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Siwar – Arabic for bracelet – is Qatar’s leading youth choir established by Al Jazeera Children’s

Channel. They enthralled the music lovers during a perfomance at the Katara Cultural Village.

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CULTURE

Siwar choir enthrals Qatar music lovers

In a charming evening, a talented choir of Siwar performed in Doha in an annual music programme organ-ised by the Katara Cultural Village,

under the patronage of the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari.

Siwar – Arabic for bracelet – is Qatar’s leading youth choir established by Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC). Siwar provides the opportunity for talented youngsters to express themselves through singing and to explore the rich Arabic herit-age through its diverse musical repertoire,

which has been revived with a modern musical arrangement.

Siwar is the gate to our musical culture.The Siwar Choir comprised of 30 musi-

cians led by Maestro Nabih Al Khatib one of the leading Arab singers, who mesmer-ised the audience with his songs full of sweet melodies. The choir also performed classics of legendary Arab singers like Fairouz.

The choir dazzled the audience with per-formances of English, French and Turkish songs, re-enforcing the global perception that music is a universal language.

PICS: SALIM MATRAMKOT

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The Turkish songs were also part of the celebrations of the Qatar-Turkish 2015 cultural year celebra-tions. A Turkish band performed at the event with three guitarists, who performed the traditional Turkish musical styles that have a lot of simi-larities with Arab music.

Saad bin Saleh Al Hudaifi, the Acting director of Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC), said that what distinguishes this year’s per-formance was the fact that it was being conducted under the patron-age of the Minister of Culture, who has been keen at facilitating and ensuring the success of the event which falls under the cultural events for the Qatar-Turkish 2015 cultural year.

“The Siwar Choir has had won-derful performances in Arabic and other languages like English, French, and Turkish which demonstrate their versatility,” he said. “Al Jazeera is committed to supporting the Arab children to develop their music talents

and become successful musicians.”Al Khatib, who led the choir, said

that the performance of Siwar was as good as any professional musi-cal performance, adding that all the choir members were having extra ordinary capabilities to succeed as professional musicians.

He also said that Siwar intended to preserve the Eastern lyrics heritage and this had been well demonstrated in the way the Turkish trio performed with guitarists and other musical instruments winning the admiration of the audience.

Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel has launched the initiative of Siwar Choir with the aim of supporting talented Arab children from the age of 9 to 16 and developing their singing abilities under the supervision of professional musicians. Through joining Siwar, children get the chance to discover the value of the rich Arabic music leg-acy through re-arranging some of its popular songs in a modern attractive way. The Peninsula

Siwar Choir aims to:

• Gathering and training talented Arab youths with no musical experience.

• Performing live on stage, singing in groups and solos, accompanied by local and international guest artists and professional musicians from Arab and other countries.

• Meticulously researching and selecting a reper-toire from the vast collection of internationally renowned Arabic songs which can be sung by children and appreciated by the adults. The music is rearranged by acclaimed composers and tailored specifically to suit the choir.

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CAMPUS

Grade 7 and 8 students of DeBakey School had a Pi Day celebration where they celebrated the Mathematical constant Pi (π). Pi Day is an annual celebrations observed on March 14th (3/14) with recognition that 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of π. Many activities were held on that day such as eating “Pi” food, converting things into Pi, celebrating Albert Einstein’s birthday, and having a competition in memorising digits of Pi. Each class was divided into two groups where they had to make “Pi” paper chain with 2 different colours (one colour representing odd numbers and the other for even numbers), the team with the longest chain won.

DeBakey holds Pi Day celebrations

‘Language Master’, a series of testing sessions designed to encourage students to put in

extra effort to enrich general knowledge in literature and language was organised in Birla Public School this academic year.

The programme, which followed the template of popular television serial “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”, caught the imagination of both students and parents alike. The grand finale held at the school consisted of a quiz on vocab-ulary, phonetics and literature.

Twenty students of class V of the international curriculum contested in the final round. Hafiz emerged as the “The Language Master of the Year”

Ramprasad, English teacher, was the anchor and teachers Cigi, Taha, Suresh Veeraraghavan, Deepthy, Dilna, Jiji and Ritu. The Peninsula

The Department of Mathematics of Doha Modern Indian School celebrated the ‘Pi Day’ recently, with a purpose of instilling in students an interest in Mathematics and motivating them. The teachers enlightened the students in an interactive session on facts about Pi Day. An informative Power Point presentation about the history of Pi was shown in the primary sections to give an idea of its significance in mathematics.

DMIS marks Pi Day

BPS students celebrate Language Master Finale

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MARKETPLACE

Maggi Diaries, the web-based series covering the culinary journeys of five Arab women, returns for

its second season to take viewers on a global journey of culinary exploration across India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Italy, experiencing new cultures and flavours from around the world.

Led by five women who are pas-sionate about discovering new and exciting global cuisines, Maggi Diaries celebrates the world’s cultural and culinary heritage with an added twist to make each dish as unique and real as the woman making it. The series of webisodes focuses on empowering women through real cooking, to make a difference in their lives and that of their families and loved ones.

“Following the success of the first season of Maggi Diaries, we wanted to expand our adventurous culinary sense even further, taking recipes from hotspots of international cuisines in Italy, Turkey and India, while keep-ing a distinctly local flavor with every dish we make,” said Jessy Abdulnour, Senior Brand Manager at Maggi. “This year, Maggi Diaries will continue to act as a platform to encourage women to connect – and reconnect – with the dishes, flavours and tastes of global and regional cuisines, but also to empower and inspire them to cook healthier while making a difference in their lives and that of their families and loved ones.”

Maggi Diaries stars five of the Middle East’s passionate food lovers, Lama Alnaeli, Mai Hakeem, Assia Othman,

Hanouf Albalhan, and returning from the first season, Sumayya Makki.

Viewers can watch the show starting March 2015 on YouTube at Youtube.com/MaggiArabia, with new episodes

uploaded every week and running until November. A total of 30 webisodes will run for a duration of five minutes each and will be available for viewers in Arabic with English subtitles. The Peninsula

Maggi Diaries webisodes returns for second season

Nivea wins awards at Product of the Year 2015 Gulf Edition

Beiersdorf Mena announced that its products Nivea Sun Protect & Bronze Range, Nivea Men Sensitive Range, Nivea Creme Care

Shower and Nivea Cocoa Butter Body Lotion & Body Cream have all won consumers’ hearts this year – and victory at the esteemed Product of the Year 2015 Gulf Edition awards.

Commenting on the awards, Patrick Hoven, Marketing Director Beiersdorf Middle East & North Africa, said: “We are very proud to have won the awards. It is a great acknowledgment that Nivea is the preferred and most trusted skin care brand. We stand by our values of closeness, trust and reliable care which prove to be a winning for-mula to win consumer’s hearts.”

Founded in 1987, the ‘Product of the Year Awards’, recognises the best new products on the market through an independent process. The products must demonstrate innovation in design, function, and pack-aging and must have been launched within the last 18 months.

Hoven continues: “Out of love for skin; this motto is the engine that powers our development of inno-vation. These awards recognize our constant aim to achieve the most cutting edge but also most caring protection for our customers.” The Peninsula

Nivea official with one of the awards.

Malabar Gold & Diamonds unveils Mother’s Day pendants

Malabar Gold & Diamonds has introduced two exclusive diamond pendants specially for

Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is cel-ebrated on March 21 every year to honour and celebrate the uncondi-tional bond of motherhood.

“This Mother’s Day, make your mother feel unique by gifting her a diamond pendant specially designed for the occasion by Malabar Gold & Diamonds. Let your Mom know how you feel with a unique heart shaped diamond pendant engraved with a subtle message “b’coz I will always be a part of you”. This pendant is available for QR 950,” a company press release said.

“Show her how much she is loved and appreciated by gifting an entwined pendant sparkling with diamonds, representing the unbreak-able bond a mother and child share. Celebrate the true essence of moth-erhood with this perfectly crafted timeless pendant offered at a price of QR1,335 and turn this occasion into a memorable one,” it added.

These diamond pendant sets will be available at all Malabar Gold & Diamonds showrooms in the Middle East till stocks last.

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RECIPE CONTEST

WINNER

Creamy Sweet Noodles Pudding

Ingredients:• 1/2 pound of medium size egg noodles,

cooked according to the packet’s instructions

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 6 eggs

• 2 cups milk

• 16 ounces cottage cheese

• 1 cup sour cream

• 1 package of block cream cheese (8 ounces)

• 4 tablespoons butter, melted

• 1/2 cup white sugar

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 cup golden raisins

• 1/4 cup dried cranberries

For the Topping• 2 tablespoons butter, melted

• 1/4 cup brown sugar

Method:Preheat your oven to 350F. In the bowl of your

electric mixer, beat the eggs and white sugar until

well combined, about 3-5 minutes.

In a small saucepan or in the microwave, melt

the 4 tablespoons of butter. Once the eggs and

sugar are beaten, add the cottage cheese, sour

cream, 4 tablespoons melted butter, vanilla, salt,

and cream cheese. Mix well. Add the milk and

stir to combine.

Combine the cooked egg noodles and the dairy

mixture in a large mixing bowl.

Fold in the dried fruit, if using. Carefully pour the

noodle mixture into a large lasagna pan.

In a small bowl, mix 2 tablespoons of melted but-

ter and 1/2 cup of brown sugar into a thick paste.

Dot the noodle mixture with the brown sugar paste

and swirl to slightly combine.

Cover the lasagna pan with foil and bake for 30

minutes. Uncover the pan for the last 30-40 minutes

of baking.

The kugel will be done when the custard has set

and the surface is lightly browned. Allow to stand

for 20 minutes before serving.

This dish is delicious whether served warm, room

temperature, or cold.

R Sajjansingh

Noodle Wrap

Ingredients:• 1 packet noodle – 77gms• 1 tbsp red chili powder• 1 tbsp black pepper powder• ½ tbsp garlic paste• ½ tbsp turmeric powder• ½ tbsp coriander powder• ½ tbsp cumin powder• 1 red, 1 green and 1 Yellow, small size capsicum• 2 medium size onions• 4-5 medium size baby tomato• Salt as per taste• 10 tbsp cooking oil (Olive oil)• 3 tbsp chopped coriander• 3 tbsp chopped lettuce leaves• 3 cup all-purpose flour • 4 spoon yogurt• 5 tbsp mozzarella shredded cheese• 4 tbsp tomato sauce • 1 medium size egg plant• 250 ml water

Method:Take 1 bowl, put the all purpose flour, add 3 table

spoon olive oil, yogurt, garlic paste add water and mix it together to make a dough. Cover it and put it aside.

Take a pan; add some water to boil the noodles with pinch of salt and one table spoon oil. Take out the boiled noodles and drain the water.

Cut the egg plant in to circular shapes. Mix red chili powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and little salt. Sprinkle this mixture on to the eggplant.

Take a pan, add 4 table spoon oil and fry eggplant on both the sides with medium heat for 10 min. After it is cooked, put it aside.

Take another pan, add 2 table spoon oil, add chopped

onion, all 3 chopped capsicums, baby tomatoes (Make few holes on them before adding), black pepper and salt as per taste. Fry it for 10 min and add noodles and mix it. Put it aside.

Make a medium size roti from the dough and cook it on Tawa. Once Roti is ready, take it in to a plat. In the middle of the roti, put prepared noodles. Put the tomato sauce on it. Put 2 slices of prepared eggplant, top it up with mozzarella shredded cheese, Coriander and let-tuce leaves. Roll the roti and the Noodle Wrap is ready.

The dish taste most delicious when served hot. Shesha

Magic Noodle Cutlet

Ingredients:• 1/2 instant noodles(150 grams)

• 1/2 cup finely chopped mixed boiled vegetables

• 1/4 cup boiled lightly mashed green peas

• 1/4 cup boiled and mashed potatoes

• 1/4 cup finely chopped onions and spring green

onions

• 1/2 tsp finely chopped green chillies

• 1/4 cup finely chopped coriander

• 1/2 tsp chaat masala and cheese

• Salt to taste

• 1 tsp oil for cooking

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Theme Nights All Nights including a glass of house beverage

The theme for this week is cupcakes.

(Send in your recipe with ingredients in metric measurements).

Winner will receive a dinner voucher.

To claim your prize call 44557837.

Method:Cook the instant atta (whole wheat) noodles in 100

ml boiling water without the tastemaker.

Combine all the ingredients including the noodles in

a bowl and mix well using your hands.

Divide the mixture into 8 to 10 equal portions and

shape into flat cutlets the palms on your hands.

Cook on a greased non-stick pan on both sides till

golden brown using a little oil if required.

Serve hot and mint sauce.

Mitwa Kirankumar

Noodles Cake with Orange

Ingredients:• 1 orange, peeled and chopped

• 6 free-range eggs, beaten

• 2 tbsp icing sugar

• 85g/3oz egg noodles, cooked according to

packet instructions, drained

• 25g/1oz butter

To serve• 1 orange, peeled and sliced

• Icing sugar, to dust

• 1 fresh mint sprig

Method:Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

In a bowl, mix together the chopped orange, eggs

and icing sugar until well combined, then mix in the

noodles.

Melt the butter in a small ovenproof frying pan and

pour in the noodle mixture. Fry for 4-5 minutes, or until

golden-brown on the bottom, then transfer to the oven

to cook through for 6-8 minutes, or until golden-brown

all over and set.

Slide the noodle cake out onto a plate and decorate

with the orange slices. Dust with icing sugar and top

with a sprig of fresh mint. Serve.

P R Yadav

Noodle Pillows

Ingredients:• 150 grams glass noodles

• 4-5 button mushrooms

• 4-5 cabbage leaves

• 1 tbsp Oil

• 1 medium onion finely chopped

• Grated carrot 1/2 cup

• 1 1/2 tbsp schezwan chutney

• 1/2 cup cooked rice

• Salt to taste

• 1 tbsp cornstarch slurry

Method:Heat 1 cup water in a non-stick pan, add cabbage

leaves and boil till leaves become soft.

Heat oil in a non-stick wok, add onion and sauté

till it translucent.

Slice mushrooms and add to the wok. Add carrot

and mix well. Add 1 tbsp schezwan chutney and mix

well. Cook till the excess water begins to evaporate.

Add glass noodles and mix well. Add rice and

remaining schezwan chutney and mix well. Add 2-3

tbsps water and mix well. Add salt and mix well. Add

cornstarch slurry and mix well.

Remove the cabbage leaves and place in 2 cups cold

water. Wipe the cabbage leaves with tissue paper to

remove the extra moisture, place a portion of noodle

stuffing in center of each leaf and fold to make pillows.

Place banana leaf in a bamboo steamer and make a

few small slit on the leaf with the tip of a knife.

Heat sufficient water in a non-stick wok, place

the bamboo steamer in it, put noodle pillows in the

steamer, cover with a lid and steam for 8-10 minutes.

Remove the noodle pillows from the steamer,

arrange on a serving platter and serve immediately.

Zareena

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FASHION & BEAUTY

BY IMOGEN FOX

Astrange thing happened to me at the mens-wear shows in Paris this January. In the daydream-ing time somewhere

between browsing Instagram and wait-ing for the models to appear, I started mentally shopping for a new skirt. Not so weird (even for the dedicated trou-ser wearer that I am), given that I was surrounded by people wearing Very Nice Clothes. What was unusual was that I wanted a menswear skirt. Not just any men’s skirt, naturally. It was a sand-coloured one worn over army surplus-inspired ankle trousers by Dries Van Noten that convinced me I needed a knee-length hem. Immediately.

So what was it about the menswear skirts that won me over in the way that womenswear hasn’t been able to for several years? The answer is worthy of an eye roll, I know, but the truth is, the mood feels right. Because there is a unisex trend happening – at least in the upper echelons of fashion – that makes it feel as if gender is disappearing.

It isn’t hard to find evidence of fash-ion melting gendered clothes into one wardrobe that appeals to both sexes. First up there’s Jonathan Anderson, a man who in real life likes to wear the (infinitely do-able) unisex uniform of crewneck jumper, mid-blue jeans and trainers. On the catwalk he has done more to blur the boundaries than any other designer. When he first started putting men in pussy-bow blouses, there was muttering about bound-ary pushing and it was dismissed as experimental London fashion by some factions. But his appointment to Loewe gave his point of view gravitas. So when new boy at Gucci Alessandro Michele sent out his models in chiffon and lace with long hair, there was already a framework in place.

One that Hedi Slimane has also helped to shape with his penchant for using skinny rock boys and girls wearing interchangeable rock’n’roll clothes and Cuban boots. At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci showed knitted skirts styled over trousers. Meanwhile Mrs Prada – the living, breathing personification of the word zeitgeist – sent out invitations to

view her new collections (notice the plural). She explained that she wanted to show fall menswear and pre-fall womenswear blended together as one because working on menswear always left her wondering how she could apply the same ideas to women.

Retailers are attempting to mon-etise the mood. Selfridges recently announced that it was getting rid of gendered floors and would just have three floors of fashion merchandised together so that customers could shop according to an expression of “self”. So high-minded, guys. And, alas,

two weeks after I had berated the JW Anderson sales assistant for not stock-ing a blue and white striped menswear shirt I wanted badly on its womenswear rails.

Already advertising is doing its best to push this idea of gender-blending dress-ing. Cara Delevingne is photographed in a gang of boys wearing suits in the DKNY menswear 2015 campaign, while Julia Roberts in the Givenchy adverts makes the best case I’ve ever seen for gender-neutral tailoring.

The question is not so much if we will be convinced into unisex dressing but

why this is happening now. Culturally we’ve been here before. In no particular order we’ve had Tilda Swinton wear-ing androgynous suits, Bobby Gillespie wearing chiffon and a girly hair parting, Annie Hall and, of course, the maestro himself, David Bowie. My best guess is that the mood is informed by aes-thetic rather than cultural or intellectual reasons (sorry, Selfridges). In recent seasons, there has been a gradual drift together for men’s and womenswear in terms of taste. Womenswear has lost its spiky edges, with trainers and Céline-esque trousers dominating. Equally menswear is busy getting its flounce on. This is perhaps the main point of the 2015 take on unisex – that menswear is becoming more feminine and not the other way around.

Fashion loves oddness, and it likes to shock. But the strange thing about seeing skirts live on the menswear cat-walk (and you’ll have to trust me on this) was how manly they looked. This seems key to me if this trend is ever to take off. Beause much as I love hearing that my male comrades on the front row are sneaking into Zara to buy printed blouses, and I’m fantasising about menswear skirts, I think we all know that, despite the buzz, we are still quite a way from peak gender blur in the real world. The Guardian

Unisex trend blurring gender boundaries

This year’s menswear shows were all about feminisation. JW Anderson, Hedi Slimane, Givenchy, and Prada all helped capture the gender-blending mood, and Selfridges went the whole hog and decided to merge its women’s and men’s departments. It’s a look we’ve seen before, but will it go mainstream this time round?

Dries Van Noten show

Gucci show, Milan fashion week

By Brent Lang

Cinderella enchanted audiences this week-end, racking up a royal $70.1m to lead the domestic box office and

a massive $132m globally.The adaptation of the classic fairy tale

follows Walt Disney Studios’ strategy of raiding its library of animated favorites to refashion as live action blockbust-ers — an approach that yielded such successes as Maleficent and Alice in Wonderland, and one the studio plans to employ on Dumbo and Beauty and the Beast.

“From a company perspective and a public perspective, fairy tales are a part of our DNA,” said Dave Hollis, Disney’s distribution chief. “This is decidedly something that Disney does and does well.”

Cinderella’s popularity left Liam Neeson’s latest action-adventure, Run All Night, huffing and puffing at the finish line. The Warner Bros release pulled in a lackluster $11m from 3,171 theatres, lower than pre-release tracking which suggested a debut in the $15m range. The audience for the story of a father protecting his son (Joel Kinnaman) from mob hit men was 52 percent female and 86 percent over the age of 25.

Warner Bros domestic distribution chief Dan Fellman said he was particu-larly surprised that the film attracted more women than to men. He added that the picture seemed to play bet-ter on the East Coast in cities like Washington and New York than it did on the West Coast.

“I’m a little disappointed in the results,” said Fellman.

“We just got off to a slow start...we felt it should have been a stronger second place, but at this point we’re hoping we get a good multiple and a great hold.”

It’s possible that Neeson, who was recently seen making short work of European bad guys in January’s Taken 3, has simply been brandishing the gun a bit too much of late. Run All Night cost $50m to produce, so it will need to attract foreign crowds if it wants to break even.

Cinderella opened across 3,845 the-atres in North America and cost $95m to produce. Opening weekend crowds were 68 percent female, 66 percent families and 31 percent comprised of moviegoers under the age of 12.

“This was a strong protagonist and an aspirational character,” said Hollis. “We took the high bar reached by the classic animated film and built on it. This will now be something that com-plements the original.”

The film wasn’t in 3D, but it did get a nice boost from other premium formats. Imax represent 7 percent of Cinderella’s gross and premium large

formats comprised 8 percent of the box office results.

Cinderella couldn’t match the $116.1m debut of Alice in Wonderland, but it did surpass the $69.4m premiere of Maleficent.” That’s impressive con-sidering that despite featuring Cate Blanchett and Downton Abbey’s Lily James, Cinderella lacked a star on the level of Johnny Depp or Angelina Jolie to bring in crowds. It also cost half of the roughly $200m each that Disney spent producing those fantasies.

Cinderella was a juggernaut overseas picking up an estimated $62.4m, $25m of which came from China.

The film opened in about 60 percent of the international marketplace, includ-ing such major territories as Russia, Italy, Mexico and Germany.

In the holdover realm, Kingsman: The Secret Service has now crossed the $100m mark. The Fox action-adven-ture captured third place with $6.2m, pushing its stateside haul to $107.4m. Focus, Will Smith’s heist romance, snagged fourth position on the charts with $5.8m. The Warner Bros release has made $44m after three weeks in theatres.

Fifth place went to Fox Searchlight’s The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which held steady with $5.7m from 2,022 theatres in its sophomore frame, dropping a mere 33 percent and

bringing its total to $18.1m.In limited release, Radius-TWC’s It

Follows impressed with $163,453 from four locations, for a per-screen average of $40,863. The horror film has enjoyed unusually strong reviews for the genre, with critics handing out a 95 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Among other art house releases, Seymour: An Introduction, Ethan Hawke’s look at a pianist and teacher debuted on two screens where it made $26,320 for a per-screen average of $13,160.

Not everyone was as lucky as It Follows. Official numbers have yet to be released but it appears that Adam Sandler’s critically panned The Cobbler will eke out a meagre $21,00 from 17 theatres.

After two weeks of lagging behind 2014’s box office results, Cinderella helped lift domestic ticket sales more than 16 percent over the year-ago period to top out at $133m. The key was providing some fresh all-ages fare to a marketplace that had been dominated by adult films such as Fifty Shades of Grey and Focus.

“It’s been an R-rated world at the box office and for families this was a dream come true,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Rentrak. “They were sitting on sidelines and waiting for a family friendly weekend.” Reuters

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HOLLYWOOD

Cinderella reigns with $70.1m, Run All Night falls flat

Harper Beckham shops hand-in-hand with dad

Harper Beckham, daughter of former footballer David Beckham, was seen shop-

ping while holding hands with her celebrity father, here.

The duo was seen having having a lovely father-daughter time. David treated his little one to some shop-ping from children’s store Bonpoint and seemed elated to see the delighted youngster with her new clothes, reports dailymail.co.uk

The three-year-old carried her own shopping bag over her shoul-der. David sported a blue shirt and black jeans worn with a limited edi-tion Stan Smith Adidas trainers in grey, and he finished his look with his trademark bakerboy cap and draped a navy blue pullover over his shoulders.

The little one looked very trendy in a black and white checked dress worn over black leggings and pink colourful trainers, teamed with a cream trench coat. IANS

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BOLLYWOOD

Govinda, who is known for his dance moves, is making his TV comeback as a judge with DID Super Moms. The

star comedian says he is open to more TV shows if he gets something good to give to the audience.

“I’m game for everything which is cor-rect and good. But yes, the show should make me feel that I have something to give to the audience. Then only will I be able to say ‘yes’ to TV shows,” the actor, who was in the capital during the launch of the dance reality show, said.

Govinda’s last appearance on TV was as a host on Jeeto Chappar Phaad Ke in 2001. On DID Super Moms, Govinda will judge the Zee TV show along with cho-reographers Geeta Kapur and Terence Lewis.

Asked about the reason of giving a nod to DID Super Moms, the actor says his mother was the reason.

“Mother has always been special to me. My mother is very responsible for whatever success I have achieved today, and I’m sure many people will accept that too. A mother is one of the most beautiful creatures made by god. I think this was one of the reasons why I said ‘yes’ to this show,” he said.

Geeta is equally excited about working

with Govinda after a long time.“Govinda sir is the reason why I’m in

this field and it’s an honour to work with him through this show. I remember that after watching his dance moves, I was dying to work with him and I got this opportunity during an award function but that was a brief encounter. Today I can say that god always has better plans,” she said.

Starting on March 28, the new sea-son has plenty of things to delight dance enthusiasts. Essel Vision Productions Ltd, creative and production studio of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) are the producers of the show, to be hosted by TV actor Karan Wahi.

“Having given ‘umeed’ (hope to scores of mothers across the country with the immensely successful first season of DID Super Moms — a hope that there is more to life than the daily rigmarole of house-hold responsibilities and that they too can pursue their own dreams and hidden tal-ents, we are back with the second sea-son of DID Super Moms,” said Pradeep Hejmadi, business head of Zee TV.

The new season will be a 11-week series starting with the auditions of the show, moving into week-on-week elimi-nations with the top 15 contestants from across the country. IANS

After lending her voice to two successful songs — Joganiyan and Sannata — this year, Shruti Haasan has sung

a song picturised on herself for her film Gabbar Is Back. What’s more incredible is that she recorded the song in one hour without any break.

“Shruti was shooting in the village of Pollachi for one of her Tamil films. In between her film schedules and her numerous brand shoots, she had just half a day to complete this recording. After a two-hour car ride to Coimbatore and then a flight to Mumbai, Shruti landed and went straight into the recording

studio,” a source said.“She had prepped the song in advance

and had worked on the voicing so that she can maximise her output at the stu-dio. And that’s exactly what happened. The music director got what he wanted from her for the entire song within an hour, post which she took a flight back to resume her shoot in Pollachi,” he said.

Directed by Krish Jagarlamudi, the film featuring Akshay Kumar in the lead, is the remake of Tamil film Ramanna.

The film also features Prakash Raj and Sonu Sood in important roles, while Kareena Kapoor and Chitrangada Singh will appear in cameo roles.

Open for more TV shows: Govinda

Shruti records song forGabbar Is Back in one hour

Farhan welcomeswife to Twitter world

Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar welcomed his wife and star hair-stylist Adhuna on micro-

blogging site Twitter. “Please wel-come @AdhunaAkhtar to Twitter...on her personal account, finally,” tweeted Farhan, who has always maintained that Adhuna has been his support system. Adhuna also took to social media platform to thank her family and friends for a “warm welcome”.

“Thank you to all for the warm welcome,” she shared. The couple have two daughters together.

SRK keen to write

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan is so mesmerised with the beauty of a city in Croatia that it makes him want to write. The ‘Bollywood Badshah’ took to micro-blogging site Twitter to express his views

on the city as its beauty encapsulated him into a different world. “How beautiful is Dubrovnik...makes me want to write,” SRK shared.

The actor has turned all his focus on Maneesh Sharma’s directorial “Fan” and is also regaling the small screen audience through his reality TV show “India Poochega Sabse Shaana Kaun?”.

10


HEALTH

BY NORA KRUG

Over the past 20-plus years, I’ve developed an unhealthy relationship with my work-out gadgets. It started with

a Walkman, then escalated to a jumpy Discman, just about every version of the iPod and finally an iPhone with music synced to the Nike+ app. As songs blasted through my headphones, I pushed myself for the inspirational mile-marker callouts and drove myself harder to hear Olympic stars like Sanya Richard Ross congratulate me: “Great job getting out there!” I compared my weekly pace charts, devised playlists that would motivate me on hills (yes, they almost always included “Born to Run”) and faithfully analyzed the digital record of my achievements.

Then my app crashed. At first I was upset, but in my frantic efforts to fix the problem, I came face-to-face with an uncomfortable truth: Data and music had become a crutch. Did I really need them to get through my workout — to make it count? The only way to find out was to get rid of my devices. No music, no apps, no watch. I’d run the same 5K route and check only the kitchen clock when I left and when I returned. At the gym, I’d leave the headphones at home and turn off the data screen. And the rest of my weekly workouts would include outdoor swims and yoga. In other words, the unplugged workout.

Given the array of fitness technology now available to help make exercise more entertaining, efficient and informative — smartphone apps, activity trackers, tricked-out watches like the new Apple Watch, which gives you “credit” for the simple act of standing up from your chair and moving — some people might question the value of going retro. (What’s next for me, eating like a cavewoman?) But also I wonder: Have we all gotten a bit too dependent on tech feedback?

Perhaps, says research psychologist Larry Rosen. “Workout technology can be valuable,” says Rosen, author of the book iDisorder: Understanding our Obsession With Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us, but if you are constantly checking your stats, “then that is going to create anxiety — and that’s the last thing you want to do when exercising.” Exercise is supposed to produce endorphins and dopamine, chemicals that make you feel good, not anxiety neurotransmitters like cortisol. “Why would you want to be stressed when you are trying to do something that is supposed to be good for you?” he asks.

Even more potentially damaging, says Rosen, a professor at California State University at Dominguez Hills, is the social media component of some apps — posting your run on Facebook, for example, and relying on your friends to cheer for you virtually. Making your personal workout public sets you up for disappointment, he says: “What if you posted your run and nobody liked it? Does that mean you got nothing out of it?”

Working out wired can also pose safety hazards. Wearing headphones decreases your awareness of traffic, dogs and other potential dangers.

Even taking your eyes off the road to check your watch means you’re not paying attention to the present, and that increases risk.

Those little app rewards “might also tempt people to push too hard when they should be listening to their body and not their iPhone,” says Jo Zimmerman, a trainer and instructor of kinesiology at the University of Maryland. Exercise tech, she says “is a double-edged sword. For some people, technology is the exact reason to get off the couch and for others it’s what makes them too competitive.”

Even running guru Hal Higdon, who has worked with developers to create training apps, says that while technology can help the goal-oriented or first-time runner, it can also “destroy our workouts, taking us out of our bodies.” When he was researching the effects of running on the body for his book Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide, he says he used a heart monitor for feedback on his runs near Lake Michigan in Indiana. When the book was done, however, he “cast away” the device, he said, “because I would rather focus on the beauty of the park and listen to the lapping of waves on the shore.”

Others prefer the sound of a

companion’s voice. Deborah Brooks, the chapter leader of Moms Run This Town in McLean, Virginia, says that “when we run together as a group I enjoy the company of friends and don’t feel like I need music to push me.”

Brian Beary, a journalist in Washington, says that he gave up running with music four years ago and now typically uses only a stopwatch (with a phone in his pocket for emergencies). Last month, he says, “I reached a goal I set myself around the time I stopped running with gadgets: running a marathon in under three hours.”

As for me, I’m not breaking any personal records yet, but I am discovering the less tangible benefits of exercise. Sure, getting out there that first day without my phone was hard. (Even harder was the elliptical without music.) But now that I’ve been up those hills a few times — humming “Born to Run” to myself — I’m beginning to miss the technology less and less. I can hear my breath and the sound of my feet. I am more aware of how my body is moving and of the cars and dogs along the path. Birds provide the music. And just because I don’t record my workouts for posterity doesn’t mean they don’t count. In fact, they matter even more.

WP-Bloomberg

Is technology spoiling your workout?

Flexible work schedules aren’t just more convenient, they can really make a difference in the way we feel and for

our long-term health, a study reiterates. In today’s fast life, our daily schedules often don’t match our bodies’ natural rhythms. This causes a ‘social jetlag’ as we lose sleep.

The condition can be a particular problem for shift workers, who work into the night or on a shifting schedule. “A ‘simple’ re-organ-isation of shifts according to chronotype allowed workers to sleep more on workday nights,” said Till Roenneberg of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Germany.

“As a consequence, they were also able to sleep less on their free days due to a decreased need for compensating an accu-mulating sleep loss. This is a double-win situ-ation,” Roenneberg added. The researchers got the chance to implement their ideas about sleep and work schedules in a real-world factory setting.

The factory workers were assigned to an early, late, or intermediate chronotype based on their normal sleep patterns. The researchers then implemented a chrono-type-adjusted (“CTA”) shift schedule.

Morning people were never made to work

late and night owls were never forced to get up early for work. With those adjusted schedules, people felt more satisfied with the sleep they did get and experienced slight improvements in their general well-being. It also reduced social jetlag — the difference between the midpoint of workers’ sleep on work versus free days — by one hour. While the new findings weren’t exactly a surprise, Roenneberg said, it was still “utterly satisfy-ing to find that theory actually works in the real and ‘dirty’ world”.

The findings were reported in Current Biology. IANS

Flexible work schedule good for workers’ well-being

Wearing headphones decreases your awareness of traffic, cats and other potential dangers. Even taking your eyes off the road to check your watch means you’re not paying attention to the present, and that increases risk.

11


TECHNOLOGY

BY HANNAH JANE PARKINSON

Passwords: easily forgotten, but also easily guessed. It’s a bitter irony that minutes can be spent racking brains trying

to remember whether a required secu-rity question answer is a pet’s name, first school or place of birth – meanwhile a cyber-criminal is merrily typing in a person’s favourite colour and relieving bank accounts of hard-earned wages.

Well, now Yahoo might have made the process easier – at least when it comes to accessing email.

The Californian tech giant is rolling out “on-demand” email passwords, based around phone notifications, and eliminating entirely the need to memo-rise a fixed password.

Tired of forgetting your password? You don’t need one any more, says Yahoo

China’s Li Ning Co Ltd is team-ing up with Chinese smart-phone maker Xiaomi to

produce a new generation of “smart” running shoes this year, in the sports brand’s latest effort to revive its wan-ing fortunes.

Li Ning, backed by private equity powerhouse TPG Capital and Singapore wealth fund GIC, warned in January that it expects to post its third consecutive full-year loss, as it grapples with a restructuring, bloated inventories and slowing demand fol-lowing the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Li Ning’s efforts to recapture its glory days by appealing to a younger generation have been evident in its product design and high-profile mar-keting campaigns. In 2013, it signed a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with NBA basketball superstar Dwayne Wade.

Li Ning said its partnership with Huami Technology, the fitness wear-able company behind the Mi band and part of the Xiaomi ecosystem, is the first collaboration between sports and “smart” technology in China.

“We have chosen to collaborate with the Mi band because of Huami Technology’s strength in “smart” wearable products,” Li Ning said in a statement on Monday. “We hope to use this opportunity to provide professional “smart” running shoes to running enthusiasts in China at an affordable price.”

“Smart” chips are to be placed in the soles of Li Ning running shoes. The “smart” running shoes will be connected to a Xiaomi mobile app, allowing runners to keep track of their progress and results, analyse their form, and monitor their achieve-ments. Reuters

Li Ning teams up with Xiaomi on ‘smart’ running shoes

Seeking to extend its range of secure mobile devices, BlackBerry Ltd said it was

launching a high-security tablet, developed with International Business Machines Corp and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

The SecuTABLET, based on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S 10.5 and being presented by BlackBerry unit Secusmart at tech fair CeBIT 2015 in Germany, reflects the Canadian company’s stress on secure connections for governments and businesses as it seeks to preserve a niche market after a drubbing in recent years at the hands of emerging smartphone makers such as Apple Inc.

“Security is ingrained in every part of BlackBerry’s portfolio, which includes voice and data encryption

solutions,” said Dr Hans-Christoph Quelle, chief executive officer of Secusmart GmbH, in a statement on the new device.

The device was undergoing certification by the German Federal Office for Information Security for secure rating, the statement said, adding that the new tablet used the same security technology as the Secusmart Security Card.

“Working alongside IBM and Samsung, we have added the last link in the chain of the Federal Security Network. Subject to certification of the SecuTABLET, German government agencies will have a new way to access BlackBerry’s most secure and complete communications network in the world,” Quelle said.

Reuters

Blackberry launchesnew secure tablet

Yahoo Mail now offers a service simi-lar to “two-step verification”, a security measure employed by other email pro-viders, but the difference is the removal of the first step.

Two step verification works by a user logging in with their usual fixed password, after which the email pro-vider sends a unique code to their mobile phone, which is then entered on the login screen, allowing the user to access their email account.

Yahoo’s new security process will remove the need for users to enter a fixed password first, and instead just send a four-letter password to a user’s phone via text.

Unveiling the service at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, Yahoo’s vice president of product man-agement for consumer platforms Dylan Casey said: “This is the first step to eliminating passwords. I don’t think we as an industry has done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products.”

A blog post written by the compa-ny’s director of product manager, Chris Stoner, explains the steps:

1) Sign in to your Yahoo.com account.

2) Click on your name at the top right corner to go to your account information page.

3) Select “Security” in the left bar.4) Click on the slider for

“On-demand passwords” to opt-in.5) Enter your phone number and

Yahoo will send you a verification code.

6) Enter the code and voila!

The “on-demand” password service is opt-in and currently only available in the US.

Also announced at the festival was Yahoo’s forthcoming project on end-to-end encryption. Based on Google’s alpha Chrome PGP encryption plugin, Yahoo hopes to make the service avail-able in autumn 2015.

The Guardian

Company rolls out new ‘on-demand’ phone-integrated password service at SXSW festival, and nods to future encryption service.

12


COMICS & MORE

Hoy en la HistoriaMarch 17, 2014

1980: The first patent for a life form was issued for a genetically-engineered bacterium capable of breaking down crude oil2000: Over 500 members of a religious cult died in a fire in Uganda2005: U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz was nominated to head the World Bank2010: A controversial mega-dam on the Mekong River in Laos began to generate electricity

L’Wren Scott, fashion designer and high-profile girlfriend of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, was found dead in her New York City apartment. She was 47

Picture: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ADAM SCOTT, ANDERS HANSEN, BRANDT SNEDEKER, BUBBA WATSON, CHARLS CHWARTZEL, DAVID TOMS, DUSTIN JOHNSON, FRANCESCO MOLINARI, GRAEME MCDOWELL, HUNTER MAHAN, IAN POULTER, JASON DAY, JIM FURYK, KIM KYUNG-TAE, KJ CHOI, LEE WESTWOOD, LUKE DONALD,MARTIN KAYMER, MARTIN LAIRD, MATT KUCHAR, NICK WATNEY, PAUL CASEY, PHIL MICKELSON, RETIEF GOOSEN, ROBERT KARLSSON, RORY MCILROY, STEVE STRICKER, THOMAS BJORN, WEBB SIMPSON, ZACH JOHNSON.

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

only once. Otherwise, a

Hyper Sudoku is solved

like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS

1 Marathon or sprint

5 Toots one’s own horn

10 “___ out of your league, man!”

14 Shah’s land

15 Des Moines native

16 Vehicle with a hatch on top

17 Venus de ___

18 Muppet with a long bluish nose

19 ___ in a blue moon

20 Lets some air in, say

23 Any graduate from a women’s college

25 Becomes an Elvis impersonator?

26 Compromised, as two parties

30 Actor Damon

31 German state whose capital is Dresden

32 “Sounds good!”

33 Cacophony

34 Jane Austen classic

38 Hypes

41 Lab container

42 Get hitched

46 Start watching a TV show, say

47 Parts of a moral code

48 What the ends of the answers to 20-, 26- and 42-Across are

52 Narrow opening

53 Mideast’s ___ Heights

54 Close, in a guessing game

57 Make an engraving

58 Illuminated from below

59 Horror film assistant with a Russian name

60 Salon tints

61 Down-and-out

62 Word that’s only coincidentally made up of the four main compass points

DOWN 1 Wheel’s edge

2 “Exodus” hero

3 India’s capital before New Delhi

4 Sheer awfulness

5 Lions and tigers, but not bears

6 Corner chess piece

7 Plant bristles

8 Mideast’s ___ Strip

9 Strands at a chalet, say

10 High as a kite

11 “Messiah” composer

12 Shout after the band leaves the stage

13 Distorts, as data

21 ___ Taylor, women’s clothing chain

22 ___ 500

23 BBs and bullets

24 Plumbing problem

27 Wore

28 Be

29 Calendar page

34 Facetious fall guy for one’s wrongdoings, maybe

35 Malapropism

36 �

37 Pub orders

38 Be hot, hot, hot

39 Exercise one’s right under the Second Amendment

40 Common highway speed limit

42 Opposite of innocent

43 How chop suey is often served

44 Ocean bottoms

45 Baseball designation one step below Major League

46 Zapped, as during an arrest

49 Slangy dissent

50 Woman’s name that sounds like a letter

51 Uttered

55 Pull an oar

56 ___ Fields cookies

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

M A N E N O U G H B A N G SO N O N E K N E E U R I A HV E A L O S C A R T I E T OE T H A N R E N T A C O P

R S V P E N D E R SS M O G A R T I S A NO R W E L L I A N K E B A BT S E U S E R F E E R C AS C R U B R O A L D D A H L

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be of any size. It has rows and columns,

and dark cells like in a crossword. And,

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dark cells will contain numbers. Some

cells will contain two numbers.

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reference clues. In a kakuro, the

numbers are all you get! They denote

the total of the digits in the row or

column referenced by the number.

Within each collection of cells - called

a run - any of the numbers 1 to 9 may

be used but, like sudoku, each number

may only

be used

once.

EASY SUDOKU

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CROSSWORDS

BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

SCREEN 1 Cinderella (2D/Drama)

10:30am, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 2 Run All Night (2D/Acton)

10:30am, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45pm & 12:00midnight

SCREEN 3 Cairo Time (2D/Arabic) 1:00, 3:15 & 10:10pm

Youm Maloush Lazmah (2D/Arabic) 10:40am, 5:30, 7:50pm & 12:30am

SCREEN 4 American Heist (2D/Action) 10:10am, 6:10, 8:10 & 10:10pm

Walking On Sunshine (2D/Romantic) 12:10, 2:10, 4:10pm & 12:10pm

SCREEN 5 Kinsman: The Secret Service (2D/Action)

10:15am, 2:45, 7:15 & 11:45pm

Outcast (2D/Action) 12:45, 5:15 & 9:45pm

SCREEN 6 Focus (2D/Action) 2:00, 6:00 & 10:15pm

The Wedding Ringer (2D/Comedy) 12:noon, 4:00, 8:10pm & 12:25am

Asterix (2D/Animation) 10:10pm

SCREEN 7 Fast...Er (2D/Action) 11:00am, 3:00, 7:00 & 11:00pm

Before I Go To Sleep (2D/Thriller) 1:00, 5:00 & 9:00pm

SCREEN 8 Demonic (2D/Horror) 3:50, 7:40 & 11:50pm

Apartment 143 (2D/Horror) 10:20am, 5:45, 9:40pm

Asterix (2D/Animation) 12:10 & 2:00pm

SCREEN 9 Cinderella (IMAX 2D/Drama)

11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 10 Run All Night (2D/Acton) 1:20, 6:30, 9:00 & 11:40pm

Cinderella (2D/Drama) 11:00am & 4:00pm

NOVA

MALL

LANDMARK

ROYAL PLAZA

SCREEN 1 Asterix (2D/Animation) 2:00pm

Demonic (2D/Horror) 3:45pm

Walking On Sunshine (2D/Romantic) 5:15pm

Run All Night (2D/Acton) 7:00 & 9:15pm

Fast...Er (2D/Action) 11:30pm

SCREEN 2 Cinderella (2D/Drama) 2:30, 5:00, 7:15 & 9:15pm

Apartment 143 (2D/Horror) 11:30pm

SCREEN 3 Ennakul Oruvan (2D/Tamil) 2:30pm

Before I Go To Sleep (2D/Thriller) 5:15 & 9:30pm

Cairo Time (2D/Arabic) 7:15pm

N.H.10 (2D/Hindi) 11:15pm

SCREEN 1 Ennakul Oruvan (2D/Tamil) 2:30pm

Before I Go To Sleep (2D/Thriller) 5:00pm

Cinderella (2D/Drama) 7:00 & 9:15pm


SCREEN 2 Asterix (2D/Animation) 2:15pm Demonic (2D/Horror)

3:45pm Walking On Sunshine (2D/Romantic) 5:15pm

Run All Night (2D/Acton) 7:00 & 9:15 Fast...Er (2D/Action) 11:30pm

SCREEN 3 Fast...Er (2D/Action) 2:30pm The Spongebob Movie:

Sponge Out of Water (2D/Animation) – 4:30pm Cairo Time (2D/

Arabic) 6:45pm Before I Go To Sleep (2D/Thriller) 9:00pm

Ennakul Oruvan (2D/Tamil) 10:45pm

SCREEN 1 N.H.10 (2D/Hindi) 2:30 & 11:30pm


Cinderella (2D/Drama) 7:00 & 9:15pm

SCREEN 2 Demonic (2D/Horror) 2:15pm

Asterix (2D/Animation) 3:45pm


Run All Night (2D/Acton) 7:15pm

Fast...Er (2D/Action) 7:15 & 11:30pm

SCREEN 3 Asterix (2D/Animation) 3:00pm

Cairo Time (2D/Arabic) 5:00 & 9: 15pm


Demonic (2D/Horror) 11:30pm

A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

Directors: Rowan JoffeWriters: Rowan Joffe, S.J. Watson Stars: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong

15


DOHA EVENTS

IN FOCUS

A moored boat seen in Al Khor

by Sun Dawei

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

UNTIL 21 MARCHVENUE: DOHA EXHIBITION CENTERADMISSION: FREE ADMISSIONTime: 9:00-21:00

From ancient artifacts and historic collections to contemporary treasures, Qatari art, and quirky trinkets, these community-led contributions shaped an exhibition that represents the shared heritage and passions of a people from Qatar and beyond.

UNTIL 20 MARCHVENUE: KATARAADMISSION: FREE ADMISSIONTime:17:00-19:00

Katara Art studios in cooperation with Qatar Arts Association and Handicraft Society in Qatar are organizing a handicrafts market in Building 19, where a wide range of artifacts, jewellery, accessories, paintings, drawings, clothing, home decorations and photography will be displayed and sold. Visitors will also have the chance to enjoy traditional food items.

UNTIL 30 MARCHVENUE: AL RIWAQ EXHIBITION HALLADMISSION: FREE ADMISSIONTime: Sunday-Wednesday 10:30am – 5:30pm, Tuesday closed and Thursday 12:pm – 8:pm.

Presented by Qatar Museums (QM), Here There will see the QM Gallery Al Riwaq split in half, each dedicated to one of the two countries, Qatar (Here) and Brazil (There). The Years of Culture initiative is a key part of Qatar Museums’ vision in establishing cultural ties between Qatar and countries around the world.

UNTIL 20 MARCHVENUE: KATARAADMISSION: FREE ADMISSIONTime:10:00-22:00

Ameera Al Aji addresses the concept of “difference,” in her abstract art. In her exploration of the “self,” the “other” and the many-facets of what she perceives as “different,” she draws on the triangles which have persisted in her memory and her interactions with her environment, and which are also part of the traditional designs widely used in the regional wool-crafts and textiles called sadou.

27 MARCHVENUE: THE PEARL- QATARADMISSION: FREE ADMISSIONTime:06:30-11:00

Lido Venezia Beach, Qanat Quartier, The Pearl-QatarRace Start Time 6:30amSprint : Swim: 750M Bike: 20KM – Run 5KMOlympic : Swim:1.5KM Bike:40 KM – Run 10KMFor registration:www.premieronline.comFor general inquiries:[email protected]

MAL LAWAL EXHIBITION

QATARI HANDICRAFT MARKET

HERE THERE EXHIBITION

“DIFFERENT” AMEERAAL-AJI

THE PEARL-QATAR TRIATHLON

18-27 MarchVENUE: Museum of Islamic ArtADMISSION: FREE

The ILHAM Art Exhibition will feature new works of art by disabled artists from Qatar, Oman and the UK. These artists spent two weeks in residency earlier this year in Qatar to prepare Islamic-inspired pieces that seek to build bridges and understanding about the abilities of people of all talents.

ILHAM Art Exhibition

18, 19 MARCHVENUE: BLACK BOX THEATER, HBKU STUDENT CENTER, EDUCATION CITYADMISSION: QR100 (AVAILABLE ON WWW.Q-TICKETS.COM)Time: 19.30

Macbeth is a tale of love, ambition and murder. Staged in the round in Black Box Theater, the audience will be mere centimeters away from the actors during the entire performance.

SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH BYTHE DOHA PLAYERS

18 MARCHVENUE: MIA PARKADMISSION: FREETime:18:00-20:00

A lovely evening of jazz set to a backdrop of Doha’s burgeoning skyline. The evening’s line up of world renowned artists includes Dominick Farinacci, Bruce Harris, Richard Johnson, Chris Beck, Jeremy Boettcher and Laurent Day.

Jazz in the Parkby Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha

UNTIL 28 MARCHVENUE: QATAR MUSEUMS GALLERY, KATARAADMISSION: FREE ADMISSIONThe exhibition highlights Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad’s body of work through a precise selection of his most striking artworks from his early works in 1970s until today. His mixed media calligraphic pieces to his new conceptual artworks.

YOUSEF AHMAD: STORY OF INGENUITY

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