Kuwait's Sheikh Nawaf: a short but tumultuous reign

Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was Kuwait's mild-mannered emir for just three years but spent decades in senior posts through the House of Sabah's tumultuous rule of the oil-rich state.- Politics and war -
Born in 1937, Sheikh Nawaf was the fifth son of Sheikh Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who ruled the Gulf kingdom from 1921 to 1950.

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