Muzakkirat Fattuma al-kuwaytiyya as-saghira (Recollections of a Small Kuwaiti Fattuma) published in 1992 deals with the period of armed aggression against Kuwait – from the first day, i.e. 2nd of August 1992 to the last day, which was the 26th of February 1991 – as seen through the eyes of a child. Fattuma, Thurayya's then nine-year-old daughter notes down her recollections with her mother's help and illustrates them with own illustrations.

This text increases in world literature the genre of children's confessions collected in the form of prose, the foremost example of which in Europe is Anne Frank's Diary. The war experiences of children are always the greatest violation of their rights and undeserved wrong, the traces of which are usually felt through their whole life. They will not be children, but they are already people – wrote Janusz Korczak, the great friend of children and defender of their rights: They deserve a third of the produce and riches of the earth – out of right and not charity. The fruits of a third of the victories of human thought are theirs – he wrote demanding equal rights for children in relation to adults and their protection in the face of cruel reality. Relating to the last cited thought Fattuma's diary seems to be such a victory of thought. Returning once more to Korczak's thinking from the reading of Muzakkirat Fattuma al-kuwaytiyya as-saghira (Recollections of a Small Kuwaiti Fattuma) strikes the certainty of the truth in his superb identification of the human relation of generations, which he had already concluded in the ghetto in addressing children in the orphanage: And this is the truth that everyone ought to understand and remember well: we are bringing you up, but you are also bringing us up.