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PAST AND PRESENT IN COLOURS

Saudi artist Abdul Hafez Al Ghamdi’s paintings dealing with many topics related to Qatari environment in the past and the present go on display at Katara. Among his subjects are construction boom, culture and sports from different periods of the country.

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| MONDAY 18 MAY 2015 |

PAINTING EXHIBITION

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA

Prominent Saudi artist Abdul Hafez Al Ghamdi is displaying 119 of his works in one of the biggest exhibi-tions Katara has hosted. Al Ghamdi’s

solo exhibition, which runs until the end of this month, is entitled “Fragrant past and wonder-ful present of Qatar.” It includes 119 paintings dealing with many topics related to Qatari environment in the past and the present. Among the subjects addressed in the paintings were construction boom, culture and sports depicted in different periods of the country.

Katara General Manager Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti launched the expo in the presence of Saudi Ambassador Abdullah Al Aifan and Qatar Fine Arts Society Chairman Yusuf Al Sada and a number of artists and media.

Fragrant past and wonderful present of Qatar

FROM LEFT: Saudi artist Abdul Hafez Al Ghamdi, Saudi Ambassador Abdullah Al Aifan and Katara General Manager Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti touring the exhibition.

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“Katara embraces all cultures and is a hub for creative people from different countries and various types of arts,” said Dr Al Sulaiti, adding Katara has estab-lished its cultural identity devoting itself to enriching culture at local, Arab and international levels.

He said this exhibition was the sec-ond Katara had organised for Saudi art-ists, first of which was the expo entitled “Authenticity of heritage in Katara” featur-ing Saudi artist Abdulaziz Al Mubarazi.

Al Ghamdi said the exhibition encom-passes his works in the last three years in which he devoted himself to achieve a record for the biggest exhibition in the world but because of limited time he was not able to reach his goal.

He said he preferred Katara to be the final stop for his artistic journey because of the special place Katara has in the art and culture landscape in the Gulf and the world.

He wanted to dedicate all the paint-ings in the exhibition to the Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, he added.

Ambassador Al Aifan said Katara has been a source of pride for the Gulf as it gathers various arts and cultures not only on the local level but on the Arab and international level.

He added he was delighted to see Al Ghamdi’s distinct exhibition which reflects the artist’s excellent artistry and that he hoped to see more of these

exhibitions in the future. Al Sada expressed the same happi-

ness on the exhibition by the Saudi art-ist, whose career he has followed. He lauded the paintings which express the rich experience of the artist.

Abdul Hafez Al Ghamdi is a well known Saudi artist who has featured in 22 exhibitions in Riyadh and Jeddah, in addition to the United Arab Emirates. He is also famous for his sculptures and architectural designs.

The 300-metre monumental painting enti-tled “The civilization of Saudi Arabia” is his brainchild and will be implemented under his supervision. He has graduated from Science Institute with specialisation in arts and crafts. He has worked as art trainer in many areas, among them in the rehabilitation of the disa-bled in Jeddah for three years.

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Katara embraces all cultures and is a hub for creative people from different countries and various types of arts.

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CAMPUS / MARKET PLACE

Gold Card customers of Qatar-UAE Exchange can now continue to enjoy the exclusive discount offered by Aquapark. The remittance major recently renewed its agreement with Qatar’s first water theme park Aquapark, to offer a 20 percent dis-count on its entry fee. For more information, visit www.uaeexchange.com/qatand http:// blog.uaeexchange.com.

Tarmem wins contract from Mercury for electrical work

Tarmem Company “Dar El Salwa for mainte-nance and restoration

of buildings” concluded a contract with Mercury to execute the electrical works in one of the big buildings inside compound Barwa Al Baraha which is deemed to be a real estate project developed by Barwa Real Estate, located along the industrial zone and is char-acterised by its residential and com-mercial compounds. It was allocated to labourers. Ahmad El Gebali (pictured), General Manager of Tarmem Dar El Salwa for maintenance and restoration of buildings said: “I would like to express my pleasure for gaining Tarmem this new project”. He added, the company

strategies and policies were set by management to be in line with Qatar National Vision 2030.

The company achieves its strategic goals inside Qatar market thanks to the strong confidence its clients have along with the development and prosperity of the main-tenance sector and electro-mechanical works in Qatar

which is growing rapidly. He stressed that Tarmeem will continue work assiduously to reach the highest profes-sional levels to become distinctive from its competitors by using the means of advanced technology providing to its cli-ents the best level of maintenance services with best quality and efficiency. The Peninsula

Pakistan Wel fare Forum (PWF) Medical Committee organised a ceremony to award

appreciation certificates from HMC to the accepted donors by Hamad Medical Centre Blood Donor unit and PWF Certificates to other participant of blood donation campaign held at Pakistan Education Centre (PEC) recently. A single blood donation has the potential to save up to three adult lives or seven infant lives irrespective of religion, sect and nationality. The programme, conducted by Tahir Jamil, began with recitation of verses from Holy Quran by Aleem Peracha.

Riyaz Bakali, Aleem Peracha, Dr Tausif, Sher Ali, M Y Qamar,

Arshad Hussain and Fazal Saleem distributed certificates. Medical Committee members ere present. Tahir Jamil informed audience about the benefit of blood dona-tion as, it found that blood donors are 88 percent less likely to suf-fer a heart attack, strokes, and cancers.”

Iqubal Neerchal Abdelullah, Business development Executive Naseem Al Rabeeh Medical Centre, received certificate of appreciation from PWF President Riyaz Bakali in recognition of his role in organising medical aware-ness campaign for PWF school children at PEC. The next Blood donation compaign will be on June 4 at PEC from 3.30pm- 8.00pm.

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Pakistan Welfare Forum honours blood donors

Pakistan Education Centre (PEC) organised an inspirational lecture by Syed Bilal Qutab. Syed Bilal Qutab is a renowned orator and host of television talk shows. PEC Principal Nargis Raza Otho, students and faculty members attended the lecture. Addressing the audience, the guest of the day talked about character building and students’ personality grooming keeping in view the present day challenges. He said that knowledge with understanding is necessary to achieve success in life and to be a useful individual in the society. Principal presented a memento to the guest.

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Trust Exchange held a ceremony to distribute gifts of Flash & Fly Promotion. The event was held at Trust Exchange main office, Souq Area. George Thomas, Group CFO, Intertec Group; DSCS Varma, General Manager, Trust Exchange; Midhun Joseph, Assistant Manager, Group Marketing; Yachana, HCC Travels; Sandeep, Naseem Al Rabeeh Medical Centre, and other branch managers attended the function along with raffle Winners.

Aljabor Cement supports SaveKidsLive campaign

Aljabor Cement joins the world in expressing its commitment to making the roads safer for

children. In Qatar, the government has taken measures to ensure that road safety campaign reaches the school while a number of private companies have initiated projects to curtail road accidents. Aljabor organised a chil-dren’s party following the basic con-cepts of SaveKidsLives with outdoor games and art activities to simulate at their level the importance of under-standing and following traffic rules. The key messages were presented through video and visuals.

The Ministry of Interior delivered

safety instructions about local prac-tices and actively engaged the children and their parents to raise awareness on role in protecting kids while driving. The event was held in the garden of a seaside hotel where there was open space with nice amenities and outdoor temperature conducive for such event. Road safety stickers for cars were also distributed reinforcing the key mes-sages on buckling up and not using mobile phones.

Another event is scheduled coin-ciding with the company Safety Week wherein the ministry delivers road safety instructions, this time, to all other employees. The Peninsula

Aqua Park Qatar launches Kids Got Talent contest

Aqua Park Qatar announced the launch of the third edition of its tal-ent search for young children, Kids Got Talent. The competition open

to all talented children residing in Qatar up to age 12 will take place on Friday.

“Following the successful two previous editions of Kids Got Talent, we decided to once again host the event for our young patrons and their families. The programme is also in line with the new marketing strat-egy of Aqua Park Qatar this year geared towards making this venue the first choice

of residents and tourists as destination for weekend getaways and important occa-sions,” Mohd Firdaus Raj Abdullah, General Manager of Aqua Park, said.

Prizes for the winners include free tickets for top 10 contestants. Handsome prizes await the top 3 winners. Third prize winner will take home QR200 voucher from Virgin Megastore and second prize winner will get a Nokia Lumia. First prize winner will receive an Apple iPad. For more details on Kids Got Talent log on to www.aquaparkqatar.com and Facebook page. The Peninsula

The Torch Doha has been honoured as top performing 5-Star Luxury Hotel in Qatar, as reviewed by travellers on Booking.com. The hotel has been rated at 9.3 out of 10 in 2014 based on online feedback and receives an Award of Excellence for the Booking.com Guest Review Awards.

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TECHNOLOGY

BY VIVEK WADHWA

“Spooky action at a dis-tance” is how Albert Einstein described one of the key principles of

quantum mechanics: entanglement. Entanglement occurs when two par-ticles become related such that they can coordinate their properties instantly even across a galaxy. Think of worm-holes in space or Star Trek transporters that beam atoms to distant locations. Quantum mechanics posits other spooky things too: particles with a mys-terious property called superposition, which allows them to have a value of one and zero at the same time; and par-ticles’ ability to tunnel through barriers as if they were walking through a wall.

All of this seems crazy, but it is how things operate at the atomic level: the laws of physics are different. Einstein was so sceptical about quantum entanglement that he wrote a paper in 1935 titled “Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be con-sidered complete?” He argued that it was not possible.

In this, Einstein has been proven wrong. Researchers recently accessed entangled information over a distance of 15 miles. They are making substan-tial progress in harnessing the power of quantum mechanics.

Einstein was right, though, about the spookiness of all this.

Quantum mechanics is now being used to construct a new generation of computers that can solve the most complex scientific problems and unlock every digital vault in the world. These will perform in seconds computations that would have taken conventional comput-ers millions of years. They will enable better weather forecasting, financial analysis, logistical planning, search for Earth-like planets, and drug discovery. And they will compromise every bank record, private communication, and password on every computer in the world — because modern cryptogra-phy is based on encoding data in large combinations of numbers, and quan-tum computers can guess these num-bers almost instantaneously.

There is a race to build quantum computers, and (as far as we know) it isn’t the NSA that is in the lead. Competing are big tech companies such as IBM, Google, and Microsoft; start-ups; defence contractors; and uni-versities. One Canadian start-up says that it has already developed a first ver-sion of a quantum computer. A physi-cist at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Ronald Hanson, told Scientific American that he will be able to make the building blocks of a univer-sal quantum computer in just five years, and a fully-functional demonstration machine in a little more than a decade.

These will change the balance of

power in business and cyber-warfare. They have profound national-security implications, because they are the tech-nology equivalent of a nuclear weapon.

Let me first explain what a quantum computer is and where we are.

In a classical computer, information is represented in bits, binary digits, each of which can be a 0 or 1. Because they only have only two values, long sequences of 0s and 1s are necessary to form a number or to do a calculation. A quantum bit (called a qbit), however, can hold a value of 0 or 1 or both val-ues at the same time — a superposi-tion denoted as “0+1.” The power of a quantum computer increases expo-nentially with the number of qubits.

Rather than doing

computations sequentially as classical computers do, quantum computers can solve problems by laying out all of the

possibilities simultaneously and meas-uring the results.

Imagine being able to open a com-bination lock by trying every possible number and sequence at the same time. Though the analogy isn’t perfect — because of the complexities in meas-uring the results of a quantum calcula-tion — it gives you an idea of what is possible.

There are many complexities in build-ing a quantum computer: challenges in finding the best materials from which to generate entangled photon pairs; new types of logic gates and their fabrica-tion on computer chips; creation and control of qubits; designs for storage mechanisms; and error detection. But breakthroughs are being announced every month. IBM, for example, has just announced that it has found a new way to detect and measure quantum errors and has designed a new qubit circuit that, in sufficient numbers, will form the large chips that quantum computers will need.

Most researchers I have spoken to say that it is a matter of when — not whether — quantum computing will be practical. Some believe that this will be as soon as five years; others say 20 years. IBM said in April that we’ve entered a golden era of quantum-com-puting research, and predicted that the company would be the first to develop a practical quantum computer.

One Canada-based startup, D-Wave, says it has already has done it. Its Chief Executive, Vern Brownell, said to me in an email that D-Wave Systems has

created the first scalable quantum com-puter, with proven entanglement, and is now working on producing the best results possible for increasingly com-plex problems. He qualified this claim by stressing that their approach, called “adiabatic computing,” may not be able to solve every problem but has a broad variety of uses in optimising computa-tions; sampling; machine learning; and constraint satisfaction for commerce, national defense, and science. He says that the D-Wave is complementary to digital computers; a special-purpose computing resource designed for cer-tain classes of problems.

The D-Wave Two computer has 512 qubits and can, in theory, perform 2 to the power of 512 operations simulta-neously. That’s more calculations than there are atoms in the universe — by many orders of magnitude. Brownell says the company will soon be releasing a quantum processor with more than 1,000 qubits. He says that his compu-ter won’t run Shor’s algorithm, an algo-rithm necessary for cryptography, but it has potential uses in image detection, logistics, protein mapping and folding, Monte Carlo simulations and financial modeling, oil exploration, and finding exoplanets.

So quantum computers are already here in a limited form, and fully func-tional versions are on the way. They will be as transformative for mankind as were the mainframe computers, per-sonal computers and smartphones that we all use.

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Quantum computing is about to overturn cybersecurity’s balance of power

Quantum mechanics is now being used to construct a new generation of computers that can solve the most complex scientific problems and unlock every digital vault in the world.

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WHEELS

BY DREW HARWELL

You expect a certain sort of magic from a car like Toyota’s Mirai, the world’s first mass-market, hydrogen-powered

all-electric named after the Japanese word for “future.” It maxes out at 300 miles, refuels in five minutes and spits out zero emissions except for water, all for tens of thousands of dollars less than Tesla’s electric Model S.

But behind the wheel of the four-door Mirai, which California drivers can buy in October for around $50,000, what you get is something much more, well, boring: a smooth, quiet, mid-size sedan you wouldn’t find out of place in a school pick-up circle. And that’s what makes it so fascinating.

Toyota let us test-drive one of its prototypes this week, and it became clear why one of the world’s biggest automakers is making a huge bet on hydrogen as a future fuel for the world’s roads. The Mirai is responsive, futuris-tic, fully featured and fun to drive, the kind of car you can see beating gas guzzlers at their own game.

But the Mirai’s journey to automo-tive acceptance is already dotted with a number of potholes, not the least of which is criticism from the most notable face in electric cars, Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has called hydrogen fuel cells “extremely silly” and “fool cells.”

So, could the Mirai one day roll into your garage? Here are five quick points to help you find out.

1. First, let’s get all the stipulations out of the way, because there are a lot of them.

The Mirai’s sole fuel source is hydro-gen, which you can get in only a dozen fueling stations across the country: 10 in California, one in Connecticut and one in South Carolina. More are in development, but there’s still no way this will be a road-trip car anytime soon.

It will start at $57,500 (or lease for $499 a month for 36 months, with about $3,650 up front). That could get knocked down by government incentives, like a $5,000 tax break in California. But an $8,000 federal tax credit for hydrogen cars expired last year, and it’s unclear whether it will ever come back.

2. With a 300-mile range, it leaves Tesla’s Model S in the (clean, zero-emission) dust.

Here’s how it works. The car gulps in air while it drives, mixing that oxy-gen with its hydrogen in a stack of fuel cells to make electricity and power the motor. It’s electric in a different way than the traditional powered-by-battery “green” cars such as the Model S and the Chevrolet Volt.

Like the Model S, it doesn’t have the big engine block you’d expect. The biggest thing under the hood is a “power control unit,” which tells the car

where to deliver the energy; most of the work is done in the pipes and fuel cells between the front and back wheels.

That helps get the Mirai up to a maximum driving range of around 300 miles, enough so that the typical driver wouldn’t suffer “range anxiety” on a daily commute. The car’s digital-indica-tor dashboard is designed to help the driver perform as efficiently as possible.

That range is huge because few other mass-market cars can compare. The Chevy Volt, selling for $38,000 before tax credits, and the new Nissan Leaf, set for 2017, promise 200 miles on a single charge, and the Model Soffers 265 miles.

3. It will take only five minutes to refuel — if you can find a hydrogen station.

Unlike some all-electric cars, which need to be plugged in overnight to recharge, fuelling the Mirai is about as quick as pumping a typical car’s gas. That could go a long way to making cleaner, greener cars more accepted by mainstream drivers.

But first, they’ll need the hydrogen. In-car navigation will guide the driver to the closest hydrogen fuelling sta-tion, but that may not be close at all: Toyota representatives said there would be about 20 stations in California by the end of the year, and few others else-where nationwide.

One of Musk’s biggest critiques of hydrogen, and there are many, is that it is difficult to efficiently produce, store and distribute as fuel, especially given

there’s next to no infrastructure pre-pared for cars needing to refuel.

Toyota senior vice president Bob Carter has defended hydrogen by criti-cizing Tesla’s sharp focus on battery-powered cars: “If I was in a position where I had all my eggs in one basket, I would perhaps be making those same comments.”

But opening up a number of hydro-gen stations won’t be easy, or cheap: Outfitting a single station for driver-ready hydrogen could cost about $1 million. Battery-powered, plug-in cars have a similar problem, though they can at least connect to the elec-tric grid. There’s nothing like that for hydrogen.

The car I drove had been topped off two weeks earlier at a SunHydro solar-powered hydrogen-fueling station in Connecticut. It still had plenty of miles left for a few more stops. But to get it there, Toyota workers needed to load it on a truck to get it back to the sta-tion. Not everyone will have that luxury.

4. It doesn’t ride or look that different from any other car, and that’s a good thing. I drove from jam-packed, stop-and-go downtown D.C. streets to the breezy George Washington Memorial Parkway, and the Mirai handled both like a pro, accelerating smoothly, responding quickly and braking with ease. The motor powers only the front wheels, and you won’t be winning any drag races anytime soon. But it didn’t struggle to get up to speed, either, and it felt like there was some good

power when I pressed the gas. The four-seater is loaded with all sorts of semi-driverless features that keep it from veering into other lanes, help it brake when needed and match the speed of the car directly ahead. It’s got a nice dashboard screen for maps, music and diagnostics, and the other goodies you’d expect of new cars, like back-up cameras and a push-button start.

The design is sleek, with clean lines, light and styling that make it about as attractive as you can get for a sedan. It’s got some very high-tech features — including a power take-off plug in the trunk that, on a full hydrogen tank, could fuel the average American home for a week — but they’re hidden and unassuming, so drivers don’t have to worry about sticking out.

5. But it’s still very unclear whether the car will ever take off.

“A thousand vehicles aren’t going to solve the energy issue,” said William Chernicoff, a manager for Toyota’s energy and environmental research, “but this is Toyota’s vision for the power train in the next 100 years.”

Sounds lofty, right? Especially con-sidering the Mirai is now made by hand in a Toyota plant that cranks out only a few a day. But the automaker is quick to say that this is just a glimpse at what hydrogen fuel cells can do. If Toyota pulls it off, the Mirai could be the first step toward a huge shift for the world’s roads. And there’s nothing boring about that. WP-Bloomberg

The Toyota ‘future’ car that Elon Musk hates

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FOOD

Nora Pouillon: A pioneer woman on organic trailBY KAREN HELLER

When it opened in 1979, so many presidential admin-istrations ago, Restaurant Nora was unlike any

other eatery in Washington. The gus-tatory landscape then was dominated by dark, masculine establishments with meat, more meat and puddles of Old World artery-attacking sauces.

Nora’s was light, airy, healthy, with farm-fresh offerings, a riot of vegeta-bles on the plate, a frisson of frisee. Says Nora Pouillon: “It had a woman’s touch.” It was one of the few restau-rants with a woman at the helm and her name on the door, and it was sig-nificantly ahead of the times.

After 36 years, Nora is still here, where it has long stood, in a former sta-ble at Florida and R streets, an organic herb garden blooming by the kitchen door. Valerie Jarrett and a party of 20 White House staffers dined here the other night. The Obamas (the presi-dent staged a surprise birthday party for the first lady), the Clintons (many top officials were regulars), Nancy Reagan, the Carters, have all been patrons. “Everyone but the Bushes,” says Pouillon, although Laura Bush came once with her daughters.

But these are our salad days, with many restaurants serving similar fare. Kale is king and quinoa queen.

Locavore reigns on menus so heavily annotated as to rival works by David Foster Wallace.

Nora’s, however, does organic on steroids — not that there would be a trace of those in her food — at what is billed as the nation’s first certified organic restaurant, as she reveals in My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today, which is part polemic and part memoir, a polemoir — and no recipes. The book, co-authored with Laura Fraser, the project’s third collaborator, took three years to produce. Exacting and direct, the Austrian-born Pouillon is many things, but easy, even admirers say, is not one of them. (Of course, hers is the very behaviour that makes male chefs television celebrities.)

At Nora’s, water gets complicated — it’s triple-filtered, involving sand and charcoal. With sparkling water, patrons have a choice of small bubbles or large. (Apparently, there is a difference.) Pouillon recommends the triple-filtration mixed with a dash of small bubbles.

The waiters’ shirts are organic, washed in biodegradable soap. The carpet is biodegradable, too. Does this matter in terms of what’s on the plate?

“It matters to me, because so many people say they’re organic and they’re really not,” says Pouillon, who pos-sesses the aristocratic bearing of a woman once courted by the son of a

count. At 71, graced with high cheek-bones, almond-shaped eyes, barely a line on her striking face, and a lithe body, she is the best advertisement for the organic life. “I really wanted to say that I go to these lengths to have eve-rything organic, my salt and my pepper. I have to do it.”

Almost no other restaurant bothers. There are eight organic establishments in the nation approved by Oregon Tilth, a leading certifier — one of them, of all things, a Seattle doughnut shop.

The efforts required to maintain certi-fied organic status seem like a spec-tacular headache (one that would, no doubt, be remedied homeopathically).

“It’s not difficult for me because I’m so used to it,” says Pouillon, sitting in the restaurant’s sun-drenched garden room. “But every chef who comes here can’t believe how much work it is. Many of them give up after a while. They feel

that you can’t be really creative because many things aren’t available organically.”

How many people have passed through her kitchen? Pouillon estimates 50 chefs and sous chefs; the latest chef, James Martin, began in April.

“Oh, no, I would say it’s more like 157,” says Haidar Karoum of Proof, Doi Moi and Estadio. “She chews up chefs like they’re nothing.” And he’s a fan, a Nora veteran of nine years. “She’s brutal and demanding, rightfully so. Nora has a certain way that she wants things. If you’re not on the same page, she has no problem expressing herself.”

Pouillon doesn’t receive enough credit for what she has done, Karoum says. “She’s the Alice Waters of the East Coast,” he says, although Waters, who opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley eight years before Pouillon launched her restaurant, is far better known. “I think Nora’s dedication and commit-ment to the whole organic food and farm-to-table movement is something. It deserves more attention”

Pouillon helped establish FreshFarm Markets, the nonprofit collective of regional farmers markets. As research and develop-ment chef, Pouillon developed menus for Fresh Fields, which was acquired by Whole Foods. “She is a classic pioneer and has very strong opinions and very high goals,” says FreshFarm Co-Executive Director Ann Harvey Yonkers. “She is the classic example of a changemaker. They tend to be quite direct, very focused. It can be uncomfort-able, but you don’t move the needle unless you’re like that.”

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Nora Pouillon in the herb garden next to her eponymous restaurant in May 1983.

The waiters’ shirts are organic, washed in biodegradable soap. The carpet is biodegradable, too. Does this matter in terms of what’s on the plate?

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BY AKIRA MIURA

Apopular poll among pro-fessional fashion design-ers reveals who admires whom — with the names of

deceased iconic designers appearing each time, from Christian Dior and Coco Chanel to Yves Saint Laurent.

Among living designers, Rei Kawakubo is outstandingly popular. In my view, she’s more like a creator of avant-garde culture rather than a fash-ion designer.

A number of fashion designers have been influenced by her directly and indirectly. Some of them, such as Marc Jacobs, and others don’t hide the fact.

This author interviewed Kawakubo twice and she is truly a problem for interviewers since she is unlikely to say what they want her to — but she does have a favorite phrase and a key word.

The phrase is “There are more than

necessary, too many clothes in the world,” and the word is “strength.” To put it simply, she means, “I pursue fash-ion designs that have true originality and impact.”

Kawakubo is over 70 years old and her recent shows at Paris Fashion Week for women were meant to reveal her feelings rather than present new fash-ions focusing on shapes and other design elements.

For example, in her 2014-15 autumn/winter collection held in March last year, one of her works was decorated with what looked like human intestines. In Japan, samurai warriors committed seppuku - a ritual suicide in which they cut open their own abdomen, redeem-ing themselves through a literal display of guts. Kawakubo was clearly referenc-ing that, as her expression of anger to society.

She then presented red clothes in her 2015 spring/summer collection. By

presenting blood-coloured clothes, she was vehemently expressing the image of tragic deaths overflowing across the world.

This year, the theme of her collection presented in the Paris Fashion Week in March was “the ceremony of separa-tion,” according to her label, Comme des Garcons. It means the collection is intended to depict separation from living, which is death.

The collection included white cloths, calling to mind Japanese shrouds for the dead. A model appeared wearing a gar-ment shaped like a coffin. Two models also talked to each other on stage, and then separated in a sorrowful gesture.

They had an atmosphere of unwillingly separating from life. Some say that sob-bing was heard at the venue.

I must say that the show felt like a kind of short drama, rather than a fash-ion show. Some may criticize the event for being overly literary - but before this show, never in fashion history had Iseen or heard of fashion shows in which designers expressed their true feelings. It seems fashion has truly reached the height of art at last. Some will say such matters should be expressed in litera-ture or such visual arts as paintings and films. But I wonder if there’s anything wrong in doing that through fashion.

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Rei Kawakubo: A creator of culture than a fashion designer

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HEALTH

US researchers have developed a new imaging method that can detect liver cancer and other liver diseases at an earlier stage than

what current leading methods can, reports a new study.

“Liver cancers associated with high mortal-ity rates and poor treatment responses are often diagnosed in the late stages because there is not a reliable way to detect primary liver cancer and metastasis at a size smaller than one centimetre,” said lead study author Jenny Yang, professor at Georgia State University, in the US.

The new method can scan liver tumours that measure less than 0.25 millimetres, the study reported.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the leading imaging technique to detect disease without using radiation. MRI contrast or imag-ing agents aid MRI techniques to obtain tis-sue-specific images.

However, according to the researchers the applications of MRI contrast agents are not effective for early detection of cancer-ous tumours because they are hampered by uncontrolled blood circulation time, low relax-ation rate or sensitivity, and low specificity.

Most contrast agents, Yang said, are rap-idly excreted from the liver, not allowing suf-ficient time to obtain quality imaging.

To more effectively detect cancerous tumors at an early stage, the researchers developed a new class of protein-based contrast agents (PRCAs) and an imaging methodology that provides robust results for the early detection of liver cancer and other liver diseases.

“Our new agents can obtain both posi-tive and negative contrast images within one application, providing double the accu-racy and confidence of locating cancerous tumors,” Yang said.

The researchers have shown proof-of-concept that the new method can be used to detect cancerous liver tumours at an early stage with high sensitivity.

They have also demonstrated that these new agents better aid the imaging of mul-tiple organs, including the kidney and blood vessels, in addition to the liver and tumours.

The findings were published in the jour-nal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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what is best for them, so it is up to parents to guide their chil-dren and teach them how to live a healthy life. Getting your child off to a healthy start is of great importance as habits formed in childhood, both good and bad, are difficult to lose later in life.

Learn to say ‘’no’’ Being able to say no to your child can be one of the toughest

jobs for parents. Children can be incredibly persistent when they want something, but it is important to remember that parents know best, and saying no is often in the child’s best interest.

Out of sight, out of mindIf you fill the cupboards at home with junk food then your chil-

dren will frequently be faced with temptation. If you must have sweets, crisps or chocolates in the house then keep them out of sight, and reach, of your children. Always try to have a good selection of healthy children’s snacks available for when they get hungry in between meal times.

Kick start their day with a healthy breakfast A healthy breakfast will prepare your child for the day ahead,

but choosing a nutritious breakfast can be something of a mine-field. Many breakfast cereals contain high levels of sugar and salt, so be careful to choose a healthy option. Wholegrain bread or cereal, fruit, or natural yoghurt are all good choices.

Limit salt intakeSalt is present in many processed foods, including bread,

cheese and breakfast cereals, so don’t add extra salt to your child’s food as they are already likely to be consuming significant amounts.

Don’t smoke; especially around your children We should all be aware of the damaging health effects of

smoking tobacco, including shisha. Children whose parents smoke are more likely to also become smokers as they grow up, while smoking around your children can directly harm their health as they inhale your second-hand smoke. Passive smoking, as it is known, may cause your child to develop respiratory issues and other health problems.

Get your children involved Children who help with food shopping, preparation and cook-

ing are usually more willing to try different foods. Give your chil-dren the freedom to choose, within reason, what they’d like to eat for dinner or take to school for their packed lunch. Also, by asking them to help cook meals they will be more eager to try the results.

Don’t use junk food as a reward or emotional support

Parents frequently use food ‘treats’, such as ice cream or chocolate, as a reward for good behaviour. But while an occa-sional treat is perfectly acceptable, it is far better to reward your child with a new toy or activity. Additionally, don’t reach for the ice cream if your child is upset; instead, try to comfort them with emotional support.

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11INDIAN CINEMA


BY ARUN KUMA

Just like arranged marriages in India, a new film on the sub-ject uses a new more “demo-cratic” way of distributing films

to match niche South Asian audiences with select theatres in America.

Theatrical-on-Demand (ToD) puts the power in the hands of the audience, says Rohena Gera, director of What’s Love Got To Do With It? described as an unscripted micro budget film that explores arranged marriages in Indian society.

“So a film that may not have the marketing muscle or money to release across the country but has a niche audi-ence that would love to see it on screen can access this audience,” Gera said.

Anybody anywhere in the US can request a film at a theatre near them, and even choose the date and preferred time and the distributor will assign a cin-ema for the show at no cost, Gera said explaining the concept

The only obligation the person has is to try to get people to commit to pur-chasing tickets in advance so that the show can be confirmed, she said

“If you get the requisite number you reach the tipping point, the screening is confirmed, and people are billed.” Gera said.

“If you don’t, the show gets automati-cally cancelled and nobody is billed for anything.”

She chose to go the TOD way because her film has only come this far because of audience support, said the Pune based filmmaker who did an inde-pendent release in her home city “after a fantastic premiere at the Mumbai film festival.”

Gera said she “saw that this film con-nects with audiences. So TOD seemed to be a good way to go as it is low cost and audience-centric.”

“Plus the good thing with TOD is that you are not restricted to cinemas that show South Asian or Bollywood films... you can screen anywhere.”

The film currently has 8 live requests

for screenings in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, Washington DC and California.

She is even getting inquiries from dis-tributors who want to release through the traditional distribution channels too.

But Gera is not aiming at just the South Asians. “My target is anybody who has ever wondered what makes a marriage work... or anybody who has ever wished they could find Mr/Ms. Right ASAP!”

“Although right now we are reaching out primarily through South Asian chan-nels, I do believe the wider American public would connect with the film as it asks real questions about love, loneli-ness, and compromise and explores the choices we all face.”

Working as she is with no marketing budget at all, Gera is also relying on social media to reach the wider public.

But she does not think social media works as well for arranged marriages.

The concept of arranged marriage “involves quickly ‘getting to know’ someone, and to that end, Facebook and Twitter are perhaps useful as we all have these personas on social media through which we express our likes, dislikes and so on,” she said.

“So in terms of quickly browsing through another’s life I am sure it is use-ful,” Gera said.

“However I personally feel that some-times these are carefully constructed identities, and what works between two people is much less tangible.”

Most people she interviewed, “even for arranged marriages, spoke about clicking or chemistry or some version of it.”

In Gera’s view the way arranged marriage works for Indians and NRIs is

“quite similar.”“My film is about urban well-travelled,

well-educated Indians, so in many ways they have the same struggles as NRI’s or the diaspora. They have extensive exposure to the west and many have even studied in the US.”

“So they are in many ways grap-pling with two cultures just like Indian Americans or British Asians: that of their parents, and that of the west or popular media,” she said.

“They want love, equality and so on, but their parents advice isn’t always consistent with that.”

After exploring arranged marriage, Gera plans to “an impossible love story”, a fiction feature set in Mumbai.

“It is, and is neither Bollywood nor Hollywood... It would be an indie film, so to speak” like The Lunchbox or Monsoon Wedding. IANS

Theatrical-on-Demand puts power in the hands of audience

Cartoon Network will be observing its 20th anniversary in India through a month long celebration where the children’s entertain-

ment channel will showcase movies, shows and contests that will enthrall fans across generations.

The Happy Birthday Cartoon Network pro-gramming line-up not only includes current favourites such as Horrid Henry and Oggy and the Cockroaches, but also reinvigorated versions of classic series like The Flintstones, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Cartoon Network is giving one lucky child and

his or her family a chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to Cartoon Network Amazone waterpark in Thailand.

The viewers are required to watch the Happy Birthday Cartoon Network block at 11 am through-out May and answer the simple questions. There will be other prizes including tablets.

Cartoon Network will be launching new content not only from its international portfolio, but also from its stable of local Indian shows such as Roll No 21 and movies like Mighty Raju: Superhero School, Sonic Boom Dhamaal Aur Dhoom, Sholay Adventures. Cartoon Network Originals’ global hit

franchises “Steven Universe” and “The Amazing World of Gumball” are back with new episodes and the channel will be launching two brand new Cartoon Network Original series called Uncle Grandpa (in May) and Clarence (in June).

“Since its inception in 1995, Cartoon Network has been the leading channel in the genre thanks to the adulation and loyalty of our fans across genera-tions. We look forward to the future with innovative and engaging content forming our cornerstone to success,” Siddharth Jain, managing director, South Asia, Turner International India said in a statement.

IANS

Cartoon Network celebrates 20 years in India

BY MICHAEL RODDY

With the lack of women filmmakers a hot topic at Cannes, Italy’s Nanni Moretti has shown the

semi-autobiographical Mia Madre (My Mother) about a female director whose mother is dying and own life is out of control.

In a brilliant blend of comedy and pathos, the competition film shown on Saturday draws on a small pool of actors and actresses including Margherita Buy as the director Margherita, Italian stage actress Giulia Lazzarini as the dying Ada and Beatrice Mancini as the director’s teenaged daughter.

Moretti, who was inspired to make the film when his own mother died while he was directing a previous film, fur-ther personalises this one by playing Margherita’s brother.

American John Turturro (Barton Fink) is a buffoon actor named Barry Huggins whose Italian is nowhere up to the task of starring in the fictitious film-within-a-film about labour protests at an Italian factory. In the film’s most hilarious scene, Huggins claims to have been hired by Stanley Kubrick and kept waiting in a hotel for weeks for a part he never played.

There’s an extraordinary moment later when Huggins flubs his lines and shouts: “I want to get out of here and go back to reality.”

Cut immediately to the hospital where the dying Ada lies motionless in her sickbed, a more disturbing reality than anything the farcical Huggins can imagine. Moretti, who won the festi-val’s top Palme d’Or prize in 2001 for La Stanza del Figlio (The Son’s Room), said after his competition film’s warmly

received media screening that he hadn’t planned those shots to be consecutive but it came out that way in the edit.

“During the writing and the shooting of the film, we worked a lot to try to intermingle several levels of reality — you have dreams, you have memories, you have fantasies, and the times in the film match the times in the mind of Margherita where everything coexists,” Moretti said.

He also said that Buy’s character was not meant to be his alter ego in feminine guise, but rather a woman who seems to be in complete control on the set.

But her relationship has just ended, her new apartment floods overnight and her daughter by a previous marriage is having problems learning the Latin that the dying mother taught for a living.

“The character is very different from other women characters who take care

of other people or are very enveloping. On the contrary, she is always some-where else compared with where she actually is at that moment in time. She finds it very difficult to keep control of her life,” Moretti said.

The Latin the dying Ada taught may, in Moretti’s universe, stand for a dying art of cinema, but in this work he has made a film that shows cinema is alive and well in Cannes. Reuters

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HOLLYWOOD

Moretti blends humour with death in Mia Madre Cannes film

Actress Salma Hayek says she “always loved make-up” and was inspired to launch her own cos-

metics line because she was not satis-fied with other products in the market.

The actress says that she had a pas-sion for making herself and others look pretty since she was a youngster, and believes she is talented at it because of her artistic flair, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“I always loved makeup. I guess I really liked to paint. I didn’t discover that until later, but I was doing makeup when I was 14. I use to make people up, like older friends, or cousins, and I remember they use to come to my house for spe-cial occasions, and when I started out, I used to do the make-up of the girls in my acting class that were doing their head shots. I love it. I love make-up,” she said.

IANS

I always loved make-up: Salma Hayek

Supermodel Gigi Hadid and singer Cody Simpson have broken up after two years of dating, Hadid’s

representative has announced in a statement.

“Cody and Gigi want each other to be in a place right now that allows him to only focus on his music, fans, and new message, while she can focus and continue building her career,” the repre-sentative said, reports dailymail.co.uk.

“They love each other dearly and have split up in hopes that growing on their own paths will bring them together in the future. They remain friends with no hard feelings and each other’s big-gest supporters,” the representative added. It’s the second time the cou-ple have parted ways. Hadid, 20, first parted ways with Simpson, 18, in May 2014 after around a year of dating. She

also cited hectic schedule for her sepa-ration from the Australian singer back then. IANS

Hadid, Simpson split again

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5 Places longshoremen work

10 Pickle flavoring

14 Mozart’s “___ Fan Tutte”

15 Internet giant that purchased Flickr in 2005

16 “The Time Machine” vegetarians

17 Drifter of literature

19 Flow stopper

20 Sorrowful 1954 Patti Page hit

21 Pragmatic person

23 Swiss/Austrian border river

24 Degree for many a 58-Down

26 One-third of a triptych

27 Cube creator

28 Potent potable in “Arsenic and Old Lace”

30 Parrot

31 It can take your breath away

32 Big ___ (hallux)

33 Nicole Kidman, hairwise

38 Brynner of “The King and I”

39 ___ Savage, player of the boy on “Boy Meets World”

40 Dr. J’s league, once, for short

43 1985 Prince hit

47 Screenwriter Sorkin

49 Pop singer Mann

50 Story assigners, in brief

51 “You had me at ___” (“Jerry Maguire” line)

52 Like preserved flowers and writers under deadline

54 Surrendered to gravity

55 Man or Mull

56 One of the original Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, whose name is a hint to the answers to the four italicized clues

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60 Cornball

61 Forever and a day

62 Comes out with

63 Spanish “others”

64 Where Citigroup is C, for short

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9 Unit of loudness

10 Rendered harmless, in a way

11 “Fighting” Big Ten team

12 Relax

13 Lilliputian

18 Vichyssoise vegetable

22 Plane’s parking place

24 Request for milk, maybe

25 Spilled the beans

29 View from Windsor Castle

31 Christian in Hollywood

34 Prepares for proofing

35 Hayseeds

36 Court replays

37 Tea choice for TV’s Frasier Crane

41 Short jackets worn open in front

42 Pain reliever

43 Canoeist’s challenge

44 Like some rescues

45 Ripe

46 Flying off the shelves

47 Starbuck’s superior

48 Greece/Turkey separator, with “the”

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CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

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 guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.Directors: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

Writers: Chris Frisina

Stars: Isabel Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Nick Jonas

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

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CINEMA


DOHA EVENTS16

IN FOCUS

Joggers at The Pearl-Qatar.Send your photos to [email protected]. Please mention where the photo was taken.

by Amina Rida

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

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