Kuwaiti actress Ilham Al-Fadala responded to media reports claiming that her nationality had been revoked, via a live broadcast on her Snapchat account, where she answered her followers’ questions and firmly denied any such action.

Al-Fadala emphasized that her family is one of the founding families of Kuwait and among the earliest to settle there, stating: "We are founders, not naturalized." Historical sources indicate that the Al-Fadala family is a long-established Kuwaiti family whose ancestors arrived in Kuwait at the beginning of the 18th century, along with other Al-Atoub families, initially settling in the eastern part of the country.

Citizenship Revocation Campaign in Kuwait

It is reported that the Kuwaiti government issued several royal decrees under which nationality was revoked from a number of individuals, including artists, media figures, and football players, such as the late actor Abdulmohsen Al-Suhail and those who acquired nationality through him, the late actor Abdulrazzaq Ibrahim Al-Khalaf, known as “Borziga,” as well as singers Nawal El Kuwaitia and Dawood Hussein.

Following the controversy surrounding these decisions, Kuwaiti Interior Minister Sheikh Fahd Al-Yousef Al-Sabah confirmed that the measures are part of the state’s efforts to regulate the naturalization file according to the law, in line with directives from the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

The minister explained in a TV interview on the program Theater of Life with journalist Ali Al-Aliani that some individuals were granted Kuwaiti nationality in previous periods under the title of "great services," questioning the actual contributions that justified their naturalization, and noting that reviewing the files revealed cases where no real contributions had been made.