Kuwait had an elected parliament in 1963 and published al-Arabi, which was read from Casablanca to Baghdad. A Kuwaiti novelist won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013. Bahrain, which you say is not a nation, has been a city since Dilmun. Its harbour was trading with Mesopotamia and the Indus around four thousand years ago. Literally the oldest continuously inhabited place in the Gulf and a labor and political movement in the 1950s that forced the British to deport its leaders. Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar have centuries of poetry, politics and organizing behind them, all in a language you can’t read. Al-Naqeeb, Routledge 1990, standard citation. Al-Qasimi, Sharjah ruler since 1972, Exeter PhD 1985, wrote on piracy from East India Company correspondence. Al-Sanousi, Arabic Fiction prize 2013 for The Bamboo Stalk Also, the quoted tweet was literally about people like you, A society isn’t measured by what Europeans read about it, and we aren’t writing for them anyway.