DUBAI, Jan 13: Kuwait will participate in the eighth edition of the Arab Women’s Clubs Games, set to take place in the ...

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 ...

When the polls open in Kuwait on Thursday, Kuwaiti women will be able to cast their votes for national candidates for the first time in the country's history. Registered women voters outnumber men by ...

When Lulwa Al Mulla first tried to participate in Kuwaiti politics 24 years ago, she and four friends would park outside tents where male-only campaigns and debates were held, fiddling with their car ...

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 ...

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 ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–Here’s to the women of Kuwait! Women in Kuwait, who won the right to vote in May, just achieved another milestone: The country’s first female cabinet minister was sworn in as minister of ...

Kuwait’s first parliamentary elections in which women could vote were a victory for political reformists but a disappointment for female candidates, none of whom won a seat, according to official ...

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 ...

Three women representing a group called Citizens for a Free Kuwait fought back tears yesterday at a discussion on campus as they detailed the numerous rapes, murders and acts of torture they said are ...

Aseel al-Awadhi says her victory in last weekend's parliamentary election in Kuwait is just one part of "a great change." Awadhi, a philosophy professor at Kuwait University, is one of four women who ...