ABSTRACT
Jahra had always been different from Kuwait, a village of Arab cultivators, tending date-groves and carefully irrigated gardens of lucerne. They were settled inhabitants who shared neither the worldly sharpness of the Kuwait businessman, nor the maritime interests of the Kuwait sailor. In Jahra one found the original type of oasis Arab; most of them had come from Najd, and had made of this village a scene more typical of the oases of central Arabia than of the coastal settlements.
