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A CELEBRATION OF ARABIC NOVEL

The inaugural Katara Arabic Novel Festival which opened yesterday promises to be an effective platform to promote Arabic novels globally and encourage cultural interaction among Arab novelists.

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| TUESDAY 19 MAY 2015 |

CULTURE

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The inaugural Katara Arabic Novel Festival which opened yesterday prom-ises to act as an effec-tive platform in promoting

Arabic novels globally and encourag-ing cultural interaction among Arab novelists.

The four-day festival hosts a number of cultural, literary, media and art figures from Qatar and other Arab countries and includes symposia, exhibitions and events celebrating the Arabic novel.

In his opening speech at yesterday’s launch, Katara General Manager Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti said as the festival comes within the ambitious strategy of Katara to make it an added value in the world of Arabic novels, it is hoped that it will be a beacon for culture and literature as well as a platform for

wider cultural interaction among promi-nent figures and intellectuals.

“I hope that the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel will usher in a new era for Arabic novel,” added Dr Al sulaiti.

The opening day also saw the inauguration of the Katara Centre for Arabic Novel, one of the vital projects in Katara which is the first of its kind in the region as it specifically focuses on Arabic novels and provides services for Arab novelists. The centre is equipped with a library which houses modern and old Arabic novels as well as films produced based on Arabic novels.

The centre, which will continuously be updated and developed, also includes an archive and database for Arabic novels and a photography exhibition of prominent Arab novel-ists. Trainings and workshops on writ-ing novels will be conducted by the centre.

Katara pushes Arabic novel forward

The four-day festival hosts a number of cultural, literary, media and art figures from Qatar and other Arab countries and includes symposia, exhibitions and events celebrating the Arabic novel.

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A Katara Arabic Novel postage stamp was also launched yesterday. The stamp produced in collaboration with QPost was launched in line with the first edition of the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel.

Commemorative postage stamps are of great value as they enhance commu-nication even beyond the country and introduce the events of social, political and national importance internation-ally as they reach different parts of the world, said Dr Al Sulaiti.

The stamp depicts an engraved pic-ture of the prize in its distinct design and takes on the colour of the sand remi-niscent of the desert common to Arab countries. There are 40,000 copies of the stamp which are now available in all post offices in Qatar for use in cor-respondence and for administrative use of Katara for its local and international correspondence.

Katara also hosted a meeting of the permanent committee for Arabic culture to prepare for the ministerial meeting on cultural affairs in Arab countries in collaboration with the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO).

Opening the meeting on behalf of Dr Al Sulaiti, Khalid Abdulrahim Al Sayyed, General Supervisor of KataraPrize for Arabic Novel said it was fortunate that the meeting was being held to coincide with the festival, a great Arab cultural event hoped to make quantum leap in Arab culture in general and in Arabic novel in particular.

This meeting, Al Sayyed said, was the first fruit of cooperation between Katara and ALECSO and would make Katara a cultural beacon as it would encourage Arab literary innovators.

Recently a number of memoranda of understanding were signed between Katara and ALECSO, one of which was making Katara a gateway for Arabic

culture through the website specialized on art and literary works.

Dr Hayat Al Karmazi, Director of cul-tural Department in ALECSO, lauded the role of Katara in encouraging intel-lectuals and writers in different aspects and called upon Arab ministries of cul-ture to nurture and encourage cultural innovative works, enhance Arab cultural activities and implement the ministerial decisions.

The meeting will discuss the prepara-tion of a proposal on ‘Arab contract for cultural rights’. It will also specify the next country to host the 20th ministe-rial meeting, discuss the Arab Cultural Capital project, the Arab Prize for Cultural Innovations, Arab Cultural Days

and the activation of Arab strategy for theatre development.

Also on the agenda are the cultural and heritage website for Arab countries, the convention for protection of Arab cultural heritage and organizing of spe-cialized training course for preserving material and non-material heritage.

The main highlight of the festival is the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel, an annual prize launched by Katara at the beginning of last year whose aim is to encourage Arab novelists to strive for excellence and improve the quality of novels by creating a competition and giving appreciation to innovators.

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CAMPUS /MARKET PLACE

Qatar Chapter of MEASS College Alumni organised a family get-together as part of their annual meet. Qatar Chapter President Salam presided and Faiz Elayodan welcomed the gathering. Sharmic Lalu, Kamarudheen, C P Samseer, Farheen, Faiz Elayodan and Salam recalled their college days.

Students of Grade 7 and 8 of Bhavans Public School led by Academic Coordinator Asha Shiju and teachers Aljo and Vichithra visited the BNS Somudra Joy, the largest and heaviest Guided Missile Frigate of the Bangladesh Navy. Students interacted with the Navy officials on board and gained knowledge and awareness of the working of the ship. The Naval Officer on duty presented the school with a memento.

Students at Vision International have been active raising money and aware-ness for those in need. The middle school boys and girls completed a unit on Water as a Natural Resource, which included investigations on the amount of fresh water on the planet. The students held a fund-raiser to collect money for Lifesavers, which are ultra filtration water bottles. A total of QR9,052 was collected and distributed to 16 different communities in need. After the Nepal earthquake, Jared Hove,Senior Director of Partner Engagement at Teach of All, spoke to students about the effects and damage caused by the earthquake. The first boys held a fund-raiser selling sweets and trinkets during their morning break. They raised QR2,096 to be donated to Sarvodaya USA for the Nepal earthquake relief. The Student Council is currently holding a clothing drive for victims in Syria. Faculty and staff were also involved in giving, collecting over QR7,000 to help VIS staff members that were affected by the earthquake and other personal tragedies.

The Ramada Encore Doha hotel is holding “The Big Fisherman’s Hook Up” promotion, an open buf-fet with a great selection of seafood dishes for only QR199 per person, avail-able exclusively at the hotel’s Hub restaurant every Friday from 18:00 to 23:30. The menu features fresh kingfish, hamour, crabs, king prawns, mus-sels, clams and much more. Cluster Executive ChefJameel Nabtiti and the Ramada Encore Doha team welcomed guests to the promotion’s launch with unique dishes, a live band, fresh seafood and extravagant buffet selec-tions. The Hub restaurant, located on the mezzanine floor of the hotel, opens daily for breakfast from 06:30hrs to 11:00hrs, lunch from 12:30hrs to 15:30hrs and dinner from 18:00hrs to 23:30hrs.

South Korean cuisine at InterContinental

InterContinental Doha The City started “Take a Trip to South Korea” promotion. From the 18 June 8, the hotel will be featuring a special South Korean menu crafted by three guest chefs from Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas and InterContinental

Seoul COEX. The cuisine will be served in Hwang pan-Asian restaurant and in a special section of the buffet at The Square. Throughout the duration of the promotion, diners will have the chance to enter a prize draw for a three-night holiday package for two in Seoul, South Korea, including Business Class tickets and five-star accommo-dation at Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas. “We are delighted to welcomeChefs Huh Jae Seok, Kang Youcheul and Moon JinJuwho will create a menu of authentic cuisine from South Korea. The Korean cultural wave has now swept through China and Southeast Asia to reach Europe and America and are excited to bring it to Doha,” said Pascal Eggerstedt, General Manager at InterContinental® Doha The City. Hwang is located on the first floor of InterContinental® Doha The City and is open Sunday through Friday fo r lunch from 12 noon to 3pm and for dinner from 6pm to 11pm.

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COMMUNITY/MARKET PLACE

Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros Co WLL (AAB), as part of their Quarter 1 celebration, honoured their long-serving employees who completed 5, 10, 15 and 20 years at a function held recently at the Regency Halls. The event recognised the commitment of the employees by awarding Long Service Awardees (5-20 years), Star Performers of each Business Unit and Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) Champions for each location. Employees were presented with a gold coin and certificate for their respec-tive years of service. Sixty staffers were recognised. Osama Abdulla Al Albdughani, AAB Chairman, was present along with members of the senior management team.

Skills Development Centre held a Swathi Thirunal Dance and Music Festival with a variety of Indian classical dance and music programmes. The programme was inaugu-rated by Arvind Patil, President of Indian Community Benevolent Forum, and Saleem Ponnambath, former president of Bhavans Public School. All the programmes were based on ‘Krities’ in Carnatic and Hindustani music narrated by Swathi Thirunal Maharaja performed by the students and teachers of SDC. During the function Sreekumar Padmanabhan, a renowned painter was honoured. Chief Guest Arvind Patil pre-sented him with a memento.

ExxonMobil sponsors Qatar Turkey Year of Culture

Qatar Museums announced that ExxonMobil Qatar will be the official Platinum Sponsor of

the Qatar Turkey 2015 Year of Culture. Years of Culture is an annual initiative organised by Qatar Museums that aims to forge new partnerships and exchanges between Qatar and coun-tries around the world through culture, arts& creativity, sport and business. Qatar’s Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritageand Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism are co-organisers of Qatar Turkey 2015.

Held under the patronage of Qatar Museums’ Chairperson, H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar Turkey 2015 Year of Culture is the fourth consecutive Year of Culture, following Qatar Japan 2012, Qatar UK 2013 and Qatar Brazil 2014. It will celebrateclose relations between the State of Qatar and the Republic of Turkey through cultural partnerships between Qatari and Turkish organisa-tions, institutions and individuals.

As sponsor, ExxonMobil Qatar will work closely with Qatar Museums and both Ministries to deliver an excit-ing and rewarding programme that helps to build long-term relationships between institutions and individuals in both countries.

This year’s programme includes art-ists’ competitions and residencies, edu-cational exchanges, and world-class Qatari exhibitions in Turkey. These activ-ities bring together Qatari and Turkish individuals and institutions to foster mutual understanding and ensure the robust development of culture, art and heritage in local communities.

Mansoor Al Mahmoud, Acting CEOat Qatar Museums said: “The backing of these major organisations will go a long way towards ensuring that 2015’s Year of Culture is a huge success. We are grate-ful for their support and commitment in working with us to fulfil the role for art and culture in bridging between nations, connecting people and further encourag-ing cultural exchange. Over the coming

months, we will work closely together to strengthen the existing ties between our two countries.”

“Qatar-Turkey 2015 Year of Culture celebrates the rich and diverse cul-tural relationship of both countries, and we are proud to partner with Qatar Museums as the platinum sponsor of this important initiative,” said Alistair Routledge, President and General Manager for ExxonMobil Qatar. “As

a committed partner in Qatar – a role we have proudly and wholeheartedly embraced for over 22 years — we endeavour to support Qatar in fulfilling the objectives of its National Vision 2030 by providing the energy that fuels human potential and nurtures its already thriving society, while highlighting the country’s position as a world-class center for busi-ness and cultural activities.”

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• 2 1/2 tbsp tomato sauce

• Pepper to taste

• Salt to taste

Method:Add some finely chopped capsicum, finely chopped

tomato after removing its seeds and squeezing out some

water from it, finely chopped onions, crumble some

cottage cheese, some grated cheese, coriander leaves,

pepper powder, dry oregano crushed in your hands and

salt to taste and mix all the ingredients of the filling.

Then add 1 1/2 tbsp tomato ketchup to the mixture

and mix it well.

Take some soft butter, 1 1/2 tbsp of tomato ketchup

and some grated cheese and mix them well.

For preparing the base, take some white bread slices

and cut them with a sharp edged cutter (you can use

any lid of a container).

Cut smaller rings out of the bread slices so that each

bread slice can be used as a base with a ring on top.

Finely spread the butter spread on the bread slices,

taking care of the edges so that the rings stick to the

slice properly. In the centre of the ring, add the cottage

cheese filling till the level of the bread.

Place all the rings in a tray and before serving; place

them in a pre-heated oven at 180oC for about 5-7 min-

utes, until the rings are golden-brown in colour.

They are ready to be served.

Kishor

Creamy Cheese Chicken

Ingredients:• 1 kg chicken

• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste

• 1/4 cup Oil

• 1 tsp cumin seeds

• 3 green chilies

• 1 cup onion

• 1 tsp crushed red pepper

• 1-1/2 tsp Salt

• 1 tsp chaat masala

• 4 tbsp tomato puree

• 1/2 cup sweet corn

• 2 tbsp cream

• 2 tbsp cream cheese

• 1/2 tsp crushed black pepper

• 2 tbsp coriander leaves

• 2 Green chilies

• Dinner rolls to serves

Method:Boil chicken with 1 cup water and ginger garlic paste

until it is ready.

Heat oil in wok and put cumin seeds and 3 green

chilies. Then add onion and fry until soft.

Now put tomato puree, with 2 green chilies, red pep-

per, salt, chaat masala, black pepper, chicken and sweet

corn and cook for 5 minutes.

Now stir it in cream and cream cheese and cook until

chicken is ready. In end, garnish with coriander leave

and serve hot with dinner rolls.

Begum Fathima

Stuffed Cheese Roll

Ingredients:For roll• 1 cup besan

• 1/2c up yogurt

• 2 cups water

• 3 or 4 green chillies

• garlic paste as per your taste

• salt as required

• 1/2 cup fenugreek leaves

• 1 egg optional

• cooking oil/ butter as required

For stuffing• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese or grated paneer

• 1small onion finely chopped

• 2 green chillies finely chopped

• 1/2cup coriander leaves finely chopped

• pinch of salt

Method:Mix all the stuffing ingredients together. Keep aside.

Beat egg,water, garlic paste, curd,salt,chillies and besan

flour in a blender. Mix this well to make a fine paste. Add

finely chopped fenugreek leaves after blending and mix

well again. Let the paste stand for 5 minutes. In a frying

pan put a little oil or butter(1/2 spoon per roll) and pour

the mixture to form a thin pancake like layer. Put two

spoons of the stuffing mix on top of this layer and fold

it to make a roll. Fry till little golden brown. Serve hot

with tomato ketchup. Juanita Dsouza

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RECIPE CONTEST

WINNER

Cottage cheese curry

Ingredients:• 1 medium bowl paneer cubes frozen(cottage

cheese)

• 1 small bowl cashew powder

• 3 onions

• 3 tomatoes

• 1 tbsp garlic paste

• 1 tbsp garam masala

• 1 tbsp coriander powder

• 1 tbsp cumin powder

• 1 tbsp red chili powder

• 1 tbsp sugar

• 2 cups milk

• ½ tbsp asafoetida

• ½ tbsp turmeric powder

• ½ tbsp cardamom powder

• 2 pieces star spice

• Pinch of saffron

• Salt as per taste

• 6 tbsp cooking oil

• 1 cup water

• Finely chopped coriander for garnishing

Method:Take a pan on medium heat, add 3 tbsp oil and

add chopped onions and tomatoes.

After 2 to 3 minutes add garlic paste to it. Let it

all cook for 10 minutes and then cool it.

Take a jar; add all the above ingredients, except

for asafoetida, paneer (cottage cheese) and star

spice. Mix it all along with the onion and tomato

mixture. Using a mixture, make it in to a smooth

paste. On medium heat, take the pan that we used

before, put the remaining oil, asafoetida, star spice

and paneer. Let it fry for 10 minutes.

Now add the smooth paste we made using all the

ingredients. Cover it and let it cook for 5 minutes

and no more.

Garnish with finely chopped coriander.

Cottage cheese curry is ready to serve. It taste

best when served hot. This can be taken with par-

atha. Darshna Taylor

Cheese Straws

Ingredients:• Three 10-ounce bricks sharp Cheddar cheese,

shredded cold then left at room temperature

•1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

•4 cups sifted all-purpose flour

•2 tsp salt

•1/8 tsp black pepper

•1/8 tsp cayenne pepper

•Dash of garlic powder

•Cooking spray

Method:Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

Put the softened cheese and butter in the bowl of a

heavy-duty electric mixer Using the heaviest mixer paddle

attachment, beat until the mixture has the consistency

of whipped cream,15 to 30 minutes.

In a large bowl, sift 3 cups of the flour with the salt,

black pepper, cayenne pepper and garlic powder.

Gradually add the seasoned flour to the cheese mixture

by large spoonfuls, beating well after each addition. Add

the remaining 1 cup unseasoned flour incrementally until

the dough is somewhat stiff but still soft enough to be

pushed through a cookie press you may not need to

add all the flour.

Lightly spray 4 cookie sheets with cooking spray. Put

a portion of the dough into a cookie press fitted with

the star tube and press the dough onto a cookie sheet

in long strips that run the length of the pan. Repeat until

the pan is full. Bake until straws are golden brown and

crisp about 20 minutes.

With your hands or a sharp knife, break or cut the long

strips into 3-inch lengths. Use a flat, thin spatula or an

egg Turner to remove the cheese strips from the pan.

Allow them to cool on a wire rack. When they are com-

pletely cool, serve or store in a tightly covered container.

Priyal Soni

Cheese Pakora

Ingredients:• 400 grams Mozzarella cheese, (cut into thick strips)

• ½ cup refined flour

• ½ cup corn flour

• Salt to taste

• 1 tsp black pepper powder

• 2 tsp dried mixed herbs

• 1 tsp paprika

• 1 cup brown bread crumbs

• Oil for deep frying

Method:In a bowl, mix refined flour, corn flour, salt, black pepper

powder, mixed herbs and paprika .Add water to make a thick mixture. Add cheese into this mixture. Then dip bread crumbs in the mixture and deep fry it.

Serve hot with tomato ketchup. Pradyuman

Easy and Cheesy Bread Pizza

Ingredients:• 1 packet Bread

• Tomatoes - Finely chopped

• 1 tbsp. Butter

• Capsicum - Finely chopped

• Onion- Finely chopped

• 50 grams Crumbled paneer (cottage cheese)

• 4 tbsp cheese

• Coriander leaves

• 1 tbsp oregano

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FOOD

BY MAURA JUDKIS

Rhubarb: candy-pink harbinger of spring, perpetual partner of strawberry in pies. “I think it’s almost like a forgotten vegeta-ble,” said Jonathan Heeter, sous-chef at

Trummer’s on Main in Clifton, Virginia. “Once you know how to use it, it packs a punch.”

Heeter might know the feeling. As a sous-chef, he takes a back seat to executive chef Austin Fausett, but Trummer’s — and every other notable restaurant in and around Washington — relies on the strength of its sous. That’s why The Washington Post invited three of them — Heeter and Krystal Cripe of the Red Hen iand Faiz Ally of Del Campo, both in Washington — to a competition to create the best rhubarb dish for spring. The catch? It had to be savory.

“Rhubarb is definitely a difficult ingredient to work with,” Cripe said. “People are used to seeing it in sweet desserts, with ... something sweet to cut that tartness. It was tough to get that balance in savory.”

The three were given limitations: The dish could incorporate just six ingredients (not including salt and pepper). And when the sous-chefs gathered at cooking school CulinAerie, they had just one hour to prepare their dish.

Cripe went for simplicity, using strawberry, rhu-barb and cucumber in a bright, velvety-smooth chilled soup topped with peppery ricotta. But for Ally and Heeter, it was a foie gras face-off, with both chefs smartly using rhubarb to cut the richness of the duck liver. Heeter also incorporated duck breast, which he paired with rhubarb stripes and preserve, and a duck-fat-coated wild rice. Alas, he had intended to temper rhubarb’s sourness with cherries, if it weren’t for a mix-up: He accidentally grabbed an opaque container of cranberries.

Ally, meanwhile, busied himself with two applica-tions of the rhubarb: diced and reduced with balsamic vinegar, and grilled in thin strips (which gave them zebra-like stripes) for a garnish.

“I wanted to take the traditional aspect of the way you cook rhubarb, but apply it to what we do at Del Campo with the grilling, the charring, the smoking,” Ally said.

True to his origins, he also grilled and smoked his foie gras, which he topped with grilled pea tendrils and a burnt-onion jam. Washington Post food writ-ers and editors who judged the dishes (along with CulinAerie’s Susan Holt) picked Ally’s as the winner, praising its creativity and boldness, and stunning plat-ing. In a tight vote, Heeter’s dish came in second and Cripe’s third.

“They’re very bold and assertive flavors,” said Ally, who had fond memories of strawberry-rhubarb pie from a childhood in the South. “I had a lobe of foie gras, and I thought, let me make something really rich and decadent.”

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Three sous-chefs in a rhubarb throwdown? Oh, it’s on

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FASHION / BEAUTY

From actress Charlize Theron to French fashion icon Jean-Paul Gaultier, the Life Ball, one of the world’s biggest Aids char-

ity events, drew scores of celebrities to Vienna on Saturday.

This year’s theme was inspired by the ancient Roman festival “Ver Sanctum” or “Holy Spring”, turning the neo-Gothic City Hall into a gold-drenched fantasy world teeming with paradise birds, angels and Amazonian beauties.

Among the night’s shining stars was 2014 Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst, who was welcomed with loud cheers by an adoring crowd on the red carpet.

Shortly after her arrival appeared Life Ball debutante Theron with her partner, US actor Sean Penn.

“I have no idea what to expect. There is nothing comparable in the US,” she said. Other American celebrities included entertainer Paula Abdul and transgender model Carmen Carrera,

who wore a heavy gown made entirely of gold chains.

Meanwhile, British star Kelly Osbourne turned up in a simple black dress, admitting that she had failed to read the invitation properly and did not know “there was a gold theme”.

The exuberant opening ceremony was crowned with a fashion show by Gaultier. But amid all the glitz and glam-our, there was also a stark reminder of the event’s actual purpose.

Life Ball organiser Gery Keszler revealed in a tearful speech that he himself was a carrier of the HIV virus.

“I was one of the first to be infected in Austria,” he said at the opening of the ball.

“I want to give hope to those affected.” The Life Ball, which attracts some 40,000 revellers every year, donates its proceeds to both national and international projects fighting HIV/AIDS. AFP

Fashion sashays for fight against AIDS

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Email addiction can cause ill-health

Not just WhatsApp or Facebook, even an email addiction can damage your

health owing to an increased stress levels, say British researchers.

There is a direct link between email use and increased levels of stress as well as other health condi-tions such as hypertension, thyroid disease, heart failure and coronary artery disease. The sound advice is: “Reduce the volume of irrelevant and untargeted email and cut the frequency of checking new emails.”

“Multifunctional devices like Blackberry’s and iPhones allow workers to be accessible 24-hours a day and because of this, it is likely that there will be an increase in stress levels,” said professor Tom Jackson from Loughborough University’s school of Business and economics.

Many employees do not realise that they are stressed. During the study, users perceived themselves not to be stressed when the physi-ological findings showed their bod-ies were under increased stress.

This would indicate that employees might find it difficult to self-regulate their use of communi-cation media to ensure they do not become overwhelmed by stress.

“This can lead to long-term chronic health conditions,” added Jackson, also one of the Britain’s top email experts, in a statement.

However, Jackson argues that email is not a bad communication tool but that poor email training and management is the problem.

Not only does this have health implications, but also a financial cost for businesses. “It is recom-mended that communication man-agers or others responsible for email policy and management examine their email policies and develop a ‘snapshot’ of how their employees use email,” the authors wrote.

IANS

Stroke is one of the leading causes of mortality and the number one cause of chronic disability in the world. According to the

World Health Organization, 6.2 mil-lion people die due to stroke each year, equating to one death every 10 seconds. Due to the high prevalence of many risk factors for stroke, includ-ing diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and inactivityin Qatar’s population– the incidence of stroke is high in the country.

What is a stroke? For the brain to function it needs a

constant supply of blood to deliver vital nutrients and oxygen to the brain cells. A stroke occurs when this supply is impaired or cut off.

There are two main causes of stroke. The most common happens when a blockage forms in a blood vessel (ischemic stroke). This can be due to a number of factors:

• A blood clot forms in a main artery to the brain (sometimes called a cer-ebral thrombosis)

• A blockage, usually a blood clot from the heart, is carried in the blood-stream to one of the arteries supplying the brain (called a cerebral embolism)

• A blockage forms in the tiny blood vessels deep within the brain (called a lacunar stroke)

The other main type of stroke is caused by bleeding in or around the brain. This type of stroke is called a haemorrhagic stroke. There are two main causes of haemorrhagic stroke:

• A blood vessel bursts within the

brain (an intracerebral haemorrhage)• A blood vessel on the surface of

the brain bursts, causing bleeding into the area between the brain and the skull (called a subarachnoid haemorrhage)

How does a stroke affect the body?

A stroke damages brain cells so they can no longer work properly. As a result, the areas of the body that the brain con-trols are also affected. The brain is like a computer, sending messages around the body to enable it to function. It is made up of two halves; the left and right hemisphere.

Each part of your brain has a specific job to do. In general, the right half of your brain controls the left side of your body and vice versa. For example, if you have a stroke and your right arm and leg are weak, then the stroke will have damaged the motor area in the left side of your brain. Specific areas of your brain also control your ability to move, speak and write. Other areas control your memory, emotions and vision.

In general, the effects of a stroke will depend on the following issues:

• Which part of the brain has been injured

• How big an area of the brain was damaged

• The person’s general health when the stroke happened

Symptoms Strokes happen suddenly and cause

an immediate effect on the body. Astroke may cause numbness, weakness or paralysis on one side of the body. It may cause slurring of speech and dif-ficulty in finding words or understanding

speech. Some people lose their sight or have blurred vision, and others become confused or unsteady. The symptoms of ischemic stroke are different depend-ing on which blood vessels in the brain are affected.

Time is brain The key to successful treatment

following a stroke is speed. Fast and specialized medical intervention is the key to successful treatment for stroke patients. The sooner treatment is given to the patient, the better the chance that brain cells can be protected. Thrombolysis is a very effective treat-ment that can greatly increase a stroke patient’s chances of making a full recov-ery, but this must be given within 4.5 hours of the onset of symptoms. For this reason, it is extremely important for people to be aware of the symptoms of stroke so they are able to quickly identify the problem and call 999 immediately.

Hamad Medical Corporation’s current awareness campaign uses the interna-tionally-established F.A.S.T. message to highlight the major signs of stroke and reinforce the need to act quickly.

F – Face drooping: Has your face suddenly drooped on one side or do you have difficulty smiling?

A — Arm weakness: Are you unable to raise both arms?

S — Speech problems: Do you have difficulty speaking or being understood by other people?

T — Time is ticking: Call 999 immediately

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Stroke: Know the signs and act FAST

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Films explore Elizabeth Streb’s daredevilry, American Ballet Theatre

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ENTERTAINMENT

BY SARAH KAUFMAN

“Right as I was about to jump off the Millennium Bridge,” says a young blond

woman with beefy arms, “Elizabeth Streb looked in my eyes and she said, ‘Wreak havoc!’ “

The moment was not a suicide attempt, but the prelude to a work of art. Streb is a choreographer, and, as strange as it might sound, the fact that she was urging one of her dancers to leap off the bridge that spans London’s Thames River is fully in keeping with her performance style. She routinely gets her dancer-athletes to crash through glass and slam themselves into walls.

Streb’s relentless quest to entwine danger and beauty is the subject of Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, which was aired as part of PBS’ Independent Lens documentary series. If you’ve wondered what fearlessness looks and sounds like, and how it talks, you’ll find answers here.

Born to Fly is followed a few days later by another dance documentary: American Ballet Theatre: A History. But beyond their focus on physical perform-ance, the two films have little in com-mon. The invigorating Born to Fly, about a niche experimentalist, offers insight on creativity and how extreme risk can become art. American Ballet Theatre, a visually handsome if restless look at the company and its place in ballet his-tory, tries to be profound but instead is maddeningly over-arty.

It’s an interesting dichotomy. You might expect Streb to be the more remote subject, with her nerdy, note-taking intensity, her punk-rock hair and her love of funereal menswear. But this recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” is as straightforward and appealing a postmodern artist as you could hope to find. Producer/director Catherine Gund exploits those qualities in Born to Fly, telling Streb’s story in an uncomplicated way through interviews with the choreographer and her danc-ers, clips of rehearsals at the STREB Lab for Action Mechanics in Brooklyn (SLAM, for short), and views of Streb at home and in her doctor’s office. Her art is not without its costs.

Through her conventional treatment, Gund achieves something extraordi-nary. She takes us inside Streb’s crazy, brilliant mind to see how she thinks and why she makes her alarming choices, to understand why she pushes the frag-ile human bodies in her employ so far beyond what any normal person would do (and why her dancers obey without quarrel).

The seemingly unbearable violence that results may look bewildering at first, as it did to me the first time I saw Streb’s work in performance. Streb inverts aesthetic conventions — that exertion should be masked, that only the feet should hit the floor, that the men should lift the women, that age matters. Streb, who is in her 60s, also performed at that London event in 2012 where her danc-ers jumped off the Millennium Bridge, in a lead-up to the Olympics. Dangling

forward from a cable, the dancers’ boss walked down the exterior of a glass building like something out of a spider’s fever dream.

“I didn’t even know my own name,” Streb recalls of her in-the-moment absorption during that feat. “I was just taking the next step and the next step ... in utter ecstasy.”

Ultimately, what this film shows us is that Streb’s world is one of unimaginable freedom, where people can fly, ripple like rubber, and avoid a crash with split-second timing and impeccable control. They can dive off bridges and live to celebrate it.

You dive along with them in Gund’s film, and in the end you may find that not only are you a Streb fan, but that your way of looking at art, the world and yourself may be changed.

“If things aren’t on some level really dangerous,” Streb says, “I don’t believe you’ll discover anything that you don’t already know.”

The ABT documentary, by contrast, doesn’t offer much in the way of revela-tion. It makes the mistake of telling us various “amazing” things about ballet (as in one talking head after another pronouncing “the amazing thing about ballet is ...”) without showing them. If you’re expecting actual ballet dancing, you’ll be frustrated, unless you’re a fan of super-slow-motion photography. “But it was shot with a 30-person crew using Phantom Flex cameras, which capture up to 2,500 frames per second!” pro-tests this film. “I’m not impressed,” I say, “because it is so freaking slow.”

That is by no means the only strange element in this film by Ric Burns, younger brother of Ken. It marks ABT’s 75th anniversary, an occasion that prompted a piling-on of ambi-tions: to celebrate the company, to unspool the entire history of ballet, to awkwardly return to celebrating the company and to continue flitting back and forth from one theme to the other until you’re dizzy. Jennifer Homans, author of Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, is a good choice as anchor of the history segments. But she deserves a documentary of her own; shoehorn-ing her scholarship into this film doesn’t do it justice. The comments from other dance luminaries are sometimes enter-taining. Here’s the wonderful late critic Clive Barnes on ABT founder Lucia Chase: “She loved dance. She had very little taste. But that really didn’t matter.”

Yet there are awkward choices here. The dancers are frequently interviewed just after they’ve come offstage, when they’re heaving and breathless. In the slow-motion shots, we can examine the very dust that flakes off their shoes, as if in some pseudo-scientific study of force and weight. But you wish this film would stop being so caught up with its shiny new technology, that it would just settle down and dance.

“Ballet is a beautiful system,” chore-ographer Alexei Ratmansky says at one point. “It doesn’t need translation to say things that people in every corner of the world will understand.” He’s right, and Burns should have trusted him.

WP-Bloomberg

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ENTERTAINMENT

BY NATALIA NINGTHOUJAM

His romantic compositions like Tere bin and Tum hi ho are often played on loop. Back with another heart-touching

number titled Hum nava, composer Mithoon says his music is a tribute to “mankind for all its weaknesses and vulnerability”.

“I cherish human life a lot and the very fact that we, as human beings, are vulnerable... we are fragile. We are sensitive. We are not superheroes and not made of steel. The fact that we are made like that makes us weak but also special. My music is a tribute to man-kind for all its weaknesses and vulner-ability,” Mithoon said.

“...How easily we get offended and how easily we smile or cry or laugh and these things are what I want to cele-brate through my music. I don’t think I’m the right person to compose music for a superhero film that way. I won’t be able to do justice to that kind of a character.

“My music is rather celebrating the struggles and victory of common man on the road... that’s full of emotion and human side of us. My songs are basi-cally dedication to the human heart,” added the musician.

But the composer — who dwells in the romantic genre — says he hasn’t closed the doors on any other category.

“As a composer, I shouldn’t restrict myself right now. I’m also doing music for Ajay Devgn’s Shivaay. That is a very powerful character, but again it’s a powerful character with a soft heart. I like to celebrate human weakness more than human strength,” said the Banjaara hitmaker.

Right now, he is excited about Hum nava, sung by Papon, for Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan-starrer Hamari Adhuri Kahani, set for a June release.

“I’ve done a single for the film. It’s a mature love story and not a breezy

romance. The song is about two peo-ple who have a very dark past and have seen a lot in life. For such people to fall in love... it’s not very easy. It can’t be love at first sight,” he said.

Having worked with Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt’s Vishesh Films for mov-ies like Zeher, Kalyug and Aashiqui 2, Mithoon says he likes to work for the banner.

“It’s more of professional and crea-tive flow between myself and Mukeshji, Maheshji and Mohit (Suri) — especially between Mohit and me because we

started our careers together in 2005 with Zeher.

“The best part about Vishesh Films is that they allow me to be myself. They don’t impose their ideas on a com-poser and they are open to what the composer wants to do. They give sup-port. That’s why some of my best work comes out from them,” he said.

In 2007, Mithoon also lent his voice to The Train, but singing is not what he wants to do.

“I don’t see singing as my primary calling. It’s always been composing

music. It’s a great honour to provide music, arrange and to direct singers and musicians,” he said.

Acting or reality shows also don’t excite Mithoon, who comes from a family of musicians (father Naresh Sharma, an acclaimed music arranger and uncle Pyarelal of legendary com-poser duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal).

“My calling is not acting because I can’t act. Reality shows... I’m an intro-vert and not very good at communica-tion. I was offered some roles in the past though,” he said. IANS

Critically acclaimed Bollywood films Margarita With a Straw, Ankhon Dekhi, Finding Fanny, Liar’s Dice and Mary Kom,

which give a glimpse of India’s changing canvas of cinema, are being screened here as part of a movie festival.

The second edition of ‘India Unlimited’, a platform seeking bet-ter economic relations and social ties between India and Sweden, has been started with the launch of the second Indian film festival ‘Cinema Indien’.

The three-month long programme of ‘India Unlimited’, initiated by the Indian embassy in Sweden, has brought

together experts from the business community, government and the academia from both the countries for lively discussions on themes related to technology and services, innovation and leadership, gender diversity, smart cities and India government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, read a statement.

The film festival is being jointly organised by the Indian embassy here and SF BIO, Sweden’s cin-ema chain, in collaboration with India’s National Film Development Corporation and Air India.

The festival will showcase eight stel-lar feature films that have been critically

acclaimed by the Indian film fraternity recently, namely Margarita With a Straw, Ankhon Dekhi, Finding Fanny, Liar’s Dice, Mary Kom, Tasher Desh, Killa and Open Tee Bioscope.

The screening of each film will be fol-lowed by panel interactions between recognised personalities from the Indian firm fraternity such as veteran actor Nasseruddin Shah and director Shonali Bose.

“‘India Unlimited’ seeks to strengthen India-Sweden connections and partnerships in all areas that ben-efit both countries, with a special emphasis on economic relations and

people-to-people ties through busi-ness seminars and exhibitions. ‘India Unlimited’ is about promoting India in Sweden, as well as promoting Sweden in India,” India’s Ambassador Banashri Bose Harrison said in a statement.

“We warmly congratulate the Indian Ambassador to Sweden for spear-heading multiple efforts since 2012 to increase cooperation between the two nations. The India Unlimited programme holds immense potential in raising awareness in Sweden about India and vice-versa,” Swedish Ambassador to India, Harald Sandberg said.

IANS

Bollywood films enthral Swedish movie-goers via fest

My music is dedicated to the heart: Mithoon

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HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

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11 “L’Amore dei ___ Re” (Montemezzi opera)

14 Certain homecoming attendee

15 Some Michelin Guide readers

17 Bonkers

18 Cream-filled chocolate treats

19 Mark of dishonor

21 Place for a saint’s image, maybe

22 ___ Reville, Hitchcock’s wife and collaborator

23 “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” drug

25 Villainous Luthor

26 Defeat

29 Iraq war issue, for short

31 Fall guy’s partner?

33 Bustle

34 Walker alternative

36 Chilled coffee drink

39 “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” poet

42 Inspiration for Johann Strauss II

43 Deer John?

44 Great ___

45 “Land of the sun” native

46 Science advocate with a bow tie

47 Tournament passes

48 Efron of “Neighbors”

50 What you get for bringing someone home

52 Edomite patriarch

55 One taking an unscheduled flight?

57 All-time scoring leader for the U.S. men’s soccer team

62 Official residence at the Vatican

64 The Ramblers of the N.C.A.A.

65 Dish often served au jus

66 R-rated movie attendees

67 Computer language named for Lord Byron’s daughter

68 Studies

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6 “Days of Our Lives” town

7 Pond dweller

8 Maintained

9 Some haute couture designs

10 “The Island of the Day Before” novelist

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13 Earl of ___ a.k.a. Robert Devereux

16 Put ___ fight

20 Golden brown

24 Goal of some industry lobbyists, for short

26 Hollywood force, in brief

27 “Whose ___ was this?”

28 Abundant supply

30 Convoluted

32 ___ d’Orcia (Tuscan region)

34 Relative of e-

35 Fiver

36 Govt. mortgage insurer

37 Penelope’s pursuer in Looney Tunes toons

38 Sightseers?

40 Share

41 Cavalry mount

46 Vitamin B3

47 Bolster

48 “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” rocker

49 Hope for a nominee

51 Trumpet

53 Renewable option

54 Point of contact in the automotive industry?

56 Getaway

58 Bird bills

59 Burrowing rodent

60 Opposite of baja

61 Father of the American Cartoon

63 Had followers

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CINEMA

GOOD KILL

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

SCREEN 1 Pitch Perfect 2 (2D/Comedy)

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

SCREEN 2 Mad Max: Fury Road (2D/Action) 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 &

12:00midnight 3D 11:30am & 2:00pm

SCREEN 3 Good Kill (2D/War) 11:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 & 1100pm

SCREEN 4 Bombay Velvet (2D/Hindi) 11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 5 Far From The Madding Crowd (2D/Drama)

10:50am, 3:10, 7:30 & 11:50pm

Careful What You Wish For (2D/Thriller) 1:10, 5:30 & 9:50pm

SCREEN 6 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action)

11:00am, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 & 11:00pm

SCREEN 7 Hot Pursuit (2D/Action) 1:45, 3:45, 5:45 & 9:45pm

It Follows (2D/Horror) 11:45am, 7:45 & 11:45pm

SCREEN 8 Mad Max: Fury Road (2D/Action) 1:40, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:10pm

Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (2D/Animation) 11:40am & 4:00pm

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

10:10am, 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 & 11:45pm

SCREEN 10 Mad Max: Fury Road (2D/Action)

11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 & 11:30pm

NOVO

MALL

LANDMARK

ROYAL PLAZA

SCREEN 1 Purampokku (2D/Tamil) 2:15pm

Pitch Perfect 2 (2D/Comedy) 5:00pm

Captain Masr (2D/Arabic) 7:00pm Bombay Velvet (2D/Hindi) 8:45

Good Kill (2D/Thriller) 11:30pm

SCREEN 2 Careful What You Wish For (2D/Thriller) 2:45 & 9:00pm

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 4:30pm Pitch Perfect 2 (2D/

Comedy) 7:00pm Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2D/Malayalam) 11:00pm

SCREEN 3 Good Kill (2D/Thriller) 3:00pm

Captain Masr (2D/Arabic) 5:00pm

Mad Max: Fury Road (2D/Action) 6:45, 9:00 & 11:15pm

SCREEN 1 Purampokku (2D/Tamil) 2:30 & 8:45pm

Careful What You Wish For (2D/Thriller) 5:15pm

Captain Masr (2D/Arabic) 7:00pm


SCREEN 2 Pitch Perfect 2 (2D/Comedy) 2:30pm

Mad Max: Fury Road (2D/Action) 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 & 11:15pm

SCREEN 3 Good Kill (2D/Thriller) 2:15pm

Bombay Velvet (2D/Hindi) 4:00pm

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 6:45pm Pitch Perfect 2 (2D/Comedy) 9:15pm

Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2D/Malayalam) 11:15pm

SCREEN 1 Mad Max: Fury Road (2D/Action) 2:00, 4:15, 9:00 & 11:15pmAvengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 6:30pm

SCREEN 2 Good Kill (2D/Thriller) 2:45pm Pitch Perfect 2

(2D/Comedy) 4:45 & 8:45pm Careful What You Wish For

(2D/Thriller) 7:00pm Bombay Velvet (2D/Hindi) 10:45pm

SCREEN 3 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2D/Action) 2:30pm

Bombay Velvet (2D/Hindi) 5:00pm Captain Masr (2D/Arabic) 7:45pm

Careful What You Wish For (2D/Thriller) 9:30pm


A family man begins to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot. This seemingly non-dangerous job weighs on his mind as his relationships with his wife Molly (January Jones) suffers from the stress.

Directors: Andrew Niccol

Writers: Andrew Niccol

Stars: Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoë Kravitz

ASIAN TOWNSCREEN 1

Chirakodinja Kinavukal (2D/Malayalam) 5:00 & 10:15pm


SCREEN 2

Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2D/Malayalam) 5:00, 7:30 & 10:00pm

SCREEN 4


Purampokku (2D/Tamil) 8:45pm

15DOHA EVENTS


IN FOCUS

A view of Museum of Islamic Art Park.

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

by Akhil Abraham

Until 30 MayVenue: 1 & 18 La Croisette, Porto Arabia – The Pearl-QatarAdmission: FreeTime: 10:00-20.00

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

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

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

11 JuneVenue: Museum of Islamic ArtAdmission: Free

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

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

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

Rainbow Park

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

UNTIL 31 AUGUSTVENUE: Qatar Museums Gallery KataraADMISSION: Free

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

Ismael Azzam: For Them - Exhibition

18-21 MayVenue: Doha Exhibition CentreAdmission: Free

The Doha International Gift Exhibition will be a trade fair for gifts, souvenirs, premiums, novelties, gifting ideas, mementoes and keepsake. It is sure to draw attraction of the Corporate attendees & High Net worth individual as well.

Doha International Gift Exhibition

21-23 May Venue: FCC auditorium in HilalAdmission: Free

Prominent writers and intellectuals from Kerala will attend a literary workshop being held by the Friends Cultural Centre. The participating writers include Perumbadavam Sreedharan, president of Kerala Sahithya Academy, C Radhakrishnan, K Sachidanandan, Professor M Thomas Mathew, Indu Menon and V A Kabeer.

Keraleeyam literary workshop

Jazz in the Park

Till 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

555 Exhibition At The Fire Station

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

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

Wael Shawky Comes To Doha

Send your event details to [email protected]

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