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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Al Haggan family and their two Nepali servants in the kitchen of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait, with one week's worth of food. Standing between Wafaa Abdul Aziz Al Qadini, 37 (beige scarf), and Saleh Hamad Al Haggan, 42, are their children, Rayyan, 2, Hamad, 10, Fatema, 13, and Dana, 4. In the corner are the servants, Andera Bhattrai, 23 (left), and Daki Serba, 27. The Al Haggan family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 196).
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  • The newly constructed three-story Al Haggan home in Kuwait City, Kuwait. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Saleh Hamad Al Haggan, 42, works for Kuwait Oil Company in Kuwait City, Kuwait. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE) Wafaa Abdul Aziz Al Qadini works as a government-employed school inspector. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The diverse breakfast mix of Western (tomato omelet) and Eastern (cucumber salad, olives) food found in Kuwait is not enough to tempt fussy 2-year-old Rayyan Al Haggan. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 201).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Because 98 percent of the food in Kuwait is imported, Wafaa Al Haggan's kitchen is a snapshot of the world's market basket. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 200).
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  • At their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait, most of the Al Haggan family dinners still center around traditional Arab foods like lamb biryani (shown here). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 200).
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  • Wafaa Al Haggan, assisted by one of the many foreign guest workers who do virtually all the manual labor in Kuwait, shops at her local co-op supermarket in Kuwait City. Although Kuwait imports 98 percent of its food, much of it from thousands of miles away, the choice and quality of the goods on display in supermarkets in Kuwait easily match those in European or U.S. markets, and the prices are lower. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Despite the convenience and selection at the Western-style market run by the government-subsidized Shamiya, Wafaa Al Haggan goes to a small shop for one of the most crucial components of her family larder: bread. A plate of nan-e barbari, Persian-style flat bread, accompanies every meal in Kuwait, and Wafaa has strong opinions about the skills of the various bakers in the neighborhood. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 199).
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  • Like most Kuwaitis, including the man pictured here, Wafaa Al Haggan does most of her grocery shopping in one of the country's many Western-style supermarkets; in her case, a multistory market in a shopping center run by the government-subsidized Shamiya and Shuwaikh Co-operative Society. Although Kuwait imports 98 percent of its food, much of it from thousands of miles away, the choice and quality of the goods on display easily match those in European or U.S. markets, and the prices are lower. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 199).
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  • Municipal fish market in Kuwait City, Kuwait sells mostly locally caught fish. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • "We never forget," say the signs posted all over Kuwait City, referring to the Iraqi invasion in 1990 and the country's subsequent liberation by a U.S.-led coalition. Just 90 minutes by freeway from the border with impoverished, war-torn Iraq, the affluent Kuwaiti capital is peppered with U.S. fast-food chains and franchised restaurants. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 198). This image is featured alongside the Al Haggan family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • A drive-through McDonald's restaurant in downtown Kuwait City, Kuwait. The affluent Kuwaiti capital is peppered with U.S. fast-food chains and franchised restaurants. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • During a sandstorm in March 2003, and the USA invasion of Iraq, Kuwait City, Kuwait, gets blasted by high winds laden with desert sand from the north. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Kuwait City, Kuwait. Monument to Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah on Arabian Gulf Steet. The plaque below says that Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah "was assassinated by the Iraqi invading troops in this car on Thursday the 2nd of August, 1990, while defending his country and principles." (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water. (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • At a large coffee shop where men lounge about, smoke, and drink coffee and tea, a man reads a newspaper about the USA invasion of Iraq on March 23, 2003. Kuwait City, Kuwait. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Heading north through the Rumeilah Oil Field of Southern Iraq, convoys of fuel trucks carry the military's mechanical lifeblood past burning oil wells set ablaze by retreating Iraqi forces. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Firefighters from the Kuwait Oil Company (called KWWK: Kuwait Wild Well Killers) pray at noon by the first oil well fire they were working on in Iraq's Rumeilah Oil Field. They did a double prayer at noon so they would not have to stop later in the day if they were at a critical phase. Later in the day they extinguished this smoky fire and the next day stopped the flow of gas and oil with drilling mud using what is called a "stinger", a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Firefighters from the KWWK (Kuwait Wild Well Killers) attempt to kill an oil fire in the Rumeilah Oil Field by guiding a "stinger" that will pump drilling mud into the damaged well. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them difficult and dangerous. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Firefighters from the KWWK (Kuwait Wild Well Killers) attempt to extinguish an oil fire in the Rumeilah Oil Field by guiding a "stinger" that will pump drilling mud into the hemoraging, flaming well. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them difficult and dangerous. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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