I’ve just found this footage, filmed for To Rest in Peace, (Fawaz Al-Matrouk) which captures the strangely beautiful silence of Failaka Island. It’s set against the song Salamun Salam, which won Best World Music Track at the 2010 Hollywood Music in Media Awards.
I did an overnighter there in February, during the 50/20 celebrations. 20 years after Kuwait’s liberation, war ruins still stand alongside family homes which have been ransacked and stripped of valuable items over the years. Old toys, books and shoes lie in the dust, and remnants of classrooms fixtures still stand in the dormant school buildings – see photo album here.
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