Kuwait’s Medical Committee inaugurates a hospital in Ras Al Khaimah and a clinic in Fujairah
Date: late 1970s–early 1980s
1950s
Source: Ministry of Health Archives, State of Kuwait 
A scene at the American Missionary Hospital for Women in Kuwait, likely taken in the 1920s or 1930s
A 1958 issue of Al-Kuwait Al-Yawm lists public donations made by Kuwaiti citizens in support of Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle

June 2, 1958
Kuwait’s Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah reaffirms national and Arab commitment to the Palestinian cause
A published list of Kuwaiti citizens and institutions who donated toward the reconstruction of Iraq’s Al-Fao city after the Iran-Iraq War

Kuwaiti staff study a scale model of the country’s first on-shore drilling rig at the Oil Display Centre in Ahmadi
early-to-mid 1950s
Circa 1920s–1930s
A public charity kitchen (waqf) in Souq Al-Mubarakiya provides free meals in memory of Abdulaziz Abdullah Al-Sumait and his wife

Established 1965; photo likely from the 1980s–1990s
The British Bank of the Middle East in Kuwait

Source: Kuwait National Archives / HSBC Historical Records Collection


likely taken in the late 1960s to early 1970s, following the university’s founding in 1966