Zahra Arafat
Bahraini actress
Zahra Arafat (Arabic: زهرة عرفات; born November 8, 1969), is a Bahraini actress residing in Kuwait. She settled in Kuwait in 1997, and she would begin her performing career that year co-starring with Tariq Al-Ali in I Won’t Live Under My Wife’s Mantel. Her career continued since then with appearances in many works for television and theatre throughout the Persian Gulf region.
“Zahra Arafat” enters the record as bahraini actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zahra, Arafat and Bahraini can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12214700. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969 and 1997.
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