moajab al-dossari is the first kuwaiti formative artiste, born in 1922 and died at the age of 34. the first kuwaiti formative artiste to hold a special exhibition of his works was khalifa muhammad al-qattan. the artiste abdul aziz al-kuwaiti, or alnaqi, who died in 1982, is one of the first singers of modern kuwait along with abdul latif al-kuwaiti or al-obaid ( 1 9 0 1 - 1 9 7 5 ) and abdullah al-fadalah (1913-1967).
ayoub hussein al-qenaei (1933- 2013) is considered one of the most famous formative artistes who became well-known for painting and documenting the old kuwait environment before it was erased from our lives and subsequently from our memories and is credited for his great effort to preserve the heritage.
ayoub taught me the love of art and the love of homeland in the alsabah school. the great artiste bader al-qattan is considered one of the great founders of the formative art school in kuwait who has left behind a great artistic wealth after his death in 2009. musician ahmad baqer is considered one of the first composers of what is called ‘modern music’ and has to his credit wonderful national melodies that are still vivid.
his song, ‘li khalil hussein’, also made a breakthrough, written by a late political personality. in the midst of all this we cannot forget the singer gharid al-shati who left us early, and the artiste khaled al-faraj, who shot to fame among the singers with his many songs, and the poets abdullah al-faraj and fahad al-askar, fahad bouresli, and many others.
in a controversial interview, this is the nature of the interviews of abdullah al-nafisi, conducted by the creative tv presenter ammar taqi in his program the ‘black box’.
during his talk, he spoke about umm kulthum and said she was just a singer, and the reason that millions attended her funeral because we are ‘poor emotional people’ because the singer had turned the arab region into a hashish den.
he added that on the night she sang, several places in egypt were well prepared for smoking hash, and all of egypt became a den for smoking hash – i am not defending umm kulthum, so many fans will take the task of doing that.
however, i wonder would abdullah al-nafisi say these words about egypt and umm kulthum if egypt was ruled by the muslim brotherhood and not by those who sought to eliminate this group? i just wonder. whoever underestimates umm kulthum and describes her as a mere singer, will say the same about the composer as just a musician, the other is just a novelist, the fourth is just a poet, a sculptor, or a painter and so on.
this is arrogance that should not have come from a man who describes himself as politician and academician. these figures are the core of any society, and without them, life would not only be difficult for others but also empty and meaningless.
on the occasion of nafisi’s talk of swearing on loyalty and obedience in front of the supreme leader (guide), i would like to clarify that this secret partisan ritual does not often mean much.
thousands have done so, but they have not benefited the organization at all, and some have abandoned the organization without regret, while many have offered enormous benefits to the organization without going through the phase of swearing, perhaps because they believed that the pledge of loyalty and obedience to a guide is a humiliation and they themselves believe they are more knowledgeable than him.
the failure to announce joining the brotherhood gives them greater flexibility in defending their interests.