Monarch, mediator, maverick: Kuwait’s Emir Sabah
The Arab “dean of diplomacy”, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who died on Tuesday aged 91, survived Kuwait’s worst crises with an iron hand and a reputation as a shrewd, unshakeable monarch. Even before his appointment as emir, he spent decades manoeuvring in the shadows of his predecessors; his half-brother Jaber Al-Sabah and cousin Saad Al-Sabah. … Read more