Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah

Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah (born 1929) is the emir of Kuwait. He succeed his cousin, Sabah al-Salim al-Sabah in December 1977, and had been Prime Minister of Kuwait for a decade before.

He dissolved the National Assembly of Kuwait in 1981, and restored it after the Invasion of Kuwait in 1991. In 1999 his government enfranchised women.

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