W H AT ’ S ONMONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016

By Faten Omar

The International Women’s Group (IWG)held a meeting yesterday at RadissonSAS Hotel. This meeting was a pre-

cursor to the occasions of theIndependence and National day of Kuwaitas well as the Valentine’s day.

Narjes Al-Shatti, Board Member of theInternational Women’s Group, said to

Kuwait Times that “Every February we con-duct programs to celebrate Independenceand National day as well as the Valentine ‘sDay by giving our guests a flower. We gath-ered here wearing our traditional dress‘Thoub’ with the Ambassadors’ wives. Thisyear the British school of Kuwait (BSK) isjoining us with Dr Ahmed Al-Shatti. Finallywe are praying to God to protect Kuwait.”

The British school of Kuwait (BSK) was

invited by the International Women’s Groupto give a presentation at the Februarymeeting to celebrate Kuwait’s National Day.The presentation was led by BSK’s DeputyDirector of Finance, Sanaa Kamelia Al-Mutawa, an IWG member and ably support-ed by Anwahar Al-Hasan.

The theme of the presentation was a tra-ditional Kuwaiti wedding performed by 25students from 9th grade. The performance

covered the various features of the wed-ding rituals from the initial engagement,the Dezza, the singing of the marriage con-tract, the arrival of the bride on the wed-ding day, the Jelwa and finally to the arrivalof the groom. As the students divided intothe supporters of the bride and the sup-porters of the groom and moved throughthe ceremony with their fine clothes andwedding gifts the audience was transport-

ed into another era and marveled at themagnificence of the performance and howmany aspects of the rituals differed or com-pared with their own traditions and cus-toms. The presentation closed with the aNational anthem and the audience wereinvited to join the performers in celebrat-ing Kuwait’s National Day with flag wavingand some traditional wedding cake gersogaily.

IWG conducts traditional Kuwaiti wedding ceremony