Ghanima Al-Fahad

Ghanima Al-Fahad (Arabic: غنيمة الفهد; born 1973 in Kuwait) is a Kuwaiti media personality. She is known as a commentator on Kuwaiti heritage, and health matters and has appeared on TV cookery shows with traditional Kuwaiti recipes.^[1] She is often interviewed on disappearing Kuwaiti domestic traditions such as when interviewed by the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on traditional mother and daughter housekeeping games such as Baroue - a form of home-made dolls house.^[2]

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1. GUST student club iGive organizes the Week of Change 17 February 2013 "The final day was themed around Kuwait's National Day where Ghanima Al-Fahad attended and talked about traditions, old phrases that are no longer used and the history of Kuwait. "
2. Baroue … an old Kuwaiti game that preps girls for future social life - Mothers used to love engaging their daughters in playing the game: Al-Fahad "Baroue is a family game, which family members could participate in; the mother contributes in providing the game materials such as wooden fruit boxes, remains of fabrics, accessories and small household utensils, Al-Fahad said. ... They also used to talk to those dolls and take care of them as if they were their own children by role-playing and acting scenes, in which they went shopping and visited neighbors, which represented realistic adult characters, Al-Fahad concluded."