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CINEMA

The Doha Film Institute (DFI) is holding for the first time a live-feed telecast of the Cannes Film Festival opening cer-

emony and red carpet on May 13. DFI will also organise a screening

series from May 13 to 15 showing a selection of favourite films from past editions of the world’s most prestigious film festival along with a photo gallery and giveaways.

The films to be showcased at the ‘Festival de Cannes Special’ at Katara Cultural Village include 2013 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner Omar by two-time Academy Award nominee Hany Abu-Assad; 2014 Palm d’Or winner Winter Sleep by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan; The Search, directed by Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), which screened at Cannes 2014; and 2013 Grand Prix winner Inside Llewyn Davis by 2015 Cannes Jury Presidents, the Coen Brothers, Joel & Ethan.

Palestinian actor Adam Bakri will be in attendance for a special ques-tion-and-answer session following the screening of Omar.

The opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival on May 13 will be broadcast live into the Katara Drama Theatre and will feature the eminent members of the jury including Joel & Ethan Coen, Rossy De Palma, Sophie Marceau, Sienna Miller, Rokia Traoré, Guillermo Del Toro, Xavier Dolan and Jake Gyllenhaal. The world’s leading film talents are also expected to walk

the red carpet alongside representa-tives from the opening film La Tête Haute by Emmanuelle Bercot starring French film legend Catherine Deneuve, Benoit Magimel, Sara Forestier and Rod Paradot.

Omar (Palestine, 2014; Arabic & Hebrew with Arabic & English subtitles) will screen on May 13 at 8pm preceded by the live-feed of the opening cere-mony. Nominated for the Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards, the film is about the eponymous hero, who is accustomed to dodging surveil-lance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither sim-ple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fighter who must face painful choices about life and manhood.

Palm d’Or winner Winter Sleep(Turkey, 2014; Turkish with Arabic & English subtitles) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan is an immersive, provocative Chekhovian drama and a hypnotic study of human frailty. Set in the picturesque and strik-ing landscape of Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, it focuses on a small village, half-empty, in the wintry off-season. The film follows a local celebrity, Aydin (Haluk Bilginer), who runs a small hotel with his young wife, with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his sister who is suffer-ing from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable

place that fuels animosity. The film will be screened on May 14 at 7pm.

Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, The Search (France, Georgia, 2014, Chechen, English, French & Russian with Arabic & English subtitles) is set in 1999 against the backdrop of the Second Chechen War. It recounts a powerful story of conflict through four lives that are brought together by a shocking twist of fate. A nurse forms a bond with a Chechen boy, while his sister searches for him and a young Russian soldier faces the torment of wartime. The free screening of The Search will be on May 15 at 4pm.

Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis (USA, 2013; English with Arabic subtitles) follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled

against the unforgiving New York win-ter, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is strug-gling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Brimming with music performed by Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan as well as Marcus Mumford and Punch Brothers, the film is an epic on an intimate scale. It represents the Coen Brothers’ fourth collaboration with multiple-Grammy and Academy Award-winning music producer T Bone Burnett. The film will be screened on May 15 at 7.30pm.

Apart from The Search, which is a free screening, regular tickets are priced QR35 while student tickets are QR25 on presenting a valid student ID. Tickets can be purchased online at www.doha-filminstitute.com or in person from Box Offices at Building 16, Drama Theatre.

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03CULTURE


Winning entries from student art competition celebrated at MIA Education Centre

Ashowcase of winning entries from a compe-tition recently organ-ised by the Museum of

Islamic Art (MIA) has opened in the museum’s Education Centre, coin-ciding with its special exhibition — Marvellous Creatures: Animal Fables in Islamic Art.

Students aged 16-25 submitted artworks from September 2014 to January 2015 for the competition entitled Art in the Makinginvited. A total of 66 entries were received, among them 19 from oversease. Art works submitted included illustrations, paintings, and mixed media inspired by animal fables, specifically those from well-known and beloved classics such as Kalilawa Dimna and One Thousand and One Nights.

A judging panel that included Dr Sabrina Puppin, MIA Head of Art Education and Art Programs and Dr Leslee Michelsen, MIA Head of Curatorial and Research, selected ten winners to put on show (eight of which are from Qatar). The win-ning entries were chosen for their artistry, imagination and narrative

skill.In addition to being displayed in

the showcase running until June 1, the winning art works are also featured in a special commemora-tive book. Featuring 30 colourful images, and delightful artist state-ments, the books were awarded to the winners at a special event that took place at the MIA Education

Centre on Thursday. Commenting on the competi-

tion, Aisha Al Khater, Director of MIA said,

“It is a great pleasure to present the winning entries of the Marvellous Creatures Art Competition, produced by a group of truly talented students. Each of them expressed an artistic

understanding and appreciation of these great fables of the past, and brought them to life in their own creative ways. These new illustrations provide fresh insight into these timeless tales, and we hope both this competition and the exhibition itself will continue to inspire young artists to draw on these stories and give them a fresh meaning”.

The Art in the Making compe-tition forms part of a larger cal-endar of educational events that MIA has on offer for everyone to enjoy this summer, reinforcing MIA’sfocus on art, and heritage, and its commitment to nurtur-ing emerging talent and fostering an indigenous culture of creativ-ity and innovation. Educational activities on offer this summer include talks and tours, family activities, library programmes, activities for schools, calligra-phy workshops and art work-shops. Together, these form part of MIA’s continued efforts in providing dynamic exhibition activities that appeal to diverse communities.

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CAMPUS

ACS Doha, a leading inter-national school in Qatar, committed to its long term vision of providing a dynamic

educational experience to over 900 stu-dents in Doha, has recently renewed its lease for the next four years, with its landlord, Ezdan Holdings, at the school’s current site in Gharrafa. ACS is also continuing to progress its plans of developing a 2,000+ student purpose built school that meets the requirements of the ACS IB curriculum and fulfils its long term vision for Doha.

As part of this long term vision, ACS Doha will introduce its first Grade 12 class in the next academic year, 2015-2016, in order to tackle capacity con-straints faced by families at schools in Doha and enable seamless continuity of education for students at a single institution. Grade 12 students will com-plete the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme, a premium

entrance qualification to universities around the world. The IB Diploma Programme is recognised for its aca-demic integrity, range and the high level of skills that each student must develop in order to succeed. ACS Doha’s first Grade 12 Class will graduate in May 2016.

In addition to the academic program, the ACS programme offers many sup-port services to its students including a counselling programme for the Middle and High School students, in areas of career guidance and higher education.

Steve Calland-Scoble, Head of School at ACS Doha, said: “The intro-duction of our first Grade 12 Class represents a watershed in ACS Doha’s growth since we launched in 2011. This is another step in our development to support students in Doha with a high-quality academic experience to prepare them for the best colleges and univer-sities worldwide. As well as learning

through our academic curriculum, we recognise the vital role that counsellors play in providing targeted career guid-ance, university application and place-ments support to students. When this is matched with an individual resolve to succeed beyond the classroom it helps motivate our High School students to aim higher and achieve more. Through the ongoing conversations that are tak-ing place with our new counsellors, I am confident that our Grade 12 students will also be inspired and challenged to reach their full potential, attend the uni-versity of their choice, and go on and live fulfilling and successful lives.”

Calland-Scoble added “I also want to take this opportunity to acknowl-edge the tremendous contributions of our staff, parents, students and the wider ACS community in Doha, towards helping us build a legacy that we are all proud to be a part of. We remain committed to making a significant con-tribution to the growth of Qatar through the development of a 2000+ student purpose-built school by 2019, which supports the human development aims of Qatar’s National Vision.”

In addition to the upcoming G12 expansion, ACS Doha’s current

academic offering includes an Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) pro-gramme, a Global/American Lower School programme, the IB Middle Years Programme (IBMYP), the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and a US High School Diploma.

In keeping with its international stand-ards, what truly sets the ACS Doha edu-cational experience apart is its approach of imparting rigorous academic educa-tion through a curriculum and instruction that are based upon respect for individ-ual learning styles and an understand-ing of its diverse, international student population. The school has invested in training its 150 expert faculty and staff from over 60 countries to emphasise active learning and using a student-cen-tred approach rather than a ‘one-size fits all’ method. To ensure that a well-balanced programme is delivered within and outside the classroom, students are encouraged to participate in a range of co-curricular activities including vari-ous clubs to socialise, learn new skills, and co-create innovative projects.The school’s successful Coerver Coaching football partnership is an example of one such initiative.

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ACS Doha gears up to introduce its first Grade 12 class

Bloomsbury Qatar launches The Bamboo Stalk in London

Last week, over ninety members of the public, readers of Banipal magazine, representatives of the

International Prize for Arab Fiction and supporters of Arabic literature filled the fourth floor of Waterstones Piccadilly, the flagship store of the UK’s leading bookshop chain. The event, whose patrons included the Kuwaiti ambassador to London, His Excellency Mr Khaled Al-Duwaisan, was to introduce the English translation of the award-winning book, The Bamboo Stalk, published

by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP).

BQFP, a joint collaboration between Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury Publishing in London, supports QF on its mission to preserve and develop the Arabic language and promoting the cultural heritage of the region.

Introduced by critic and broadcaster Paul Blezard, the author, Saud Alsanousi, was in conversation with Dima Choukr, editor of the London-based newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed’s cultural supplement,

about his novel. The Bamboo Stalk, which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2013, was published in English translation by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing on 23 April. Exploring themes of identity, racism and belonging, it takes an unflinching look at Kuwaiti society.

At the event, Saud discussed the ramifications of writing as a Filipino narrator whose story is to be translated into Arabic. He talked about living in the Philippines for a year to research the novel, and how he inhabited the persona

of his half-Kuwaiti, half-Filipino protagonist while writing the book. Paul Blezard read extracts from the book in English and interviewed the translator Jonathan Wright about the collaborative process between him and Saud. Enthusiastic questions from the audience were followed by a book signing and reception.

During his visit to the UK, Saud Alsanousi was also interviewed on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. Reviews in the UK have been ecstatic, with more to come:

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05COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE


Yann Lassade, Managing Director of Q-Auto (left) presenting a cheque for QR10,000 to Hamid Moharrar, Head of Corporate Resources Mobilisation at Qatar Red Crescent Society (right), a donation made by Q-Auto employees to support quake relief operations in Nepal. Staff members also joined efforts to supply clothes, blankets and other essential items to the relief collection organ-ised by Grand Hyatt Doha. All aid provided by Q-Auto is focused on helping victims that were affected by the devastating earthquake that struck the country last week.

In celebration of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (Unesco) International

Jazz Day, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) Doha and St Regis Doha Hotel wel-comed a special guest, the acclaimed Italian pianist Stefano Bollani who per-formed for the first time in Qatar.

The International Jazz Day is a global event organised every year on 30th of April by Unesco in efforts of highlight-ing jazz and the role it plays in uniting people from all corners of the world. International Jazz Day brings together communities, schools, artists, histo-rians, academics, and music fans all over the world to celebrate and learn about jazz and its roots, future and impact. By playing, listening to, and learning about jazz and its history as a global art form, participants reaffirm the value of international cooperation and

cross-cultural communication.The 2015 International Jazz Day

kicked off in Paris with several jazz edu-cation programmes and live perform-ances. JALC Doha registered Qatar on the map of international jazz celebration with its own unique celebration featur-ing the globally recognised Italian pian-ist, Stefano Bollani. The evening was supported by the Embassy of Italy in Qatar; it was sponsored by Etihad Airways and Al Fardan Sports Motors.

Commenting on the International Jazz Day celebration, JALC’s Global Ambassador, Mr. Dominick Farinacci said: “Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha brings together artists from around the globe to help us celebrate different musi-cal cultures that jazz unites. Piano gen-ius Stefano Bollanicame from Italy for the International Jazz Day, Soul vocalist Chantae Cann will join from the United

States,we will welcome Lebanese per-cussionist Khaled Yassine and others from the region to swing all night long.”

“The celebration of the International Jazz Day in Doha was our special way of raising awareness on the impor-tance of intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding and of high-lighting the need for international cooperation and communication. I want to thank our trusty partner - St. Regis Doha Hotel, the Embassy of Italy for their support and our sponsors,

Etihad Airways and Al Fardan Sports Motors for their support in making this event possible.” he added.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha is the result of an unprecedented global partnership between St. Regis Hotels & Resorts and Jazz at Lincoln Center that brings together two New York icons to create a series of jazz clubs around the world in St. Regis hotels. This is the first jazz venue of this kind at the St. Regis Doha.

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Milaha Trading, Milaha’s arm for commer-cial agency activities, was awarded “Best Partner of the Year 2014” by Doosan

Infracore, one of the world’s leading manufactur-ers of heavy equipment and machinery. The award, presented by Executive Vice President of Doosan Infracore Sales, J J Jin, was given in recognition of Milaha Trading’s dedicated partnership and out-standing achievements during Doosan Infracore’s annual partnership conference for the Middle East

and Africa which was held in Dubai recently.Milaha Trading’s Yousef Darwish expressed his

gratitude to Doosan Infracore for “this recognition which is the result of the incredible efforts by all our employees to be the best ambassadors of the brands we represent.” Darwish added: “Being rep-resentatives of such big names in the industry is a huge responsibility, but we have proven year after year that we are up to the challenge, and we are glad to see this recognised by one of our key partners.”

Milaha Trading awarded ‘Best Partner of the Year 2014’ by Doosan Infracore

St Regis hosts Stefano Bollani on Unesco International Jazz Day

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LAW

Legal corner

By Abdelaal A Khalil Legal Consultant

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The approval of an amendment to the labour law making it mandatory for employers to transfer their workers’ sala-

ries into bank accounts, under Law No. 1/2015, is evidence that the gov-ernment wants labour relations to be governed by law. The amended law will make it easier for expatriates and the government to detect late payment or non-payment of salaries.

The amendment was made after thor-ough studies on current labour relations and the shortcomings found in Law No. 14/2004 after it was implemented.

The law says that “the employers shall transfer each worker’s salary in Qatari currency to his or her account at any of the financial institutions in the country. The remuneration of the work-ers appointed on the basis of an annual or monthly salary shall be paid at least once a month, while that of all other workers shall be paid at least once every two weeks”.

Penalties for violation of the law have been made stiffer. Violators “shall be

imprisoned for a period not exceed-ing one month or fined not less than QR2,000 but not exceeding QR6,000, or either one of them”.

Proper implementation of this law will make the employers respect the rights of the workers. The law requires employers to prove that there is a rela-tionship between the worker and the employer. The bank accounts will show when the relationship began and if it still continues.

Participation of more than one inde-pendent body in the implementation of this law will eliminate all forms of fake relations between companies and work-ers, and the law will thus curb fraudu-lent practices.

Final departure tickets

Labour law No. 14/2004 spells out the conditions for grant of an air ticket to an employee leaving

Qatar for good. It says: “At the end of the worker’s service the employer must return the worker to the place from where he was brought to Qatar, or to a destination agreed upon, at his expense, within two weeks of the end of his services in the company.”

“In case the employee has transferred his sponsorship to another company or employer before going back home, his new sponsor is responsible for returning him home, and if the employer does not return the worker to his home country at his expense, the Labour administration will do that on his behalf and make the employer pay for it.”

So employers are obliged to provide an air ticket at the end of the employee’s service, like other benefits at the end of their service, especially when the employee decides to leave the country

without seeking to transfer his sponsor-ship to another company.

Legal advice: law between theory and implementation

There is no doubt that authority responsible of implementing the law have key role to play as an

executive body. The key idea of having the law is to be enforced on the ground as have been stipulated. An exceptional to that, concerned authorities have the right to issue some procedures with the aim of implementing the law smoothly without imposing new procedures or restrictions which have no legal refer-ence in the statute.

Whereas some bodies misuse the power and endeavouring to put new restrictions which hinder the implemen-tation of law and prevent the law from achieving its aim in protection of public interests for which law has been issued.

This makes the law lose its meaning and values. Therefore authorities con-cerned should be committed to imple-mentation of law and adhere to the rules and provisions of the law and should not judge the whole situation depending on individual cases and events. What is needed is to receive complaints and applications and then transfer them to the competent body for considering. Whereas any intervention from non spe-cialist has negative impacts which lead to taking wrong decision.

It is not allowed to deal with a special case and consider that a phenomenon which should be generalised over other issues.

Legal Advice: lawyers’ coat

Attorneys, along with judges, play an important role in the dispen-sation of justice and implementa-

tion of the provisions of law.The lawyer represents and helps the

accused and defends him, often when he has no other support, standing with him and sharing his concerns. Thus the lawyer performs a humanitarian role by caring about the accused and helping end his legal woes.

The lawyer’s mission manifests itself in the dress he wears in court. The lawyer wears a black coat to show his solemn concern for the accused. It is a coat decorated with scales, which sym-bolize justice as the ultimate aim of the judicial system. From his left shoulder hangs a black stripe that ends with a white piece symbolising hope derived from his confidence in the justice of the case he is defending. Finally, the law-yer’s coat is free of pockets, indicating that his relationship with the accused is primarily a humanitarian relationship. So every lawyer who takes up a case deserves respect.

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07FOOD

BY KRISSAH THOMPSON and TIM CARMAN

Five years after she launched Let’s Move, Michelle Obama’s willingness “to make a com-plete fool of myself” is the

most visible part of her campaign to end childhood obesity. She’ll dance with a turnip, or Big Bird, or Jimmy Fallon.

Behind the scenes, however, she has cultivated partnerships with big busi-ness to cut salt, sugar and fat from food. This network of corporate rela-tionships is unlike that of any previous first lady and has helped her sidestep a Republican Congress resistant to the administration’s public health policies.

The corporate allies she has sought may in some cases share her views, or, at least, see gains for themselves in their public association with her

healthful-eating mission.Her tactics are controversial — to

what extent should a first lady lend her status and imprimatur to commercial enterprises? — but also strategic. She and her aides hope they will yield last-ing results.

Congress has some sway over how Americans eat. But the nation’s food purveyors, including Wal-Mart, the big-gest of them all with $206bn last year in foodsales — and one of Obama’s key partners — almost certainly have more influence and will respond more nimbly to consumer demand.

Like the president, Michelle Obama has less than two years to secure the gains she has made and her legacy as a first lady who accomplished work more substantive than driving fashion choices and YouTube traffic. Obesity rates for

children between the ages of 2 and 5 decreased between 2003 and 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and some states recently have reported making progress against obesity in disadvan-taged children.

What hasn’t budged in 20 years is this: 1 in 3 American children are over-weight or obese, a public-health crisis projected to deprive a generation of potential and to generate trillions of dollars in health-care costs.

To combat that, Obama has cham-pioned sweeping changes, some encoded in law and some imposed through federal regulatory powers, with a focus on both personal responsibility and helping the poor. Chain restaurants, movie theatres and take-out pizzerias are required to list calories on menus by the end of the year; many have started doing so. The Food and Drug Administration is finalizing the broadest update to grocery nutrition labelling in 20 years.

The change that has provoked the most backlash is also the one mandated by a 2010 federal law that passed with broad bipartisan support. The school lunch programme, which provides free and reduced-price meals to more than 21 million low-income children, now requires districts to serve more fruit, vegetables, whole grains, lean protein and low-fat dairy products.

Conservative commentators, some lawmakers and some school lunch professionals have derided the new guidelines as imposing one diet on all children and increasing food waste. Students have been posting pic-tures of the lunches they don’t like on social media, using the hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama. Congress

has edged back some of the changes to school lunches and to the federal program that provides supplemental nutrition to low-income

women and their children under age 5. A future Congress or White House could easily unravel the rest.

Obama knew from the beginning that she would encounter a political buzz saw in taking up the issue of childhood obesity, White House aides said, and insisted her staff work on fixes that would stay fixed after she was no longer first lady.

By keeping her critiques of the health crisis focused on helping children and engaging the food industry and public health advocates, Obama quickly found that the middle ground is narrow on an issue as fundamental to American life as eating.

“This is as controversial as you can get. We were not surprised at all by the pushback,” said Sam Kass, a close friend of the Obamas who worked as their personal chef while they lived in Chicago and became the administra-tion’s top aide on nutrition policy and executive director of Let’s Move. He said his boss was determined to work with the food industry — despite the risks and complications — because they have “a huge role to play.”

“Obviously, they are feeding every-body,” Kass said during an interview before he resignedfive months ago. “This is a complicated set of issues, and there’s no one reason we got here, and there’s not going to be one strategy to get us out.”

With the blessing of Obama, who declined to be interviewed for this arti-cle, Kass negotiated with Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, on a plan to cut salt, sugar and fat from its product lines. The first lady publicly praised for-profit chains of day-care centers that agreed to abide by guidelines for improved nutrition in after-school programs, brokered deals to market vegetables to children and pushed Americans to drink more water as part of an initiative with American Beverage Association members looking to increase bottled water sales as soft-drink profits fall off.

Those efforts — forged outside the White House through the nonprofit Partnership for a Healthier America — have met with modest results, and Obama’s appearances with company heads have raised questions among public health experts who have wondered whether she has given cover to an industry that is lag-ging behind and dragging its feet.

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Michelle Obama’s willingness “to make a complete fool of myself” is the most visible part of her campaign to end childhood obesity.

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FASHION & BEAUTY

BY PATRICIA REANEY

East meets West in a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that jux-taposes the influence of

Chinese art, imagery and culture, from Imperial China to the present day, on Western fashion and design.

With 150 dresses, gowns, costumes and accessories from 40 designers on display, “China Through the Looking Glass,” which runs from May 7 to August 16, is one of the biggest exhi-bitions undertaken by the museum.

More than two years in the making, the show encompasses 30,000 square feet of galleries over two floors. It takes visitors on a journey showing how Western designers found inspiration in all things Chinese, from the elabo-rate embroidered costumes of Imperial China to Shanghai in the 1920s, up to the military garb of the Cultural Revolution.

“It is a monumental, immersive exploration of the influences of Chinese art and film on western fashion’s greatest design talents,” Thomas P Campbell, the director and CEO of the Metropolitan, said during a preview of the show.

The exhibition takes its name from Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, because it is about entering another world.

“Like Alice’s make-believe world, the China reflected in the fashion in the exhibition is fictional, fabulous and ancient, offering an alternate reality,” said curator Andrew Bolton, adding it is about the collective fantasy of China.

The show features Chinese treasures such as the dragon robe, worn by the last emperor just after he had been crowned, and a painting of a Chinese

concubine never exhibited before.A maze of galleries showcase

Chinese calligraphy, perfume bottles and blue-and-white porcelain along with print dresses, fabulous beaded gowns and embroidered jackets by the Western designers influenced by them.

One room is devoted to opium and the Chinese impact on Yves Saint Laurent’s 1977 fall/winter collection with its Mongol-influenced fur jackets and coats. An oriental garden is peo-pled with mannequins wearing Chinese-inspired elaborate dresses, coats, skirts and gowns by John Galliano for his 2003 spring/summer collection for the House of Dior.

The show also features clips of Chinese films such as “The Last Emperor,” “Raise the Red Lantern” and “Farewell My Concubine” screened in rooms with the Western gowns and outfits they inspired.

“Films are frequently the first events in which Western designers encountered Chinese imagery,” said Bolton. “The exhibition explores the impact of mov-ies in shaping their fantasies.”

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Adam Shulman (left) and Anne Hathaway attend the "China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

East meets West inexhibition showing Chinese influence on fashion

A view of a dress made from porcelain shards on display during a preview of the Costume Institute’s spring 2015 exhibition ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Modern medicine can do truly amazing things. It’s now possible to transplant organs, o per-ate on unborn children and use stem cell therapy to cure diseases. Yet only a relatively

short time ago - just a few centuries - that medicine was very basic. Here we look at some of the greatest medical breakthroughs in history.

Germ theory, How was it discovered?In the 1850s, an English scientist called John Snow linked

an outbreak of cholera to a specific water pump in London. He then analyzed the water and found a source of cholera in the pump. His discovery was dismissed by many peo-ple at the time but a few years later French chemist and microbiologist, Louis Pasteur, showed that fermentation and putrefaction are indeed caused by organisms in the air.

What does it do?Germ theory is simply the understanding that all con-

tagious diseases are caused by microorganisms. It has provided a scientific basis on which the causes of many diseases can be identified.

What was medicine like before?Before the identification of germs, very little was known

about the causes of diseases.Without knowing the cause of diseases, it was very dif-

ficult for doctors to cure, and importantly, prevent them. Subsequently, treatments varied widely and often had no scientific basis to them.

Penicillin, how was it discovered?In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin almost

entirely by accident. Flemingnoticed that mold inside a petri dish, left out overnight after a previous experiment,was actively repelling the bacteria surrounding it. The mold was the first known form ofantibiotic, penicillin.

What does it do?Penicillin is a form of antibiotic that eliminates infection-

causing bacteria. Antibioticsare used widely in the treatment and prevention of many common bacterial infections.

What was medicine like before?Before the use of penicillin, and other antibiotics, infec-

tions that we now considerrelatively harmless would frequently lead to death. Additionally, surgical procedures-would often cause infection that could not be treated, with death a common outcome.

Smallpox Vaccination, how was it discovered?In 1796, Dr Edward Jenner carried out a now famous

experiment on an eight-year-old boy, James Phipps. Dr Jenner noticed that milkmaids who suffered from the mild cowpox disease never contracted smallpox. He wanted to test his observations, so by inserting pus taken from a cowpox pustule into Phipps’ arm, Jenner subsequently proved that having been inoculated with cowpox, Phipps was immune to the smallpox disease.

What does it do?The smallpox vaccine enables the body to develop immu-

nity to the disease. It is made from a type of virus related to smallpox, but does not actually contain the smallpox virus and cannot give the recipient smallpox.

What was medicine like before?Smallpox killed millions of people, especially children,

before the introduction of the vaccine. Around 300 million people are estimated to have died as a result of the disease in the 20th century alone.

DNA, how was it discovered?In 1868, Swiss physician, Friedrich Miescher isolated

something that nobody had ever seen before in the nuclei of cells. The substance, which Miescher called nuclein, today makes up the ‘NA’ element of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Yet it wasn’t until the 1950s that much was understood about nuclein. At this time, a group of scientists including Francis Crick and James Watson identified the structure of DNA and produced the double-helix model.

What does it do?DNA, contained in chromosomes in the nuclei of the cells,

is the chemical that carries genetic information. It is often referred to as the building blocks of the body. DNA is the hereditary information that is passed down from generation to generation. Everybody’s DNA is 99 percent identical; only one percent of a person’s DNA is unique.

What was medicine like before?It’s not so much a question of what couldn’t be done

before DNA, as what can be done since. DNA has given scientists a far more in-depth understanding of the human body and is being used by researchers in an attempt to find new cures for diseases.

Contributed by Hamad Medical Coporation

09HEALTH & FITNESS

Replacing one serving of a sugary drink daily with either water or

unsweetened tea or coffee can lower the risk of developing diabetes by up to 25 percent, says a research.

It also found that for each five percent increase of a person’s total energy intake provided by sweet drinks including soft drinks, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes may increase by 18 percent.

The team analysed a large EPIC-Norfolk study which included more than 25,000 men and women aged 40-79 years living in Norfolk, Britain.

“We were able to study several different types of sugary beverages, including sugar-sweetened soft drinks, sweetened tea or coffee and sweet-ened milk drinks as well as artificially sweetened beverages (ASB) and fruit juice,” said lead scientist Nita Forouhi from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) epidemiology unit, University of Cambridge.

The participants recorded every-thing that they ate and drank for seven consecutive days covering weekdays and weekend days. During 11 years (approx) of follow-up, 847 study par-ticipants were diagnosed with new-onset Type 2 diabetes.

The researchers found that there was an approximately 22 percent increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes per extra serving per day habitually of each of soft drinks, sweetened milk beverages and ASB consumed. However, the consump-tion of fruit juice and sweetened tea or coffee was not related to diabetes.

The authors also found that if par-ticipants had replaced a serving of soft drinks with a serving of water or unsweet-ened tea or coffee, the risk of diabetes could have been cut by 14 percent.

“By replacing a serving of sweet-ened milk beverage with water or unsweetened tea or coffee, that reduction could have been 25 per-cent,” the authors wrote. IANS

Avoid one sugary drink a day to cut diabetes risk


The double-helix model

10


ENTERTAINMENT

BY PATRICK GOWER

Film production in the United Kingdom soared 35 per-cent to almost £1.5bn ($2.3bn) during 2014 as

tax breaks lured stars from Tom Cruise to Scarlett Johansson to the city.

London alone accounted for 1 bil-lion pounds of production spend-ing, eclipsing France’s 994m euros ($1.1 bn), or Italy, where 400m euros was spent in 2013, the latest figure available.

“We’ve suddenly become this really massive centre for global content production,’’ said Adrian Wootton, chief executive officer of Film London, a nonprofit that pro-motes the industry in Europe’s big-gest city.

Government officials across Europe are competing for invest-ment from the creative industries by offering tax breaks to filmmak-ers and videogame developers. Seventeen movies with budgets of at least £30m accounted for 89 percent of British film production spending during the year, accord-ing to Film London. Fifty crews are

shooting on the streets of the city each day, according to the Greater London Authority.

The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game,’ which both won Oscars, and Paddington fea-tured local sights from Buckingham Palace to the Law Society. Mission Impossible 5 and the latest James Bond feature, Spectre, are in the works.

The tax credits “have given us a seat at the table to be able to com-pete internationally,’’ said Wootton “We’ve had more large-scale American finance feature film shoot-ing in the UK than anywhere in the world outside of North America.’’

About three quarters of Britain’s film industry is based in and around London. That portion is grow-ing as the studios in the suburbs expand. The Warner Bros studio in Leavesden, where the Harry Potter series was shot, along with Inceptionand The Dark Knight, built three new soundstages and 100,000 square feet of office space.

At Pinewood Studios, where Spectre is being filmed, a 200 mil-lion-pound expansion is under way. Conservative Secretary of State

Eric Pickles overruled opposition from the local council to approve the project — a move reserved for projects of “national significance.’’

While London has always had a film industry — afficionados may recall the Ealing comedies of the 1940s and 1950s with play-ers including Alec Guiness ) the introduction of tax relief by Gordon Brown set the stage for today’s boom.

Now, companies that produce films costing more than 20 million pounds can claim a cash rebate of up to 20 percent. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne plans to increase that to 25 percent and extend relief to high-end television — shows that typically cost more than a million pounds an hour to produce.

Those shows are a growing fea-ture in London as councils become more open to closing roads and hosting stars. Last year, 24’s action hero Jack Bauer — played by Kiefer Sutherland — fought off a fictional drone attack that took in scenes from Wembley Stadium to the London Eye.

“The producers wanted to reboot

the franchise with an exotic feel and London became the place that could give them that,’’ said Iain Smith, chairman of the British Film Commission and a producer on “24: Live Another Day.’’ “Councils used to just say ‘no forget it,’ now they will listen and understand, so London gets a great showing.’’

It’s not just the famous land-marks either. Two purpose- built soundstages serve as standins for a fictional Arctic settlement in crime series “Fortitude’’ starring Christopher Eccleston, Michael Gambon and Sofie Gråbøl.

Elsewhere in the suburbs, the latest installment of the Star Warssaga is coming to fruition, and Hugh Jackman will become Blackbeard in the remake of Peter Pan.

For now, the fastest growth is coming from special-effects studios like Double Negative, winner of an Oscar for its work on “Interstellar,’’ according to Wootton.

“It’s the busiest time for film pro-duction here since records began,’’ said Wootton.

“This is an extraordinary period for the UK film industry.’’

Bloomberg

From Harry Potter to Jack Heuer, Londonrises as film studio hub

11ENTERTAINMENT

Deepika Padukone starrer Pikuand Sunny Leone starrer Kuch

Kuch Locha Hai are set to clash at the box office this Friday. However, Ram Kapoor who plays the lead role in the Sunny Leone starrer, is unfazed about such comparison and says both the films have their own target audiences.

He hopes people would like both

the films. “I don’t think so there is any competition between both the films - Piku and Kuch Kuch Locha Hai - as both of these have different target audiences. So neither of these two will affect each other’s business. Both the films are very different and have different target groups,” the actor said here in an interview.

While Kuch Kuch Locha Hai is

about a 45-year-old married man who witnesses turmoil in his life after he gets a chance to meet a Bollywood star (played by Sunny Leone in the film), whom he has always fantasised about, Piku, directed by Shoojit Sircar, is a comedy-drama and explores a daughter-father relationship. Besides Deepika, it also features megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan.

Further, he wishes all success to the Deepika and Big B starrer and can’t wait to watch the film when it releases. “I would like to wish “Piku” all the best and want it to become successful and this is what I expect for our own film as well because at the end of the day every film’s suc-cess is better for the film industry,” Ram Kapoor said. IANS

BY HARICHARAN PUDIPEDDI

Actor Nakul, who was recently seen in sleeper hit Tamiluku En Ondrai Azhuthavum and has been part of the Tamil

industry for over a decade, says criti-cal success doesn’t matter anymore as everybody has become money minded.

“Today, I don’t think critical suc-cess matters anymore. It has to be commercial success. Producers have become very moolah-conscious, especially with the entry of big studios and corporates. When you take all these factors into consideration, you ought to have a good film to survive,” Nakul said.

“If a new hero is coming into the mar-ket, he has to create an impact with the box office business; otherwise it’s tough to survive. Becoming a hero is easy, but staying one in the top league is extremely tough,” he said.

Basking in the success of his latest film, Nakul says he has been waiting since 2009 for a hit.

“I accepted Tamiluku Ena merely as an obligation when the producer of my last film, Naan Rajavaga Pogiren, which didn’t do well, came back to me with an offer. I was touched by his gesture. And when I heard the script, I was blown away and decided I had to do this film,” he said.

“I knew there was something about the film that’ll work in our favour but I never anticipated this kind of success, which even got me appreciation from some industry bigwigs such as A R Murugadoss and Shankar,” he said, and added that a hit is welcome anytime in one’s career.

Nakul also believes that Tamiluku Enawas more like a test for him, and that its success gave him the reassurance that he is on the right track in his career. It also made him realise that it’s per-fectly alright to wait for the right script to come along.

Having made his cinematic debut in filmmaker Shankar-directed 2003 Tamil film Boys, Nakul has only starred in eight films so far.

Other popular actors such as Siddharth, Bharath and music com-poser S.S Thaman who worked with him in Boys have already worked in

over 20 films.Nakul says he doesn’t know why he

couldn’t do more films.“I believe luck plays a major part in

this industry. See, I can only choose from the offers I get. I don’t have a long queue of directors outside my house waiting to cast me. I’ve always been more inclined towards quality than quantity. But I’m really happy with my career and I have no complaints,” he said.

Is he jealous of the fact that his friends who started their careers along-side him have been more successful?

“I’m actually proud of my friends.

Since ‘Boys’, they were extremely committed and had planned what they want to do next. I’ve never planned my career the way people usually do. It was on the last day on the sets of Boys that I asked myself what I want to do next,” he said.

A few years ago when Nakul wasn’t getting many offers, he took up singing to keep himself occupied.

“My film career didn’t take off after ‘Boys’ the way I had planned. Singing was again more like an obligation as I couldn’t say no to people who requested me to sing. But it’s true I took up singing when I felt everything

was going down at one point.“It is because of singing that I got

my first offer as hero. I sang the song ‘X-Machi’ from ‘Ghajini’ with a singer called Mathangi, who called me for an interview to a private channel. It was here that I was spotted by the wife of director Prasad, who offered me the lead in ‘Kadhalil Vizhunthen’.

“Singing kept me alive, but that wasn’t what I wanted to do,” he added.

Despite his share of hits and flops, Nakul says it has always been a constant struggle in the industry. He will next be seen in Tamil comedy Narathan. IANS

Commercial success important for survival:

Actor Nakul


Hope Kuch Kuch Locha Hai, Piku equally successful: Ram Kapoor

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COMICS & MORE

Hoy en la HistoriaMay 6, 1840

1895: Silent screen idol Rudolph Valentino was born1990: Soviet authorities agreed to open for just one day eight crossing points along the Romanian border1990: Former president P.W. Botha quit South Africa’s ruling National Party as a protest against apartheid reforms2000: Hopes for peace in Northern Ireland soared after the IRA agreed to put its guns “beyond use” in internationally supervised arms bins

The world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, was introduced in Britain. The recipient had previously paid postage on delivery

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ACCELERATE, BRAKE, CHAMPION, CHICANE, CIRCUIT, COCKPIT, COMPETE, CORNER, DISTANCE, DRIVER, ENGINE, EXHAUST, FLAG, FUEL, GEAR, LAPS, MACHINE, MOTORBIKE, MOTORCYCLE, OVERTAKE, PIT STOP, POSITION, RACING CAR, RALLY, RECORD, SPEED, SPEEDWAY, STOCK CAR, STRAIGHT, THROTTLE, WHEEL, WINNER.

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

ZITS

BLONDIE

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

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CROSSWORDS

HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

How to play Hyper Sudoku:A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle

is solved by filling the

numbers from 1 to 9

into the blank cells.

A Hyper Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku 13

regions (four regions

overlap with the nine

standard regions). In all

regions the numbers

from 1 to 9 can appear

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ACROSS

1 “Take ___” (1994 Madonna hit that was #1 for seven weeks)

5 Formal, maybe

9 Formal wear accouterment

13 St. Petersburg’s river

14 “Peanuts” kid with a security blanket

16 Build muscles, with “up”

17 Genre of Verdi’s “Jérusalem”

19 Lens holders

20 “Come in!”

21 “Fist of Fury” star, 1972

23 Chapter 52, formally

24 Guacamole base, in British lingo

27 Making the rounds?

29 Yang’s go-with

30 Cause of a blowup?

31 Cannes showing

32 Sound from a window ledge

34 Do some housekeeping

36 Used a crowbar on, say

40 ___ facto

42 Crime lab sample

43 Amt. of cooking oil, maybe

47 Spanish she-bear

48 Face the pitcher

51 Boorish

53 Robert Redford’s “great” 1975 role

56 Vote for

57 Where you might pick fruit while it’s still green

58 Palliates

60 Something false in the Bible?

61 Lowdown … or a hint to 17-, 24-, 36- and 53-Across

64 Tizzy

65 “Please, I can do it”

66 Violinist Leopold

67 “Hey, José!”

68 Tire swing part

69 Appalachians, e.g.: Abbr.

DOWN 1 Good-looking?

2 “Apollo and Daphne” sculptor

3 Warm response from a crowd

4 Decline

5 Gaza grp.

6 Engraved letters?

7 End of an ancient period

8 Lexicographer James who was the O.E.D.’s first editor

9 ___ throat

10 Facilities

11 Accidental

12 Much of Arabia

15 ___ Arabia

18 In need of some color

22 Publisher Nast

25 End of a famous boast

26 Platte Valley native

28 Workout count

33 Screwy

35 Golden rule preposition

37 Bomb squad member

38 “Movin’ ___”

39 Glazier’s unit

40 Words before “… and that’s final!”

41 Soap ingredient

44 Takes over the assets of, as a partner

45 Make more inclined

46 “Star Trek” weapons

47 Studious-looking

49 Shower time

50 Many a Taylor Swift fan

52 Tribe of the Canadian Plains

54 What a big mouth might have

55 Basil-flavored sauce

59 Singer Lambert

62 Little handful

63 Syllable repeated after “fiddle”

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30

31 32 33 34 35

36 37 38 39

40 41 42 43 44 45 46

47 48 49 50 51 52

53 54 55 56

57 58 59

60 61 62 63

64 65 66

67 68 69

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column referenced by the number.

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a run - any of the numbers 1 to 9 may

be used but, like sudoku, each number

may only

be used

once.

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CINEMA

MAY IN THE SUMMER

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

SCREEN 1 She’s Funny That Way (2D/Comedy)

10:20am, 12:20, 2:20, 4:20, 6:20, 8:20, 10:20pm & 12:20am

SCREEN 2 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action)

12:00noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00pm & 12:00midnight

SCREEN 3 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 &

11:00pm Barely Lethal (2D/Action) 10:00am & 12:00noon

SCREEN 4 Home (2D/Animation) 10:10am & 12:10pm Barely Lethal (2D/

Action) 4:10 & 8:10pm Tracers (2D/Action) 2:10, 6:10, 10:10pm & 12:10am

SCREEN 5 Lemon Tree Passage (2D/Horror) 11:30am & 3:45pm

Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 1:00, 5:45, 8:30 & 11:15pm

SCREEN 6 May In The Summer (2D/Comedy) 10:50am, 2:50 & 7:00pm

Lemon Tree Passage (2D/Horror) 12:50, 5:0, 9:000 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 7 Big Game (2D/Action) 10:40am, 2:40, 7:00 & 11:30pm

Qitt Wa Far (2D/Arabic) 12:40, 4:50 & 9:10pm

SCREEN 8 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2D/Action)

11:30am, 1:30, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:40 & 11:40pm

SCREEN 9 Avengers: Age of Ultron (IMAX 3D/Action)

10:20am, 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40pm & 12:30am


11:30am, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 & 11:30pm

NOVO

MALL

LANDMARK

ROYAL PLAZA

SCREEN 1 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 2:30 & 6:45pm

Qitt We Far (2D/Arabic) 5:00pm

She’s Funny That Way (2D/Comedy) 9:15pm

Gabbar Is Back (2D/Hindi) 11:00pm

SCREEN 2 Uttama Villain (Tamil) 2:15pm Home (2D/Animation)

5:00pm She’s Funny That Way (2D/Comedy) 6:45pm

Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2D/Malayalam) 8:30pm

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 11:00pm

SCREEN 3 May In The Summer (2D/Comedy) 3:00pm

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 5:00 & 9:00pm

Lemon Tree Passage (2D/Horror) 7:30 & 11:30pm

SCREEN 1 Uttama Villain (Tamil) 2:00pm She’s Funny That Way

(2D/Comedy) 5:00pm Qitt We Far (2D/Arabic) 6:45pm


Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 11:00pm

SCREEN 2 May In The Summer (2D/Comedy) 3:00pm

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 5:00 & 9:00pm

Lemon Tree Passage (2D/Horror) 7:30 & 11:30pm

SCREEN 3 Uttama Villain (Tamil) 2:00 & 10:30pm

Home (2D/Animation) 5:00pm Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 6:30pm

She’s Funny That Way (2D/Comedy) 9:00pm


3:00. 5:30, 8:15 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 2 Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 2:30pm

Gabbar Is Back (2D/Hindi) 4:45 & 11:00pm Avengers: Age of Ultron

(2D/Action) 7:00pm Lemon Tree Passage (2D/Horror) 9:30pm

SCREEN 3 She’s Funny That Way (2D/Comedy) 2:30 & 7:45pm

Home (2D/Animation) 4:15pm

May In The Summer (2D/Comedy) 6:00pm

Qitt We Far (2D/Arabic) 9:30pm

Lemon Tree Passage (2D/Horror) 11:30pm

May seems to have it all until she travels to Jordan to plan her wedding. There, she runs into family chaos: Her mother threatens to boycott the wedding; her younger sisters treat her like a mother; and her estranged father suddenly returns.Directors: Cherien Dabis

Writers: Cherien Dabis

Stars: Hiam Abbass, James Garson Chick

ASIAN TOWNSCREEN 1 Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2D/Malayalam) 4:30 & 10:15pm

Uttama Villain (Tamil) 7:00pm

SCREEN 2 Uttama Villain (Tamil) 4:00 & 9:45pm



DOHA EVENTS 15

IN FOCUS

A view of a boat in the evening on the Corniche.

Until 16 MayVenue: 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.

8 APRIL - 11 JuneVenue: Museum of Islamic ArtAdmission: Free

This exhibition showcases Qajar artwork from the MIA collection that demonstrate the centrality of women in the artistic expression of 19th-century Iran and explores how these historic innovations continue to inspire contemporary artists.

Till 11 JuneVenue: Museum of Islamic ArtAdission: Free

The Museum of Islamic Art has partnered with Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha for a series of world class Jazz concerts in MIA Park. Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center and The St. Regis Doha.

Till June 15Venue: Fire Station: Artists In ResidenceTime: 10:30 to 17:00 (Closed on Tuesdays)Admission: Free

The exhibition pays homage to “The Art Center”, the very first artist in residence initiative that took place in Doha in the early 1990’s and which ran for a decade. The name 555 is a play on the number 555 which residents used to dial to contact the Fire Station, paying tribute to the Civil Defense for their years of service to the people of Qatar.

Rainbow Park

QaJar Women: The Images of Women in 19th Century Iran

UNTIL 31 AUGUSTVENUE: 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

4-7 MayVenue: Qatar National Convention CenterAdmission: Free

In 2014, 2,100 companies from 47 countries exhibited at the show. Even more companies are expected in 2015. Project Qatar provides a platform to view the latest equipment and services from the construction industry, develop international relationships and generate new business opportunities.

Project Qatar

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

Send your event details to [email protected]

Till 16 May Venue: KataraAdmission: FreeTime: 10.00 - 22.00

Trade Bazaar is being hosted at Katara. Local and international traders will participate in this Bazaar.

Second Carnival & Heritage and Bazaar

Jazz in the Park

Until 11 JulyVenue: 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 Nitish Jain

555 Exhibition At The Fire Station

Until 16 AugustVenue: Mathaf: Arab Museum Of Modern Art, Ground Floor GalleriesAdmission: FreeTime: 11:00 - 18:00 (Monday closed)

Wael Shawky produces film series based on literature and historical narratives, using a visual language that mixes fictional storytelling and documentary styles. The exhibition presents two newly completed film trilogies, each inspired by stories and scripts of literature; Cabaret Crusades (2010-2014) and Al Araba Al Madfuna (2012-2015).

Wael Shawky Comes To Doha

Documents

A TASTE OF CANNES FESTIVAL - The Peninsula Qatar€¦ · Inside Llewyn Davis (USA, 2013; English with Arabic subtitles) follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates