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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 18, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The larger picture Sputnik led to a surge in spending on education programmes. In the 2004 fiscal year, 13 federal agencies spent $2.8 billion to encourage the pursuit of science and math careers, but there is little co-ordination among programmes, and only half have been formally evaluated
All of us were engaged in this process of keeping up with the Russians or beating the Russians (back then) ‘— Dr Lisa Klien, first female faculty member at Rutgers’ Department of Materials Science and Engineering ’
By Tom Avril everyone needed to buckle down and get the United States approached space to work. exploration and how its schools taught The speaker, a school district math and science. itting at her desk in rapt supervisor in Wilmington, was The United States would proceed to attention, Lisa Klein was told addressing a group of fi rst graders at catch up, of course, launching its own that the Russians had launched River Road Elementary School. Klein, satellites and then, 12 years later, landing a silvery, beach ball-size not yet 6 years old, decided right then to astronauts on the moon. Klein grew sphere hundreds of miles into become a scientist. up to study lunar rocks from one of the Sorbit. It was the world’s fi rst satellite, the “It seemed to me that it was a personal Apollo missions before becoming the fi rst victory in the race to conquer space invitation,” she recalled. “That was my fi rst female faculty member at Rutgers — and it had been won by the other side. job.” University’s engineering school, she The satellite was called Sputnik, Far beyond Klein’s classroom, the said. Along the way, her education was the man in the tie told his audience in launch of Sputnik 50 years ago next fuelled by a programme that arose in sombre tones, and it was a sign that month sparked an upheaval in how direct response to Sputnik. Thursday, July 18, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY
The percentage of people studying math and science in the US has slid. Meanwhile in Asia, the number of people earning science or engineering degrees jumped 35% from 1990 to 2002
Today, amid a fast-shifting global economy, there are cries that once again the United States is behind, as measured by everything from test scores to technological advances. In 1966, 1 in 5 US bachelor’s degrees was awarded in math or science, according to federal education data; in 2004, that proportion had dropped to 1 in 6. There are those who argue we need a jolt to the system. Another the time did not accept women. made at room temperature — ideal people studying math and science 15-year-olds in the United States Sputnik. One that did was Massachusetts for use as scratch-proof coatings in the US has slid. scored below average in a group of The news on October 4, 1957, Institute of Technology, where and sealants. Using this “sol-gel” Meanwhile in Asia, the number 30 industrialised countries. exploded with the force of a rocket Klein became one of about 70 process, her Piscataway, NJ, lab of people earning science or Gauging changes since the 1950s blast. women in a class of 1,000. makes one kind of glass that is as engineering degrees jumped 35% is diffi cult, as the various tests are Headlines blared for weeks about “There was a sense of light as cotton. from 1990 to 2002, according to diff erent and many more countries the “baby moon,” faintly ominous invisibility,” Klein recalled, drily. Klein is currently working on a National Science Foundation now take part, said Tom Loveless, with its blank aluminium exterior “We were sort of too small a protective sol-gel coatings for analysis. an education-policy expert at the and four slender antennae. number to even be noticed.” the lithium batteries and other The United States also has Brookings Institution. The Philadelphia Inquirer warned In a college internship, she components that are crammed room for improvement on student But clearly, US students are not of a Propaganda Gain for Reds and A studied lunar rocks that contained into today’s cell phones and other tests. In a 2003 study of math and at the top now, nor were they at the ‘Pearl Harbor’ Jolt to Smugness. glass, a substance not often handheld gadgets. science achievement, directed by top at the time of Sputnik. Some cautioned against found in samples from Earth. “The idea is you can just pour it Boston College, US fourth and “Because of our economic overreacting to the smallish device, She continued this work for her on,” she said. eighth graders scored above average success and our military success which weighed just 183 pounds. bachelor’s thesis and her PhD. Since she began her career, the among a group that included in World War II, I think we just But many speculated that if the After coming to Rutgers in 1977, she number of female scientists and both developing and developed assumed that our educational Communist nation could manage pursued further research on tektites engineers has soared. countries. system was the best in the world,” a satellite, it could launch an and other glassy rocks. The number of Americans But on a diff erent test called Loveless said. “That was just based intercontinental ballistic missile. Klein was among the fi rst earning degrees in those fi elds has the PISA, which measures math on myth.” A month later, the Soviets sent scientists to work with futuristic, gone up as well, with the increase in and reasoning ability rather than Sputnik led to a surge the heavier Sputnik II into space, low-density glasses that could be population. But the percentage of the knowledge gained in school, in spending on education this time with a live passenger: a programmes such as the one Klein dog named Laika. attended, and that continues The United States, already at today. In the 2004 fi scal year, 13 work on its own Vanguard satellites, federal agencies spent $2.8 billion began the parallel Explorer to encourage the pursuit of science programme. The following year, and math careers, according to the Congress and president Dwight “Because of our Government Accountability Offi ce. Eisenhower created Nasa. economic success and But there is little coordination At River Road Elementary, the among programmes, and only half district science co-ordinator urged our military success have been formally evaluated, the Mrs Conway’s fi rst graders to study GAO found. hard. Already interested in how in World War II, I For the woman who made science things worked, Lisa Klein took the her mission because of Sputnik, message seriously. think we just assumed there is reason for optimism. Klein “All of us were now engaged in that our educational notes that the United States swept this process of keeping up with the the Nobel Prizes in the sciences Russians or beating the Russians,” system was the best last year, and she continues to be she recalled. impressed by the students who pass Her parents, a dentist and a in the world. That was through her lab. homemaker, encouraged her. just based on myth” “The quality of that group hasn’t Soon, in addition to her Barbie really changed,” she said. “It’s still doll, she had a new toy at home as good as ever.” in Wilmington: a Cape Canaveral Yet she remains in the minority, rocket set. — Tom Loveless, as one of a dozen women on the In 1968, she begged her parents 130-member Rutgers engineering to let her attend a six-week summer education faculty. She is the lone woman in science camp at Brown University policy expert the 24-member materials-science after 11th grade. Funded by the department. National Science Foundation as a For men and women alike, Klein direct result of Sputnik, it gave her said, a renewed national focus on the confi dence to pursue science as science can only help. For her, 50 a career. years ago, it made all the diff erence. Many engineering schools at —The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 18, 2019 COMMUNITY TRAVEL
SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING: Photographs and videos, set up for social-media sharing, are taken automatically at key locations. Margaritaville’s new water park makes a splash with high-tech innovations Island H2O Live, about half the size of typical Orlando water parks, is designed to appeal to a young, digital-savvy customer. It opened June 21, writes Dewayne Bevil
argaritaville’s new been embedded in the industry acres, about half the size of Volcano water park uses for a while. Visitors at Universal Bay, but larger than pools at most tech in new ways. Orlando’s Volcano Bay water park, resort hotels. Island H20 Live which opened in 2017, uses plastic “Islands H2O Live is going to embraces what the bracelets called Tapu Tapu to secure be in that nice, healthy, medium- youthM market wants: social-media ride reservations and open lockers. size base,” said Ezra, who toured options. Walt Disney World’s the water-park site while it was The new water park at the MagicBands, introduced in under construction earlier this sprawling Margaritaville Orlando 2013, are used for admission to year. “They have a lot of room for development in Kissimmee wants attractions, as FastPass tickets, at expansion.” its technology to make a big splash photo ops, as hotel-room keys and Island H2O Live was built near in the pools and online with its other uses. West US Highway 192 in Kissimmee built-in social-media access. “While RFID technology and as part of a development that Island H2O Live, about half the wristband integration has been includes a hotel, time-shares, size of typical Orlando water parks, around for a number of years, I vacation homes and retail. The is designed to appeal to a young, think parks like Island H2O Live complex, which Falcone said is digital-savvy customer. It opened are fi nding new ways to connect about 65% to 70% complete, is June 21. that back to that kind of social- on the former home of the Florida “Water rides is one thing of it, connectivity concept,” said Splendid China attraction, which but we’re really tapping in heavily Aleatha Ezra, director of park closed in 2003. to what the younger folks of today member development of the World Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme are looking for,” said Art Falcone, Waterpark Association, based in park can be seen due north. co-founder and managing principal Overland Park, Kansas. Falcone hopes to draw customers of Encore Capital Management, “Social-network connectivity is from the region’s tourism base Margaritaville Orlando’s developer. something that has maybe been in as well as residents living in the “We were taking the ideas from the minds of operators for a number Winter Garden area and nearby what gamers do and putting them of years, but now, technology’s developments such as Horizons into rides.” ATTRACTION: Off icials tout 20 experiences at the attraction, spread over caught up in a way,” Ezra said. “And West. RFID technology inside its 14 acres, about half the size of Volcano Bay, but larger than pools at most when you start fresh with a whole “I know it will attract a lot of wristbands helps customise select resort hotels. new part ground up, you can make the locals because of the eff ective experiences. Visitors can choose it much more integrated in the pricing,” Falcone said. “It off ers the music that plays while fl oating Photographs and videos, set up for are raft rides called Hashtag whole experience of the park.” something that our competitors through a tube ride. social-media sharing, are taken Heights and Profi le Plunge; body Large LED screens at the wave does not at the same level of pricing Checking in atop some slides automatically at key locations. slides named Drop Down and Live pool, a.k.a. the Live Lagoon, and ease of getting in and out.” earns discounts on food, beverage “We really created this as a Streaming; and tube slides known eventually will be used to show A general-admission ticket and retail items; the more a person technology park,” Falcone said. as Follow Me Falls, Reload Rapids concerts from other venues and to Island H2O Live costs $49.99 rides, the greater the reward. Adults The tech/social-media theme and the Downloader. The adults- movies, Falcone said. ($42.99 for folks under 48 inches can track their children or wayward extends to the naming of Island only beach? Private Domain. Offi cials tout 20 experiences at tall). An annual pass is available for friends via the wristbands. H2O Live’s attractions. Featured Wristband technology has the attraction, spread over its 14 $89.99. – Orlando Sentinel/TNS Thursday, July 18, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 BOOK REVIEW COMMUNITY Tough to tell crime from politics in Atkins’ new The title of Ace Atkins’ ninth novel about Mississippi Sheriff Quinn Colson is a tipoff that one of the book’s main subjects is politics: It’s called The Shameless, writes Colette Bancroft
tkins, a former St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune reporter, writes the Colson series as well Aas continuing the late Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series. (His eighth Spenser book, Angel Eyes, will be published in November.) Colson is a native of the fi ctional town of Jericho in Tibbehah County, Miss., a man with a deep knowledge of his state’s problems who refuses to surrender to them. The title of Ace Atkins’ ninth novel about Mississippi Sheriff Quinn Colson is a tipoff that one of the book’s main subjects is politics: It’s called The Shameless. “He’d been sheriff now for nearly a decade and he still wasn’t sure the state was getting any better. It was the entire reason he’d retired early as a US Army Ranger, believing he could make a diff erence, fi ghting corruption, drug running, and violence in his own backyard.” As The Shameless opens, he’s feeling discouraged. With his new wife, Maggie, Quinn is making an obligatory appearance at the county fair, where the two hear a speech by a slick, silver-haired politician named Jimmy Vardaman, whom Quinn knows all too well. “Vardaman,” Atkins writes, “had kept a big hunt lodge in Tibbehah AUTHOR: Atkins, a former St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune reporter, County for decades, the source of writes the Colson series as well as continuing the late Robert B. Parker’s wild rumour and sustained fact, a Spenser series. (His eighth Spenser book, Angel Eyes, will be published in place where he’d worked out deals November.) with some of the most corrupt people in north Mississippi. Several trigger further chaos. It’s not just another cold case for times Vardaman had been on the Meanwhile, Quinn’s sister Caddy, Quinn. Brandon was a few years fringe of people Quinn had either a recovering drug addict, is running younger, but Quinn knew him in sent to jail or shot. But Vardaman her ministry for refugees and poor high school. And Brandon’s friend always slipped clear of it, like a man and homeless people on half a then was Maggie Powers, now who stepped in cow and came out KEEPING IT INTERESTING: That’s a lot of plot lines, but the author keeps shoestring and trying to fi gure out Quinn’s wife. Her young son, whom smelling like Chanel No 5.” them running smooth and hitting on all pistons as the action accelerates. why Bentley Vandeven, a rich kid Quinn is about to adopt, is named Now Vardaman is running for from Memphis, is her friend. after Brandon. governor on a populist platform online courses and drooled over Quinn’s best friend and fellow vet, Into that mix of the usual Tashi and Jessica are also chasing that stops just half a breath short of gun magazines.” When one of them Boom Kimbrough, who is now homegrown characters Quinn deals rumours that the former sheriff , outright racism, spouting religious threatens Maggie, Quinn steps up. struggling to recover from a savage with, Atkins tosses a couple of folks Hamp Beckett, who was Quinn’s platitudes despite his skeevy past. “Didn’t even drop your cigar,” she beating. Quinn’s fi erce former from the big city, Brooklyn, to be uncle, might have covered up the The crowds love him. says admiringly. deputy, Lillie Virgil, now a US exact. Tashi Coleman and Jessica real nature of Brandon’s death. Quinn and Maggie don’t, but Another of Vardaman’s devoted Marshal, has made it her business Torres are settling into Jericho to That’s a lot of plot lines, but when they leave partway through supporters in Jericho is a Bible- to arrest a dirtbag named Wes do research for their true-crime Atkins keeps them running smooth his speech they’re confronted by thumping county offi cial known to Taggart, one of Boom’s attackers. podcast, Thin Air. They’re digging and hitting on all pistons as the a clutch of black-clad thugs who all as Old Man Skinner. His current (Quinn shot the other one.) She into the disappearance 20 years ago action accelerates. Could Fannie’s tell Quinn he “ain’t got no right project is raising money to erect a captures Taggart with the help of of a local teenager, Brandon Taylor, power struggles and Caddy’s “Ole trying to make Senator Vardaman 60-foot cross next to the highway, his friend, a high school senior who vanished while deer hunting. Miss frat boy” suitor and Brandon uncomfortable.” where it will obscure a “damn “whose real name was Tiff any When he was found with a bullet Taylor’s long-ago death and “Quinn had met a hundred guys Mississippi landmark.” Dement but went by Twilight to through his head, his death was Vardaman’s current campaign all like this,” Atkins writes, “wannabe In the last Colson novel, one avoid professional confusion.” deemed a suicide, but his family be related? You’ll be surprised. – Special Forces operators who took casualty of those turf wars was Taggart’s arrest, however, will doesn’t buy it. Tampa Bay Times/TNS 8 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 18, 2019 COMMUNITY SPOTL Gym, eat, repeat: the shockin The idealised male body has become bigger, bulkier and harder to achieve. So what drives a generation of young men to the all- consuming, often dangerous pursuit of perfection? asks Sirin Kale
IMPOSSIBLE STANDARDS: People are judging their-self against an impossible standard: every muscle could be bigger. I could be leaner. I have no chest muscles; I have no arm muscles.
t is diffi cult for Miles to pinpoint “She began to realise that my body restrictive diets. Because men with the 70s, we saw very slim, almost condition. On the small screen, the moment his muscle dysmorphia was like dating another muscle dysmorphia rarely seek androgynous men, like Mick Jagger the current crop of Love Island dysmorphia started. It was just person.” The pursuit of muscularity treatment, estimating its prevalence and David Bowie ... to be muscular contestants mug for the cameras in always there, a background hum. took over his life. “I just thought, I am in the general population is hard, but was to be defi ned as to be militaristic, tiny swimming trunks, all the better to “As far back as I can remember, so lean, and shredded, and veiny, and it is believed that about 10-12% of at a time when, in the US, there were display their perfect six-packs. I wanted a better-looking body,” masculine – I don’t ever want to go professional male weightlifters meet protests against the Vietnam war,” However, just as fashion magazines says the 35-year-old US soldier, now back to how I was before.” the criteria. says Dr Roberto Olivardia of Harvard don’t cause anorexia, but contribute stationed in Mons, Belgium. When he et by 33, single again – the And muscle dysmorphia may be Medical School, an expert in male to a toxic environment in which was 13, Miles spent a summer cutting dysmorphia had claimed yet another on the rise. A study published in body image. “So that build was really extreme thinness is celebrated, Hulk grass to save up for a secondhand relationship – it had all become too June found that 22% of men aged frowned on and rejected by youth Hogan, Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Solofl ex exercise machine. The much and he was in a dark place. “I 18-24 reported muscularity-oriented culture. and Chris Hemsworth are not to be machine cost $1,000 (£800), but as did not enjoy life in any way, shape or disordered eating. “The drive for “But then the 80s came about, blamed for the disordered behaviours Miles was too young to join a gym, it form.” All day long, he would starve a bigger, more muscular body is with fi gures like Ronald Reagan, sweeping our gyms. According to was worth the expense. With the help himself, struggle through punishing becoming very prevalent,” says the who was pro-military, and men the NHS, we do not yet know what of the Solofl ex, Miles started weight workouts, go home and binge-eat lead researcher Dr Jason Nagata of like Arnold Schwarzenegger and causes body dysmorphia disorders training and never looked back. before throwing it all up. One evening, the University of California, San Sylvester Stallone.” This ideal male but genetics, a chemical imbalance When he returned from a posting waiting in line at the burger chain In- Francisco. Not everyone who benches – hyper-masculine, militaristic, in the brain or a traumatic experience to Afghanistan at 24, things spiralled. N-Out for more food to purge, Miles 180kg has muscle dysmorphia. It is strong above all else – was exported in your past may play a part. You are He began obsessively working out fi nally decided enough was enough. when working out takes over your globally through fi lms such as First also more likely to develop it if you and regimenting his meals. “I went all “I woke up so happy the next day, life, occluding all else – work, family, Blood (1982), Predator (1987) and The were bullied or abused as a child, in ... it was full, hardcore dedication knowing it was over.” friends – that you have a problem. Terminator (1984). WWE wrestling something student Nathaniel Shaw to the lifestyle.” Miles set his watch A subset of body dysmorphic “Their entire day is spent at the gym was founded in 1980, and the likes knows well. The 28-year-old was to beep every three hours, to remind disorder, individuals with muscle trying to bulk up,” says Nagata. “They of Hulk Hogan became celebrities. bullied at secondary school – they him to eat. If it beeped when he was dysmorphia feel they need to become may also be taking illicit supplements In the late 90s, a leaner but still very called him a Borrower, on account of driving, he would pull over. Slowly, bigger or more muscular, regardless like steroids.” muscular aesthetic – popularised by his slender frame. he whittled his body into shape. His of their size. Sometimes referred What drives a generation of young Brad Pitt in the movie Fight Club – “I was always the small kid in the muscles became striated, every fi bre to as “bigorexia”, it typically aff ects men to slavishly pursue this physical became fashionable. corner that no one wanted to speak visible. Not big enough. At 95kg men. About 30% of people with ideal? “Over the past decades, the Today’s muscle men stare down at to.” Social acceptance came one squat (210lbs) and 1.8 metres (6ft 2in), Miles muscle dysmorphia will also have idealised male body image has got us from the billboards of superhero press at a time. “From where I’m wanted to be more muscular; leaner. a medically diagnosable eating bigger and bulkier,” says Nagata. fi lms featuring stars such as Chris from in Nottingham, because it’s a He lost 22kg and started competing in disorder – although as you need to be This body type even pressed its way Hemsworth or Jason Momoa, the very rough place, you’re training to amateur bodybuilding competitions. in calorie defi cit to be diagnosed with into our children’s bedrooms: studies latter only last week body-shamed protect yourself. The bigger guys are There was virtually no fat on him. an eating disorder, many men with show that action fi gures have become online after photographs emerged the serious people that no one wants “You pinch your skin and it just stays the condition won’t meet the clinical brawnier over the past 25 years. of him enjoying himself on holiday to mess with. That was the main pinched.” His girlfriend left him. threshold, despite following extremely This wasn’t always the case. “In in fractionally less-than-superhero thing at the start – get big and be Thursday, July 18, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 LIGHT COMMUNITY ng rise of muscle dysmorphia
steroids, and it is estimated that up to 1 million Brits take performance- enhancing drugs. “Steroids can lead to heart disease, kidney problems and liver damage,” says Nagata. There are also mental health risks. “People may have extreme irritability, aggression, paranoia and can be violent.” Tony was one young man who used drugs to bulk up. He knew what he was doing was dangerous: he would even donate blood to get his blood pressure down. “I just genuinely didn’t care.” As he cycled on and off drugs, he experienced dramatic mood swings. He got fi red from his job at a hardware store for screaming at a co- worker in the break room. Eventually, his mental health deteriorated so much that he came off all the drugs in May last year. What makes someone play Russian roulette with a steroid-fi lled syringe? Selby thinks people are driven to desperate measures because they cannot disassociate who they are from how they look. It’s an obsession that can prove fatal. Freddie Dibben, 28, died in March 2017 after his heart CAUSES: According to the NHS, they do not yet know what causes body became enlarged by the stimulant dysmorphia disorders but genetics, a chemical imbalance in the brain or a Clenbuterol. His father Cliff ord, 69, traumatic experience in your past may play a part. You are also more likely to found him. “The hardest part was develop it if you were bullied or abused as a child. INSPIRATION: Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson in Fast & Furious 6. Dwayne plays going back through to the kitchen as an inspiration to quite some youngsters today for a buff muscular body. and telling his mum what I found. It’ll taken seriously.” When Shaw went to is achieved, a new goal appears. never go away.” Like Tony, Freddie college at age 17, he had a plan: work “There’s a saying: ‘Once you step into standard.” Social media refl ects this look like that, all year round.” experienced mood swings. “He would out all winter and reveal his buff body a gym, you’re forever small,’” says standard back at you. “You’re being Some turn to illegal substances snap at you,” Cliff ord says, recalling an come summer. But when he took 27-year-old Rich Selby, an amateur sold a false reality,” says Miles. “I to attain this ideal. Tony, 23, works incident where Freddie was “stroppy” off his T-shirt playing football one bodybuilder from Cardiff . Miles can get into really good shape, right for a pharmaceutical distributor with him as they tinkered with his car. afternoon, a girl said that Shaw “had agrees. “Every muscle could be bigger. before I’m doing a bodybuilding in Dallas. He started taking illegal He put the moodiness down to work no chest”. He instantly put his top I could be leaner. You look at yourself competition, and use lighting and performance-enhancing drugs, stress – Freddie had been pulling a back on. “I still wasn’t good enough.” and feel like everything is small and angles and fi lters to make my physique including testosterone, equipoise and lot of night shifts at Wilton carpet The unkind comment laid waste to weak. I have no chest muscles; I have look even crazier than it already is, and nandrolone, two years ago. The drugs factory, where colleagues referred to Shaw’s fragile self-esteem; he walked no arm muscles ... you’re judging save a bunch of pictures and upload created a dangerous feedback loop: him as a “forklift”, on account of how away from the wreckage determined yourself against an impossible them to make it seem that I always the more he injected, the more his much he could carry. to become even more shredded. body changed and the more he took. But Cliff ord felt blessed to have Shaw’s life became: the gym, “People are like: ‘Wow, that guy’s a a health-conscious son; he didn’t home to eat enormous portions of tank.’ They have more respect for you see anything to be alarmed about. A tuna, pasta and cheese, move as ... I thought, heck yeah, I’m going to keen gym-goer, Freddie even gave up little as possible to conserve energy take more so I can get even bigger.” smoking at his parents’ request. “He and repeat. Shaw detached from the It is a common experience: used to cook all his own food! He’d contours of normal life. He stayed in muscle dysmorphia can be fuelled cook a meal before he went to work bed longer, later and missed exams. by the positive reinforcement men ... he had two sets of scales, and he He was depressed. “The pursuit of receive from other men in the gym. weighed all his vegetables, everything. this muscular ideal takes over people’s “When you’re large, you get a lot of He even kept notes of what he was lives,” explains Nagata. “They become respect,” Selby confi rms. Men come eating and what he was doing.” obsessed with it. They can’t function up to him and ask how much he can Cliff ord laughs, bitterly. “Except for in their daily life outside of pursuing bench. Sometimes they try to start the bloody drugs.” this ideal and it can lead to depression, fi ghts. “That’s why people become And that is one of the issues of missing school or work, and losing addicted. They’re insecure, so they muscle dysmorphia – you can hide their ability to do basic living tasks.” need confi rmation from other people.” in plain sight. A pair of weighing To an observer, Shaw – who Selby self-identifi es as having muscle scales in the kitchen; tupperware weighed 80kg at 1.7 metres – was dysmorphia, but believes that he has boxes of chicken and broccoli in tank-like. But that wasn’t how he it under control, because he has good your backpack. Most people view saw himself. “I would be in the gym self-esteem. these as harmless, if idiosyncratic, and say: ‘I look so bad.’ Everyone Up close, you can see the havoc behaviours. And when you look like would be like: ‘No you don’t, you’re muscle dysmorphia wreaks. “Your you are hewn out of marble, it is hard huge, I wish I could look like that.’” interpersonal relationships fall to consider anything is amiss. It is Muscle dysmorphia is a disease of apart – but you are so caught up in only when you step past the facade perception. Although its suff erers the endorphin rush of affi rmation that you realise these statue-like men live in the material world – a place from your gym buddies, you barely are slowly destroying themselves. of grunting exertion and weighted notice,” says Miles. “You’re kind of It is a silent epidemic – Olivardia bags and scoopable protein powders an annoying person. It consumes not estimates as many as 10% of – they spend most of their time in only all of your time and focus, but men working out in gyms may an imagined reality, where they are also the human part of you.” It’s also be suff ering, but never seek help. incalculably huge. Their biceps are a lonely existence. All your time is Lately, Tony has started taking swollen watermelons; each muscle as spent preparing protein-rich food, but illegal substances again, insisting fi nely striated as the delicate contours because you are over-exercising, you “it can be done safely”. Cliff ord still of a seashell. are often “hungry, and cranky, and has Freddie’s weighing scales in the But even if they eventually achieve BACK IN THE DAYS: In the 70s, we saw very slim, almost androgynous men, don’t sleep well”. kitchen. Looking at them, he would that physique, it is not enough. like Mick Jagger, and David Bowie. To be muscular was to be defined as to be Among the young men Nagata probably disagree. As soon as one muscular ideal militaristic. surveyed, 2.8% had used illegal – The Guardian 10 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 18, 2019 COMMUNITY PHOTO ESSAY
Lunar eclipse in Qatar Qatar witnessed a lunar eclipse during the full 65.3% of the entire Moon disc at its peak. Europe, Africa, South America and North America. Moon phase of Hijri month Dhul-Qa’da 1440 AH. This is because the centre of the Moon, the earth Qatar residents got a chance to see all phases of this The eclipse continued from Tuesday evening to and the Sun were on one straight line so the Earth lunar eclipse. the early hours of Wednesday, according to Qatar was in the middle between the Sun and the Moon, All stages of this eclipse reportedly took some Calendar House (QCH). blocking part of the Sun falling on the Moon, QCH fi ve hours and 34 minutes from the beginning of the The last lunar eclipse of this year was expected to astronomer Dr Beshir Marzouk said. eclipse to the end. be partial, as the shadow of the Earth obscured some The eclipse was visible throughout almost of Asia, —Photos by Chito S. Almacen, @chitos_peak Thursday, July 18, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Dietary supplements may do more harm than good: Study
minerals and diff erent types of University School of Medicine in By Bharat Upadhyay diets had no measurable eff ect on the US. survival or cardiovascular disease “People should focus on getting risk reduction,” said study lead their nutrients from a heart- esearchers have author Safi U. Khan, Assistant healthy diet, because the data found that intake Professor at the West Virginia increasingly show that the majority of some vitamins, University. of healthy adults don’t need to take minerals and other For the study, the researchers supplements,” Michos said. dietary supplements used data from 277 randomised According to Abhishek Rmay not benefi t the heart and, in clinical trials that evaluated 16 Singh, Consultant Cardiologist some cases, may even prove to be vitamins or other supplements and at Columbia Asia Hospital in injurious. eight diets for their association Ghaziabad, dietary supplements According to the study published with mortality or heart conditions do not have a measurably positive in the journal Annals of Internal including coronary heart disease, impact on cardiac health. Medicine, supplements combining stroke and heart attack. “It’s more important to follow a calcium and vitamin D may be They included data gathered healthy dietary regimen and avoid linked to a slightly increased stroke on 992,129 research participants foods that are bad for the heart. risk. worldwide. Trans fatty acids are harmful and However, there was no evidence The analysis showed possible have to be curtailed. Refi ned sugars pressure, he said. “Studies like Medicine at Vimhans Nayati that calcium or vitamin D taken health benefi ts only from a and simple carbohydrates are to this raise concerns about harm Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi, alone had any health risks or low-salt diet, omega-3 fatty acid be kept at a minimum,” Singh told from calcium and Vitamin D told IANS. benefi ts. supplements and possibly folic acid IANS. supplement use. As far as Vitamin “The quality of the evidence “Our analysis carries a simple supplements for some people. The doctor suggested that D supplements (without calcium) base of these various nutritional message that although there “The panacea or magic bullet people should include more green are concerned, there has been no supplements and dietary may be some evidence that a few that people keep searching for in vegetables in their diet. They evidence on whether it has any interventions still needs to interventions have an impact on dietary supplements isn’t there,” are rich in vitamin K and dietary impact on cardiovascular disease be evaluated to ascertain the death and cardiovascular health, said senior author of the study nitrates, which help protect risk reduction,” Anupama Singh, eff ectiveness of the study,” she the vast majority of multivitamins, Erin Michos from Johns Hopkins the arteries and reduce blood Senior Consultant, Internal added. – IANS
ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20
There’s a conservative feeling to the day that asks you to get serious There is a conflicting push/pull aspect to today that may leave you Get your chores done early, Gemini, so you have time to play tonight. and take care of business. This may not be such a bad idea. This feeling unsure about how to proceed. On the one hand, you may feel Plan a getaway with a friend. Let your imagination carry you to a grounded atmosphere can help you move into a deeper relationship like you want to plan things out and get your emotions stabilised so whole new realm of pleasure. This is a great day to explore your with a friend. Let your creativity shine, and try to do more listening you can function at full capacity. On the other hand, something may artistic nature and begin to manifest some of the ideas that have than talking. Make your dreams a reality. be pulling you into the clouds. This is your heart talking. Listen. Find been rattling around in your head for a while. a compromise between these two energies. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22
This is an excellent day to tell people exactly how you feel, Cancer. Today may be tough, Leo. Does it seem like nothing fits into place? Enjoy yourself, Virgo. You have a lot to be grateful for, so give thanks. Your emotions are more stable than usual, so open up and speak Are you trying to be someone you’re not? If things don’t seem to be Take pride in all you’ve accomplished so far and share your joy from the heart. Listen. What you learn will be valuable for the future, working out, don’t press the issue. You’re better off waiting for a time with others. Let go of the reins and sit back comfortably for a while. so pay attention. Keep an eye on what is real, but let your heart when you feel more confident about who you are and where you’re You’ve worked hard for a reason – to enjoy life. If you don’t do it now, explore all the possibilities. Follow your emotions and trust your going. Meanwhile, have some tea and relax. Releasing stress can then when? Take time out and be with loved ones tonight. instincts. You stand to gain a great deal. clear some energy for doing other things. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21
This may be one of those days when you don’t know which way to Relationship is coming your way as long as you stay levelheaded Your emotions may be reserved, Sagittarius. Take a break from the turn. For some reason, you just can’t make a decision, so you keep about the situation. Take care of the daily tasks and then let your spunk and fire and simply lay low. This is a good time to sit back going around and around. Stop and rest. Get out and walk for a while heart soar. You have a strong connection to your emotions. Trust and receive. Don’t make any sudden moves. Just let the energy of until your head stops spinning. Wait until your mind clears before your instincts and let your heart take control. Be realistic about your the day take you where it will. The closer you can get to your inner you make your next major move. relationships with others, but push the boundaries once they’ve nature and feminine energy, the closer you will become to a partner been established. or family member. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20
Family issues play an important role in your day, Capricorn. Speak You may be undecided about a loved one today, Aquarius. Today is a great day to move forward, Pisces. Your emotions are from the heart and tell your kin how much they mean to you. In Something may urge you to act yet you want to lay low. There’s an stable, leaving your heart free to take off to the clouds. Daydream. general, you might feel reserved with your energy. Don’t feel like important next step that you must take now. Carefully think the Now might be a good time to make plans with a friend. Solidify your you have to make any great strides right now. It’s more a time in situation through before you make a move. In fact, this day would relationship and confirm your commitment to one another. which you can enjoy what you’ve worked for. Kick back and reap the best be spent gathering data on the issue. It seems you should wait a rewards of all your hard work. bit before actually doing anything about it. 12 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 18, 2019 COMMUNITY CARTOONS/PUZZLES
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Sudoku is a puzzle based on a 9x9 grid. The grid is also divided into nine (3x3) boxes. You are given a selection of values and to complete the puzzle, you must fill the grid so that every column, every anone is repeated. Thursday, July 18, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY
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Across Down 1 Newly-wed holding flower in 2 Old soldier - or cadet being restaurant (5,4) trained (7) 8 Left port, carrying full cargo 3 Pole gets allowed outside (5) some time before Easter (4) 9 Male in lather replaced such 4 Disconcert rodent with title it underwear? (7) lost (6) 10 Sportsmen who are paid for 5 Surgeon who’s on the writing? Not quite (4) switchboard? (8) 11 A lean cop busted a 6 Magazine articles held by notorious gangster (2,6) William Morris (4) 13 Bonuses for actors in crowd 7 Bird table - or hut that’s scenes (6) rebuilt (10) 14 Audible river quarter (6) 8 Insincere support provided 17 An instrument Edward by civil peers (3,7) desecrated (8) 12 Falls that can impair one’s 19 Security group getting vision (8) nothing for so long (4) 15 Cultivating fruit? Good! (7) 21 Fruit that makes dog rave (7) 16 Epistle from landlord? (6) 22 Move the work period (5) 18 Monster one may read about 23 Birds a sailor throws around in Mother Goose (4) (9) 20 Wine from the East Indies? (4)
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Wordsearch Codeword 14 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 18, 2019 COMMUNITY REVIEWS Documentary examines Armstrong, the man behind the moon landing
something of a pilot himself, tested and where his aeronautical By Kenneth Turan to provide a voice-over reading engineering degree gave him an of Armstrong’s words, it’s the advantage. thoughts of others as well as his “If I saw a watch, I wanted to ith the 50th actions that reveal the man most. know what time it was,” explains anniversary of Often looking both ordinary Frank Borman, one of several man’s fi rst steps on and uncomfortable in interviews, astronauts interviewed. “Neil the moon, movies Armstrong seemed to absorb his wanted to know how it worked.” dealing with the four-square, work hard and keep The death of his young daughter Wevent have been thick on the land your nose clean character from his gave Armstrong an impetus for for a while. But even if you think surroundings growing up in tiny change, and in 1962 he joined you’ve seen enough, Armstrong is Wapakoneta, Ohio. Nasa’s astronaut programme in worth your time. In fact, his happiest and most Houston, one of only two civilian It’s not that the other theatrical animated moment in Armstrong is pilots accepted. fi lms, which include last year’s Ryan when he returns to his birthplace In 1966, in an incident eff ectively Gosling-starring First Man and to be honoured after his success on dramatised in First Man, Armstrong the more recent, visually arresting the moon. “You are my people,” he and David Scott were in a Gemini documentary Apollo 11, have been says, beaming, “and I’m proud to be 8 spacecraft that began tumbling lacking in quality. one of you.” end over end so rapidly that pilot Rather it’s that this latest doc, Starting as a child delighted blackout and death was a distinct directed by David Fairhead, does to get a 20-cent model airplane, possibility. something those others don’t. It Armstrong always had fl ying on Armstrong’s quick thinking enables audiences to get a sense of his mind, to the point of getting kept that from happening. Scott, what the real Neil Armstrong was his pilot’s license before he got his interviewed here, is still amazed like, to get to know, as much as it’s driver’s license. that Armstrong could not only possible, this often unknowable One of the things that set fi gure out what happened but could individual. Armstrong apart as a pilot even manoeuvre his body to get to the To do so the fi lmmakers have as early as his stint fl ying in correct switch under those hellish gotten the co-operation of the the Korean War was an almost conditions. people who were closest to him: his preternatural unfl appability, a Armstrong is best known as sister June, his sons Mark and Rick, coolness under pressure that the fi rst man to set foot on the and his fi rst wife, Janet, who died became legendary. moon, but Chris Kraft, a key NASA last year at age 84. Shot down in the war and offi cial, says he was instrumental Not that Armstrong himself was forced to parachute out of his jet, in selecting Armstrong over Buzz verbally demonstrative, far from Armstrong used what his superiors Aldrin (who is not interviewed) it. “He was not the most verbose called “exceptional skill and because of personal qualities that person you ever met,” says son decision making” in manoeuvring would make him better able to cope Mark, with Janet pithily adding, out of danger while fl oating in the with the post-landing madness. lives for years, Janet Armstrong exactly the gifts and character the thinking back, “he didn’t like to talk air. After a postwar graduation And, in truth, the celebrity says, adding, “I was pretty low on task demanded. Not only does the about much and he never did talk from Purdue, Armstrong naturally Armstrong faced on his return his priority list.” Apollo 11 moon mission feel, 50 about much.” gravitated to Edwards Air Force dwarfed everyone’s expectations The emphasis of Armstrong is to years after the fact, like something So even though the fi lmmakers Base in the California deserts, and was a factor in his eventual demonstrate that while its subject of a one-off , its central figure does have enlisted Harrison Ford, where all the newest planes were divorce. They’d been living separate was not superhuman, he did have as well. – Los Angeles Times/TNS A pawn shop owner takes on Civil War conspiracy theorists from her late grandfather, a Civil War buff and convincingly. What is a guy like Mel, By Michael Phillips and probable white supremacist. Surprise! a onetime would-be New York bohemian, The bank owns the house, and there’s no doing in Birmingham, anyway? An early inheritance beyond a single artefact: a sword, appearance from Mel’s codependent former glass three-fi fths full, writer- complete with certifi cates of authentication lover (played well by director Shelton) director Lynn Shelton’s aff able that may or may not be authentic. suggests a long, fraught history. In the comedy Sword of Trust gets by A letter from Cynthia’s grandfather movie’s most interesting sequence, set in on the improvisational wiles of explains the historical signifi cance of the the back of a van carrying Mel, Nathaniel, its cast. sword. It’s surviving proof of the secret Cynthia to an undisclosed location, Mel AFor those looking for it, there’s also history of the Confederacy winning the war, opens up and reveals details of that history. a glimmer or two of social observation only to have the Union devise a politically The scene’s good enough to make the regarding the way our country’s current weaselly way to keep that a secret. The sword ensuing caper reversals somewhat routine divide zigzags back inevitably to the Civil is a “prover item.” When Cynthia and Mary by comparison. The fi lm neither unites War, how that turned out, who wants what sell it to Mel, Mel turns right around and nor divides; it shambles, scoring a few to rise again and who’d prefer to do the best looks for the highest bidder online. Sword points, mostly because of Maron’s rumpled they can with the nation as a shaky, fractious of Trust becomes a tale of how a gaggle of charisma, and Watkins’ oddball, push-pull whole. outsiders (and implicit liberals, mostly) timing. The limitation of a fi lm such as Sword It’s low-keyed caper, set largely in a squares off against a variously sinister and of Trust is simple: The actors come up with podcast remains a titan of the form – he’s just pawnshop in Birmingham, Ala. Former junkie inept far-right cabal of Civil War conspiracy some lovely improvs but they’re in the service as interesting watching someone else talk, Mel, played by Marc Maron, runs the place, theorists. of narrative contrivances that can feel pretty and formulating a response non-verbally. assisted by Nathaniel (Jon Bass), a sweet Like Chicago-based writer-director Joe lazy. (It was the same with the Swanberg He’s a genuinely inventive actor, in other kid who has to be reminded to provide any Swanberg, director Shelton taps a bit of plot Netfl ix series Easy, though Maron was a words, as are his Sword of Trust cohorts. actual assistance. Meanwhile: Cynthia (Jillian in gradual motion and allows her ensemble highlight.) The movie itself struggles to match their Bell) has returned to Birmingham with her to explore various scenarios within the Shelton’s earlier work includes a lot with inventiveness, but it has its payoff s, often partner Mary (Michaela Watkins) to claim structure. Maron is MVP here: a wry sceptic, Maron and it shows. She knows his value. under the breath, here and gone before you what she thinks will be a handy inheritance responding to the developments naturally Despite his formidable verbal skills – his WTF know it. – Chicago Tribune/TNS Thursday, July 18, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY GoT earns record 32 Emmy nominations
WITTY: Taapsee Pannu finds a lot of humour in social media trolls. Trolls are entertaining: Taapsee
Actress Taapsee Pannu fi nds trolls on social media entertaining. A social media troll called Taapsee a “cheap actor” and that her “mental state is not right”. “Ok sir. When are you giving me therapy sessions. And in the bargain also tell how to become an ‘expensive’ actor. Infl ation toh mere mein bhi hona chahiye na,” went Taapsee’s witty reply. A fan of the actor said that she should ignore trolls because they were not going to change. “But I don’t want them to change. They are so entertaining! Let’s not kill their humour by expecting them to change. They provide us with so much of content! POPULAR: Game of Thrones has earned the most nominations ever for a single season of a show. How to use it is up to us,” the actress replied to her fan. This is not the fi rst time Taapsee has hit back at trolls. opular fantasy drama Headey, Sophie Turner and Maisie Maisel is the second-most-nominated On the acting front, she currently awaits the release Game of Thrones has set a Williams and actors Alfie Allen, show with 20 nominations, including of her next fi lm Saand Ki Aankh, based on world’s oldest new record by earning 32 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Peter for Outstanding Comedy Series and sharpshooters Chandro and Prakashi Tomar. The Reliance nominations for the 2019 Dinklage being contenders in the Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Entertainment fi lm also stars Bhumi Pednekar. – IANS Emmys, the most ever for a Supporting Actor category. Actress Rachel Brosnahan will fi ght Psingle season of a show. In the Outstanding Drama Series it out with Christina Applegate (Dead The nominations for the 71st annual category, Game of Thrones is competing to Mea), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), Primetime Emmy Awards nominations with Better Call Saul, Bodyguarda, Natasha Lyonne (ace Russian Doll), were announced on Tuesday. Ozark, Pose, Succession, This is Us and Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek), Game of Thrones, which wrapped up Killing Eve. Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) for the its story with the fi nal season earlier Harington is in race for the trophy accolade. this year, will go out with a bang. By with Jason Bateman from Ozarka, HBO’s Chernobyl earned 19 Emmy scoring 32 nominations, the show Sterling K Brown from This Is Us, Bob nominations, including Best Limited broke the record previously held by Odenkirk from Better Call Saul, Billy Series and actors Jared Harris, Stellan NYPD Blue, which got 26 nominations Porter from Posea and Milo Ventimiglia Skarsgård and Emily Watson getting a in 1994. from This Is Us. nod in Lead Actor in a Limited Series The fantasy HBO epic leads the Clarke will be competing with Viola or Movie and Supporting Actor in a field of Emmy nominees, including Davis (How to Get Away with Murder), Limited Series or Movie categories Outstanding Drama Series, actor Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Jodie Comer respectively. Kit Harington in competition (Killing Eve), Laura Linney (Ozark), HBO scored 137 nominations, for the Best Actor trophy, Emilia Mandy Moore (This Is Us) and Robin beating Netfl ix who scored 117 across Clarke in run for the Best Actress, Wright (House of Cards) for the Lead the board. The 71st Emmy Awards will four Best Supporting Actress Actress in a Drama Series trophy. be held on September 22, and will be nods – Gwendoline Christie, Lena Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs aired in India on Star World. – IANS COOL: Julia Roberts is not fretting over being overlooked at the Emmy nominations. Eagerly waiting to start M.B.B.S., Lage Raho Munna Bhai and Roberts cracks joke over her Emmy snub shooting for Munna many more. When asked what kind Bhai 3: Dutt of fi lms he would like to do further in Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts is not fretting over his career, he said, “Now, I can’t dance being overlooked at the Emmy nominations this year for Actor Sanjay Dutt is eagerly waiting around trees and do romance with girls her role in the series Homecoming. Rather, she has laughed to start shooting for the much-awaited but I will do some great characters like it off . third instalment of Munna Bhai... fi lm Mel Gibson and Denzel Washington do “Well, I’m in exceptional company at least,” Roberts series. in Hollywood fi lms.” wrote on Instagram while sharing a screenshot of a news “I pray to God it happens soon but “I have had a very long and beautiful alert that read: “Biggest Emmy nomination snubs: Julia this should be asked from Mr. Raju journey since my fi rst fi lm Rocky. I Roberts, George Clooney and Emma Stone are among the Hirani (Raj Kumar Hirani) director of learnt a lot in that process because I A-listers shut out”, highlighting the fact that she was not Munna Bhai... series. I think he would worked with some of the great actors the only big star to have missed a nomination this year. be in a better position to answer this from the industry,” he added. It was being expected that the 51-year-old actress will question. I am eagerly waiting to start EAGER: Sanjay Dutt starring Munna When asked about the recreated get an Emmy nod for her portrayal of Heidi Bergman, shooting,” said Dutt. Bhai... film series has been a huge version of his hit song O Saki Saki a caseworker who helps US soldiers transition back to Following the reports of sexual success. from Musafi r, starring Nora Fatehi, he civilian life, on the Amazon Prime show. harassment against fi lmmaker opined, “It’s great that these songs are Roberts missed out in the Lead Actress in a Drama Rajkumar Hirani, rumours have it that Patkar, Aryan Menghji, Chittranjan being recreated and it means that they Series category, which thsi year has nominations for Munna Bhai 3 goes on hold until Hirani Giri, Spruha Joshi and Abhijeet are still popular. So, it’s a good thing.” Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Viola Davis (How To Get gets a clean chit. Khandkekar were also present during Actor Koena Mitra had slammed Away with Murder), Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Jodie Comer Sanjay Dutt, who was accompanied the event. the new version of the song, which (Killing Eve), Laura Linney (Ozark), Mandy Moore (This Is by his wife Maanayata Dutt, was Sanjay Dutt made his Hindi fi lm originally featured her and Sanjay Dutt. Us) and Robin Wright (House Of Cards). interacting with the media at the trailer debut with Rocky in 1981. Sanjay Dutt will next be seen Roberts was nominated for an Emmy in 2014, for the launch of Baba in Mumbai on Tuesday. Since then he has been part of onscreen in Shamshera with Ranbir mini-series The Normal Heart, and in 1999 for her guest The movie’s co-producer Ashok some memorable fi lms like Naam, Kapoor and he will also share the role on Law & Order. – IANS Subhedar, director Raj R Gupta and Khalnayak, Vaastav: The Reality, screen space with Arjun Kapoor in fi lm’s cast Deepak Dobriyal, Nandita Mission Kashmir, Munna Bhai Panipat. – IANS 16 GULF TIMES Thursday, July 18, 2019 COMMUNITY Qatari Oud players mesmerise music lovers at W Doha
Oud for about 37 years now. I visit By Mudassir Raja Qatar very frequently. Primarily, I came to Doha for my vacations. People know me here as an Oud ud is a very popular player. Some interested people got musical instrument together and we started teaching a in West Asia and course for Oud players at W Doha North Africa, and the Hotel. stringed instrument “We practiced the instrument for hasO a special place in the musical 16 days before we decided to perform landscape of Qatar. The Qatari for a select gathering of people. We people have been showing immense played international Oud music, love and reverence for what is and Mozart, Arab traditional songs, dubbed as the ‘kind of instruments’ Othmani music, Khaliji music, classic among Arabs. lyrics and modern songs. We played The love and enthusiasm for almost everything. Oud’s melodies and sweet sound “It is right that Oud is often was witnessed during an Oud played alone but we got the idea of music concert at W Doha Hotel playing it in a group. Each one of on Tuesday evening. It was a my students played a diff erent tone melodious treat for Oud lovers as at the performance but in the end it fi ve young and talented Qatari Oud was one harmonious melody. Such players performed in ensemble at a kinds of music groups are called serene atmosphere of the Art 29 – furqa in Arabic. I plan to stay in located at the top fl oor of the hotel. Doha for some time and will off er The music lovers and Oud teaching course for those who are appreciators were in the art gallery interested in learning how to play at the 29th fl oor of the hotel to enjoy Oud. I teach music in a university in the harmonious tones played by the Kuwait.” fi ve Oud players – Abdul Rehman Ali al-Khalosi said: “Our training al-Thani, Abdul Aziz Saleh, Jassim “We practiced the instrument for 16 days before we with Fawzi has been a very good al-Siddiiqui, Ali al-Khalosi, and experience. We would like to learn Mohammad al-Shamma. decided to perform for a select gathering of people. more from the master. I started The fi ve Oud players were led playing Oud when I was barely by their teacher Fawzi Khalifa We played international Oud music, and Mozart, 10-year-old. Today, this was my al-Lanqawi, a Kuwaiti national, second performance before the who has been a frequent visitor to Arab traditional songs, Othmani music, Khaliji music, people. I will get more and more Doha. They learnt how to play the training in Oud. I will continue instrument with Fawzi for about classic lyrics and modern songs. We played almost playing Oud. It is good seeing the two weeks, following which they encouragement and support from decided to exhibit their talent everything. the Ministry of Culture.” before those who love the sound of Abdul Aziz Saleh said: “I love Oud. — Fawzi Khalifa al-Lanqawi, Oud. I started following Oud when I The concert was also attended was studying in the UK. One of my by Khalid al-Salem, Director of Kuwaiti national and music teacher uncles also plays the instrument. I the Center for Music, Ministry of bought Oud and started playing it Culture. The noticeably pleased very well-known in Qatar as Oud Ouds together as one piece. We rehearsals with Fawzi and then with the help of my uncle. For this and impressed Khalid appreciated is usually played alone by a single witnessed a fantastic harmony they decided to perform in front performance, I will like to thank the budding musicians and their musician. It was very good to of the music. It proved to be a of the select audience. Music is Fawzi. There is a lot of appreciation teacher for presenting the beautiful see fi ve Oud players performing great concert. It was very pleasing something that gets motivation for Oud in Qatar. I would like to Oud performance. together with diff erent melodies to know that the concert was from within us and I am happy to thank Katara for having the annual Talking to Community, Khalid and harmonies. organised by the self-motivated see the motivation of the young Oud Festival. We see many players said: “It was a kind of Oud concert. “With maestro Fawzi, the young Oud players. They have done musicians.” and makers coming from diff erent This kind of Oud concert is not performers managed to play fi ve this by themselves. They had their Fawzi said: “I have been playing parts of the world.”
Five Qatari Oud players, namely Abdul Rehman al-Thani, Abdul Aziz Saleh, Jassim al-Siddiiqui, Ali al-Khalosi, and Mohammad al-Shamma performed at W Doha Hotel recently.