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WHEN we were young, our parents and grandparents used to implore us by using the phrase – “Pardon, O Sheikh”. To our young understanding, addressing someone with the word “Sheikh” meant that a person is polite, righteous, obedient to his elders, and respectful to his siblings.
In this regard, I comfortably relate to the late Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad, who embodied and represented the title ‘Sheikh’ to the fullest.
We went to the same school – Sabah Primary School – which is located on Ahmed Al-Jaber Street (formerly known as Dasman), as he used to live in Dasman Palace. Half of the Sheikhs’ children and those living under their care studied in Sabah Primary School because of its proximity to Dasman Palace, and the other half studied in the Eastern School in Al-Mutaba neighborhood.