Kuwaiti Royal Pwned over Windy NYT Blog Post

For some reason, the New York Times has invited Kuwaiti royal and Villa Mode fashion retailer Majed El-Sabah to blog this week in the "prestigious" For the Moment fashion blog. Thanks to some sharp folks leaving comments and Maj's airy blogposts, hilarity has ensued.

First, dig the opening bio gusher the New York Times offers on Maj: "Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah, this week’s guest blogger on The Moment, is fashion royalty. Not only is Majed, as he is better known, a member of Kuwaiti royal family (his father is the first cousin of the emir of Kuwait; his mother is the emir’s sister)..."

Commenter  "How Applachian" asks: "So, is that a fancy way of saying his parents are first cousins?"

Anyway, a few days ago, Fashion Royalist Maj decided to step out of the air-conditioned luxury mall and get in touch with his Bedouin roots, with a delightfully orientalist post on "The Sands of Time". While it's mostly a hackneyed paean to the lure of the desert and the lingering influence of Bedu culture, one line gets Maj in trouble:

"The majority of us who live in the Gulf region are descendants of these tribes — in fact, there’s hardly a family whose roots are not Bedouin."

Commenter Patricia Odean picks up on that line and won't let it pass:

...According to Britannica.com, “Nearly two-thirds of the population [of Kuwait] are expatriate workers, formerly from other Arab states but now largely from South and Southeast Asia. These nonnationals do not enjoy citizenship rights, economic or political, which are reserved for Kuwaiti citizens—defined as those able to prove Kuwaiti ancestry prior to 1920.” While the experiences he describes are no doubt genuine, the experience of the Indian maids would probably give a truer picture of what the majority of people living in the region experience.

It would seem to be a good thing if more Gulf royalty were forced to confront the masses by blogging with open comments. In the meantime, we wait for the New York Times to invite an Indian maid working in Kuwait to blog next month at For the Moment.

Comments

[Timothy]

He still belongs to a family that follows a pedophile who ordered his followers to rape, murder and pillage the world.

[Brian Akira]

I love the way they get back in touch with their "Bedouin roots":

"Of the five or six tents, the main one is the living/reception area; one is for the gathering of ladies; one is designated as the dining area; one serves as a kitchen; another is the men’s bedroom and the other is reserved for ladies. ... Each camp is fully equipped with a mobile toilet that resembles a bathroom in a Four Seasons hotel, with hot and cold water and a shower that comes with a sophisticated water pressure system and a fully stocked supply of toiletries, towels and fragrances. ... Each camp even has its own satellite system for the TV and DVD player that are found in every tent. There is also wireless Internet throughout the camp. The entire camp is powered by electricity that comes from an advanced — and noisy — Caterpillar diesel generator, which is kept a good distance away from the tents."

[Brian Akira]

It only gets better.

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[m. r. o'donnell]

Come on, now! Let's at least be fair to the poor misunderstood gazillionaire Kuwaiti royal. Marrying first cousins was practiced by some respectable Old Testament figures (ever heard of Isaac and Rebekkah?). It is perfectly legal in a number of countries -- and is even apparently legal in some of our US States.

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