"Levant" comes from old French for "terres au-delà du soleil levant" or lands beyond the rising sun, the Middle East in the European Middle Ages. This blog will chronicle memories of a little over a year spent in Kuwait City from October 2010 to January 2012. This came at a hiatus in my career between a failed online oil venture called oilelefant.com and before my last gainful employment in the oil patch with a global integrator.