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INDIA, CHINA EMOTIONALLY, AND CULTURALLY CLOSE, SAYS AAMIR KHAN

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TEACHING THEM YOUNG

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CULTURE

BY FAZEENA SALEEM

Upholding their unique t rad i t i ons , the Indonesian embassy in Doha is prepar-

ing to observe the holy month of Ramadan.

Many events will be organised by the Indonesian embassy for its community living in and outside Doha.

There are various traditions followed in different provinces of Indonesia to welcome Ramadan. Although traditions may differ, the spirit remains the same, which is joyful and gratefulness.

In Indonesia iftar is called ‘buka puasa,’ which means ‘to open the fast.’ Markets sell various foods for iftar, including dates, which is very popular, as well as unique Indonesian food and drinks such as kolak, es kelapa muda, es buah, es campur, cendol or dawet.

Deddy Saiful Hadi, Indonesian ambassador to Doha, said that in West Java province, where he comes from, people celebrate Ramadan by often going out

before dusk with friends or family to welcome the moment of buka puasa—which means breaking the fast. They call it ‘Ngabuburit.’ There are various activities during ngabuburit starting from playing sports with friends, sightseeing and religious activities like spend-ing time in mosque and reciting the holy Quran.

On Saturday the ambassador Hadi and his wife Endang Deddy Hadi hosted journalists at their residence in West Bay to share Ramadan traditions followed in Indonesia and to speak about the events organsied for their commu-nity here.

A total of 39 000 Indonesians are residing in Qatar including many working in different sectors and their family members.

“This year, Ramadan is in the extreme summer heat and will be longer, the Indonesian Embassy would like to remind Indonesian diaspora in Qatar to prepare physi-cally prior to the month-long fast-ing by consuming nutritious foods and enough supply of water when

Indonesian diaspora set to observe Ramadan in their traditional way

performing Suhoor,” said Hadi. On the eve of Ramadan,

‘Tarhib Ramadan’ (Marhaban Ya Ramadan), an event organised by the Indonesian embassy together with the Indonesian Muslim Society in Qatar (IMSQA) under the aus-pices of the Association of the Indonesian Community in Qatar (PERMIQA), will be held at the embassy premises in New Salata.

Two Muslim scholars (Ustadz) will be invited from Indonesia in order to give spiritual lectures (tausiyah) followed by Tarawih prayer together.

On June 23, an Iftar Banquette will be organized by Indonesian Embassy at Indonesian Ambassador’s residence, initialed by giving spiritual lectures (tausi-yah) to the attendees of Indonesian community while waiting for Iftar and continue with Tarawih prayer together.

The Safari Ramadan, which will also include Iftar, spiritual lec-tures (tausiyah) and Tarawih prayer together at different places in Doha, Al Khor, Dukhan, Mesaieed and Al Wakrah.

Similarly representatives of the Indonesian embassy will visit places where Indonesian workers live in Al Khor, Dukhan, Mesaieed and Al Wakrah for Iftar, giving spiritual lec-tures and sharing the true spirit of Ramadan.

On the Seventeenth Day of Fasting (Ramadan 17), the Indonesian Muslim community in Qatar will gather at the embassy premises to mark the Nuzulul Quran 1436H.

The Indonesian Embassy in Doha in cooperation with IMSQA-PERMIQA will organize Eid Al Fitr prayer along with the Indonesian Muslim community in Qatar at the Tariq Bin Ziyad Independent Preparatory School for Boys.

Ambassador and his wife on the first day of Eid Al Fitr holds an Open House reception at their residence to all Indonesian community and expatriates in Qatar to strengthen the relationship. The Lebaran-style food and delicacies like Ketupat Sayur, Opor Ayam, Sambal Goreng Kentang, Rendang and Tape Ketan Hitam will be served on the occa-sion. The Peninsula

Deddy Saiful Hadi and Endang Deddy Hadi.

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QNB recently organised competitions and entertainment programmes on the side-lines of the bank’s visit to local schools in Qatar. The visits were held to reinforce

the group’s efforts to spread awareness among the future generations about the importance of manag-ing financial resources and encouraging them to save for a better future.

These visits were also in continuation of the Bank’s initiative launched at the start of the school year by issuing the Money Made Easy book, which aims to explain financial terms to students over 9 years old in a simplified, modern way.

During their school visits, the QNB staff explained the book’s chapters in an exciting manner as well as rewarding the most active participants with prizes of miniature ATMs bearing the QNB logo that work as moneyboxes that encourage them to save and invest.

QNB also offers the “Money Made Easy Book” app on mobile phones, which can be downloaded from the ITunes store in both Arabic and English, to guarantee reaching a wider portion of students from all over the State of Qatar.

The book constitutes one of QNB’s initiatives that fall within the Group’s vision to focus on education, as one of the key elements of the bank’s CSR strat-egy. The initiative was carried out with the help of partners from various educational institutions and schools. QNB’s CSR officials distributed the books to the students through field visits, to guarantee the book’s accessibility to the widest range of ages

among students. This is in effort to introduce stu-dents to the basic financial, banking, and economi-cal terms used daily in budgets, commerce, and banking services, as well as the finances and tools of the trade. The “Money Made Easy” book was well received by schools and teachers, who applauded

the bank’s activeness in its role as a socially respon-sible national institution. They further assured that the initiative deserves praise, due to its support of the educational process and its contribution to the goals of the 2030 Qatar National Vision.

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Money Made Easy helps impart banking knowledge to children

A group of Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) stu-dents has conducted research aimed at advancing financial

literacy in Qatar’s migrant community.The project under the Undergraduate

Research Experience Program (UREP) was entitled “Advancing Financial Literacy for Transnational Families” and recently won the Student Poster Presentations Award at the Annual Research Conference (ARC’14).

It involved researching, developing, and testing educational videos based on a structured financial education cur-riculum for migrant workers and their households.

The financial education aims to encourage migrants and their house-holds in their home country to maxim-ise the benefits of temporarily living and working abroad through long-term and sound financial planning. The five video training modules will teach participating

migrants about financial savings, how to make a migration plan, how to create and follow a budget, how to manage debt, and how to manage investments. The videos were developed on a peer-based learning model featuring migrant workers sharing their personal experi-ences in their own words, as well as advice from field experts.

The research team included GU-Q students Ahwaz Akhtar, Hisham Hassan, Fatema Hubail, Salar Khan, Atul Menon, Salman Ahad Khan, and Sherif Elgindi.

“The project was a terrific research opportunity to design a programme that would benefit the Gulf’s large low-income migrant worker communities. Financial education interventions have already been proven to have a high potential for positive impact, and this project is an innovative attempt at scal-ing it up for large audiences through digital media platforms. Our focus on

tailoring content specifically for migrants in the region will hopefully help improve their current living standards and finan-cial situations,” said Hassan.

“This project is very relevant in Qatar today. Financial education is often ignored, but is crucial for migrants, especially those who receive low incomes. With an influx of migrants into the country, there needed to be an effort to assist with financial matters. People migrate here primarily for financial rea-sons and are expected to return home after a period of time. Hence, financial literacy is important,” said Menon.

The students have set up

several online forums to disseminate the research materials and instructional videos, including a website, Facebook, and YouTube channel. Plans are in place to assess the impact of the project on participating migrants and their families.

The research team plans to under-take an impact evaluation study of offer-ing the videos to be viewed by a migrant audience and determining its impact on financial habits and behaviour over a period of time. Additional work is also needed to produce the videos in other languages spoken by migrant commu-nities in Qatar such as Hindi, Nepalese, Tagalog and Arabic. The Peninsula

Georgetown students promote financial literacy among migrants

UREP project team

QNB offers the “Money Made Easy Book” app on mobile phones, which can be downloaded from the ITunes store in both Arabic and English, to guarantee reaching a wider portion of students from all over Qatar.

COMMUNITY

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CAMPUS

DeBakey high school students participated in a commu-nity service project, Project Sunshade, designed to

support the many labourers in Doha, as well as children’s organisations in need. This community service project was ini-tiated by DeBakey High School - Qatar in 2014 to provide an opportunity for students to collect clothes, hats, shoes, and monetary donations.

To raise funds, Project Sunshade hosted a ‘Spirit Week’ during which students donated cash to dress in uni-fied class colours, to participate in a jersey /sports day, and to play games such as darts, golf and football tour-naments during break times. Students raised over QR20,000, with contribu-tions from Vodafone Qatar and Galaxy Sports Ezdan. Donations were used to purchase items for the labour camp leisure rooms. Additionally, students contributed monetary donations and clothes to the children of Nepal via Qatar Charity.

Another component of Project Sunshade was to raise the awareness throughout the school about the impor-tance of helping others who are less fortunate. Students held group meet-ings and assemblies to ensure all stu-dents were a part of the programme’s success. Tenth grade student, Lynaa Youseff, wrote a very inspiring poem to motivate the school to participate in giv-ing back to the community. An excerpt from her poem: “I’m sorry because I never helped. I’m sorry because I never felt. And when you were living in pov-erty, I was living in prosperity, Looking for popularity! But I stand here today and ask myself…Where was my clar-ity?... So my dear friend, I repeat. Give. Be kind. Help others, and have a good day.”

DeBakey high school students are required to complete at least one hun-dred volunteer hours prior to gradua-tion. Project Sunshade was one of the many avenues by which students gave back to the community this school year. Students participated in several local volunteer programs such as Best Buddies Qatar, Reach Out to Asia and Qatar Charity.

Through Project Sunshade, stu-dents gained valuable experience with strategy, organization, leadership, and learning the value of community serv-ice. Student reflections included: “I felt that Project Sunshade was a success. The amount of volunteer work lifted my spirits as well as the organizations we helped” and “Project Sunshade has really been an adventure, and I hope to continue to participate in such activities.”

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To give practical experience to students, Pearl School organised trips to Doha Modern Printing Press, Arab Postal Stamps Museum (Katara) and Museum of Islamic Art Library. It was an enriching experience for both students and the faculty.

DeBakey students support labourers

Project Sunshade members.

From left: Fouad Hameed, Qatar Charity Collections Coordinator, Vibhu Sharma and Reem Hamad, Project Sunshade President and Vice President, and Justin Mabrie, DeBakey Admissions Director, at the handover ceremony.

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New committee installed at Talking Matters

Suhanida Abd Gani was installed as the new presi-dent of Talking Matters Toastmasters Club for

2015-2016 in a ceremony attended by Lieutenant Governor Marketing, District 20, Saquib Raza Khan and Area Governor, Area 42, Abhishek Chatopadhyay.

The other officers sworn in by the installation officer, Rammohan Rai, are: VP Education, Abhishek Chatopadhyay, VP Membership, Anbalaghan Chelliah, VP Public Relations, Raj Kadirghamar, Secretary, Mohd Tauqeer Khan, Treausrer, Sameh Iskander, and Sgt-at-Arms, Dr Kavita Shukla.

Outgoing President, Marija Miglane, numerated the achievements of the club

during the past year. The meeting was anchored by award winning humorous speaker and past president, Vinodh Pisharom, and had a project speech by Raj Kadirghamar. Past President,

TVS Prasad, conducted the table top-ics or impromptu speaking session. Abhishek Chatopadhyay was General Evaluator, and Aneesh Sathar evaluated the speech by Raj. Dr Jiju John was

the grammarian of the evening, Asgar Khan, the listener, and Sameh Eskander, the Time Manager. Founder President, Rammohan M Rai delivered a module on Club Leadership. The Peninsula

This Ramadan, Mövenpick Hotel West Bay Doha will be having daily Ramadan Iftars at its main restaurant, ForKnife.

The buffet will feature an array of inter-national dishes, with a focus on Ramadan favourites and local Qatari cuisine.

To capture the traditional spirit of Ramadan but also giving it a modern twist, ForKnife restaurant will be trans-formed into a Ramadan paradise, with special decorations and a Ramadan theme to celebrate the Holy Month.

“Ramadan is the time to strengthen family and community ties. Mövenpick Hotel West Bay Doha invites you to seal those bonds that bring us together. Bring your family and friends or business part-ners, or make it your company’s event with a relaxing family fun atmosphere with the hotel’s dedicated service team making sure you are as comfortable as possible,” a statement from the hotel said.

Mövenpick Hotel West Bay Doha will be offering special prices for groups and early bird bookings. The Peninsula

Newly elected office-bearers with members cutting a cake after the installation ceremony.

Mövenpick Hotel plans daily Ramadan Iftars

McDonald’s Qatar supported the final games of Al Nashmi Soccer Championship organised by the Jordanian community in Qatar.

The event that took place at the Al Sadd Sports Club, was held under the patronage of the Jordanian Embassy in the presence of the Jordanian Ambassador Zahi Al Smadi and other officials, and brought together professional players and soccer aficionados in an exciting contest.

The first game was played between Kofrsoum Vs Amoon for children between the ages 8-14, with Kofrsoum crowned winners with a score of 3-2. AlSalt competed with Al Ramtha team in the adult

category, with AlSalt team raising the winning honors with a score of 2-1.

Kamal Saleh Al Mana, Managing Director of Al Mana Restaurants & Food Co, said: “We are very pleased to be part of this enthralling soccer tourna-ment that brings together the Jordanian community in Qatar. Sports have an extremely unifying effect on people across the world and football in particular reinvigorates the brotherhood spirit especially within the Arab world. Community engagement is part of our DNA and McDonald’s Qatar has always been a strong supporter of events that brings people together to celebrate the joys of community living. It

also highlights our commitment to support the devel-opment of sports activities in Qatar for the overall well-being of its people, in line with the 2030 National Vision.” McDonald’s Qatar sponsored the event by providing the winning teams with trophies and med-als as well as meal vouchers. The audience was also treated to various entertaining activities especially prepared by the employees of McDonald’s Qatar including face painting, balloon giveaways and char-acter appearances, which added to the revelry and excitement attached to the games. The Peninsula

McDonald’s Qatar supports Al Nashmi Soccer championship

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TECHNOLOGY

BY IAN TUCKER

Google’s previous attempt to get us to wear something mildly ridiculous on our faces didn’t end well. But while Google Glass was released (and failed) to much fanfare,

the growth of Google Cardboard has been unhurried, and – by Google’s standards – low key.

Now on its second version, “Cardboard” is a cheap holder that turns your smartphone into a virtual-reality headset. Anyone can download the template and make one, while the impatient can buy a pre-made model for £10 from Amazon. (Currently only the template for v.1.2 is available, but v.2 will be downloadable soon – and it will be easier to build.) Once you have your Cardboard you can download VR apps from Google Play or the App Store and experience the sensations of explor-ing far-flung cities, the stomach-in-the-mouth feel of a rollercoaster ride or simply be spooked by zombie children – all without leaving your chair.

Mike Jazayeri, director of product management at Google VR, says he is pleasantly surprised by the success: “We never imagined the momentum it has had. Immediately we got a lot of interest from content creators, brands, developers – and a year later more than a million Cardboards have shipped and there’s hundreds of apps.”

The rival dedicated VR headsets – Facebook’s Oculus, HTC’s Vine and Sony’s Morpheus, plus the augmented reality Microsoft HoloLens – have yet to be released, and when they do they’ll be much more expensive. For example, Oculus will sell for about $1,500 (although this includes a powerful PC to drive its graphics). Rather than suggesting that Google has stolen a march on its rivals, Jazayeri says the devices will have different “use cases” – engineer-speak for horses for courses. “For Cardboard our focus is on simple, fun, shorter experiences – bite-size VR. And they’re cheap, so, for example, everyone in a class-room can have one.” He says Oculus will need to be connected to a PC, but Cardboard is as portable as your phone.

As well as making VR accessible to smartphone users, Google is trying to simplify the creation of content. At a developers’ conference last month it announced Jump, a platform to create 360-degree content. This consists of three elements: an open-source template to build a 360-degree camera setup

(they displayed a circular rig of 16 GoPros, but any camera could be used); software that colour corrects, processes and stitches footage together, and a player – YouTube now plays VR content. “Just capture your content in 360 and anyone can experience it. Jump will really lower the barrier to creating VR,” says Jazayeri.

“Cardboard has primarily been devised for devel-opers,” says Patrick Moorhead of tech analysts Moor Insights Strategy. “This is their primary tar-get. Secondary are people who want to try out the

technology. The issue here is that Cardboard delivers a lousy experience compared to other devices because of the lack of optics and image perfection.”

VR is still emerging technology, and searching for a “killer app”. What does Jazayeri think could make Cardboard irresistible? “This idea of transporting or tel-eporting people to places that otherwise they couldn’t go, that’s something new and different.” Moorhead sees a more prosaic future for VR, “I’m not a big believer in the notion of a “killer app”, but VR will be most beneficial in games, and commerce where you have to see many elements of the potential purchase, like a hotel room or a car.”

But Cardboard shouldn’t be dismissed as a gim-mick, Jazayeri says, as it fits with Google’s broader ideological drive to democratise data: “It’s consistent with our mission to make the world’s information uni-versally accessible – and experiences are part of that information, right?”

VIRTUAL REALITY APPSCorridoom - AndroidTest your reflexes in this claustrophobic game which

involves running along a passage while having to dodge obstacles with a flick of your head.

Sisters - Android, IOSA gothic ghost scenario – all lightning, creaks and

frankenkids – that demonstrates the ability of VR to spook and scare. She’s behind you!

Titans of Space - AndroidAn app that shows the educational potential of VR,

takes users on a guided tour of our solar system.The Guardian

Google Cardboard: A VR headset you make yourself

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WHEELS

BY WARREN BROWN

There is a lot of hubris in global automotive marketing — lots of bragging about racetrack testing, about a car’s ability to hug curves and accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in six sec-

onds or less.The companies are so earnest and they spend so

much money, talent and production time on these mes-sages, you’d think that all of us drive on racetracks, or carefully monitor stopwatches as we move from “stop” to “go,” or otherwise operate our automobiles in driving environments where speed is the only salient factor.

We don’t — certainly not most of us, anyway.I did none of that racetrack-cowboy stuff in my week

and nearly 1,200 miles behind the wheel of the 2015 Lexus IS 350 F Sport all-wheel-drive sedan.

I sped, yes. It is hard not to speed on Interstate 95 and the New Jersey Turnpike, where the median traffic speed, the actual speed at which cars and trucks are moving, is about 75 mph.

But much of my driving was done in the high-road environs of New York’s Bear Mountain and Storm King Mountain regions, which feature narrow, twisting roads and occasionally thick, rapidly descending fog. Going too fast here is an invitation for an altar of flowers and crosses placed along the road at the estimated point of your demise.

There is also the matter of night driving here, which is best done carefully in weather fair or foul. Darkness comes with a vengeance in these parts, wrapping the roads in a blackness that encourages you to praise God for the invention of high-intensity-discharge headlamps. It helps if those headlamps are optionally “intelligent,” as they were in the IS 350 F Sport that I drove. That means the headlamps automatically, temporarily adjust to low beams on dark roads when traffic approaches in the opposite direction.

I like that feature, as I do the many other advanced electronic safety features available in the Lexus IS 350 F Sport at a price several thousand dollars below that of a similarly equipped BMW335i all-wheel-drive sedan.

Not that the Lexus IS 350 F Sport all-wheel-drive sedan is inexpensive. It starts at $45,750 and easily could reach $50,000 with options (in US). But in the world of high-performance entry-level luxury automobiles (estimate $40,000 to $50,000), it appears to be a good deal. It certainly is comparable in value to the Audi A4 and BMW 335i.

Just don’t get taken in by Lexus marketing featur-ing quotes from a 2013 Road & Track magazine article touting the IS 350 F Sport’s mostly track performance as better than that of the BMW 335i. It is functionally meaningless bragging.

Most of us will never drive any car the way auto-magazine journalists drive test vehicles on manufac-turer-sponsored track days, or in otherwise sanctioned super-high-speed driving environments (think a top speed, electronically limited, of 131 mph). Driving that way in the real world would land us in jail, in the hospital or in a grave.

What you really need to know about the IS 350 F Sport

sedan is that it is the perfect traffic mate for cities such as the District of Columbia, Baltimore and New York. It fits well in those places, maneuvering easily through tight urban traffic.

The suspension system — independent, double-wish-bone coil springs with electronically controlled shock absorbers and stabilizer bar up front; multilink with coil springs, electronically controlled shock absorbers and stabilizer bar in the rear — works well on reasonably maintained roads. But the system is no match for rutted, potholed urban pavement.

Would I take the IS 350 F Sport all-wheel-drive sedan over a BMW 335i or Audi A4? Probably not. BMW per-sona and performance are hard to beat. And Audi, hands down, offers one of the best automotive interiors available anywhere at any price. But Lexus puts up a good argu-ment against the BMW 3-Series in the matter of value. Lexus just seems to offer more for the money, even with options. That makes more sense to me than fast 0-to-60 acceleration times. WP-Bloomberg

Bottom line: If you are shop-ping entry-level luxury and looking for an alternative to BMW and Audi, the Lexus IS Series — models 250 or 350, available with rear-wheel or all-wheel drive — is a good place to start. The Lexus series offers good styling, comfort, safety and performance.

Ride, acceleration and handling: The Lexus IS 350 F Sport all-wheel-drive sedan gets good marks in all three categories.

Head-turning quotient:It has a bold, full-mesh, wide-mouthed face affixed to a fluidic body. It looks simultaneously aggressive and friendly. It certainly looks unlike anything else.

Engine/transmission: The IS 350 F Sport comes standard with a 3.5-liter, 24-valve V-6 gasoline engine with variable valve timing (306 horsepower, 277 pound-feet of torque). The all-wheel-drive ver-sion gets a six-speed automatic transmission that can also be oper-ated manually. The rear-wheel-drive version comes with an eight-speed automatic.

Capacities: Seating is for five people. Cargo capacity with all seats in place is 13.8 cubic feet. The fuel tank holds 17.4 gallons of gasoline (premium grade is required).

Mileage: The IS 350 F Sport all-wheel-drive sedan has three drive settings — Eco, Normal and Sport. Driving mostly in the Sport setting, I averaged 22 miles per gallon on the highway.

Safety: Standard equipment includes front and rear ventilated disc brakes, four-wheel anti-lock brake protection, electronic brake-force distribution, emergency braking assistance, traction and stability control, radar cruise con-trol with pre-collision safety sys-tem, blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert, electronic parking assistance, high-intensity discharge headlamps, and side and head air bags.

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Lexus IS 350 F-Sport:A good luxury value

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FOOD

BY GIRISH GUPTA

Follow the main road, count three traffic lights, and take a left at the third. You’ll find a secu-rity post there.

“It’s a white-and-blue house, the entrance is through the car park,” added the email instructions. “Don’t tell the guards you are coming to ‘Ciboulette Prive’, but on a private visit.”

As with living-room restaurants that flourished in Havana in the 1990s after the fall of its Soviet benefac-tor, Caracas is seeing a rise in clandestine dining as inventive restaurateurs seek ways to survive economic crisis, corruption and crime.

Chefs and owners complain that operating a normal restaurant profitably has become increasingly problem-atic as state controls limit price increases despite roar-ing inflation and bribery is the only way to get permits in a timely fashion.

Furthermore, crime has made diners seek ever-more private and secure settings, while shortages of ingredi-ents make it difficult to maintain a steady menu.

So private dining gives the chefs far more flexibility — and, crucially, less scrutiny.

“No one knows where we are until we tell them. This is an illegal restaurant,” acknowledged Ana, the 24-year-old head chef at Ciboulette Prive, or ‘Private Chive’ in English, set in her cousin’s back garden in a wealthy Caracas neighboUrhood. She asked that her surname not be published for fear of reprisal.

The elegantly-decorated Ciboulette Prive, which opened in October, serves 16 people under a mango tree with retro artwork on the garden wall and vintage vinyl records as place mats.

It charges 3,000 bolivars per person. That’s around $7 at the black market exchange rate or $475 at Venezuela’s strongest official exchange.

The bolivar amount is nearly two weeks of work at minimum wage, out of reach for average Venezuelans who have no access to dollars and for whom even simple meals out can be a distant memory.

Many now instead spend hours lining up under the hot Caribbean sun for basics like flour, chicken or milk.

Inflation eats up their purchasing power, leaving little room for nights out, let alone big purchases or travel.

“Venezuela must be one of the hardest places to do gastronomy,” said the restaurant’s owner, 21-year-old Emiliano, who studies business administration at Caracas’ Metropolitan University. He also asked that his surname not be published.

Around half a dozen small illegal eateries have sprung up around the city over the last year, mainly publicized through word of mouth, phone calls with owners, and social media.

They are becoming popular with wealthy Venezuelans and foreigners, keen to try new food, jump on the latest trend, or escape from the well-known circuit of high-end restaurants.

“The chefs often take more creative risks so you get fancy mousses and foams, long-braised meats and fruits and vegetables that are harder to find,” said one western diplomat who frequents the illegal restaurants, asking not to be named.

Venezuelan government officials did not respond to requests for comment. However, chefs and restaurant-owners said officials tolerate their outlets and some-times even eat there.

‘I’M A SMUGGLER’To stock Ciboulette Prive, Emiliano spends hours

visiting different shops and suppliers due to widespread shortages plaguing recession-hit Venezuela for the last two years.

On a recent day, he had just bought beef for 1,660 bolivars per kilo that six months ago cost 600. Such a rise is typical in Venezuela, where official annual infla-tion was 69 percent last year and is estimated to be

heading for triple figures in 2015.Venezuelan diners, across all outlets, are used to

seeing menus covered in scribbles as prices update frequently or asking the waiter what they actually have before even looking at the menu.

Some of the home-based restaurants charge in US dollars, breaking local laws but following a trend in which foreign currency — or their equivalent black mar-ket value — is increasingly the basis of transactions.

In Los Chorros, an upscale district at the bottom of Caracas’ Avila mountain, Eduardo Moreno, 53, runs La Isabela.

He is the father of clandestine dining in Venezuela.“Nine years ago, I realiSed the situation here would

drastically worsen,” he said, sat on the tropical plant-filled outdoor terrace of his colonial-style house which doubles as a restaurant.

Moreno charges $55, in US dollars, per person, preferably paid by an international bank transfer. Given Venezuela’s current climate, that figure is painfully expensive for anyone not earning in foreign currency. It equates to about three months of salary at the mini-mum wage. Moreno sends out his menu every week by email to a group of regulars. The food on offer is more exotic than many of Venezuela’s restaurants as Moreno makes a point of getting out of the country every few weeks. Reuters

Clandestine dining on the rise in Venezuela

Head chef Ana prepares filet tartar with aioli in the kitchen of the "Ciboulette Prive" in Caracas.

Caracas is seeing a rise in clandestine dining as inventive restaurateurs seek ways to survive economic crisis, corruption and crime.

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Gazing over the road at the crowds streaming into London’s fashion week for men, con-struction worker Carl, dressed in a fluores-cent safety bib, wondered: “What’s going

on? They all look weird.”For fashion lovers, buyers, journalists and bloggers,

the four days of the London Collections Men SS16 are an opportunity to show off their finery — the more eccentric the better.

Outside the venue, a huge long-haired man tee-tered in a pair of yellow high heels, carrying a school backpack.

Not to be outdone, his friend sported a polka-dot suit. Behind them, another impeccably-dressed guest paraded around in a hat resembling two cherries.

“I used to wear hoodies and T-shirts and jeans, not making any effort,” said 35-year-old blogger Zokaya Kamara, looking slick in shorts, jacket and tie, with a camera slung over one shoulder. “But since making the effort, I get compliments every day.”

He added: “More and more men are making an effort in the way they dress — you see it in the street, at the bus stop.”

The very existence of London Collections Men — previously an appendix to London Fashion Week, which is dominated by women’s fashion — bears out his observation.

The event, which started in 2012, is now in its seventh edition. Some 77 designers and ambassa-dors, including Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton, are in town for the programme’s 32 shows.

“This weekend is starting to establish itself, which is really good, because there’s a lot of competition — there’s Paris, there’s Milan, it’s great that they’re bring-ing people in,” designer Paul Smith said after watching the latest creations of Craig Green, one of Britain’s rising fashion stars.

Dylan Jones, chairman of London Collections Men, added that the “enthusiasm... has completely out-stripped any expectations”, reflecting an awakening for men’s fashion.

“We now have a generation of young men who are far more interested in fashion than any previous genera-tion,” he said. “They’re more sophisticated shoppers, they shop more like women.”

The figures support his remarks. In 2014, sales of menswear generated $440bn in worldwide revenue, 4.5 percent more than the previous year.

In comparison, sales of women’s clothing rose 3.7 percent to $587bn.

Half of British men aged 16-24 purchased at least one garment in the last three months of 2014, as many as their girlfriends, according to market research insti-tute Mintel.

Some even believe that men’s fashion could even-tually achieve the unthinkable and outstrip women’s in sales. “I think so, absolutely,” independent fashion designer Payzee Mahmod said. “Men are becoming more expressive, wearing bolder colours, experiment-ing with shapes. Demands are changing.”

“Everything has changed so much and become more metrosexual. If you have style, you can go eve-rywhere,” added Jonas Oliver, fashion specialist at Bond Magazine.

Geraint Donovan, author of the His Name Is Fashionblog, believes the best is yet to come.

“With womenswear, everything has almost been done,” he said. “There is nothing really shocking left, whereas in men’s fashion, there’s still a lot to be done”.

AFP

Men light up London catwalk shows

A model presents a cre-ation from the Chester Barrie Spring/Summer 2015 collection.

Models present a creations by James Long.

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HEALTH

BY ANDREW M SEAMAN

Women who take part in exercise, diet pro-grammes or a com-bination of the two

during pregnancy can prevent exces-sive weight gain, according to a fresh review of past research.

The review incorporates dozens of new studies to update a previous review that did not find enough evidence to support the use of diet and exercise during pregnancy.

After including the new studies, the new review found “high-quality evidence” to show diet, exercise or both can reduce the risk of excessive weight gain during pregnancy, write the researchers in The Cochrane Library.

Other benefits may include a lower

risk of cesarean delivery, excessive birth weight, and respiratory problems in the newborn, “particularly for high-risk women receiving combined diet and exercise interventions,” add the researchers, led by Benja Muktabhant of Khon Kaen University in Thailand.

The US Institute of Medicine says the amount of weight women should gain during pregnancy varies depending on their non-pregnancy weight.

For example, a normal-weight woman should gain between 25 and 35 pounds, while an overweight woman should gain between 15 and 25 pounds. Obese women should gain even less.

Gaining too much weight is tied to an increased risk of complications for both mother and child, according to the researchers, who completed the review for The Cochrane Collaboration,

an international organisation that evalu-ates medical research.

For the new review, the researchers examined data from 65 randomized controlled trials, which are considered the “gold standard” of medical research. They were able to combine data from 49 trials involving a total of 11,444 preg-nant women.

The women were randomly assigned to a diet, exercise, a combination of the two or standard care. The diets and exercise programmes varied, but could include low-glycemic diets and unsupervised exercise.

Women who took part in diet, exer-cise or combination programmes were about 20 percent less likely than women in standard-care groups to gain too much weight while pregnant, the researchers report.

The women who took part in diet, exercise and combination programs were also less likely to develop high blood pressure during pregnancy, compared to those in the standard care group.

There was no clear benefit among the women in the diet and exercise groups when the researchers looked at other complications, such as cesarean delivery, but it did look like there may be

some benefit, they write.While the new study generally did

not show fewer complications in the diet and exercise group, Dr Loralei Thornburg said that it’s good that there was no increase in complications.

“This was very reassuring that there wasn’t an increased risk of preterm birth with moderate exercise,” said Thornburg, a high-risk pregnancy expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.

“Most people gain more weight than they probably should during pregnancy,” Thornburg, who was not involved with the review, told Reuters Health.

She said women who gain too much weight may not be able to lose it after the baby is born. Then, during the next pregnancy the woman is already heav-ier and that may increase the risk of complications.

“In the next pregnancy, if you don’t get it off, you may go from obese to very obese,” Thornburg said.

She cautioned, however, that women should check with their doctors before starting a diet and exercise program during pregnancy.

SOURCE: bit.ly/1C3lYDc The Cochrane Library, online June 11, 2015.

Reuters

Popping over-the-counter antacids daily to control acidity or heartburn can increase heart attack risk by 16-21 percent, a huge data-mining study has revealed. The

researchers analysed 16 million clinical documents of 2.9 million patients in two separate databases.

“People who take medication to suppress stom-ach acid are at greater risk of developing myocardial infarction, commonly known as heart attack,” said the lead researcher, Nigam H Shah from Stanford University, California.

Drugs like Nexium, Prilosec and Prevacid — called

proton pump inhibitors (PPI) are among the most prescribed drugs to treat a wide range of disorders, including gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD).

“By looking at data from people who were given these drugs primarily for acid reflux and had no prior history of heart disease, our data-mining pipeline signals an association with a higher rate of heart attacks.”

“Our results demonstrate that PPIs appear to be associated with elevated risk of heart attack in the general population,” he added.

The team along with scientists from Houston

Methodist Hospital, however, found that H2 block-ers - another type of antacid drug - showed no such association.

Examples of the drug of H2 blockers are cimeti-dine and ranitidine and brand examples of H2 block-ers are Zantac and Tagamet.

“Our earlier work identified that the PPIs can adversely affect the endothelium, the Teflon-like lining of the blood vessels,” said John Cooke, a senior study author.

That observation led researchers to hypothesise that anyone taking PPIs may be at greater risk for heart attack.

The study appeared in the journal PLOS ONE.IANS

Daily antacid use ups heart attack risk: Study

Exercise, diet or both may protect against excess pregnancy weight

11INDIAN CINEMA

| MONDAY 15 JUNE 2015 |

India, China emotionally, culturally close: Aamir Khan

The trailer of actor Ajay Devgn’s Drishyam has garnered over 1.5 million views, indicating the

intrigue surrounding the movie.The first look and trailer of this

upcoming thriller, which was released on June 4 online, has left the audiences intrigued and riveted, heightening the anticipation for its release.

This out-of-the-box concept of a trailer launch was widely acclaimed by the audience and it went viral in no time, as seen on the YouTube page of producers Viacome18 Motion Pictures.

The makers launched the trailer in a unique way by introducing an alluring game on social media, which has a

few levels where the gamer needs to find clues and answers which eventu-ally leads to Vijay’s journey in the film.

Ajay’s only release in 2015 will wit-ness him in an all-new avatar as Vijay Salgaonkar, a common man working as a cable operator who challenges the system when his family is threat-ened. Tabu will be seen playing the role of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Meera Deshmukh in the film.

A tough policewoman and known to be meticulous in her investigation, her prime suspect is Salgaonkar. Drishyamalso features Shriya Saran as Vijay’s wife along with the talented Rajat Kapoor. A Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Panorama Studios Production, Drishyam, a Hindi remake of an epon-ymous Malayalam film, is directed by Nishikant Kamat and releases on July 31, 2015.

BY RADHIKA BHIRANI

The unprecedented global success of Indian entertainer PKrides high on the fact that over a sixth of its `6bn ($94m )-plus

earnings have come from China. Superstar Aamir Khan, the film’s lead actor, says it reflects the “historical” love of Chinese audience for Indian cinema as well as the emotional and cultural bonds they share with this country.

PK hit the jackpot in China soon after the May 14-16 visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the presence of whom Indian film conglomerate Eros International announced key collaborations with leading Chinese film entities.

The movie, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and starring Aamir - the trio behind the 2009 film 3 Idiots which also found resounding success in China — released in the country on May 22. On the 16th day since its release across 4,500 screens, it had reportedly minted `1bn. And it’s still counting.

“It’s really amazing and very heartening,” Aamir, whose films — PK, Dhoom: 3 and 3 Idiots — are said to occupy the first three spots in Indian cinema’s top five grossers across the world, said.

At 50, it’s interesting how the actor-filmmaker is steering change in Hindi filmdom with entertaining and comical dramas, laced with pertinent and universally-appealing social messages delivered in an utmost subtle way.

If Taare Zameen Par brought a tale of a dyslexic child to the fore and 3 Idiots took a stand on India’s education system, PK, with all its humour, touches upon — as Global Times, a leading English daily of China put it — “religion, one of the most solemn and sensitive issues, not only in India, which has been suffering from longstanding religious strife, but also in

many other countries”.Stressing on the fact that “a good film

made anywhere in the world — whether from India, the US, China or Japan — just cuts across language, culture...it just touches your heart”, Aamir said: “It is very generous of the Chinese audience and media there to wholeheartedly embrace PK.”

On his debut visit to China last month for his movie’s premiere, which was also attended by globally-popular star Jackie Chan, Aamir realised how “people there have historically loved Indian films”.

“When we were there in China, everybody was talking about Raj Kapoor, Awara, Caravan (which happens to be my father’s film)...these films were being mentioned even today and they were being remembered very fondly.

“I think the people of China and India seem to have a connect, which is emotional, cultural, and they are quite similar people. We are quite close emotionally and culturally,” said the actor, who has regaled audiences since over 25 years. He also came face-to-face with people in China who “had seen not just 3 Idiots but also Dhoom: 3, Ghajini, Taare Zameen Par and Lagaan, which perhaps have not even released there”. This, to him, came as a pleasant surprise as it meant audiences there “are searching out for our films” and finding “them on the internet or wherever they have got their hands on it”.

“They are an active audience. And the success of PK is to the credit of China and the audience there that they are so welcoming of films from different parts the world. That’s something we need to learn from them,” Aamir pointed out — much as the English daily indicated how Chinese filmmakers could “learn from PKabout how to tell a bright and thought-provoking comedy in an artistic way without necessarily being too cynical”.

IANS

Drishyam trailer crosses 1.5m hits

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ENTERTAINMENT

BY VIKAS DATTA

To people too young to have seen Bela Lugosi in the role of the evil Transylvanian count, Christopher Lee was Dracula personified — playing the character over half-a-dozen

times. His other famous roles were no less malignant — including Frankenstein’s Monster, Dr Jekyll and his sinister alter ego Mr Hyde, Fu Manchu, Rasputin, Scaramanga — a master assassin who intends to kill James Bond — and the Devil. But the accomplished actor could occasionally also be seen battling evil.

Lee, who died on June 7 but whose demise was announced only on Thursday, was most identified with Dracula, as he played the character in seven of the nine films of the series produced by the Hammer Film Company, from Dracula (1958) to The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) as well as two German films, Lee, who with his piercing eyes, saturnine looks, and wolfish grin did not need to be made up to look sinister, resisted getting typecast.

At the same time he was appearing as Dracula, he played one of his most famous roles, though largely forgotten now, where he combated evil, instead of spreading it. This was in The Devil Rides Out (1967), based on best-selling British author Dennis Wheatley’s eponymous 1934 novel about a band of friends determined to save one of their number from getting embroiled in Satanic rituals.

Lee, who introduced Wheatley — with whom he shared experience of intelligence work in the Second World War — to Hammer, played the role of the Duc le Richelieu, an elderly, worldly-wise Frenchman settled in London, with a good knowledge of fighting occult evil. One of Hammer’s most famous films, it also starred Charles Grey (familiar to Bond fans as Dikko Henderson of You Only Live Twice and Blofeld of Diamonds are Forever) as the villain Mocata, while one of Richelieu’s young friends was Paul Eddington, who would go on to be famous as Jim Hacker of “Yes Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister”.

Hammer adapted another Wheatley novel To the Devil a Daughter, but here, production difficulties made the author disassociate himself and the film plot has little in common with the book. Lee, however, was again the villain, playing the excommunicated, heretical Father Rayner, who is determined to get a young girl (Nastassja Kinski) for a powerful Satanic ritual.

Lee’s next positive role was of another iconic liter-ary character famous for battling crime — Sherlock Holmes, no less!

This was not Lee’s first brush with the master

detective of Baker Street, having played Sir Henry Baskerville to his long-time co-actor and close friend Peter Cushing’s Holmes in a 1959 remake of the Hound of the Baskervilles. But in two TV films, he gave Holmes a new interpretation as an elderly detective on the verge of retirement but with no loss of mental acuity.

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) deals with him asked to foil a plot to assassinate the Austro-Hungarian Emperor and thus spark a European conflict, while The Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), set in South Africa and then Rhodesia, is about Holmes entrusted with escorting a priceless diamond from Cape Town to London — and recovering it when it gets stolen.

Both draw in various historical characters, including Dr Sigmund Freud in the first, and ex-US president Theodore Roosevelt in the other.

But Lee despite all his evil roles had a human side too.

Sammy Davis Jr, of once the Frank Sinatra-led Ratpack, who acted with Lee in TV comedy film Poor Devil (1973), recites in his autobiography Hollywood in a Suitcase how he once frightened Lee senseless by suddenly flashing a set of fake fangs at him.

“Never do that again to me,” appealed the Dracula of the silver screen, recalled Davis.

IANS

Not always evil, Christopher Lee as a good man onscreen

David Beckham takes on first Hollywood role

Former footballer David Beckham is taking on his first Hollywood role in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming medieval epic King Arthur.

Beckham will be donning armour for a small part during the famous ‘sword in the stone’ scene, where Arthur manages to pull the mythical Excalibur from a rock, thus proving his right to be king, reports dailystar.co.uk.

However, this won’t be the first time the pair have worked together. Ritchie directed the former England captain in an advertisement for clothing brand H&M back in 2013.

Beckham will be joint a stellar cast for the film, including Charlie Hunnam as Arthur and Jude Law as Vortigern. Eric Bana is taking on the role of Uther Pendragon while Djimon Hounsou plays Sir Bedivere.

Beyonce sued for plagiarism

Singer Beyonce Knowles has been sued $7m by a backing singer who claimed the star had plagiarised her music to write hit song “XO”.

The 33-year-old and her company Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records have been taken to court over her hit single “XO” after Ahmad

Lane filed a federal lawsuit claiming she had stolen the music for the track, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Lane claims that Knowles’s current backing singer Chrissy Collins gave her a copy of his song “XOXO” after he passed on the track to her when the pair were working together for another artist.

However, the Grammy Award winner has denied the claims in court documents.

The response reads: “The two works at issue are entirely different songs that share no lyrical or musical similarity, other than perhaps the letters X and O. The two songs are distinct from a thematic perspective.”

The “Crazy in love” hitmaker also states that Lane hasn’t filed a “copyright registration” for his track and asks for the $7m payment to be dropped. Agencies

Hoy en la HistoriaJune 15, 1215

1775: George Washington was named as the first commander-in-chief of America’s Continental army1846: The 49th parallel was established as the border between Canada and the United States2007: The world’s longest rail tunnel on land, the 34km Loetschberg Base Tunnel, opened in Switzerland2014: Peace talks in Colombia were set to continue after Juan Manuel Santos was re-elected as President

King John of England set the royal seal on the Magna Carta, which established the principle that everybody, including the king, was subject to the law

Picture: Newscom © GRAPHIC NEWS

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

ADJUTANT, AVOCET, BITTERN, COURSER, CURLEW, EGRET,GODWIT, HERON, IBIS, JABIRU, JACANA, KILLDEER, LAPWING,MARABOU, OYSTER CATCHER, PHALAROPE, PLOVER,SANDERLING, SANDPIPER, SHOEBILL, SNIPE, STILT, STORK,TURNSTONE, WILLET, WOODCOCK, YELLOWLEGS.

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

ZITS

BLONDIE

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

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COMICS & MORE

HYPER SUDOKU

CROSSWORD

How to play Hyper

Sudoku:

A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle

is solved by filling the

numbers from 1 to 9

into the blank cells.

A Hyper Sudoku has

unlike Sudoku 13

regions (four regions

overlap with the nine

standard regions). In all

regions the numbers

from 1 to 9 can appear

only once. Otherwise, a

Hyper Sudoku is solved

like a normal Sudoku.

ACROSS

1 Pocketbook part

6 Waiter’s last word after serving food

11 Place ___ (part of a table setting)

14 Hunt illegally

15 France’s longest river

16 Award bestowed by a queen: Abbr.

17 Busybody

18 Ban Ki-moon’s predecessor at the U.N.

20 Jeopardize

22 Colon, in analogies

23 Classic video game with ghosts

27 Mosey

30 “Two and a Half Men” co-star starting in 2011

33 Femur’s locale

34 Two Romanov czars

35 Photo ___ (campaign events)

38 Gumshoes, in old crime fiction

39 Grand feather

40 ___ of Capri

41 Annoy

42 Country singer Steve

43 Trojan king during the Trojan War

44 Sporting champion with a drive for success?

47 Descriptive language

49 “Of course you’re right”

50 Anger

51 Not commissioned, after “on”

53 “The Fast and the Furious” co-star

57 What “E” means on a gas gauge

62 Verb-forming suffix

63 Witch

64 Brainteaser

65 Court divider

66 Crimean conference site

67 Minnesota baseball team … or what 18-, 30-, 44- and 53-Across all are

DOWN

1 James Bond, for one

2 Little piggy, in a children’s rhyme

3 Sprinted

4 Play a role

5 Pyramid schemer?

6 ___ Club (civic group)

7 Reading place … or reading device

8 Competitor of Skippy and Peter Pan

9 “Either he goes ___ go!”

10 Word before “verily” in the Bible

11 Freak of nature

12 Lessen

13 Kind of sax

19 Number of heads of the Hydra, in myth

21 Bed-and-breakfast, e.g.

23 Rocker Smith

24 “My Name Is ___ Lev”

25 Sexy guy

26 Boardroom events: Abbr.

27 Flower’s pollen holder

28 Teenager’s bane

29 Sounds of hesitation

31 “___ was here” (W.W. II catchphrase)

32 Throat dangler

36 Part of a table setting

37 Round after the quarters

39 10-10 or Q-Q

40 Angers

42 Before, poetically

43 General rule

45 Elderly

46 Easter egg need

47 Football Hall-of-Famer Michael

48 Indian corn

51 Mailed

52 Entreaty

54 Treacherous, as winter roads

55 Long presidential term, perhaps

56 The sun

58 Cut, as grass

59 Trident-shaped letter

60 Number of Canadian provinces

61 Soph. and jr.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16

17 18 19

20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 31 32

33 34 35 36 37

38 39 40

41 42 43

44 45 46

47 48 49

50 51 52

53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61

62 63 64

65 66 67

S O T H A T S I T I B M P CK N E E P A T C H N O O I LA P P L E T R E E F R O Z ET O I L S A F F L U E N Z AE T D P I L E O N W A N

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column referenced by the number.

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a run - any of the numbers 1 to 9 may

be used but, like sudoku, each number

may only

be used

once.

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CROSSWORDS

PREMAM

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

SCREEN 1 Spy (2D/Action) 11:35am 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 & 11:40pm

SCREEN 2 2D Jurassic World (Action) 1:00, 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm

3D Jurassic World (Action) 10:30am & 3:30pm

SCREEN 3 San Andreas (2D/Action) 11:15am, 1:35, 3:55, 6:15, 8:35

& 11:00pm

SCREEN 4 Survivor (2D/Thriller) 11:10am, 3:20, 7:30 & 11:45pm

Zanket Al Sittat (2D/Arabic) 1:10, 5:20 & 9:30

SCREEN 5 A Mouse Tale (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00

& 6:00pm Entourage (2D/Comedy) 8:00, 10:00 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 6 Better Living (2D/Comedy) 10:15am 2:00, 5:50 & 10:00pm

The Zero Theorem (2D/Thriller) 12:00noon, 3:50, 7:50 & 11:50pm

SCREEN 7 Preservation (2D/Horror) 10:20am, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20,

9:40pm & 12:00midnight

SCREEN 8 Insidious Chapter 3 (2D/Horror) 11:30am, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30,

7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm

SCREEN 9 Jurassic World (IMAX 3D/Action) 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00,

9:30 & 11:55pm

SCREEN 10 Spy (2D/Action) 11:00am 4:00 & 9:00pm

Jurassic World (Action) 1:30, 6:30 & 11:30pm

NOVO

MALL

LANDMARK

ROYAL PLAZA

SCREEN 1 Jurassic World (2D/Action) 2:45, 6:45, 9:00 & 11:15pm

Home (2D/Animation) 5:00pm

SCREEN 2 A Mouse Tale (2D/Animation) 2:45 & 4:30pm

Hamari Adhuri Kahani (2D/Romantic/Hindi) 6:15pm

Premam (2D/Malayalam) 8:45pm

Preservation (2D/Horror) 11:30pm

SCREEN 3 Premam (2D/Malayalam) 3:00 & 5:45pm

Spy (2D/Action) 8:30pm Romeo & Juliet (2D/Tamil) 10:45pm

SCREEN 1 A Mouse Tale (2D/Animation) 3:00pm

Home (2D/Animation) 4:45pm

Romeo & Juliet (2D/Tamil) 6:30pm

Spy (2D/Action) 9:15pm Preservation (2D/Horror) 11:30pm

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

A Mouse Tale (2D/Animation) 5:15pm

Jurassic World (Action) 7:00, 9:15 & 11:30pm

SCREEN 3 Premam (2D/Malayalam) 3:00 & 10:30pm

Jurassic World (2D/Action) 5:45pm

Hamari Adhuri Kahani (2D/Romantic/Hindi) 8:00pm

SCREEN 1 Jurassic World (2D/Action) 3:00, 7:00, 9:15 & 11:30pm

A Mouse Tale (2D/Animation) 5:15pm

SCREEN 2 A Mouse Tale (2D/Animation) 3:00pm

Spy (2D/Action) 4:45 & 9:15pm

Hamari Adhuri Kahani (2D/Romantic/Hindi) 7:00 & 11:30pm

SCREEN 3 Home (2D/Animation) 2:45pm

Preservation (2D/Horror) 4:15 & 11:30pm

San Andreas (2D/Action) 6:00pm

Insidious Chapter 3 (2D/Thriller) 8:00pm

Dracula: The Dark Prince (2D/Action) 9:45pm

Premam revolves around the love story, which travels through the three different stages of a man’s life.

Director: Alphonse Puthren

Producer: Anwar Rasheed

Stars: Nivin Pauly, Anupama Parameswaran,

Sai Pallavi, Madonna Sebastian

ASIAN TOWNRomeo & Juliet (2D/Tamil) 4:15 & 7:00pm

Premam (2D/Malayalam) 4:00, 5:00, 7:00 & 7:45pm

Premam (2D/Malayalam) 9:45 10:00 & 10:45pm

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CINEMA

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DOHA EVENTS16

IN FOCUS

A view of Masjed Muhammad Ibn Abd Al Wahab.

Send your photos to dohatoday@pen.com.qa. Please mention where the photo was taken.

by Ferial Sabbouh

20-22 JuneVenue: Katara Art StudiosAdmission: QR500Time: 20:30-22.30

Garangao Packaging Workshop by Asmaa Al Kuwari. The workshop entry fee is QR500. To register send your name and phone number by e-mail to: education@katara.net or call our Katara Education Team on: Tel: 44080233 / 44081357. Will start at 8:30pm on June 20 and will end by 10:30 pm on June 22.

28 June - 2 July (8-11 years old) 5 July - 9 July (5-7 years old)Venue: Museum of Islamic Art, Education BuildingAdmission: QR600Language: Arabic

Through hands-on activities children will learn about Islamic geometry, calligraphic writing, astrolabes, the Hijri calendar, explore and create maps. Listen to and enjoy tales and fables from the Islamic world as well as create their own artwork. For more info visit www.qm.org.qa/education.

Till August 29Venue: Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani MuseumTime: 09:00-18:00(Sunday-Thursday)Admission: Free

A new and fascinating exhibition of ancient and rare lamps, and objects of lighting. The collection includes fine antique ceramic and ornate metal lamps, beautiful mosque lamps, candleholders, chandeliers and modern lamps from different parts of the ancient and medieval Islamic worlds.

Garangao Packaging Workshop

Ramadan Summer Camp 2015

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

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.

555 Exhibition At The Fire Station

10-15 JuneVenue: Katara Building 18 Gallery 2Admission: Free

Presented by Katara in cooperation with the Romanian Embassy, “Neurophysiologic Shapings” features stunning thought-provoking artworks of a new art concept Lascar has founded. Lascars’ abstract paintings are arresting and haunting as human figures, horses and cars among others are embedded in flowing colours.

Neurophysiologic Shapings: Paintings by Bogdan Lascar

From Darkness to Light

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

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 dohatoday@pen.com.qa

10-15 JuneVenue: Doha Exhibition CenterTime: 13:00 to 22:00Admission: Free (Only ladies event)

Qatar’s largest women’s fashion exhibition showcasing of the latest Spring/Summer and Ramadan 2015 collections of Arab and Khaliji designed abayas, kaftans, jalabiyas and dresses. The exhibition will welcome more than 337 brands, with 89 designers coming from Qatar and the rest flying in from Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia to showcase their latest collections.

The Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition