A decree was issued in Kuwait to withdraw Kuwaiti citizenship from the artist Dawoud Hussein, the singer Nawal Al-Kuwaiti, and a number of other people.

According to the decree published in the Official Gazette of Kuwait today, the decree was issued to withdraw citizenship from Dawoud Hussein and singer Nawal, and from those who acquired it through dependency.

The Supreme Committee for Nationality Investigation had decided, in its meeting last Thursday, to withdraw and lose citizenship from 1,758 cases in preparation for presenting them to the Council of Ministers.

Last Tuesday, a responsible member of the Supreme Committee for Nationality Investigation revealed that the number of those whose nationality was revoked, through revocation, loss or withdrawal, reached 4,447 people, according to the committee’s latest statistics.

The Supreme Committee for the Investigation of Kuwaiti Nationality began its work at the beginning of last March, as the Kuwaiti authorities embarked on a campaign to revoke nationalities for various reasons, the most important of which is forgery. Citizenship is also withdrawn from people and dependents who obtained it without fulfilling the legal conditions. Among them is the issuance of a decree granting citizenship; Members of previous governments routinely bypassed this law and granted approvals for applications for citizenship without waiting for a decree to be issued.

The artist Dawoud Hussein and the singer Nawal Al-Kuwaiti had obtained Kuwaiti citizenship through a generosity from the former Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, in October 2001.

Daoud Hussein was born on November 4, 1958, in the city of Al-Sawaber, east of the capital, Kuwait, and grew up there. He is of Pakistani origins, and he is one of the most prominent artists in Kuwait. He entered the artistic field from a young age by acting in the school theater. He also joined the Al-Noor Theater troupe and then studied at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in the State of Kuwait. He later joined the Kuwaiti Theater Troupe, and his first television work was the series Al-Masir, which was shown in 1977.

During his artistic career, the artist Dawoud Hussein presented many distinguished works, numbering more than 50 television works, and more than 40 plays. Among his most famous theatrical works is his role in the play Bye Bye London with the late artist Abdel Hussein Abdel Reda, as well as his participation in the play by the late artist A teenager in his fifties, in the series Dalq Suhail, and the play Bye Bye, Arabs. The artist Dawoud Hussein was honored by the Sharm El Sheikh International Youth Theater Festival.

As for the singer Nawal, known artistically as Nawal Al-Kuwaiti, she was born in the Sharq region in 1966, and she also obtained citizenship through the honor of the former Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad, in 2001.

She began her artistic life by studying at the Higher Institute of Musical Arts in Kuwait in the 1970s, and at the age of 17 she presented her first artistic works on stage for the first time.

Musician Rashid Al-Khader introduced her to sing in 1983, and in 1984 her first album was released. She has a singing credit exceeding 16 albums. She filmed a group of her songs as a video clip, and in 1998 she participated as a singer by singing with her voice only at the Janadriyah Festival in Saudi Arabia in The operetta Faris Al-Tawheed, composed by the artist Muhammad Abdo, who nominated her to sing in this operetta to be the first woman to sing in an operetta. My homeland is Saudi in Saudi Arabia.