KUWAIT: Born to the Kuwaiti royal family, her highness HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah has a unique personality with sky-high ambition and love for life in all its details. She is the daughter of His Highness Sheikh Salem AlSabah, from whom she acquired many traits and learned many virtues. A supporter of women and young people, with an unwavering determination to make it a better and more peaceful society, her efforts have spanned into the UNDP, Human Rights Watch, as well as various endeavors in womenâs and childrenâs health, education, and empowerment.
Getting the best out of people was her mission to peace and love. Sheikha Intisar AlSabah supports women to be heard and seen through vocal and visual expressions of their own stories. âPowerful women are the ones who nurture, help, and grow others with unconditional love and support.â This vacuum in the areas of womenâs support prompted her to begin a journey into the world of psycho-social support for women affected by war. HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah launched Intisar Foundation in 2018 a UK-based charity, with two programs in Lebanon and Jordan that used expressive therapies to empower and help women overcome their war traumas.
The Circle of Love book portrait 87 inspirational women of compassion and magnanimity, including the famous English model Yasmin Le Bon, Princess Dina Marad from Jordan, Afef Jnifen, as well as significant Kuwaiti women coming from different backgrounds that levied both their hearts and souls to inspire others with their own poignant stories. The Circle of Love highlights those influential and powerful female figures from all around the world to speak and encourage others to rise and face their challenges. The book took place at CAP Gallery in Kuwait on the 29th of January, 2020 at 7 PM to highlight these powerfully loving women and inspire others to join an existing Circle or start a new Circle of Love.
A rewarding collaboration was made between HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah and one of the photographyâs signature image-makers, Max Vadukul in the Circle of Love book. Coming from a background of photography for The New Yorker and French Vogue, Italian Vogue, EgoiĚste, Rolling Stone, and W Magazine, Max Vadukul played a huge part in featuring the strong women in his playful frame to manifest the real essence of power and resilience seen to one another.
CEO of Intisar Foundation, Karima Anbar mentioned that: âIntisar Foundation is doing a deafening job in helping women affected by war through the use of a therapeutic approach of Drama Therapy. As all proceeds of the book sale go to Intisar Foundation to help and support these women to become more resilient and powerful into spreading peace in the Arab world.â
The Circle of Love event was a huge success for the inspiring and powerful women, as many famous and known attendees like Sheikha Fatima AlSabah, Sheikha Anwar AlSabah, Noor Al Qatami, etc purchased the book to help support women affected by war to overcome their own challenges and merits to grow within. Max Vadukul, lent his naturally gifted ability of photography to perform and showcase the women around the world who are paving the way to a challenging voice of power. Unique signed autographs were granted from the only Max Vadukul to all women signed in black and white for a memorable cause and a moment of support to remember and reminisce over.
The Circle of Love book was a distinctive endeavor and a powerful pursue from her highness HH Sheikha Intisar AlSabah as it is a very common aim and work done formerly. In 2017, Sheikha Intisar collaborated with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to hold an art exhibition entitled âWomen in Warâ, highlighting the challenges faced by women in war-torn areas. After which a book was published called âWomen in Warâ in collaboration with 24 international artists.
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Officially registered as a humanitarian organisation with the Charity Commission for England and Wales in 2019, Intisar Foundation is the first charitable organisation in the Middle East dedicated to providing psychological support programmes of drama therapy to Arab women affected by the brutality of war and violence.
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For more than a month, we are witnessing how international humanitarian law fails to protect Palestinian mothers and children.
Day after day, we have been lamenting and denouncing new acts of violence that brought injustice and the bemoaning loss of innocent lives in Gaza.
And yet, Palestinians in Gaza still face new perils with every next hour.
In writing this letter to the world as a demand for action to end this suffering, I join millions of others who have condemned the continued Israeli aggression and call for an immediate ceasefire.
We at Intisar Foundation also invite you to join us in working on preventing this trauma to linger and gnaw through another generation of Palestinians, and Arabs in general.
The mission of Intisar Foundation is to bring Peace to the Arab world through the psychological recovery of Arab women traumatised by war and violence, which can result in the women stopping the continued cycle of violence inflicted on or by them.
In this way, our work helps Arab homes traumatised by violence become more Peaceful again.
The ripple effect of this outcome can be that Peace flowcharts from one Arab home to another, from one Arab community to another, reaching and affecting our whole region.
In its very essence, therefore, Intisar Foundationâs work has always been about breaking the chains of trans-generational trauma.
While I salute people around the world confronting this injustice – from the worldâs best universities, influencers, civil society activists and organisations, to ordinary people taking to streets and social media to raise their voices for Peace – I am now certain that we will not resolve the Palestinian crisis only with ceasefires, humanitarian aid, or rebuilding their homes and neighbourhoods.
We need to recover and protect the souls of current and future generations of Palestinians, and all Arabs, from this trauma.
To that end, Intisar Foundation is committed to turning this terrible man-made tragedy into a healing woman-led victory for Palestine, for humanity!
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