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Lateefa Buti
Lateefa Buti (Arabic: لطيفة بطي) is a Kuwaiti writer. She has published many books for children including ''Hatless'', which won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2017 in the children's literature category, and was translated into English by Nancy Roberts. Career Lateefa Buti has published two short story collections including ''The Mermaid'' and ''My Country, Ininkayo''. In 2003, she started writing books for children. Buti has contributed stories to the Kuwaiti magazine ''Al Arabi Al Sagheer'' including ''Salem and Salma'' and ''My City Kuwait''. Also, she has written some cultural heritage stories and folklore for Al Jazeera Children's Channel and Al Baraem Channel. Buti won several awards, including the first place award for Children's Theater Writing Competition at the level of the State of Kuwait, the second place in the Children's Theater Writing Competition at the level of the Arab world which was held by the National Council for Culture, Arts, and Literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuwait
Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south. Kuwait also shares maritime borders with Iran. Kuwait has a coastal length of approximately . Most of the country's population reside in the urban agglomeration of the capital city Kuwait City. , Kuwait has a population of 4.45 million people of which 1.45 million are Kuwaiti citizens while the remaining 3.00 million are foreign nationals from over 100 countries. Historically, most of present-day Kuwait was part of ancient Mesopotamia. Pre-oil Kuwait was a strategic trade port between Mesopotamia, Persia and India. Oil reserves were discovered in commercial quantities in 1938. In 1946, crude oil was exported for the first time. From 1946 to 1982, the country underwent large-scale modernization, largely b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |