hundreds of years, back to the pre-Islamic era with ancient communities in various coastal cities. These communities expanded with the introduction of Islam and over the years, Middle Eastern peoples intermarried…