The Issue of Citizenship for the Bidun Minority in Kuwait after the Arab Spring.
Kuwait is a country in which there are many tribes but it is the al‐U'zam tribe which is very dominant and influential in local politics and the economy, in contrast to the other tribes in Kuwait who are recognized by the state as being equal, but have little influence in these things. The Bedouin t...
| Publicado en: | DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 107 - 124 |
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