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Hala February Festival in Kuwait City/Multi-city
Hala February is Kuwait's month-long national celebration marking National Day and Liberation Day, running concerts, parades, exhibitions and shopping promotions across Kuwait City and its suburbs. First held in 1999, it stands as the country's largest annual civic and cultural festival, anchoring Kuwait's broader winter calendar.
Hala February began in 1999 as a deliberate effort to build a unifying national celebration around Kuwait's two most significant modern anniversaries, National Day on the twenty-fifth of the month, marking Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah's 1950 accession as Amir, and Liberation Day on the twenty-sixth, commemorating the country's 1991 liberation from Iraqi occupation.