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CAMPUS / COMMUNITY

In recognition of more than 40 different nationalities represented at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, students, alumni, staff and faculty recently attended the International Day on campus. As an annual event that showcases the diversity of different nationalities through traditional dance, attire and cuisine, International Day aims to raise global awareness among the student body, and is one of many cultural days hosted by Carnegie Mellon Qatar.

Carnegie Mellon Qatar celebrates student diversity at ‘International Day’

The St. Regis Doha is holding ‘The St. Regis Cherry Blossom Festival’ from April 19 to April 25.

The festival includes a line-up of education, fashion, food and arts activities inspired by the Japanese culture.

The “Cherry Blossom festival” kicked off with a Kimono show of traditional fashion for women through the ages.

Leanne Mills, Director of Marketing, said: “This programme has been meticulously developed and choreographed between multiple teams in Qatar and Japan. In addition to around 25 Japanese ladies and children get-ting involved, we’re also delighted that two local Qatari designers have taken an interest through our joint connections with The Luxury Network.”

Asma Sckali and Safia Al Qahtani independently collaborated with the teams at The St. Regis Doha, the Japanese Embassy and The Luxury Network to prepare and show a unique collection of abaya designs with heavy influences from Japanese culture and couture.

Following the Fashion Show, on April 20-21, the renowned Japanese artist, Takeshi Ohbayashi returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha with Takuya Kuroda, a

trumpeter and com-poser, to celebrate his homeland.

Every day from 2:30pm, Sarab Lounge at the St. Regis will be serving a special afternoon tea, and on April 22-23, they will be hosting an ‘Ikebana’ flower-arranging lesson fol-lowed by a Chakai ‘Japanese tea’ per-formance, by the wife of Yukio Kitazume, former Ambassador to Qatar.

Throughout the festival, Astor Grill will be decked out in cherry blossom to ensure diners feel the full experience of the festival and will be serving a special Japanese menu.

On April 24, St. Regis Friday brunch will adopt a decidedly Japanese theme, with delicate morsels of Japanese cuisine on the menu.

Closing the week’s festivities, on Saturday, the Japanese School of Doha students will delight and entertain the Cherry Blossom fam-ily picnic crowd with their drum-ming demonstration.

Ambassador of Japan to Qatar Shingo Tsuda said: “This Festival provides an opportunity for the people of Doha to experience a variety of Japanese cultural ele-ments and the Embassy of Japan in Qatar is pleased to see such events happening through the ini-tiative of St. Regis Hotel Doha. We wish success to all the activities at the St. Regis this week.”

The Peninsula

Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates Japanese culture

Kitazume with blossom

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MEDIA

Mathrubhumi, India’s sec-ond largest circulated regional language daily launched its Qatar edi-

tion yesterday. The 92 years -old Malayalam newspaper, with a print run of 1.9mn copies, is published from 14 centres, four of them out-side Kerala.

The Qatar edition is the daily’s second in the Gulf region and it’s launched in a printing partnership with Dar Al Sharq, Qatar’s leading newspaper publishing house. The new edition was launched yester-day by Abdul Latif Al Mahmoud, CEO of Dar Al Sharq, and Sanjiv Arora, Ambassador of India to Qatar.

Mohan Nair, CEO of Mathrubhumi

News, P S Srikumar, General Manager, UAE, Oman, Mathrubhumi, Dr Khalid Al Jaber, Acting Editor in Chief of The Peninsula, Hussain Ahmad, Acting Managing Editor of The Peninsula, and Neegal Noronha, Foreign Publications Manager, Dar Al Sharq were also present with other representatives.

“Mathrubhumi is one of the lead-ing Malayalam newspapers. I hope the relations between India and Qatar will be made stronger with its launch here,” said Arora.

“The brand name Mathrubhumi is well-known among the Malayalee diaspora. This launch is an expan-sion of our publication,” said Nair speaking about the market potential of the newspaper.

“We have studied the market before entering. We were the last to enter the Dubai market, but within a short period of time were able to establish our place,” he said.

Mathrubhumi group publishes ten magazines covering wide range of subjects including cinema and travel. It also owns four radio sta-tions, two television channels and its online portal receives around 150,000 hits. They have also pub-lished more than 2,000 books,

Dar Al Sharq Foreign Publications also prints Malayalam dailies

Malayala Manorama, Varthamanam and Chandrika. It also prints and distributes International New York Times, Pilipino Star Ngayon, Filipino language daily paper, Rajdhani International Weekly, a Nepali lan-guage paper, Lankadeepa Weekly, a Sinhalese language publication and Tamil Times, a Tamil language weekly.

Kanthipoor, a new Nepali lan-guage weekly, will be printed and published from Thursday by Dar Al Sharq Foreign Publications.

The Peninsula

Mathrubhumi launches Qatar edition

Abdul Latif Al Mahmoud and Sanjiv Arora launching the Qatar edition of Mathrubhumi at the Dar Al Sharq office yesterday. Also seen are senior officials from Mathrubhumi, Dar Al Sharq and The Peninsula. Inset: Today’s edition of Mathrubhumi.

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04


ART

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA

There has been a renewed interest in contemporary Middle Eastern art the world over as demonstrated by suc-cessful art fairs and expos and record

sales of leading auction houses. Strong results of Sotheby’s last two contemporary art sales in Doha have proved the insatiable thirst of col-lectors around the world for art from the region and this evening’s auction is expected to be yet another record-breaking one.

Two years ago, Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Doha auction achieved a staggering total of $15,199,750, the highest price ever for an auc-tion of contemporary art in the Middle East. It set nine records, one of which was Icons of the Nile by Egyptian artist Chant Avedissian, which set a record for a living Arab artist at $1.56m.

The sale, which featured 46 lots most of which were by artists from the region, attracted bidding from collectors from 15 countries across four continents-a proof of the strong appeal of the works to art connoisseurs.

Thirteen records were set at last year’s auc-tion whose total sales reached $8,006,625. Thirty-eight of the 53 lots sold were works by Middle Eastern artists. Among the pieces which

broke records were Iranian artist Ali Banisadr’s ‘The Chase’ which fetched $557,000 over an estimated $250,000 and Saudi artist Abdullah Qandeel’s painting ‘The Enemy Within’ which sold at $209,000 (estimated at $20,000-$30,000).

Ashkan Baghestani, Specialist, Middle East Department was quick to confirm state of the market for contemporary art in the region is cur-rently vibrant.

“It is now a market that has blossomed in the last ten years and still doing great. The fairs are doing extremely well. I’ve seen many Western art collectors at this year’s Art Dubai and in the Sharjah Biennale. It’s a great door and I think quality is there,” said Baghestani, contemporary Arab and Iranian art specialist at this evening’s sale.

Middle Eastern art is attracting the attention of Western collectors who go after quality.

“I think Western collectors are realizing the potential of this market. The art market is very strong currently. Middle Eastern art being good quality and well represented by good galleries and museums is another entry point for a lot of collectors who can’t necessarily afford the super expensive artists but still have good budget to acquire the really good Middle Eastern artists,” he said.

Vibrant days for contemporary art in the region

Chant Avedissian, Icons of the Nile

Ali Banisadr, The Shrine

05


Baalbaki, who also achieved world record in 2013 here, is famous for his use of kiffiyeh which has transformed from an ordinary garment to a powerful metaphor of struggle in the Middle East in recent years.

“There is huge demand for art-ists from the region in the West and the great thing is there are now more and more Western collec-tors who are interested in Middle Eastern artists.”

The reasons for rise in demand for Middle Eastern art and the attention it is generating are too many to mention but it may be argued that there has been a shift in focus of artists from the region.

“I think we came out of this very traditional type of art…A lot of art-ists (in the region) are focusing now on expressing more their opinion,” explained Baghestani.

Avedissian, in his 21-piece ‘Icons of the Nile’ portraits presents “a beautiful mosaic of Pan-Arab culture depicting famous celebri-ties, politicians and strong figures from the region.”

With a pre-sale value of $180,000 to $250,000, this Avedissian work is anticipated to do very well at this evening’s auc-tion after the success of his similar work two years ago.

From photography and hand-worked textile panels Avedissian has shifted to stenciled works combining ancient Egyptian hiero-glyphs and dynastic monuments with images of modern national heroes, politicians and famous singers and actors. The work of great magnitude, 120 pieces of which were sold two years ago at the auction, was a result of his sheer concern for the rich Egyptian heritage threatened by the out-break of the first Gulf war.

After the record sale of “The Chase” which sold more than dou-ble its estimated price last year, Ali Banisadr is back with ‘The Shrine” (est. $100,000-$150,000), a unique visual feast to the beholder which exemplifies a marriage between abstraction and figuration.

At first gaze, the viewer per-ceives a sense of chaos and obscurity but as he looks deeper

he recognizes figures and a coher-ent landscape. Inspired by Persian miniatures and war scenes, the painting like in many of Banisadr’s works conveys the artist’s “feelings from his memories as a refugee from the Iran-Iraq war” and repro-duces his “childhood memories of violence, confusion and loss.”

Ayman Baalbaki’s “Al Mulatham I” ($80,000-$120,000) is a capti-vating portrait which “focuses on resistance in the face of challenge, depicting the shrouded face of a lone figure gazing away from the viewer.”

Baalbaki, who also achieved world record in 2013 here, is famous for his use of kiffiyeh which has transformed from an ordinary garment to a powerful metaphor of struggle in the Middle East in recent years.

“The Emergence of the Letter”, a recent work by Qatari artist Yousef Ahmed will be one of the pieces which will be auctioned tonight.

One of the pioneers of art in Qatar, Ahmed raises Arabic cal-ligraphy to a new level creating his medium from locally grown palm leaves and depicting it in a unique three-dimensional style. His works show his love for the country’s beautiful sea, desert and sky.

Another artist who has succes-fully experimented with a number of mediums is prolific Saudi artist Ahmed Mater. “Green Antenna,” an installation made of neon tube, is one of his seminal works whose inspiration was derived from the story of a young boy who wants to communicate with the world.

Mater, who creates art from the story of his life, is the young boy with the antenna.

This auction, Baghestani pre-dicts, will be another record-breaking and very strong sale with the quality and diversity of the collection.

“We hope it does extremely well simply because it is a well-curated

show, the selection is extremely fresh, exciting and vibrant, with the best artist from each country. The artists are extremely good and we hope we reach a wider audience,” he said.

Doha has been an excellent plat-form for Sotheby’s contemporary art auctions in recent years with the presence of museums such as Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art which features contemporary artists from the region, some of whom have works auctioned by Sotheby’s, he says.

As for the contemporary art in the region, he said: “I think the art world in the region is doing extremely well; it’s very vibrant. With various art fairs and with all the patrons, there’s a real desire to grow this market and I think people are very supportive of it.”

The PeninsulaAyman Baalbaki, Al-Mulatham

Farhad Moshiri, I Got SunshineYousef Ahmed, The Emergence of the Letter

Method:Place the prawns in a bowl with the turmeric and

salt. Mix well and set aside while you make the spice powder and paste. Heat a small frying pan and roast all the spice powder ingredients for 7-10 mins on a low heat. Stir every few minutes until they start to release their aroma and change colour. Cool and grind to a fine powder in a coffee/ spice grinder. For the paste heat the tablespoon of oil in a frying pan. Fry the sliced onion on medium heat for 7-10 minutes. As it starts to turn light brown add the grated coconut. Fry for 12-15 minutes stirring frequently. The coconut will start to change colour to a light brown as well. Turn the heat off. Cool the mix and add to a blender with some water to make a smooth paste. Set aside. To make the curry; heat the oil in a heavy bottom sauce pan. Add half the curry leaves letting them splutter for a few seconds. Add the onions and fry on a medium heat for 7-10 minutes. Now add the chopped tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes; they will begin to soften. At this stage add the coconut paste and fry for 3-4 minutes it will start to leave oil from the sides of the pan. Add 2 tbsp of spiced powder along with the chilli powder and stir well frying for a couple of minutes. Now tip in the prawns and cook and simmer for 2-3 minutes until they start to turn opaque and just cooked through. Add the vinegar, sugar and check for seasoning. Also add the coconut milk and the remaining curry leaves. Simmer for a further minute. Turn the heat off garnish with fresh coriander & lemon juice. Serve with a choice of Indian bread or steamed rice.

Priyalmona

Prawn vermicelli

Ingredients:• 250 gm small prawns

• 1 packet Vermicelli

• 2 (chopped) Onions

• 3 (chopped) Tomatoes

• 1 tsp ginger paste

• 1 tsp garlic paste

• 1 ½ tbsp Red chili powder

• ½ tsp coriander powder

• Salt to taste

• ½ cup oil

• 4 green chilies

• ½ cup green spice

• 2 cloves

• 2 pieces cinnamon

• Coriander for garnishing

• Mint for garnishing

Method:Heat oil in a wok, add cloves and stir for 10 sec.

Add onion and sauté over medium heat until pink-

ish brown.

Add garlic, ginger paste, stir for 15 to 20 seconds.

Add tomatoes, salt, red chili powder, coriander

powder and all green spice, stir for 10 minutes on

low flame.

Add prawns and cover for 5 minutes.

Add half glass of water and bring to a boil.

Add vermicelli and mix it very well.

Leave on simmer for 5 to 7 minutes and garnish with

coriander and mint.

Rania

Prawns with tomato and cheese

Ingredients:• 750 gm Prawns

• 400 gm (peeled) tomatoes

• 250 gm feta cheese

• 25 gm onion (chopped)

• 5 gm garlic (chopped)

• 7.5 ml olive oil

• 25 gm scallions

• 1 pinch oregano

• Salt to taste

• Pepper to taste

Method:Heat the olive oil in a saucepan, sauté onion and

garlic.

Add prawns, scallions, tomatoes, oregano, salt and

pepper. Cook till half done.

Place the prawns in dish with cheese.

Bake in a preheated oven at 220°C for 10 minutes.

Garnish with onion. Serve hot.

Hina

Pop corn prawns

Ingredients:•250 gm (small) prawns

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 1/2 tsp black pepper

• 1/2 tsp paprika

• 1/2 tsp mustard powder

For Batter:• 1/2 cup self raising flour

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 1 egg

• Milk as required

• 1 tbsp oil

• Self raising flour as required (to roll prawns)

06


RECIPE CONTEST

WINNER

Prawn Pakoda

Ingredients:• 400gms prawn

• 2 Cup besan

• ½ Cup semolina

• 1 Ripe banana

• 1 tbsp black piper powder

• 3 finely chopped green chili

• ½ cup yogurt

• ½ cup water

• Salt as per taste

• 3 tbsp cooking oil

• ½ tbsp baking soda

• Oil for frying

Method: In one bowl mesh the peeled banana. Then add

all the ingradients other than Prawns, as indicated

above. Stir until all the lumps of Besan disappears.

In a frying pan, take frying oil and make it hot

on medium heat. Wait until oil becomes hot for

proper frying.

Dip the Prawn one by one in a mixture and put

is in hot oil carefully. Deep fry it, until it becomes

golden Brawn.

Prawn Pakodas are taste delicious when served

hot with coriander mint chutney OR Tomato Sauce.

Darshna Nilay

Prawns malai curry

Ingredients:• 1 kg Prawn (small) shelled and deveined

• 2 tsp Turmeric powder

• Salt to taste

• 3 tbsp oil

• 2 Stick cinnamon

• 2 cloves 2

• 4 green cardamom 4

• 2 bay leaves 2

• 2 dried red chilli

• 2 onion 2

• 1 inch pieces ginger grated

• 2 tsp sugar

• 1 tsp turmeric powder

• 1 tsp red chilli powder

• 2 tsp cumin powder

• 1/2 cup coconut milk

• 2 tbsp yogurt

• 1 tbsp ghee

• 2 tbsp coriander leaves chopped

Method:Marinate the prawns with turmeric powder and salt

for an hour. Heat one tablespoon oil in a non stick pan

and saute the prawns till golden brown. Remove and

drain on an absorbant paper.

In the same pan heat two tablespoons oil and add

cinnamon, cloves, green cardamoms, bay leaves and

dry red chilli till fragrant.

Add onions and saute till light golden brown. Add

ginger, sugar, remaining turmeric powder, red chilli

powder and cumin powder and saute for a minute.

Add the sauteed prawns, coconut milk, yogurt and

salt and let it simmer for five to ten minutes. Add ghee

and cook the prawns for two minutes.

Shini

Kolambi masala

Ingredients:• 350gm large prawns shelled and deveined

• 1 tsp turmeric powder

• Pinch of salt

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

• 10 curry leaves

• 1 medium white onion finely chopped

• 2 medium tomatoes finely chopped

• 1 tsp kashmiri chilli powder (or mild paprika; add

a little less if you prefer)

• 1 tbsp malt vinegar

• Pinch of sugar

• 50mls coconut milk (I tend to use the coconut

powder to make up required quantities of coconut

milk)

• Fresh coriander for garnish

For the spice powder;• 4 dried red chillies (mild variety)

• 1 tsp cumin seeds

• 1” cinnamon stick

• 4 cloves

• 1 star anise

• 1 heaped tbsp coriander seeds

• 4 green cardamom (seeds only)

• 2 black cardamom (seeds only)

For the paste;• 1 tbsp vegetable oil

• 1 small onion finely sliced

• 100gms fresh grated coconut

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07


FOOD

BY SARA MOULTON

With summer on its way, my mind has turned to scalloped potatoes, always a big hit at a any feast. And really, what’s not to love? We’re talking about sliced

potatoes baked in a cream sauce, then topped with cheese or crumbs or both! Still, it takes some care to ensure that the potatoes are properly seasoned, properly tender, and creamy as a dream.

I’ve made scalloped potatoes using both russets and Yukon Golds, and each has advantages. The rus-sets pick up more of the flavour of the cream, while the Yukons were firmer and retained more of the flavour of the potato. In this case, I ruled in favour of richness. The russets got the nod.

Whichever you pick, all of the potatoes must be sliced to the same thickness or they’ll cook unevenly. For a home cook working with a knife, this task can be a bit of a challenge. Fortunately, there are a couple of tools to streamline the process: a food processor fitted with the slicing blade (in which case the potatoes will need to be trimmed to fit through the feed tube) and a mandoline (a hand-held slicer). Please, if you’re working with a mandoline, use the guard and be careful when you slice the potatoes.

When I first learned how to make scalloped potatoes,

the routine was to arrange the slices in several layers, seasoning each layer before adding the next, then pour the cream, cream sauce or milk on top. But somehow the final dish never seemed properly seasoned.

A better method is to add an exact amount of salt, garlic and thyme to the milk and cream mixture, then to pour it — deeply seasoned and hot — onto the potatoes. Believe me, those tubers drink it in like they’d been stranded in the desert for a week. And the fin-ished product is amazing.

Scalloped PotatoesStart to finish: 1 hour 30 minutes (35 minutes active)Servings: 8

Ingredients1 1/2 cups whole milk1 1/2 cups heavy cream1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme1 bay leaf2 garlic cloves, smashed1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper3 pounds russet potatoes1 1/2 cups grated Parmesan cheese

Method:Heat the oven to 375 F. Adjust an oven rack to the

middle position.In a medium saucepan, combine the milk, cream,

thyme, bay leaf, garlic, salt and pepper. Bring the mix-ture to a boil, then remove from the heat, cover and let steep while you prepare the potatoes.

Peel the potatoes, then using a mandoline or the slicing disk of a food processor, slice them crosswise into 1/8-inch-thick rounds. Remove and discard the bay leaf and garlic cloves from the milk mixture, then pour about a quarter of the mixture into a 9-by-13-inch baking pan.

Add the potatoes, then the remaining milk mixture to the baking pan. Stir the potatoes to make sure they are separated, then press them down to distribute them evenly.

Bake the potatoes on the middle shelf of the oven until the liquid has thickened and the top is golden, about 40 minutes. Sprinkle the Parmesan evenly over the tops of the potatoes, return the pan to the oven and bake until the top is browned, about 10 minutes.

Cool for 5 minutes before serving.Nutrition information per serving: 390 calories; 200

calories from fat (51 percent of total calories); 23 g fat (14 g saturated; 0.5 g trans fats); 80 mg cholesterol; 40 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 10 g protein; 680 mg sodium. AP

Master perfectly creamy scalloped potatoes

08


FASHION

Home-grown glamour: QELA unveils new range

Special guests at QELA’s Pearl boutique were treated to the latest word in Qatari haute cou-ture at a glamorous tea-party on Saturday. QELA, Qatar’s own luxury brand, hosted the

preview event to allow clients and the press an early viewing of its new collection of essential classics. Models presented the collection accompanied by live classical music from a violin string quartet.

Compact and timelessly stylish, the range features a small number of garments that together comprise a perfectly adaptable wardrobe for today’s busy profes-sional woman. Timeless pieces such as the little black dress, jumpsuits, cocktail dresses, two-piece outfits, dusters and capes are interpreted as simple, modern ensembles, apt for any occasion.

H E Sheikha Noor bint Hamad Al Thani, the official spokesperson and brand image VP for QELA explained some of the thinking behind the collection: “Our clients live remarkable lives, often tightly scheduled between professional appointments, high-end social events and extensive travel. QELA’s essentials comprise the distillation of our characteristic style into one absolute wardrobe: in short, those pieces one simply cannot do without. The ten different looks on show this evening offer a glimpse into the exquisitely versatile, coherent lines of these signature QELA classics which are designed always to be offered at QELA’s boutique.”

QELA’s essential palette embraces nude hues and variously textured blacks. The harmonising paler tones are inspired by the colours of the Qatari desert: sand dunes, sun and shadow, and the many subtle shades of camel-wool, the traditional Bedouin weaving material. The blacks meanwhile emphasise the high tactile and visual qualities of the materials used and the minimal, clean lines of the designs. A pop of red adds a spring touch and links to QELA’s colour of the season.

The new essentials collection also revisits QELA’s signature designs, influenced by Qatari tradition, of the bisht (cloak) and mashrabiya (privacy screen), a welcome affirmation of elegant modesty for the Ramadan season. The silhouette of the bisht is reinterpreted as two duster coats, one of which is also ornamented with classic bisht embroidery, as is one of the trouser designs. QELA’s complex, subtle mashrabiya pattern reappears as an embroidery motif in red on a short cocktail dress, and again as an element of the nude embroidered organza

panels featuring on a camel cape. Another QELA signature element, the asymmetric

‘Fann’ (Art) buckle, is newly interpreted in a doubled and locked design in gold which is incorporated in almost all the new classics in the form of belt closures.

The Peninsula

09


HEALTH & FITNESS

What is anaphylaxis and how is it caused?

My friend had an anaphylactic reac-

tion to something she ate recently.

What is anaphylaxis and how is it

caused?

Anaphylaxis is a serious allergic reaction that usu-ally develops very quickly. Without prompt treatment anaphylaxis can be fatal.

Anaphylaxis is triggered when the immune sys-tem overreacts to a usually harmless substance (an aller-gen such as food or medication) caus-ing mild to severe symptoms that affect various parts of the body.

Symptoms usu-ally appear within a few minutes to several hours after eating a particular food, swallowing medication or being stung by an insect.

Anaphylaxis requires immediate medical treat-ment, including an injection of epinephrine and a trip to a hospital emergency room. Sometimes symptoms go away, then return a few hours later, so it is important to seek treatment as soon as the anaphylactic reaction begins and to remain under medical observation for as long as the reaction and symptoms continue.

There are many symptoms of anaphylaxis includ-ing shortness of breath, chest pain, tight throat, diz-ziness, low heart rate and blood pressure, fainting, itchy skin, vomiting, diarrhea, and cramps.

The most dangerous symptoms are low blood pressure, breathing difficulty and loss of conscious-ness, all of which can be fatal. If you have any of these symptoms, particularly after eating, taking medication or being stung by an insect, seek medi-cal care immediately. Don’t wait to see if symptoms go away or get better on their own.

People who are aware of their allergies - often as a result of having suffered an anaphylactic reaction before – should carry an autoinjectible epinephrine (often referred to as an EpiPen) with them at all times. This can be used immediately to inject epinephrine (adrenaline) into the body to reduce the symptoms of anaphylaxis.

Contributed by Hamad Medical Corporation

Dr Mehdi Adeli,

Senior Consultant Allergy and Immunology at HMC

BY DORENE INTERNICOLA

Sweatworking, the growing practice of meeting clients for a walk, a run or a fit-ness class, is elbowing networking out of cafes and restaurants and into boutique

fitness studios.A yoga, barre or spin class has become the new

nine holes of golf, fitness experts said, chased by a post-workout smoothie rather than a three-martini lunch.

“Sweatworking was born out of a desire to con-nect with clients on a deeper level that wasn’t so sales-y,” said Sarah Siciliano, 32, an advertising executive who has been entertaining clients with workouts. “A lot of sales jobs revolve around cafes.”

Siciliano, who is based in New York City, considers taking her mostly female clients, who range in age from 22 to 52, to yoga, spinning, bootcamp and dance studios a great tool to develop relationships.

“People like to move along with the trends,” said Siciliano, who organizes her workout events.

“I do all the leg work but I exercise everyday any-way so for me it’s a win-win,” she said. “If you can knock out a client event and your workout at the same time, why not?”

Sweatworking began in the advertising world, but has spread to more traditionally conservative profes-sions such as law and banking, according to Alexia

Brue, co-founder of the wellness media company Well+Good.

“Now a lot of client entertaining in many indus-tries has moved into boutique studios,” she said, “especially to those with workouts that aren’t super awkward, or super-sweaty to do with a client.”

Gabby Etrog Cohen, vice president of public rela-tions and brand strategy at SoulCycle, a national chain of 39 indoor cycling studios, said in four years sweatworking has become a regular part of her business.

“We get a mixed bag, a lot of people in financ-ing and advertising,” said Cohen. “We have groups that come in every week. One group comes every Thursday.”

Part of the appeal, she speculates, resides in the dim studio lights.

“There’s something about not wanting to sweat in front of clients,” she said. “We ride in the dark so there’s a sense of anonymity.”

For 45 minutes and $35 per class, the studio provides an alternative to the traditional four-hour round of golf.

Cohen said the rise of sweatworking marks the distance traveled from the chain-smoking, inebri-ated lifestyle of the 1960’s portrayed in the hit AMC series Mad Men.

“We’ve taken Mad Men and turned it on its head,” she said. Reuters

Sweatworking mixes business with exercise

10


HOLLYWOOD

Actor Angelina Jolie and husband Brad Pitt are reportedly planning to adopt a little Syrian girl as their seventh child.The star duo already

have Cambodian-born Maddox, Vietnamese Pax, Ethiopian Zahara, biological daughter Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.

A business associate, who has known Pitt and Jolie, has been quoted by the Daily Express as saying: “She has been moved to tears on several occasions over the plight of youngsters orphaned in the Syrian conflict. Now she has sorted out her health issues, she and Brad believe the time is right to adopt another orphan from there, most likely a daughter.”

The 39-year-old actress had a surgery last month to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes and two years ago had a double mastectomy after learning she car-ries a gene mutation which greatly increases the risks

of developing breast and ovarian cancers. Jolie has made at least six visits to Syrian refugee

camps since 2012 in her role as a special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

According to latest reports, at least 70,000 chil-dren have lost their fathers and a further 3,700 have had both parents either killed or imprisoned or have been separated from them while fleeing the civil war.

In a plea in November 2013, the Unbroken actress called on the world to act “to save a generation of traumatised, isolated and suffering Syrian children from catastrophe”.

Now she and her husband Pitt are ready to follow up on her appeal by legally adopting a Syrian child.

Another friend revealed: “This is something that has become very close to their hearts. They would like to accomplish it, if possible, before the end of summer because, even though they are both busy,

their diaries are relatively light for most of 2015.”“Angelina’s feeling good about turning 40 in June

with a clean bill of health but what will make her happiness complete is seeing a new little face at the dinner table.” the friend added. IANS

Brangelina hoping to adopt seventh child?

BY BRENT LANG

Furious 7 ran laps around the competition, picking up $29.1m in its third weekend of release, according to studio estimates. The fast cars sequel withe the gravity-defying

stunts is barreling toward the $300m mark Stateside, having already hurtled past the $1bn mark globally. Domestically, Furious 7 has earned $294.4m.

“This is how you build a record year,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Rentrak. “These are summer-style numbers in April.”

Despite Furious 7’s continued dominance, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 did better than expected, pulling in a solid $24m across 3,633 locations. It had been projected to fall short of the $20m barrier.

It’s good news for Sony Pictures, which had a painful chapter from its recent history dredged up this week when Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks published an archive of emails and documents that were stolen by hacker group Guardians of Peace. However, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 could not match the $31.8m debut of the first film in the Blart chronicles.

With a modest $30m production budget, the sequel will be profitable, Sony execs said.

“It was a little scary to be in [Furious 7’s] wake, but that Blart is tough stuff,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s dis-tribution chief. “We exceeded expectations and held our ground despite this juggernaut.”

The film brought back Kevin James as the hapless shopping center cop, but transplanted the segway she-nanigans to Las Vegas. Critics were savage, handing Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 a 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

“This movie is about having fun and having some laughs with the whole family, and it delivers on that,” said Bruer. “If critics don’t get that, I guess maybe they needed to see it with an audience or bring their kids.”

Universal has been racking up big numbers with Furious 7, and the studio scored another hit with the micro-budget horror film Unfriended. The look at a group of teenagers engaging in some digital-age bully-ing cost a measly $1m to produce, returning that many times over after one weekend in theatres.

Unfriended made $16m across 2,739 theaters. Going into the weekend, the studio had predicted a debut in the $12m range, but the movie struck a chord with teen viewers.

“It’s a very cool concept and it’s very timely,” said Nicholas Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution.

“Our marketing really emphasized the digital realm, which helped us reach our core audience.”

It’s another success for Universal and Blumhouse, which have previously enjoyed capacious profit mar-gins on the likes of The Purge, Ouija and The Boy Next Door. Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) produced Unfriended.

Pity poor Child 44. The Soviet serial killer thriller with Tom Hardy bombed, earning a doleful $600,000 in just 510 theatres. Lionsgate, the studio distributing the film, did sell some foreign territories to mitigate its financial exposure and brought in check-writing partners such as Worldview Entertainment, but with a $50m pricetag, Child 44 is shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest flops.

Disney’s The Monkey Kingdom bowed in seventh place, earning $4.7m from 2,012 locations, while Fox Searchlight’s True Story earned $1.9m from 831 thea-tres. True Story, a look at murder and journalistic ethics,

had big names in James Franco and Jonah Hill, but its $2,323 per-screen average is disappointing. Along with Child 44, it demonstrates the difficulty of launching a film geared at adults in the blockbuster era.

With Furious 7, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, and Unfriended taking up the first three slots, the top five was rounded out by Home with $10.3m and The Longest Ride with $6.9m. Home has made $142.6m since debuting last month, while The Longest Ride has lassoed $23.5m.

In limited release, Ex Machina expanded from four to 39 screens this weekend, generating the highest per-screen average in the country for the second week in a row, and adding $814,293 to its haul. The brainy sci-fi film has made $1.1m.

Noah Baumbach’s mid-life crisis comedy While We’re Young made $1.6m from 713 theatres. It has taken $4.2m since debuting four weeks ago.

Reuters

Furious 7 outruns Paul Blart 2, Unfriended

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ENTERTAINMENT

People are fainting during Mohenjo Daro shoot: Hrithik

Actor Hrithik Roshan is finding it tough to shoot for Mohenjo Daro in dust storms. However, he is happy that the “film is progressing fantastically”.

“We are working very hard in the middle of dust storms. It’s a tough shoot. What to say... people are fainting on the set. But we are at it,” Hrithik said here at an event.

“The film is going very well. The shooting is progressing fantastically,” he added.

Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, Mohenjo Daro is an epic love story set in the Indus Valley civilization. It is being extensively shot in Bhuj.

Meanwhile, reports are doing the rounds that Hrithik will go nude for a crucial scene of the film. When asked about it, he quipped: “I don’t go nude in films, but some-where else.”

Mr. X earns `140mat box office

A tale of an invisible man taking on the bad-dies in the latest Hindi sci-fi release Mr. X may have failed to impress critics, but it has raked

in Rs140m in its opening weekend.Produced by Vishesh Films and directed by Vikram

Bhatt, the film features Emraan Hashmi as an invis-ible man who seeks revenge for all the wrongs done to him. It also features Amyra Dastur and Arunoday Singh.

According to the production house, the film recorded ̀ 45m on Friday and ̀ 43.9m on Saturday. On Sunday, the figure was ̀ 51m, summing up to ̀ 140m.

The film is made on a budget of `400m (including marketing and distribution costs) and has already received `270m (for satellite and music rights), read a statement.

BY SUBHASH K JHA

Film: CourtCast: Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi and Vira SathidharDirector: Chaitanya TamhaneRating: ****

For many stretches of sto-rytelling, when the silence mingles into the sound of the humdrum, the camera simply

stands and stares at the goings-on. It’s not the way an outsider looks into a world he isn’t familiar with. It’s the look of ‘One Who Knows’.

Mrinal Desai’s camera is a quietly observant, an unobtrusively attentive entity in debutant director Chaitanya Tamhane’s amazing work of unalloyed documentation. And that’s the way it ought to be. This is a wise film that car-ries the knowledge of life, the burden of existence and the unbearable light-ness of being on its shoulders without expecting to be congratulated for it.

Court scoffs at all classification. It is neither a “film” nor a “documentary”, neither all-knowing nor naive, it hovers in a sphere of utter unselfconscious-ness, creating for itself the kind of nar-rative compulsions we have never seen before.

Nothing really ‘happens’ in Court. Nothing that would be considered cinematically defining or a moment of revelation that could be used as a screenshot at the awards functions.

Tamhane leaves behind all the things that they teach filmmakers in film schools and plunges into real life. Forget other courtroom dramas that you’ve grown up watching on screen. Tamhane takes us into a world that is so accessible it seems to exist in a realm

that is the opposite of virtual reality.The story of an old street balladeer

Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar) who ends up in the dock on charges of sedi-tion is so bizarre, it can only happen in real life and certainly not in a film. That Tamhane actually films those pauses from real life where cinema cannot pen-etrate, is a measure of how innovative his vision.

Public prosecutor Nutan (Geetanjali Kulkarni) is a woman of steel whose face melts into unexpected housewifely gossip when discussing children and food habits with a female friend on the local train back home after a hard day of grilling and arguing in the session’s court.

The understated perfection in the detailing of the public prosecutor’s household (the lady’s son eats on the diwan, the daughter eats sitting on the floor) conveys a level of mastery over the medium where self-congratulation seems like a joke. This is the world we know and recognise and probably never associate with the heightened drama of cinema.

Leaving behind the rabble-rousing rhetorics of the best courtroom dra-mas — from B R Chopra’s Kanoonto Saeed Mirza’s Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho to Rajkumar Santoshia Ghayal — Tamhane’s Court creates a perfectly recognisable world of biases, preju-dices, malice and inequality punctuated by rare bouts of compassion.

The film avoids Indians’ tendency of looking away from trouble.

The court proceedings are seen through a series of hearings that cap-ture the progressive futility of a system of governance that cannot see and hear the sheer absurdity of the bookish lan-guage, that is adopted with myopic directness.

While the narrative looks at the irony of an old decrepit man being tried for crimes that he has probably never heard of, it also looks at the lives of those sit-ting in judgment on Narayan Kamble’s life. The unvarnished beauty of this tale about the process of the law is that it doesn’t allow itself to get judgemental about the lives of the any of the people involved. It does allow itself the occa-sional smile, though.

At one point when the honourable judge Sadvarte (Pradeep Joshi) yet again adjourns Kamble’s case, mid-dle-aged woman Mercy Fernandes’ case comes up next. The judge, in all seriousness, refuses to Mercy’s plea (Mercy plea?) because — and I quote the honourable judge — “she wears a sleeveless blouse which is against the rules of courtroom behaviour”.

Oh yes, the judge too has his own life. And we see him on a holiday at the end of the film. A holiday that ends with a slap whose resonance we’ll hear for

a very long time.Court is so true to life as to almost

make us forget there’s a camera captur-ing the lives of normal litigators, lawyers and other tax-payers grappling with never-ending court sessions and the dreariness of everyday life.

The storytelling is stripped of all arti-fice to create the opposite of cinematic splendour. For long stretches, the cam-era doesn’t move, thereby creating a train of stage-like visuals.

And yet, Court conveys just the opposite of theatricality. Nothing like this has been witnessed before in our cinema. We won’t even mention the actors. To laud them for their perform-ances is to insult the intent of the film. No one is acting in this film. Everybody is reacting. Chaitanya Tamhane is that voice of truth that the film’s primary accused sings about.

Court speaks several languages, many of them unspoken. Some of them unheard. IANS

Court: Truth finds its voice

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COMICS & MORE

Hoy en la HistoriaApril 21, 1990

1506: Over 1,900 suspected Jews were slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics in what is known as the Lisbon Massacre 1960: Brasilia became the new capital city of Brazil1985: Tancredo Neves, Brazilian president-elect, died on the eve of his swearing-in2010: The lease allowing Russia’s Black Sea Fleet to be stationed in Ukraine was extended by 25 years in return for cheaper gas

Erté, noted French designer of the Art Deco period, died. In the 1920s he created costumes for the Folies Bergeres, the Ziegfield Follies and early Hollywood films

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

ALL IN THE MINDCan you find the hidden words? They may be horizontal,vertical, diagonal, forwards or backwards.

ANUBIS, APIS, BASILISK, BAST, BUNYIP, CENTAUR, CERBERUS,CHIMERA, DRAGON, ELVES, ERINYES, EUMENIDES, GIANT,GNOME, GOBLIN, GORGON, GRIFFIN, HARPY, HORUS, HYDRA,LEPRECHAUN, LEVIATHAN, LYCANTHROPE, MERMAID,MINOTAUR, NYMPH, PEGASUS, PIXIE, SATYR, SCYLLA, SIREN,SPHINX, THOTH, TRITON, TROLL, TYPHON, UNICORN, VAMPIRE,WEREWOLF, WYVERN.

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

ZITS

BLONDIE

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

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CROSSWORDS

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HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

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is solved by filling the

numbers from 1 to 9

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ACROSS

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6 Paper job

15 Words repeated after “I

shall no more,” in “The

Tempest”

16 Say

17 When bars close in

Boston

18 TV screen format

19 Subject of a standing

order?

21 ___ COIN

22 Super-corny

26 Pair

27 Font menu choice

28 It’s between -1 and +1

29 Bag

30 Source of conflict, in

antiquity

31 Film, e.g.

33 12/

34 Biker chick, perhaps

35 Dude

38 Invention that prompted

NBC to adopt the

peacock logo

39 ___ seeds, ingredients

in some health drinks

40 “Gotcha,” in old lingo

43 Star followers

44 Something that’s fallen

off a shelf?

45 What an article may

refer to

46 Herb used in Thai food

48 Fair

50 Italian after-dinner drink

51 Party to a tryst

55 Toy company that

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Cube

56 Like bulldogs

57 Finely prepare

58 Something on either

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59 One advised to take

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2 Call from the cellar

3 Like most philosophy

dissertations

4 Ones involved in an

elaborate courtship

5 Breaks

6 Radar’s rank on

“M*A*S*H”: Abbr.

7 Bank deposit?

8 Universal area

9 Through

10 Kitchen brand

11 Like many new mothers

12 Still being tested

13 One running home,

maybe

14 Modern-day “Let’s stay

in touch”

20 Agave product

23 Montreal eco-tourist

attraction

24 Anemone, to name one

25 “Just relax, will you?!”

29 Chase scene producer,

for short

32 Classic storyteller

who wrote under

the pseudonym

Knickerbocker

34 Punch

35 Depreciates

36 Valuable commodity in

New York City

37 What some homemade

signs announce

38 Anchors of some malls

39 Box in a cab

40 Spark

41 Comedian Paul

42 Kind

46 Words that are rarely

spoken

47 Teller of many tales

49 Unscrewed

52 [Thumbs up]

53 End of many a long

race: Abbr.

54 P.E.I. setting

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be used but, like sudoku, each number

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CINEMA

LAST KNIGHTS

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

SCREEN 1 Big Game (2D/Action)

10:10am, 12:00noon, 1:50, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45 & 11:45pm

SCREEN 2 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2D/Action)

10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:000midnight

SCREEN 3 The Last Knights (2D/Action)

10:15am, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 4 The Cobbler (2D/Comedy)

11:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 5 The Unbeatables (2D/Animation) 11:00am & 1:00pm

Child 44 (2D/Drama) 3:00, 5:45, 8:30 & 11:15pm

SCREEN 6 In Fear (2D/Horror) 11:30am, 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pm

Cake (2D/Drama) 1:30, 5:30 & 9:30pm

SCREEN 7 Hadeed (2D/Arabic) 10:00am, 2:00, 6:00 & 10:00pm

Kill Me Three Times (2D/Action) 12:00noon, 4:00, 8:00pm&12:00midnight

SCREEN 8 Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action)

12:00noon. 2:45, 5:30, 8:15 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 9 Fast & Furious 7 (IMAX 2D/Action)

10:30am, 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 & 11:50pm

SCREEN 10 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2D/Action)

11:30am, 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pm

Big Game (2D/Action) 1:30, 5:30 & 9:30pm

NOVO

MALL

LANDMARK

ROYAL PLAZA

SCREEN 1 O Kadhal Kanmani (Tamil) 2:00pm

Kill Me Three Times (2D/Action) 4:30pm Mall Cop (2D/Action)

6:15pm In Fear (2D/Horror) 8:00pm Hadeed (2D/Arabic) 9:30pmLast Knights (2D/Action) 11:30pm

SCREEN 2 The Unbeatables (2D/Animation) 2:30pm

Cinderella (2D/Drama) 4:15pm Big Game (2D/Action) 6:15pm

Ennum Eppozhum (2D/Malayalam) 8:15pm

Child 44 (2D/Drama) 11:00pmSCREEN 3 Cake (2D/Drama) 2:30pm Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action)

4:15, 8:45 & 11:00pm Last Knights (2D/Action) 6:30pm


Cake (2D/Drama) 4:15pm Mall Cop (2D/Action) 6:00pm

In Fear (2D/Horror) 7:45pm

Hadeed (2D/Arabic) 9:15pm Child 44 (2D/Drama) 11:00pmSCREEN 2 Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 2:30, 6:45 & 9:00pm

Cinderella (2D/Drama) 4:45pm Last Knights (2D/Action) 11:15pm

SCREEN 3 Kill Me Three Times (2D/Action) 2:30pm

O Kadhal Kanmani (Tamil) – 4:00pm Last Knights (2D/Action)

6:30pm Ennum Eppozhum (2D/Malayalam) 8:30pm

Big Game (2D/Action) 11:15pm

SCREEN 1 Mr. X (2D/Hindi) 2:30pm

Last Knights (2D/Action) 4:45pm

Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 7:00 & 11:15

Mall Cop (2D/Action) 9:30pm

SCREEN 2 Mall Cop (2D/Action) 2:30pm

Kill Me Three Times (2D/Action) 4:30pm

Big Game (2D/Action) 6:30pm Mr. X (2D/Hindi) 8:30pm

Last Knights (2D/Action) 11:00pm


Cake (2D/Drama) 5:00pm Hadeed (2D/Arabic) 7:00pm

Child 44 (2D/Drama) 9:00pm In Fear (2D/Horror) 11:30pm

A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master in a sword-clashing adventure of loyalty, honor, and vengeance.

Directors: Kazuaki Kiriya

Writers: Michael Konyves, Dove Sussman

Stars: Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie

WESTEND PARKSCREEN 1 O Kadhal Kanmani (Tamil) 9:45pm

Ennum Eppozhum (Mal) 4:15 & 7:00pm

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DOHA EVENTS

IN FOCUS

A view from inside of Souq Waqif.

Until 16 May

Venue: 1 & 18 La Croisette, Porto Arabia – The Pearl-QatarVenue: FreeTime: 10:00-20.00

Join with your children for a fun family activity “Rainbow Park” at The Pearl-Qatar, where children will consider art as the art of lifestyle and culture by playing and being creative with unharmful colored sand and enabling them to build and create different shapes.

27 APRIL - 28 APRIL

VENUE: Qatar National Convention CenterADMISSION: FREETime: 9:00-21:00

Qatar Green Building Conference ‘The Vision 2014’ will address sustainability issues and focus on providing solutions to some of the most significant challenges for the built environment in the future. For more information visit: http://www.qatargbc.org/

29 April — 02 May

Venue: Doha Exhibition CenterAdission: FreeTime: 12:00 — 22:00

IWED is a wedding exhibition that will feature trend-setting facets to deliver a unique and superficial experience in planning an exquisite day of perfection.The International Wedding Exhibition and Fashion Show Doha bring wedding trends and opportunity of connecting the services providers to set up for the big occasion.

23 April

Venue: Aspire Park (behind Burgerry)Time: 17:30 to 19:30

Aspire Zone Foundation in conjunction with Umm-Salama Primary Independent School for Girls will offer a series of activities run by the students for the kids. The event showcases series of afterschool activities related to sport, theatre, art and health awareness. Participation is open to the kids between 4 and 13 years old. The event will offer dedicated area including: Talent’s corner, Parent’s corner, Scientific corner, Health corner & Arts corner.

Rainbow

Park

The Vision

Conference

2015

UNTIL 31 AUGUST

VENUE: Qatar Museums Gallery KataraADMISSION: Free

The exhibition will showcase Ismael Azzam’s distinctive portraits of painters and sculptors who have made a significant contribution to Arab Art, with the entire body of work created exclusively for this show. Ismail is of Iraqi origin, and moved to Doha in 1996.

Ismael Azzam:

For Them -

Exhibition

25 April

VENUE: Katara Art StudiosADMISSION: QR100Time:14:00-29:00

Every Saturday, from 2 to 7 pm for all age groups. Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding.It is fun and relaxing and require nothing more than a piece of square sheet of paper. Paper folding has been shown to aid relaxation, concentration, hand eye co-ordination and memory. To register e-mail [email protected] or call 44080233.

Origami Family

Workshop

Send your photos to [email protected]. Please mention where the photo was taken.

Send your event details to [email protected]

Until 21 April

Venue: VCUQatar GalleryAdmission: Free

‘Flatlands Remix’ brings together David Batchelor’s intricate and vibrant drawings, as well as his more recent exploration into painting. Held in partnership with the British Council as part of the British Festival 2015, this exhibition is based on David Batchelor’s recent solo exhibition ‘Flatlands’ (2013).

David Batchelor:

Flatlands

Exhibition

23-24 April

Time: 18:00 - 21:00Venue: Qatar Racing ClubVenue: Free

Round 6 of the National Drift Championship. Following the success of Formula Drift Qatar, the coming season promises an action packed smoke filled championship with competitors from across the arab world. More information at www.qrczone.com.

QRC Drift

Championship

Round 6

IWED

2015

Until 11 July

Venue: Museum Of Islamic ArtAdmission: Free

This exhibition focuses on the real and mythical animals that feature in the legends, tales, and fables of the Islamic world. Divided into the natural quadrants of earth, air, fire, and water, these marvellous creatures serve as the introductions and bridges for the stories in which they feature.

Marvellous

Creatures:

Animal Fables In

Islamic Art

by Daniel San Andres Mana-ay

My School

In Aspire

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