Ghanima Al-Fahad (Arabic: غنيمة الفهد) is a Kuwaiti
media personality
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. She is known as a commentator on Kuwaiti heritage, and health matters and has appeared on TV cookery shows with traditional Kuwaiti recipes. She is often interviewed on disappearing Kuwaiti domestic traditions such as when interviewed by the
Kuwait News Agency
Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) is an official state news wire service based in Kuwait.
History and structure
KUNA was established in 1956. It was reorganized in 1976 as an independent body. However, it functions as a branch of the Ministry of Inform ...
(KUNA) on traditional mother and daughter housekeeping games such as ''Baroue'' - a form of home-made
doll house
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.
Baroue … an old Kuwaiti game that preps girls for future social life - Mothers used to love engaging their daughters in playing the game: Al-Fahad
"Baroue is a family game, which family members could participate in; the mother contributes in providing the game materials such as wooden fruit boxes, remains of fabrics, accessories and small household utensils, Al-Fahad said. ... They also used to talk to those dolls and take care of them as if they were their own children by role-playing and acting scenes, in which they went shopping and visited neighbors, which represented realistic adult characters, Al-Fahad concluded."
References
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Living people
Kuwaiti historians
Year of birth missing (living people)