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Keeping traditions alive...

Keeping traditions alive...

July 28, 2016 | 09:57 PM
Families of Kuwaiti sailors bid them farewell as they sail away in dhows on a pearl-diving trip in Kuwait City. Pearl-diving trips are held annually under the patronage of the Kuwaiti emir in order to keep alive traditions that accompanied the once important national trade of pearl-diving, prior to the discovery of oil.
July 28, 2016 | 09:57 PM