[6] Al-Qabas' in early days were characterized by Mohammed Al-Sager, who had been its dynamic editor-in-chief since 1982 until his election in the Kuwait National Assembly in 1999.
The paper had maintained the most extensive foreign correspondent staff of any Kuwaiti newspaper with large bureaus in Washington, London, Beirut, Cairo, and Moscow.
[4] The paper's editor, Mohammed Al-Sager, is a winner of the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists "for courageous reporting on political and human rights issues in the face of government threats of censorship and prosecution".
Its flagship show, The Black Box featured 32 interviews with controversial former Kuwaiti MP and academic Abdullah Al-Nafisi.
Subsequent seasons featured extensive interviews with former Guantanamo detention camp detainee Faiz Al Kandari.