Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah (aka Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah) (1930-2008)

For nine days in early 2006, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah headed the government of Kuwait. He was born in 1930, the son of a Ethiopian slave named Jameela (or Jamila) who was one of the five wives of his father, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the 11th ruler of Kuwait and its first emir. Saad attended Al-Mubarakiya School in Kuwait City, the nation’s capital, and completed his studies at the Hendon Police College in Hendon, England, the training school…