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 ...

Kuwait’s First Lt. Dana Al-Shaleen will train in Greece as the country’s first female police pilot, marking a historic ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Interior announced on Sunday the selection of First Lieutenant Dana Al- Shaleen to study aviation sciences in Greece, marking her as the first female police pilot in Kuwait’s history.

(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 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 ...

KUWAIT CITY — Female voters Thursday went to the polls for the first time in Kuwait’s parliamentary elections, many delighted to cast their ballots. “It feels like a wedding day,” said Salwa Sanoussi, ...

Inspired by Dashti, Mudaf ran for the board of the Engineer's Society last year. First woman candidate Last month Dashti, who heads the Kuwait Economic Society, became the first Kuwaiti woman to ...

A court in Kuwait has sentenced a transgender woman to two years behind bars for “misusing phone communication” by “imitating the opposite sex.” Maha al-Mutairi, who also received a fine of 1,000 ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Women won four seats in Kuwait's parliament, a first in the Gulf Arab state's history, but with many of the same faces back, Saturday's election is unlikely to end a political ...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — For Kuwaitis, it's an unsettling trend in a country that once prided itself on its progressivism compared to its Gulf Arab neighbors. KUWAIT CITY (AP) — It all started over yoga.