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Tareq Al-Sayid Rajab | |
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| Born | Tareq Sayid Fakhri Al-Sayid Rajab 8 November 1934 |
| Died | 26 June 2016 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | Kuwaiti |
| Occupation(s) | Chairman of the New English School, Director of the Tareq Rajab Museum |
| Spouse | Jehan Al-Sayid Rajab
(m. 1955) |
Tareq Sayid Fakhri Al-Sayid Rajab (1934 - 26 June 2016) was a distinguished Kuwaiti educator, artist, archaeologist, collector of Islamic art and cultural preservationist.
Tareq was born in Kuwait in 1934 and was raised in the scholarly household of his grandfather, Sayid Omar Asim, a significant figure in Kuwaiti education and the first headmaster of Al-Mubarakiya School, established in 1911. At the age of 14, in 1948, Tareq traveled to Baghdad, where he began collecting manuscripts. In 1952, he won an art competition at his school, which led to a scholarship to study art in England, making him the first Kuwaiti to study art and later archaeology in the West. Upon his return to Kuwait, he joined the Department of Antiquities and Museums, part of the Ministry of Education, becoming its first Director. In this role, he established Kuwait's first National Museum in the old palace of Sheikh Khaz'al and oversaw archaeological excavations on Failaka Island during the 1960s, where he also opened both archaeological and ethnographic museums.
Due to his concerns about Kuwait's rapid modernization and its impact on historical preservation, Tareq resigned from the Department of Antiquities. In 1969, he founded the New English School, the first institution in Kuwait to offer a British secondary education. His interest in Islamic art led to the opening of the Tareq Rajab Museum in 1980, the first Islamic art museum in the region. By 1986, he had also established the New English School in Amman, Jordan. Tareq served as Kuwait's representative to UNESCO during the mid-2000s, continuing his work in cultural preservation and education.