Once Upon a Time in Kuwait

Pictures from a time before oil was king.

BY CARA PARKS | APRIL 4, 2012

Above, a busy scene in the market in Kuwait City in 1950. The buildings shown here are made of mud with palm fronds; Diwan notes that all such buildings were destroyed in Kuwait during the push toward modernization. “They flattened the old city. It was part of their plan to erase this old past and to move quickly into development."

F. H. Andrus

 

Cara Parks is the deputy managing editor of Foreign Policy.