A leading music distributor has shuttered its Kuwait operations after…the Gulf states’s censorship of albums and artwork…Music Master, which distributes music from major labels such as Universal, Sony and EMI, said…“It comes down to censorship issues. There is too much censorship to justify having a full-scale operation there,”…Kuwait, like many Gulf states, has walked a careful line between modernising its society and maintaining its more conservative traditions. Music shops were closed in 2008 and politicians called for music education to be banned in 2009.