2019 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 1(1) interfering with Kuwaiti ‘national identity’. 57 To counter it, the Bidoon worked in collaboration with the Kuwaiti Lawyers Association to draft an alternative law, in order to pressure Members of Parliament to adopt it instead. 58 The ‘lawyer’s law’, as it has been called, would entail the immediate naturalisation of a large number of the Bidoon under certain categories. This draft was not taken seriously. 59 Neither law has passed, and the Bidoon remain perpetually stateless. 57 58 59 ‘Kuwait Promises “Fair Solution” for Stateless Bidoon Population, but Rejects Citizenship’, The New Arab (online, 23 July 2019) <https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/23/kuwait-promises-solutions-forbidoon-population-but-rejects-citizenship>; Al-Anbaa, ‘Al-Ghanim: The Solution of the “Bidoon” is close’ Al-Anbaa (online, 9 April 2019) <https://www.alanba.com.kw/ar/kuwaitnews/parliament/922133/05-09-2019%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85-%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A8/?>. ‘Lawyers Propose a Law to End the Conditions of the Bidoon’, Al-Jarida Newspaper (online, 30 October 2019) <https://www.aljarida.com/articles/1572449410382985800/>. ibid. 130