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Editor's Desk
The Places That Vanish
For more than 4,000 years, civilisations chose Failaka Island in Kuwait's Persian Gulf, not by accident but by design. By the 20th century it had become something gentler: a weekend retreat where families crossed the water on Friday mornings, children ran straight into the sea and dolphins moved through the shallows just offshore. Then Iraqi forces arrived in August 1990, expelled its 2,000 residents within days and systematically erased what had taken millennia to build. Walking those ruins in 2004 beside Neda, a woman returning for the first time since the invasion, I began to understand something that GDP figures and oil well recovery statistics cannot capture: the price of conflict is not measured in barrels. It is measured in people who can no longer claim what was rightfully theirs.
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