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A diverse collection of some of the best artworks by students of IAID adorns the walls of Katara Art Studios for their spring art exhibition which is open till April 18.

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CULTURE

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA

Adiverse collection of some of the best art-works by students of IAID Academy for Dance Music and Arts adorns the walls of Katara Art Studios for their spring art exhibi-

tion which opened on Saturday.Entitled ‘Dreams in Color’, the exhibition features 39

paintings which were a product of the creative hands and minds of students aged four to 45. A painting by IAID instructor Michael Fajardo is also showcased at the expo till April 18.

From still life to portrait to landscape painting, the works utilise a variety of media to depict different sub-jects. They are a the outcome of the multi-tiered Visual and Studio Arts program of the academy which caters to all ages and levels including beginners, intermediate and advanced students.

The course provides comprehensive training to chil-dren and adults in a variety of media such as water-color, acrylic, oil, charcoal and pastel, and moulds them into a versatile artist adept in various techniques and genres and knowledgeable of art theory and practice.

During the opening event, the best works in three age categories namely four to ten years, 11 to 18 and adults were recognised with special awards. They were selected by celebrated artist and calligrapher Sabah Arbilli and award-winning visual artist and educator Shahida Ahmed who both addressed the attendees at the event.

With the success of the exhibition, the academy is planning to hold road shows at the schools of the students after the expo. IAID is also mulling to hold art expos twice a year to display the outstanding works of its students. ‘Dreams in Color’ exhibition is open to the public until Saturday at Katara Art Studios Building 19.

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Qatar Red Crescent’s (QRC) branch in Al Khor recently organised a series of informative and training

lectures at some schools and social centres and participated in a health event held at a school of Al Shamal northern part of the country, with a total of 370 beneficiaries of both sexes, mostly youngsters.

In the two-day health exhibition held by Al Thakhira Independent Primary School for Girls, QRC had a special corner to communicate with the students; introduce them to QRC’s mission and role in serving Qatari and other societies around the world; deliver a lecture on principles of first aid and how to deal with inju-ries, bleeding, and fainting; distribute gifts and health education printouts; and conduct blood sugar and pres-sure tests for free for the attendance, which was nearly 250 students, teachers, and parents.

Under the ‘ADEPTS’ programme, which is part of the QRC School Program, the Social Development staff visited the Al Khor Independent Preparatory School for Girls for a session attended by 10 teachers, 50 parents, and 25 students of the 7th and 8th grades.

A QRC trainer introduced the programme and explained the importance of such virtues as time management, honesty, and team-work, using creative educational models and materials.

In relation to health education, QRC held a first aid lecture for 30 girls of ages 6-11 at the Community Development Center – Ladies in Al Khor. Lastly, QRC organised a lecture on bad manners for 35 students of the 3rd and 4th grades at Al Thakhira Model Independent Primary School for Boys. The lecturer, Mohamed Ghaleb Al Homairi from the Da’wah and Religious Guidance Department, told moral stories and organised com-petitions to promote good manners among the children.

QRC – Al-Khor actively works in favour of the local community of Al Shamal region, by virtue of close cooperation with different institu-tions and civil society organisa-tions there, while ensuring effective alignment of internal resources for maximum benefits for the public in the city of Al Khor and neighbour-ing districts. The Peninsula

Centre: Good manners lecture at Al Thakhira School for Boys.

Top: Health exhibition at Al Thakhira School for Girls.

QRC delivers informative lectures and health training for Al Shamal youngsters

Below: Participants and students at first-aid lecture at Community Development Center.

COMMUNITY

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DeBakey students host Best Buddies eventDeBakey High School students hosted a social event at Pizza Express to interact with their Best Buddies group members from the Shafallah Center. The students made pizza together. The Shafallah students also received handmade greeting cards from DeBakey students. DeBakey students are required to complete a minimum of 100 volunteer hours prior to graduation, and such activities help build character and social responsibility awareness. The activities are designed with the theme, “They are just like you & me,” in an effort to break away the thought that children with disabilities want to be dealt with any differently.

TNG marks Annual DayT

he Next Generation (TNG) School organised its third Annual Day event recently. From kin-dergarten to Grade 8, students showcased their skills and talents during the programme.

Rashid Nizam, Community Welfare Attaché from Pakistan Embassy was the Chief Guest.

TNG Principal Qudsia Asad Khan gave the opening speech and apprised the audience about the achieve-ments of the three branches — kindergarten, primary and preparatory — of the school. She added that the school is now certified by the University of Cambridge to hold examinations within TNG.

The cultural programme consisted of colourful per-formances by the little tots of the kindergarten sec-tion who swayed to the tunes of nursery rhymes. The “Healthy food” song highlighted the importance of eat-ing fruits and vegetables and “Watercycle” gave out a message about messed up climate order.

“It is the same message what we teach in our class rooms. Our students,through their programmes requested the audience to save the environment,” said Vice principal of the Kindergarten Saeeda Agha.

A motivational skit based on the true story from Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani’s life’s experiences was executed beautifully by students of Year 5 and 6.

“The skit’s essence is to always tell the truth and never disobey mother, which are the fundamentals of Islam and our training at TNG,” said Asad.

The Year 7 and 8 students presented a power-packed performance based on William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy “Macbeth”.

“Our students are well prepared with the training of effective communications skills, where we make sure they speak proper, fluent and with peaks and lows of English literacy,” said Saadia Sohail, Vice-Principal KS3.

TNG CEO Shagufta Bakali delivering the vote of thanks said: “We are so proud to have had a very upward graph in the education sector in the last five years because we firmly believe in quality education.”

“Under the vision of our Director Riyaz Ahmed Bakali, who is also the president of the Pakistan Welfare Forum, TNG, in coordination with the forum, plans to

start special needs classes,” she added. Guests included Anas Kaseem Al Onazi, Director of

PR and Communications, Qatar Heritage and Identity Centre, Khalid Sayed Al Sheaibi, Vice Chairman, Friends of Environment Qatar, General Hassan Ali Al Sheaibi, Fahad Isamail Hassan Zaial, Chief Administrative Officer, Qatar Financial Centre, Hamad Mohammed Al Ghali, Director Private School, Supreme Education Council, Mohammed Sarfaraz Khanzada, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to Qatar, and Commodore Masood Akram, Defense Attaché, Embassy of Pakistan

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COMMUNITY / MARKETPLACE

Chanss-Qatar honours singers

The Changanacherry NSS College Alumni Association-Qatar Chapter, honoured three singers and a musical orchestrator for their outstanding contribution during the year

2014-15. Riyas Kariyad (Best Singer-GCC), Manikandadas.K

(Best Melodious Singer) and Nidhi Radhakrishnan (Best Young Singer), along with Abdul Lathif (Best musical coordinator), were awarded at CHANSS-Qatar’s Easter-Vishu programme held at the Grand Qatar Palace Hotel in Doha last Friday.

More than 300 people attended the function which featured several cultural programmes by CHANSS mem-bers and their children.

Mr John Phillip, an alumni of the NSS College and a former District Congress Committee member, and Mrs Rachel Phillip, who are on a visit to Qatar, were the guests of honour. Reji Mannel, Assistant Programme Director, Voice of Kerala, a UAE-based Radio Channel also graced the occasion. Mannar Ajith Prabha, Balachandran and Varghese Mathew also spoke.

CHANSS president Bindu Varghese welcomed the gathering, while General Secretary Giridharan Nair pro-posed a vote of thanks. The Peninsula

From clockwise top left: Chanss President Bindu Varghese presenting the Best Singer-GCC award to Riyas Kariyad, P S Venugopal giving the Best Young Singer award to Nidhi Radhakrishnan, Varghese Mathew present-ing the Best Melodious Singer Award to Manikandadas K and Giridharan Nair giving the Best Music Coordinator award to Abdul Lathif.

Demonstrating its commitment to transparency, McDonald’s Arabia launched a new and interactive digital platform called Your Right to

Know. Setting a precedent for the food and beverage industry, McDonald’s Arabia is invit-ing people across the region to ask any and all questions that they have about the brand and its food specifically in the GCC.

Visitors wondering what goes into the famous Chicken McNuggets, how McDonald’s fries are prepared or whether McDonald’s uses Halal beef and chicken, will be able to receive factual and transparent answers through the platform. ‘Your Right to Know’ will also serve as a truthful reference for custom-ers who may have heard rumours or picked up unsubstantiated internet news about the iconic quick service restaurant.

Speaking at a press conference, Yousif Abdulghani, Vice President and International Relationship Partner of McDonald’s Middle East Development Company, said:

“Transparency is key to every business, par-ticularly in today’s world, where consumers demand more information and transparency to allow them to make informed decisions.

“At McDonald’s, we have always been com-mitted to transparency. Thousands of people have visited our kitchens since we started our Open Door programme in 2006. We were also the first in the industry to communicate nutritional information in our restaurants, on our packaging, and on our website.

Your Right to Know comes as a continua-tion of this transparency journey. It is an ideal tool to foster an open dialogue with consum-ers, and demonstrates our pride in the food we serve to our customers in the GCC every day.”

In 2013, McDonald’s became the first and only quick service restaurant brand in the region to post nutritional information on its packaging, including a breakdown of calo-ries, fat, sodium, protein and carbohydrates in each product. The Peninsula

Joyalukkas announces special offers to mark Akshaya Tritiya

Joyalukkas has announced a gift filled celebration for the auspicious period of Akshaya Tritiya across its show-rooms. The initiative will offer a choice of free gold coins and exquisite

collections to double the joy of shoppers during the cel-ebration period.

To compliment the spirit of the festival, customers shop-ping for diamond and Polki jewellery worth QR5,000 will be gifted a 2gm 22K gold coin. In addition to this, on the auspicious day, custom-ers shopping for QR3,000 and more worth of jewellery will also get a free gold coin. Also there will be ‘No Making Charge’ on purchase of 8 gram gold coins. Joyalukkas is also offering exclusive col-lections at very special prices during the celebration period.

“Gold and jewellery is considered the ultimate symbol of wealth and prosperity. It is also believed that purchase of gold & jewellery during Akshaya Tritiya brings home good luck and prosperity. Also getting a gift is considered as a blessing for prosperity, so we have tailored our Akshaya Tritiya to keep the spirit of the occasion. I take this opportunity to wish people celebrating Akshaya Tritiya, good health, wealth and prosperity,” said Joy Alukkas, Chairman & MD, Joyalukkas Group.

“Akshaya Tritiya is special for our customers hence we launched a gifting initiative to ensure our customers feel lucky and blessed during the celebration period. Our offers and choice of products have been designed to meet all jewellery shoppers expectation and make the occasion very special for them,” said John Paul Joy Alukkas, Executive Director, Joyalukkas Group.

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TECHNOLOGY

BY JOSHUA TOPOLSKY

I’m in a meeting with 14 people, in mid-sentence, when I feel a tap-tap-tap on my wrist. I stop to see the source of the agitation. A second later, the small screen on my new Apple Watch beams to

life with a very important message: “Twitter has sug-gestions for people I should follow.”

A version of this happens dozens of times through-out the day-for messages, emails, activity achieve-ments, tweets, etc. Wait — isn’t the promise of the Apple Watch to help me stay in the moment, undis-turbed by the mesmerising void of my iPhone?

Let’s back up. The Apple Watch is an epic product release. It’s the company’s first new product category since the iPad and the first new product since Steve Jobs died. It was created almost entirely under the guidance of Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, and it’s the first device from Apple that was designed — hardware and software — by Jony Ive. Apple has sunk money into new retail experiences and positioned the device, which starts at $349 and climbs above $10,000, as both the latest must-have gadget and a bona fide luxury item. To say it’s a major moment for Apple would be an understatement.

No one is questioning Apple’s ability to mint money with its gadgets and services (see: $178bn in the com-pany’s cash reserves), but the ambitions of the watch speak to Apple’s broader ambitions. With a possible entry into the auto market on the horizon, Apple’s suc-cess at getting into-and winning-a whole new category is a big deal.

Apple faces two huge challenges with the watch. It has to make a beautiful gadget that hews to the com-pany’s history of groundbreaking design and technol-ogy. And because it’s a brand-new product category, the company has to make a case for the very existence of not just its watch, but any watch. It has to persuade people they need technology on their wrists.

As to looks, the watch’s hardware is beautiful in a surgical way. The little cube of metal and glass is very much an Apple product: clean, sleek, remarkably solid. But as a piece of jewellery, it’s similar to other digital and smartwatches. The design doesn’t compete with Rolex or Breitling for sheer style, but the more I wore the inconspicuous thing, the more I liked it on my wrist.

It’s loaded with cutting-edge technology. The tiny Retina display has a new form of pressure sensitivity Apple calls Force Touch, which responds to not only where but how hard you touch the screen. The watch notifies you with extremely nuanced vibrations via its Taptic Engine, which can produce strikingly realistic sensations, almost like a bell tapping on your wrist. Perhaps most important, the watch’s “digital crown” helps you navigate long menus, set options, and zoom in and out of maps and photos.

The speedy software and motion tracking is control-led by the company’s new S1 processor, which packs multiple components on a single chip. I have no doubt the Apple Watch is the most advanced piece of wear-able technology available today.

The Apple Watch does function as a watch, with literally millions of different dial combinations. Its time-keeping is so precise, it’s within 50 milliseconds of

the global Coordinated Universal Time. Apple has had some fun with this: If you’re in a room full of Mickey Mouse faces, Mickey will tap his foot in perfect sync on every watch. It’s incredibly cool.

Apple allows you customise the watch face, with not only Mickey and other designs but widgets it’s calling Complications. These items dotting the edges of the display can tell the temperature, signal your next calendar appointment, show the phases of the moon, and so on, offering information that elevates the device beyond a simple timepiece.

Still, it is a timepiece, and one problem makes it somewhat inferior to a conventional wristwatch: It activates its screen only when it thinks you’re looking at it. Sometimes a subtle twist of your wrist will do, but I often had to swing my wrist in an exaggerated upward motion to bring the display to life. Even so, sometimes the screen doesn’t turn on. Sometimes you tap it and nothing happens. For all Apple’s touting of its remarkable time-telling device, I found it lacking for this reason alone.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things to wrap your head around is the way the watch extends-and often replicates-your phone’s functions. You can receive and send text messages, for instance, but doing so on the small screen with your hand cocked in the appropri-ate position isn’t ideal if you’re working on something longer than a one-line reply.

And although it connects deeply with the phone, the watch has a completely new way of doing things. Because navigation is split between swipes of your finger, scrolling with the crown, and taps of varying pressure, it takes a while to get oriented.

The notification scheme is a little maddening at first. Apple sends a push notification every time you get a corporate email, personal email, direct message on Twitter, message on Facebook, and interactions in countless other services. Each notification pings the watch with a sound, vibration or both (which can be muted). This quickly gets overwhelming. I found myself turning off notifications from entire apps, which seems to defeat the watch’s purpose. Mercifully, Apple included a way to clear all those notifications: Just Force Touch on the list.

Getting the watch to work for you requires work. I pruned a list of VIP contacts in my mail app to make email notifications more tolerable; I killed several app notifications that were consistently interruptive; and I streamlined my applications to the truly vital.

In many ways, the watch functions much like a small iPhone. Though there are new ways of getting to your apps and interacting with them, much of the phone’s model interface has carried over. So often you end up not only having to take action but deciding where to take action. Still, I found some balance between the two devices. Checking text messages and emails by quickly glancing at the watch saved time and was help-ful when I was deeply engaged in an important activity.

Within Apple’s new suite of functions, I found both hits and misses.

On the plus side is Apple’s new Activity app, which presents three basic sets of achievements to hit every day and makes hitting them almost frictionless. One metric watches how many calories you burn; a second

is for exercise that elevates your heart rate; and a third is a notification for standing, to ensure you get up at least once an hour.

Setting these up was painless, and I immediately started seeing the results of being made so aware of my activity levels. I have no idea if this will have any lasting impact on my health, but Apple’s frictionless approach to teaching people about exercise habits is a leap in the right direction. There are rough spots. Apple hopes to reinvent how we communicate with friends and family by adding three new methods of messaging. The first allows you to essentially “sample” your heartbeat and send it off, but the novelty wears off quickly. The second, Sketch, allows you to draw or tap some symbols and send them to another Apple Watch user, but you don’t have much space you have to work with. The third new message concept is 3D, animated emojis. That sounds great until you realise the emojis are really more like neutered, animated GIFs from the late ‘90s Internet. We already have emojis, and Snapchat, Instagram, Periscope, GroupMe, Twitter, Facebook, WeChat, and on and on. There’s something forced and inauthentic about Apple in this space.

I’m split on one feature Apple includes on the watch: Glances act like little cards hiding underneath your watch that give you a glimpse of information from first- and third-party apps. Twitter will display the latest tweet in your timeline, there’s a controller for your music app, or you can see a detailed description of your next cal-endar appointment. In theory, these screens should be wildly useful for quick access to information. In prac-tice, the watch must pull information from the phone, leaving you with a spinning wheel that indicates data loading, rather than a quick hit of info.

The watch is not life-changing. It is, however, excel-lent. It is more seamless and simple than any of its counterparts in the marketplace. It is, without question, the best smartwatch in the world.

So Apple has succeeded in its first big task with its watch. It made something that lives up to the com-pany’s reputation as an innovator and raised the bar for a whole new class of devices.

Its second task-making me feel I need this on my wrist every day-is not quite there yet. It’s still another screen, another distraction, another way to disconnect, as much as it is the opposite. The Apple Watch is cool, it’s beautiful, it’s powerful, and it’s easy to use. But it’s not essential. Not yet. WP-Bloomberg

Apple Watch: You’ll want one, but you don’t need one

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KIDS’ CORNER

Say you always do. Say you always did.Show me that it’s more than just four lettersReveal to me the wonders of a syllable word.

Tell me how powerful it is,And remind me again of the deep wounds it can heal.For I may not always be here, in your arms,So, tell me now that you do.

I know there’s more to it than what we just see, hear, and sayDeep within, it sets us free.It’s strong enough to break the bonds of hatredBut do tell me. I want to hear it from you.

Say you did. Say you do. Say you will always love me.

Cinthia Lesly AbrahamAge 15, Dukhan English School

COLOUR PALETTE

You do

PRANAV VARRIAR6 years, Birla Public School

DIBINA ROSILINE DIDY13 years, Ideal Indian School

Vampires of Transalvania

Shesha Taylor,Age 12, Compass International School Al Khor

New York is an amazing place with skyscrapers as tall as the sky. Millions of joyful people live there, and so do the twins, Sam and Amanda. They were almost

fifteen so it was time for their special birthday present. “A trip to Transalvania, Romania!” cried Amanda. The home of ghosts and vampires!

“What if we meet a real vampire?” asked Sam, trying to annoy his sister. Amanda punched him in response. They had such a passion for horror they would do anything to go there. Their friend, Henry would also join them.

The next day…Everyone had to admit Transalvania was a beautiful

place. It was a cloudless night and the moonlight covered the sky like a king. Their airplane was so high; it would burst out of earth!

Soon they reached the hotel that looked like a grand castle. Everyone was tired so fell asleep at once. Amanda, however, tiptoed out to explore. It

was difficult for her to navigate, she got lost and wound up in a quiet passage way. Not a soul in sight. She kept walking and reached a small graveyard.

No one was there too, except for a bat with sharp fangs, smeared with blood. Now she was very scared. Amanda wanted to run but her legs turned to jelly. The next moment the bat turned into a dangerous vampire! It started to walk towards her slowly but steadily.

Then Sam and Henry came flying out of nowhere and pulled her back. The hazardous creature grabbed Henry by the neck. An echoing scream filled the air as the vampire’s fangs sank into Henry’s neck. It was Amanda who screamed and woke up just to realize that she hadn’t been encountered by a vampire! It was all a bad dream.

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FOOD

BY ELLIE KRIEGER

Many vegetables are easily noodled: Spaghetti squash, once cooked, inherently forms tender, thin strands you can twirl onto your dinner fork; zucchini, thinly sliced lengthwise, becomes long,

wide ribbons; and, with the help of one of those “as seen on TV” spiral slicers, just about any root vegetable from beets to turnips can take the shape of pasta.

It’s a fun and practical way to shake up the usual vegetable routine. Raw vegetable noodles cook in minutes, thanks to their increased surface area. You can prep them a day in advance, so they make for an easy weeknight dish. You can’t go wrong simply sauteing them in a skillet with garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. Add a handful of fresh herbs or a squeeze of lemon for an extra layer of aroma and flavour.

Or take the pasta concept more literally and toss cooked vegetable ribbons with tomato sauce or pesto. You also can combine generous amounts of vegetable “pasta” with regular noodles for a heaping main course that’s more healthfully bal-anced than the typical pasta dinner.

Asparagus is easily “pasta-fied” with a standard vegetable peeler. Here, inspired by of one of my most-craved spaghetti dishes, I toss the quickly cooked ribbons with garlicky toasted bread crumbs for a vegetable side dish that has decadent richness and unforgettable appeal. WP-Bloomberg

To shake up the vegetable routine, use your noodle

Asparagus ‘Pasta’ With Garlicky Bread Crumbs

4 servingsMAKE AHEAD: The asparagus may be prepped (before cooking) up to 1 day in advance and stored in an air-tight container in the refrigerator.

From nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.

Ingredients

1 piece whole-grain bread (1 1/2 ounces)2 medium cloves garlic, minced2 tablespoons olive oil1/4 teaspoon kosher salt2 bunches thick asparagus spears (about 1 1/2 pounds total)1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley

Method:Tear the bread (including the crust)

into pieces, letting them fall into a food processor. Pulse to form fine crumbs.

Transfer to a medium skillet, along with the garlic and 1/2 tablespoon of the oil. Cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes, stirring often, until the crumbs are browned and crisped a bit. Season with half of the salt; remove from the heat.

Cut off and reserve the asparagus tips. Hold an asparagus stem by its woody end; resting the stalk on top of a cutting board, use a vegetable peeler to peel the tender part of the stalk into long, thin strips. Discard the woody stem. Repeat with each asparagus stalk.

Heat the remaining 1 1/2 table-spoons of oil in a large skillet over

medium heat. Once the oil shimmers, add the shaved asparagus and the tips; cook, stirring gently, until slightly wilted, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice and the remaining salt and the pepper.

Sprinkle with the crisped bread crumbs and the parsley; toss, and serve right away. Nutrition | Per serv-ing: 120 calories, 4 g protein, 11 g carbohydrates, 7 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 100 mg sodium, 4 g dietary fiber, 3 g sugar

Krieger’s most recent cookbook is Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).

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FASHION

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who is retiring from the catwalk next week after a two-decade-long

career, said in an interview out Saturday that she’s quitting after her body “asked her to stop.”

Bundchen, 34, who will make her final sashay down the catwalk during Sao Paulo Fashion Week, said in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that she had “learned to listen to her body.”

“Automatically my body tells me if what I do is worth it, and it asked to stop. I respect my body, it’s a privilege to be able to stop” runway work, said Bundchen, the highest paid model in the world, according to Forbes.

Bundchen emphasized that she is not retiring but will continue off-the-runway work and spend more time with her family.

The blonde Brazilian beauty, who has

already reduced her number of appear-ances, is married to New England Patriots star Tom Brady, with whom she has two young children, Benjamin and Vivian.

“I don’t see how to continue (mod-eling on the catwalk) ... and stopping will leave room for other projects I have for myself,” Bundchen said, without speci-fying other upcoming plans.

Bundchen -- who Forbes says has been the world’s highest-earning model for the past eight years, with $47 million in earnings last year -- is expected to turn her focus to print ad campaigns. She has worked with the likes of Chanel, Valentino, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Alexander Wang, Balenciaga and Carolina Herrera. She has also many times been a Victoria’s Secret “Angel.”

Sao Paulo Fashion week, where Bundchen has been a fixture throughout her career, lasts from April 13-17. AFP

A new smartphone app prom-ises to make you slimmer and smarter and that too without any interventions in

your workout schedule! Actually, the new “Visualize You” app is designed to encourage weight loss by process-ing your portrait-style photograph and generating an image of what you would look like minus 10 kg... or may be more.

The designers said the app uses pro-prietary algorithms based on “clinically verified weight change dynamics” to generate the image, reported Daily Mail.

As opposed to similar apps that basi-cally stretch and pinch photos, Visualise You creates images determined by the precise amount of weight you hope to shed.

It is simple to use this app: Take a portrait-style picture of yourself, or grab one from your photo library, and drop

it into the app along with your height, weight and desired target weight.

The app crunches the numbers and pops out an image of a slimmer you.

You can also set the app to go the other way, generating an image based

on a heavier target weight. A series of exercise and diet guides is also included.

Visualise You is an attempt at spark-ing motivation via technology, accord-ing to the developers. The company

behind the app, Visual Health Solutions, developed the app in partnership with Cleveland Clinic and the University of Colorado. The app is not free though. It costs two dollars and is available for both iOS and Android platforms. IANS

Supermodel Gisele says body ‘asked to stop’ runway life

Look slimmer with this new smartphone app

My mother has severe oste-oporosis and I’m worried

that I may also develop it. Could exercise reduce my chances of osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis is a condition characterised by a decrease of bone density resulting in a loss of bone strength. In its severest form, the bones of osteoporosis sufferers may become so frag-ile that even the slightest knock or fall can result in a fracture. Although commonly associated with post-menopausal women, osteoporosis can also affect men, younger age groups and children.

Exercise also has a positive effect on bone mineral density and bone strength. Exercise increases the body’s ability to combat the natural loss of bone density, reducing the speed at which bone density decreases. People suffering from osteoporo-sis are advised to avoid high-impact exercises such as running, as these may increase the risk of fractures. However, moderate intensity, low-impact exercises are recommended, as they can offer a number of benefits includ-ing increased muscle strength, balance and coordination.

Resistance and strength train-ing have been shown to stimu-late bone formation, increase the retention of calcium and prevent osteoporosis. These weight bear-ing activities are the most effective forms of exercise at strengthen-ing bones. In addition to prevent-ing bone density loss, exercise helps to strengthen muscles and improve coordination, both

important factors in reducing the risk of falls.

To prevent the onset of oste-oporosis it is very important to be aware of all the risk factors. Certain risk factors cannot be altered — such as gender and age — yet people should still be aware of these in order to fully understand the risks. However, it is possible to avoid many of the risk factors including smoking, high alcohol consumption and poor diet. Living a lifestyle that fol-lows healthy guidelines will go a long way towards protecting your bones from the harmful effects of osteoporosis.

Before starting an exercise pro-gramme you should consult with a qualified physiotherapist who can assess your musculoskeletal characteristics and teach you the correct techniques for the program.

Contributed by Hamad Medical Corporation

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HEALTH

Do you know why the French have low cardiovascular diseases despite having a diet high in saturated fats?

It is not because of wine or their lifestyle but another French staple: Cheese and its metabolism.

Researchers have revealed that those who consumed cheese had higher fecal levels of butyrate -- a compound produced by gut bacteria. Elevated butyrate levels are linked to a reduction in cholesterol.

“The results suggest a role for gut microbes and further shore up the con-nection between cheese and the ‘French paradox’,” said lead researcher Hanne Bertram from the department of food

science, Aarhus University, Denmark.For her study, she and colleague com-

pared urine and fecal samples from 15 healthy men whose diets either contained cheese or milk or who ate a control diet with butter but no other dairy products.

Figuring out why the French have low cardiovascular disease rates despite a diet high in saturated fats has spurred research and many theories to account for the phe-nomenon known as the “French paradox”.

A recent study had also found that cheese reduced “bad” cholesterol when compared to butter with the same fat con-tent. The results were detailed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. IANS

Have cheese for super heart health

Mohamed Aleef, Physiotherapy, Specialist at HMC

Exercise helps to protecteffects of osteoporosis

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BOLLYWOOD

Actress Sonakshi Sinha was left exhausted after completing an action

sequence of her upcoming film Akira.

“Just finished my 1st ever action sequence for #AKIRA! Exciting and exhausting!!! So tired but the adrenaline still pumping, bring it on,” Sonakshi tweeted on Saturday.

Akira is the Hindi remake of 2011 Tamil hit Mounaguru and it features Sonakshi’s father Shatrughan Sinha as well.

The actress had earlier expressed her excitement over training hard for A R Murugadoss’s actioner.

“I have been training a little hard and being innovative now. I think learning something new for a film is very cool. It’s a fun thing to do and very exciting,” she said earlier.

Sonakshi finishes ‘first ever action sequence’

Actress Priyanka Chopra, who made her Bollywood debut in 2003 with spy thriller The Hero:

Love Story of a Spy, has completed 12 years in the Hindi film industry. The 32-year-old took to Twitter to express her gratitude towards her fans and followers.

“Wow! 12 yrs! I came here as a scared lil 17 yr old. I thank u for accepting me and always giving my idiosyncrasies undying support. #Gratitude,” she wrote.

Priyanka, who shot to fame with 2003 film Andaaz — for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, has starred in more than 40 films includ-ing Aitraaz, Waqt: The Race Against Time, Krrish, Fashion and Gunday.

She was last seen playing the titular role in biopic Mary Kom.

Apart from her acting skills, Priyanka has also shown her singing abilities alongside international artists Pitbull and Will.i.am.

Her upcoming projects include Dil Dhadakne Do and Bajirao Mastani.

Priyanka Chopra completes 12 years in Bollywood

BY HARICHARAN PUDIPEDDI

Maverick filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, known for path-breaking films such as Sarkar and Rakht Charitra,

will next make a movie titled Killing Veerappan on the man who gunned down the dreaded smuggler.

A multi-lingual project, Killing Veerappanwill be made in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.

“I’ve always been fascinated by the story of Veerappan, and have been wait-ing to make a film on his life. Finally, I’ve got the perfect script that’ll do justice to his story,” Varma said.

Kannada superstar Shivrajkumar has been roped in to play the killer of Veerappan, while RGV is yet to cast some-one to play Veerappan.

“My story will not focus on Veerappan, but on the man who killed him. I’ve cast Shivrajkumar for a particular reason. Veerappan had kidnapped legendary actor Rajkumar many years ago, and now I’m giving his real-life son, Shivrajkumar, an opportunity to take reel revenge on the villain,” he said.

Veerappan, one of the most wanted of Indian bandits, ruled the forests of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for several dec-ades, smuggling tonnes of sandalwood. He was gunned down by the police in 2004.

“The governments of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka had spent hundreds of crores for his capture. Thousands of police personnel were on his trail for years. But only one man could kill him. My story will focus on that one individual,” he said.

According to RGV, there was nobody else more dangerous than Veerappan.

“I can’t find anybody more dreaded and dangerous than Veerappan. He was more cunning, ruthless and barbaric than Osama Bin Laden. Agreed Osama may have had bigger network and was working on an international scale, but he wasn’t more dangerous than Veerappan, who, according to me, is the most dangerous villain ever,” he added.

RGV, who is busy writing the film, will officially launch it by the end of this month or next. “I’m almost done writing. I’ve been watching all films, videos and documenta-ries available on Veerappan. My story will be narrated from a different perspective as I have found new information from dif-ferent sources.”

“We are waiting for Shivrajkumar to be relieved of his current commitments. If all goes well, we might launch the film this month or in early May,” he said, and added that other cast members are yet to be final-ised. When asked about whom he will cast in the role of Veerappan, Varma said it will be a surprise and that he wants to keep the identity of the actor a secret for now.

IANS

RGV’s next on the killer of Veerappan

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HOLLYWOOD

BY HANK STUEVER

Contrary to all the hype and box-office receipts, not everyone swoons for super-heroes. The more super-serious these costumed lifesavers get, the more silly they

usually seem. Attach a Marvel or DC logo to a new TV show or movie and some of us reflexively brace for metaphors laid on too thickly, overblown special effects and blunt, gravelly dialogue that trips over its desire for portent.

All of that is present in Netflix’s elegant and hypervio-lent new 13-episode series Marvel’s Daredevil (which began streaming Friday), but it’s also clear that some-one’s fiddling with the knobs — someone who pos-sesses a true desire to at last find the right tone for these things. Will there ever be a comic-book-based TV show that will appease fans of the genre while also appealing to discerning viewers who prefer dramas such as Breaking Bad and The Americans?

Let’s put it another way: Can there ever be a super-hero-themed equivalent to Game of Thrones?

That still feels a long ways off, but Daredevil, the first of several Marvel projects for Netflix, shows some impressive instinct for elevating the form, some of which it cribs from Christopher Nolan’s dark-hearted Batman films and maybe just a smidge from the look and feel of Fox’s Gotham.

All of these projects rely heavily on a long-outdated notion of a Manhattan (or any Gotham-like metropolis) that’s so thoroughly corrupt and crime-ridden that the city needs heroes whose moral ambivalence pushes them toward vigilantism. Without this deeply cynical premise — that there is evil and violence on every street corner — the comic-to-film process simply falls apart. Superheroes need bad guys, and lots of ‘em.

Thus we have Daredevil’s excessively high body count, which is not merely a function of adult-themed television; it’s true to the comics too, dating back 30-plus years to Frank Miller’s provocative work on the Daredevil title, delivering so much brutality and grace with spattered black ink and revolutionising the medium. This Daredevil TV series honours Miller’s early vision for comics as cinematic noir.

Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) stars as Matthew Murdock, a New York attorney and son of a boxer. Blinded as a boy (he pushed a good citizen out of the way of a careening truck loaded with chemical waste), Matt discovers his other senses have heightened considerably. Now he can hear just about everything, from cries for help to individual heartbeats, happen-ing in the blocks surrounding Hell’s Kitchen (Daredevilsmartly contains its story to a neighbourhood, rather than a planet). He’s also an exceptionally agile martial-arts fighter and quite the parkour expert, leaping and bouncing up the sides of buildings.

Daredevil insists, however, that we view Matt as human. This is in keeping with the overall plan for future Netflix series which will feature Marvel’s so-called “street-level” protagonists — superheroes who can’t fly, morph, shoot spider webs from their wrists, etc. Like DC’s Batman, they are prone to grievous injury and they are at least somewhat familiar with the laws of physics.

When he dons his improvised costume (includ-ing pulling a hood down to his nose) and sets out each night to rid his neighbourhood of international thugs, dealers and human-traffickers, Matt gets his butt kicked more times that you can count in the first five episodes. Cox is a fine actor but he’s a hard fit as a rough-and-tumble vigilante; his best assets as an actor — his eyes — are usually obscured, either by Matt’s daytime sunglasses or Daredevil’s mask. Disappointingly, Cox winds up being just another guy in a TV show.

Rosario Dawson plays a nurse, Claire, who shares Matt’s vision for a saner Hell’s Kitchen (Daredevil all but ignores recent gentrification in the actual Hell’s Kitchen) and patches him up so he doesn’t have to visit the ER and risk revealing his identity. And Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) is a convincingly sinister

presence as Wilson Fisk, a crime boss obsessed with improving New York by killing most everyone in it. (In one scene, he pulps a traitorous colleague’s head by slamming it repeatedly in a car door.)

So much about Marvel’s Daredevil works exactly the way it’s intended, including the pace of the action and the extent and style of the gore. What still doesn’t work — what almost never works where the name Marvel and live-action film/TV meet — is the hammy dialogue, especially when characters express their feelings to one another. When Claire questions Matt’s propen-sity for violence and his remark that he hurts people because he enjoys it, the words, as Gloria Estefan once sang, get in the way: “I can’t believe that, because if I do, that means you’re not the man I believe you to be,” she says.

“I need to be the man this city needs,” Matt whis-pers, gruffly. “What do you want me to do, Claire — let them tear Hell’s Kitchen apart? Let them win?”

“I just don’t think I can let myself fall in love with someone who is so damn close to becoming what he hates,” she says.

Marvel’s Daredevil (13 episodes) is now streaming on Netflix. WP-Bloomberg

Daredevil: A comic-book show with unusual vision

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige says the reboot of Spider-Man will focus on Peter Parker

as a high school superhero and not on his successor in the comic books, Miles Morales, or anyone else who has donned the Spider-Man mask over the years.

Feige told Collider magazine that the next Spider-Man will be a 15 or 16-year-old Peter Parker, reports variety.com.

“In terms of the age of an actor we’ll eventually cast, I don’t know. In terms of

the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, I’d say 15-16 is right,” he said.

Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s characters were initially high schoolers as well, but Feige said keeping the superhero in that setting for an extended period of time allows for the introduction of new stories - much needed after five Spider-Man films.

“Some of my favourite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he’s in high school for a lot of it. We want to explore

that. That also makes him very, very different from any of our other characters in the (Marvel Cinematic Universe), which is something else we want to explore: how unique he is when now put against all these other characters,” Feige added.

Marvel reportedly will introduce the new Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, which hits theaters on May 6, 2016. Meanwhile, the latest Spider-Man franchise launches on July 28, 2017.

IANS

Next Spider-Man movie will see teen Peter Parker

Hoy en la HistoriaApril 13, 1970

1945: Vienna, the first foreign capital occupied by Hitler, was liberated by the Russians1953: The CIA launched a clandestine “mind control” program to develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture1960: The United States launched the first satellite navigation system2010: A huge ice block broke off a glacier in Peru, creating a 23-metre wave that flooded four nearby towns

An oxygen tank exploded on board Apollo 13, crippling the spacecraft as it neared the moon. The mission was abandoned but the crew returned safely to Earth

Picture: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ABBREVIATED, ABRIDGED, AGES, BRIEF, CEASELESS,COMPRESSED, CONDENSED, CUT BACK, DECREASED,DIMINISHED, ENDLESS, EPHEMERAL, ETERNAL, EXTENDED,FLEETING, INCESSANT, INCREASED, INTERMINABLE, LENGTHY, LESSEN, LITTLE, LONG, MOMENTARY, PERPETUAL, PRECIS, PROLONGED, PROTRACTED, REDUCED, SHORT, TRUNCATED.

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

ZITS

BLONDIE

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

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COMICS & MORE

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.

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unlike Sudoku 13

regions (four regions

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5 Artwork and furnishings

10 Flaky mineral

14 Word at the bottom of a page, perhaps

15 Eye: Prefix

16 Slippery ___ eel

17 Metaphorical mess

19 Bloods or Crips

20 Working stiff

21 Stage, say

23 Monarch’s advisers

26 1960s TV show featuring the cross-eyed lion Clarence

29 Wizards of aahs, for short?

30 Postings at LAX and ORD

31 Twice tetra-

34 Sharply dressed

37 ___ Lemon (“30 Rock” role)

38 “St. Louis Blues” composer

40 Period sometimes named after a president

41 Author Calvino

43 Himalayan legend

44 Push

45 “Get Smart” adversary

47 Micronesia’s home

49 Only president to win a Pulitzer

53 Manhattan region

54 “You’re wrong about me!”

58 Mex. miss

59 Race advantages … or a hint to 17-, 23-, 38- and 49-Across

62 ___ Parker, first president of Facebook

63 Fired up

64 “Oh, why not?!”

65 “Giant” novelist Ferber

66 Jolts, in a way

67 Bean staple

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3 Phnom ___

4 Memory triggers

5 Big name in chemicals

6 “The Name of the Rose” author

7 Rice spice

8 Ancient Mexican

9 Mobster’s gun

10 Burgundy relative

11 Musician with a Presidential Medal of Freedom

12 “Ple-e-e-ease?”

13 Guardian ___

18 Words with time or song

22 Undercooked, as an egg

24 Old stock car inits.

25 French spa locale

26 Place where people pick lox?

27 Bickering

28 Former Soviet republic

32 ___ Bo

33 Chekhov or Bruckner

35 “Star Trek: T.N.G.”

counselor

36 One-third of

“et cetera”?

38 Scares a cat, in a way

39 Chop up

42 Showy flower

44 Biweekly occurrences, for many

46 Part of Waldo’s wear in “Where’s Waldo?”

48 Shorten, say

49 Track great Owens

50 Worked on a trireme

51 Plant swelling

52 Minimum-range tides

55 Traditional ingredient in cookies and cream ice cream

56 Certain court order

57 Workplace rules setter, for short

60 Joey ___ & the Starliters

61 1960s antiwar grp.

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34 35 36

37 38 39 40 41

42 43 44 45 46

47 48 49

50 51

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60 61 62 63

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be used but, like sudoku, each number

may only

be used

once.

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CROSSWORDS

BROKEN HORSES

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

SCREEN 1 The Unbeatables (2D/Animation)

10:20am, 12:10, 2:00 & 4:00pm

SCREEN 2 Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 6:40, 9:30pm & 12:15am

Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:45, 3:20, 6:00, 8:50 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 3 The Cobbler (2D/Comedy)

10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 4 Alien Outpost (2D/Thriller) 11:30am, 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pm

Skin Trade (2D/Action) 1:30, 5:30 & 9:30pm

SCREEN 5 Aswar El Qamar (2D/Arabic)

10:45am, 3:20 & 7:50pm & 12:55am

The Longest Ride (2D/Drama) 12:50, 5:20 & 10:00pm

SCREEN 6 The Canal (2D/Horror) 3:10 & 7:15pm

Broken Horses (2D/Drama) 11:10am, 1:10, 5:10, 9:15 & 11:15pm

SCREEN 7 Cinderella (2D/Drama) 10:15am, 12:30, 2:45 & 7:20pm

Get Hard (2D/Comedy) 5:20, 9:35 & 11:35pm

SCREEN 8 Top Five (2D/Comedy) 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 & 11:00pm

Home (2D/Animation) 10:40am & 1:00pm

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

11:00am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50pm & 12:30am

SCREEN 10 Fast & Furious 7 (IMAX 2D/Action)

10:30am, 3:30, 8:20 & 11:40pm

The Cobbler (2D/Comedy) 1:15 & 6:10pm

NOVO

MALL

LANDMARK

ROYAL PLAZA

SCREEN 1 Nannbenda (2D/Tamil) 2:00pm

Aswar El Qamar (2D/Arabic) 4:45pm Alien Outpost (2D/Thriller) 7:00pm Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 9:00pm

Broken Horses (2D/Drama) 11:30pm

SCREEN 2 Top Five (2D/Comedy) 2:30pm

The Unbeatables (2D/Animation) 4:30pm Cinderella (2D/Drama) 6:30pm

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

Skin Trade (2D/Action) 11:15pm

SCREEN 3 Jalaibee (2D/Action) 2:00pm The Cobbler (2D/Comedy) 4:15pm Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 6:00 & 11:00pm

The Longest Ride (2D/Drama) 8:30pm

SCREEN 1 The Unbeatables (2D/Animation) 2:30pm

Alien Outpost (2D/Thriller) 4:15pm Ennum Eppozhum (2D/

Malayalam) 6:00pm Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 8:45pm

Top Five (2D/Comedy) 11:15pmSCREEN 2 Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 2:30, 8:45 & 11:15pm

The Cobbler (2D/Comedy) 5:00pm Cinderella (2D/Drama) 6:45pm

SCREEN 3 Nannbenda (2D/Tamil) 2:30pm

Home (2D/Animation) – 5:15 pm



Aswar El Qamar (2D/Arabic) 11:15pm

SCREEN 1 Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 2:30, 6:45 & 11:00pm

The Unbeatables (2D/Animation) 5:00pm

Alien Outpost (2D/Thriller) 9:15pm

SCREEN 2 Home (2D/Animation) 2:30pm

Cinderella (2D/Drama) 4:30pm Aswar El Qamar (2D/Arabic) 6:30pm

Fast & Furious 7 (2D/Action) 8:45pm


SCREEN 3 Jalaibee (2D/Action) 3:00pm

Top Five (2D/Comedy) 5:15pm

The Cobbler (2D/Comedy) 7:15pm

Broken Horses (2D/Drama) 9:00pm


The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.

Directors: Vidhu Vinod ChopraWriters: Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat JoshiStars: Sadie Alexandru, Scott Aschenbrenner, Chad Bishop

WESTEND PARKSCREEN 1 Ennum Eppozhum (Mal) 4:15, 7:00 & 9:45pm

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CINEMA

16


DOHA EVENTS

IN FOCUS

A view from Corniche.

14 JulyVenue: Garage Gallery at the Fire StationVenue: FreeTime: 10:30-19.30 (Tuesday closed)

An exhibition that pays homage to the very first artists in residency in Qatar 15 years ago, it includes installations, photographs and videos of what Doha’s inaugural art residences were like, introducing visitors to a part of Qatar’s recent history that has never been shared so extensively before.

27 APRIL - 28 APRILVENUE: 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/

18, 25 AprilVENUE: 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.

EXHIBITION 555

Origami Family Workshop

The Vision Conference2015

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

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

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

Send your event details to [email protected]

Until 21 AprilVenue: 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

17 April Time: 10:30 - 22:30Venue: The Pearl-QatarVenue: Free

Registration period until 15 April. Registration is open for public in singles and doubles category.Competition starts at 10:30am.For more information and participation email [email protected]

Beach Tennis Tournament

29 April — 02 MayVenue: 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.

IWED 2015

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 Daniel San Andres Mana-ay

Documents

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