Mrs.
Dickson is a Britisher and she came from Britain with her
husband to live in Kuwait. At the end of the 19th century
as the society embraced her very gently. She was a remarkable
lady and everybody loved her. She lived among Kuwaiti families
like other citizens in the country. She knew no Arabic at
that time but she had the quality of being very patient and
everybody loved her and she loved Kuwait, its people, its
culture and its family orientation.
She
is the only foreign lady that stayed in Kuwait and later developed
to the best it can develop and she was very proud of this
and Kuwaitis adapted her and named her a Kuwaiti name. She
was called Um Saud, which is a typical desert name, and she
lived among the society and its inhabitants and she too enjoyed
her stay all through her life in Kuwait and refused to go
back to her original home in Britain.
She stayed in Kuwait and with this the good times and bad
times together. The Kuwaitis as such viewed her very highly
and all respected her with high regards and for that matter
the Kuwaiti thought her as one of her daughter and they were
proud of her. She saw Kuwaiti houses, which were made of mud,
and later the Kuwaiti houses made of marble and she saw donkeys.
It was used for transportation at the early stages and then
she saw what the inhabitants of Kuwait riding with high price
cost cars. She saw Kuwaiti family before living on nothing
as respite of avoiding heat using what they used to do at
that time. She saw later on Kuwaitis are living in so called
of an atmosphere that is possible only for penguin that can
live under the cold. She thought she saw Kuwaitis in time
of travel outside their small geographical enclave to her
serious problem of transportation. Later on Kuwaitis would
travel always through the globe with high-speed airplanes
and she saw Kuwaiti women with the highest degree possible
that could be obtained in the world as a whole. In the nutshell
she saw Kuwait in different angles. But Mrs. Dickson what
a remarkable lady someone therefore when the Iraqi invasion
of Kuwait in 1990 she stayed in Kuwait and the Kuwaitis forced
her to leave. They took her form the house and through the
embassy she was transported by ship all the way to England
where she passed away.
But
she lived a happy life and her dreams was obstructed after
while simply because she passed away and her hope of having
seen Kuwait to be liberated which she never saw but there
are Kuwaitis at the same time they have Um Saud behind her
mind. She lives in their hearts and she will continue living
there staying there as a memory of this beautiful British
lady who came to live in the desert. Her memory is a live
memory of history that is made up of Kuwait.
DR.HASHIM
S.H. BEHBEHANI
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