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HIT FILM: Keir Dullea played astronaut David Bowman in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

COVER Veritable feast STORY Love astronaut-themed science fiction? Here’s a list of some beloved books and movies of that genre. P4-5

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Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm The olympic sport using horizontal bar, EVENTS Under the context of cultural exchange, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the FBQ Museum brings together the treasures children from age 4 till 16. Animal Canvas Painting of the museum owned collection in WHERE: Qatar National Library order to promote mutual understanding, WHEN: Today recognition and appreciation between TIME: 10am – 11:30am Qatar and India. Composed of five main In this event, children will enjoy learning topics, including community, trade, arts, diff erent canvas painting techniques, such as food and incense, the exhibition takes Arabic Calligraphy Workshop dot painting and making silhouette shapes one on a journey to explore the rich and WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday from nature, as they create art featuring their diverse Indian cultures, the long historic TIME: 6pm favorite animals, birds or bugs. links between Qatar and India, and cultural Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. similarities between Qatar and India. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic MF Husain: The Horses Of The Sun handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Exhibition Arts Atelier. WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern The lessons will take place every Saturday, Art Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 more information, contact registration@ TIME: 9am – 7pm atelierqatar.com The exhibition presents Husain’s pluralist approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of being, articulated through the myths, symbols and narratives of the world’s religions and philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a After School Activities personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing Music and arts activities for students taking place after they fi nish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours.

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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 17, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Read and watch With the moon landing’s 50th anniversary coming up, now’s the time to indulge astronaut-themed work, both books and films

By Seattle Times staff represents. The Calculating Stars by ll this reporting Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor and writing about Books, July 3, 2018). An alternate- the moon landing’s history novel set in the early ‘50s. 50th anniversary The premise? A giant meteorite got us in the mood smashes into Washington, DC, in Ato read and watch some science 1952 and accelerates the need for fi ction. So here are our staff ers’ humans to fi nd another planet to picks for some of their favourite live on. Dr Elma York is a World astronaut-themed science fi ction War II veteran who fl ew planes books and movies. We narrowed as a WASP. She also happens it down to selections grounded in to be a math genius and one of science and space travel. (Thus, Nasa’s human computers, and the exclusion of Star Wars.) she decides she wants to be an astronaut. The novel explores Here goes, sorted by media what might have happened if type in order of release year. women were allowed in the astronaut corps early in the BOOKS space race, and it also touches on the civil-rights movement Binti: The Complete Trilogy and struggles faced by African by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW, Americans in that time period. February 5). When Binti becomes The Fated Sky by Mary the fi rst of the Himba people to Robinette Kowal (Tor Books, join the ranks of students at the August 21, 2018). In this sequel to prestigious Oomza University in The Calculating Stars, mankind space, she leaves Earth behind has managed to reach the moon and fi nds herself thrown into the and has now set its sights on centre of a generations-long war establishing a human colony on between the university and an Mars — in 1961. Dr Elma York alien race known as the Meduse. — otherwise known as The Lady This three-book series follows Astronaut — is hoping to get Binti and her unlikely allies as chosen for the Mars mission, but she balances the culture she torn between her professional came from and the future she ambitions and her personal life. Wednesday, July 17, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY

Once again, Kowal does not fail to pull in the social environment of the early ‘60s, and the tensions resulting from the civil-rights movement and South Africa’s apartheid are woven into the narrative. The Wanderers by Meg Howrey (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, March 14, 2017). This is character-driven literary science fi ction at its fi nest and it examines how humans will deal with the challenges of long missions of space exploration. The Wanderers follows three astronauts through a 17-month training simulation for a Mars mission and through them gets at the question of what drives humanity’s need to explore. But the narrative also pulls in the families of the astronauts and we see the strain that the long separation puts on them. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow, May 19, 2015). What would we do if we knew the world was about to be destroyed by “hard rain” that will fall for 5,000 years? That’s the premise ACTION: Sandra Bullock, left, and George Clooney in Gravity. of this science-fi ction saga by a Seattle novelist who is one of the way to communicate with Earth’s Matha Mwambwa into space using impacts of having another Earth — is one of his triumphs. Starring masters of the genre. As Seattle new alien arrivals. But this isn’t an aluminium rocket and a catapult such as gravity and the atmosphere Jodie Foster as a woman of science Times reviewer Nisi Shawl wrote your everyday alien encounter system. The rocket never took off , — the second Earth in the fi lm adds and Matthew McConaughey as a in 2015, “Stephenson’s storytelling story. It incorporates sophisticated but decades later director Frances a layer of mystery and uneasiness to man of faith, Contact is the kind of style combines the conversational concepts of physics, language and Bodomo’s short fi lm takes a look at the story. space-travel movie that’s about so and the panoramic, allowing time, and wrestles with the idea of what the Zambian space program Sunshine (2007). Director much more: love, death, science, him to turn his piercing gaze on free will. might have looked like. Danny Boyle’s visually gorgeous, religion and the nature of reality, the familiar aspects of a strange Gravity (2013). Astronauts contemplative drama about a crew all in a warmly cerebral movie that future, encompassing the barely MOVIES (Sandra Bullock and George of astronauts dispatched on a privileges character development conceivable detail by detail, Clooney) try to rescue themselves mission to try to reignite the dying over spectacle. striking vista by sweat-covered Apollo 11 (2019). It is one of the after their space shuttle suff ers sun. Gattaca (1997). Featuring one heroic gambit, and telling us how best documentaries about the space catastrophic damage. Space Cowboys (2000). Senior- of Ethan Hawke’s most underrated it might be possible to regain what programme I’ve ever seen. Released Another Earth (2011). A thought- citizen astronauts (Clint Eastwood, performances and prescient details we could so easily lose in so many in 2019, it consists solely of archival provoking fi lm on second chances James Garner, Donald Sutherland about DNA testing, 1997’s Gattaca heartbreaking ways.” footage — on 70mm no less — of and forgiveness that follows a young and Tommy Lee Jones) prove to is more than just a movie you The Three-Body Problem series the mission’s various stages from and intelligent woman whose one Nasa that age is no barrier when it probably saw in your high-school by Cixin Liu (Tor Books, English launch to touchdown, plus on-the- mistake leads her to deal with the comes to space travel. biology class during senior week. translation of fi rst book published ground video of the folks camped consequences of her choice and Contact (1997). Robert Zemeckis With coolly minimalist design November 2014). President Barack out to see the rocket blaze into the the choices she continues to make is a hit-or-miss director if there and cinematography and Uma Obama called it “just wildly sky. With a subtly thrilling score, afterwards. While the fi lm largely ever was one, but his adaptation Thurman and Jude Law doing the imaginative, really interesting.” masterful editing and no talking ignores the scientifi c and physical of the Carl Sagan novel Contact most in key supporting roles, it’s a Amazon reportedly may spend up heads or hand-holding narration, story of thwarted ambition and the to $1 billion acquiring the rights to it unfolds more like an exciting planetary loneliness of space travel, produce a three-season TV show feature fi lm than a dry historical sibling rivalry and conformity, based on the Hugo Award-winning account, and short of sitting in with old Hollywood-style glamour, series. There’s a reason the fi rst front of a living-room TV on July Patricia Highsmith-esque intrigue, instalment in this trilogy was the 16, 1969, it may be the closest thing and a wonderfully ’90s vision of a fi rst Asian novel ever to win a Hugo we have to a real-time look at the dystopian future. Award. The series, based in China, moon landing. Apollo 13 (1995). In all the chronicles the existential crisis Hidden Figures (2016). A celebration this year over Apollo that grips all of humanity when rousing, inspiring crowd-pleaser, 11’s successful moon landing, we’d it encounters an extraterrestrial this fact-based 2016 Oscar nominee be remiss if we didn’t also mention civilisation bent on taking over shone a light on a trio of heroines: this classic space movie starring Earth. But the alien armada won’t three brilliant black women who Tom Hanks, that immortalised arrive for another 400 years, worked as “computers” in the the words, “Houston, we have a leaving humans plenty of time to early days of the space program, problem” and tells the story of bicker over how best to prepare the a workplace dominated by white Apollo 13’s ill-fated mission to the eventual space battle. men. moon in April 1970. The Expanse series by James The Martian (2015). Whip- The Right Stuff (1984). It S.A. Corey (Orbit, fi rst book smart astronaut played by Matt doesn’t get better than Sam published June 2, 2011). This Damon uses his science-based Shepard as Chuck Yeager — that’s eight-novel series also inspired a skills to save his life on the Red a man’s man. Mr Cool. It’s three TV series. First novel is Leviathan Planet after being accidentally hours long, but so well done. Wakes. My whole family loves stranded there. Outland (1981). A space Western both books and TV shows for Interstellar (2014). A retelling of High Noon with Sean realistic depictions of working and Christopher Nolan masterpiece Connery in the Gary Cooper role. — travelling in space. The summary: featuring Matthew McConaughey, David Miller In a world in which humanity has Anne Hathaway and Jessica Silent Running (1972). About colonised most of the solar system, Chastain as astronauts who travel a post-apocalyptic space station tensions build between Earth, Mars through a wormhole to search for (a fl oating garden in space — like a and the outer planets, and then a home for humanity. It’s weird, biodome) run by the last remaining alien tech comes into the picture. complex and all about relativity. (and injured) crew member (Bruce Stories of Your Life and Others And I loved every second of it. Dern) and his cadre of little robots. by Ted Chiang (Vintage, July 5, Afronauts (2014). True story: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). 2002). Stories of Your Life was In 1964, Zambian science teacher Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece adapted to the big screen as the Edward Makuka launched his own about astronauts imperilled by the movie Arrival, featuring a fearless space programme to try to beat the rogue robot HAL 9000 on a mission Amy Adams as Dr Louise Banks, US to the moon. He formulated a to Jupiter. a linguist charged with fi nding a dubious plan to launch 16-year-old — The Seattle Times/TNS 6 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 17, 2019 COMMUNITY SPACE

BLAST FROM PAST: This 1934 photo shows Chancellor Adolf Hitler (bottom centre) and Wernher von Braun (penultimate row, top centre) in front of the off icers’ casino at the SCIENTIST: German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun pictured with a model rocket. Kummersdorf shooting range. The rocket scientist who helped the US land on moon US astronauts proudly planted a flag on the moon in July 1969, but the achievement would not have been possible without rocket technology developed by German researchers headed by Wernher von Braun – whose work originally served the Nazi regime, writes Christoph Driessen

he moon landing 50 technical director of the Army Himmler’s recruitment eff orts and complained in an interview about the Soviet occupation zone but was years ago was not only a Research Institute at Peenemuende spent a short time in the custody of bad American cuisine. deported in 1946 with about 5,000 triumph for the United on the island of Usedom in northern the Gestapo. In the Texas desert and later in other engineers and their families to States. It was also the Germany. Shortly before the end of the war, Huntsville, Alabama, von Braun the Soviet Union. crowning achievement It was in that job that he led the he brought the most important continued his work so seamlessly The Sputnik project was led, inT the life of the German rocket secret development of the V-2 documents of German rocket that his research centre was however, by Ukrainian-born Sergei scientist Wernher von Braun. rocket, the “magic weapon” that research to safety. That gave him a unoffi cially called Peenemuende Korolev, whose identity was kept Born in 1912, von Braun became Hitler hoped would turn the tide for bargaining chip in his negotiations South. He developed the fi rst secret for life. The Americans knew fascinated with space fl ight by Germany in the fi nal phase of World with the Americans. medium-range nuclear missile as him only as Mister X. When the reading the work of science fi ction War II. Their race against the Soviet part of an armaments project, just as Nobel committee asked to whom it authors, according to a Nasa Von Braun once recalled how Union to claim the spoils of war the Cold War began to dominate the could award a prize to recognise the biography. He even wrote his own Hitler mimicked a rocket blast after – including new technologies geopolitical stage. achievement, Soviet leader Nikita science fi ction story on the moon at he showed him a movie about a developed by the Nazis – had Just like in Nazi Germany, von Khrushchev said it belonged to the age 17, called Lunetta. rocket launch. already begun. Braun cleverly placed his dream Soviet people. For von Braun to realise his dream, The V-2 fl ew at speeds in excess of In a report written in May or of building a super rocket in the The race to the moon became a any means was acceptable. He spent 5,600 kilometres per hour, capable June 1945, von Braun presented the context of the political and military showdown for the two superpowers. his life building rockets. It didn’t of delivering 1 ton of explosives on a Americans with the prospect of a realities of the time, according to his In the US, von Braun developed the really matter for whom. warhead to a target 320 kilometres fl ight to the moon, and they took biographer Johannes Weyer. Saturn V rocket that Nasa used to “Science in itself has no moral away. The weapon was used to the bait. On September 18, 1945, the To gain funding and political reach the moon, landing 50 years dimension,” he once claimed. terrorise London and other targets chief designer of Germany’s dreaded support for his research centre, ago on July 20. He also would have Von Braun would become a in Western Europe in the fi nal stages V2 rocket fl ew to the United States. Braun mounted a public relations liked to build the Apollo capsule in member of the Nazi Party and an SS of the war. He would receive fi rst-class campaign. Eloquent, charming and which the astronauts rode, but that offi cer. As late as 1945, he is pictured In 1943, Nazi rocket production treatment from that point forward. photogenic, he quickly became a job went to the Manned Spacecraft in photos with Adolf Hitler and was relocated to a tunnel system Even when he briefl y returned to celebrity. Center in Houston. other leaders of Nazi Germany. in Thuringia to protect it against Germany for his wedding, he was In 1958, just four months after In the decades following the After that, there is a sudden air raids. Prisoners from the closely guarded by the Americans the Soviet Union shocked the US by moon landing, the US government gap in the historical record. Later Buchenwald concentration camp, over fears that the Soviets could launching Sputnik, he shot the fi rst radically pared down the expensive photos show him standing next to some hand selected by von Braun, kidnap him. American satellite into orbit, helping space programme as public interest US presidents Dwight D Eisenhower, became slave labourers on the Eventually, 115 members of his to restore US national pride. fl agged once the goal of beating the John F Kennedy and cartoonist Walt project. Peenemuende team were brought to Sputnik, coincidentally, was also Soviets to the moon was achieved. Disney. When the defeat of Nazi the US. In the early 60s’, Germans a project carried out by German Von Braun, disappointed with Von Braun was born into Germany became apparent after the occupied all department heads researchers. The group was tied to work in the private sector, died of aristocracy in eastern Prussia. In Normandy invasion in 1944, von at the US rocket research centre. Braun’s former colleague Helmut cancer in 1977 at the age of 65. 1937, at the age of 25, he became Braun resisted SS chief Heinrich Not all of them were grateful. One Groettrup, who initially worked in – DPA Wednesday, July 17, 2019 GULF TIMES 7 COMMUNITY Driving diversity: Breaking sterotypes

First female chauff eur from Nepal talks to Usha Wagle Gautam about her hardships in life and taking people places in Doha

he odds that you would they’re living around.” Chhetri happen to see a female finds her passengers happy to limousine driver in see a woman behind the wheel. Doha are slim. Still, “I think women are much more Qatar is not just any careful drivers than men. The otherT country; women are free percentage of female accidents to do whatever they like. Well, is very low. Children and seniors mostly. And if you commit the alike really like to ride with female error of thinking they could not chauffeurs. Back in Nepal even, drive any better than their male we have very few female cab counterparts, try getting your drivers. Last year I met one, and right of way with a woman in she was quite a bold woman. I was Doha traffic. There are probably proud to see my reflection in her,” as many women as there are she says. men on Doha roads. Women at Drawing parallel between the wheel of public transport female chauffeurs in Nepal and or limousine services are not as Qatar, Chetri says, “It’s a matter many. It is not the norm. So even of security for a woman driver as there are many of them driving in Nepal. However, in Qatar it’s all sorts of vehicles in their private totally different. We feel so secure capacity, from those with little here.” engines to the SUVs, it is still a An independent woman, novelty to find female chauffeurs. Chhetri is an inspiration to Mina Thapa Chhetri, a mother Nepali rural women. She is of nine-year-old, the first female the sole breadwinner of her chauffeur from Nepal in Qatar, is family, including son, husband breaking that stereotype. From and in-laws. “They [family] the modest beginning as a cleaner, live in Chitwan, which is quite Mina has come a long way. She expensive. But my job pays me came to Qatar in 2013 as a school enough,” she tells. cleaner and later after an year and Recently, Chhetri also opened a half went on to learn driving and small shop selling plumbing items acquire a driving licence. After in Chitwan for her home-bound the expiry of her initial contract, husband and in-laws. she managed to join a limousine Chhetri wants to continue company in Qatar, disregarding driving in Qatar. “My plan is to the narrative that women cannot own vehicles in Nepal to ferry be chauffeurs, to support her DISTINCTION: There are probably as many women as there are men on Doha roads but women at the wheel of female passengers.” She feels family. public transport or limousine services are not as many. confident that a driver’s job is Before coming to Doha, Mina more than enough to survive. had worked in Malaysia to help with the bags for a solar company. Talking about family and life “I think women are back home in Nepal, Mina said, “I have a big family. We’re five much more careful sisters and three brothers. I’m the drivers than men. youngest one. But, to support my family, I had to look for a job when The percentage of I was merely thirteen years old. female accidents is I worked as a tourist guide and as an assistant teacher in Nepal very low. Children although I never attended a formal school as a kid.” and seniors alike As she drives her limo in Qatar, really like to she talks about the stereotypes she faces in her daily life. “I ride with female have broken the stereotype with chauffeurs. Back my own patience. I come from a very conservative society but in Nepal even, my family has always been very we have very supportive of whatever I do and go for. They’re my real strength in few female cab what I am today,” she says. drivers. Last year Talking about driving around in Doha, Mina says, “It is difficult I met one, and she to be a driver in a foreign country, was quite a bold at least, psychologically. Many of my passengers don’t believe woman. I was that I am a Nepali. They think I proud to see my am an East Asian, an Indonesia or a Malaysian. I love talking reflection in her” to my passengers when I’m — Mina Chhetri, driving them to destinations. I know Arabic quite well. I want female chauffeur to know more about them, for what they do and the kind of life 8 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 17, 2019 COMMUNITY TRA Return to Cuba: Everything Americans still come, but their clogging of Havana streets and restaurants has subsided. The collective reaction, according to dozens of Cubans, appears to have been a shrug. They are resilient, inventive and practised at pushing through disappointment, writes Kevin Spear

CONTROLLED: For decades, the government has provided free housing, healthcare and subsidised staples. Job placement for everything from tradesmen to professors to professionals is centrally controlled, and a high monthly salary is about $60 a month.

verything and nothing Obama to Trump, Cuba appears Once illegal in Cuba, they are now business in Cuba,” said one. “Why didn’t really happen, which leads to has changed in Cuba from diff erent in many aspects and the fl ourishing. isn’t the United States? You could be the part about Cuba that remains when President Barack same in an essential way. There are dozens of high-end the boss of Cuba.” the same: a grinding frustration Obama made it easier for With Obama’s easing of ‘paladares’ in Havana, where you But the new exuberance in street over the lack of opportunity in a Americans to travel there restrictions gradually taking root, can get a delicious meal for two for talk clings to an old understanding country where literacy and college- Eand President Donald Trump made options for travelling from the US about $60, the same as a doctor’s of confi dentiality. completion rates outpace the US. it harder. to Cuba were still limited in 2015, monthly government pay. And you “CDR” signs hang from building but jobs are scarce and poorly paid. After Obama reopened the US and I got a costly charter out of can get fresh, organic produce, once facades everywhere, signalling a Four years ago, a lot of people Embassy in 2015, a lot of American Tampa, Fla, with a lot of paperwork. unheard of in a country that imports representative of the Committees spoke of their distress from the US tourists fl ooded to Cuba but were For my visit last month, a couple of most of its food. for the Defense of the Revolution embargo on trade. More recently, one-and-done, seeing the island as days after Trump tightened travel Some ‘casa particular’ lives there. These block captains the embargo was rarely mentioned. the long-forbidden curiosity and restrictions, the 59-minute JetBlue accommodations, rooms for rent, are known as something between a Their focus is internal, on what not a recurring vacation. Then, last hop with express beverage service are like boutique hotels, tranquil and busybody and a government spy. Cubans need to do. month, Trump nullifi ed signifi cant from Orlando, Fla, to Jose Marti alluring with local art. Those places Their job must be more That Havana entrepreneur, saying permissions that had allowed US International Airport was paid for might charge 40 CUCs a night. challenging now. Cell service has the government will never change citizens to experience a nation with points. Others cost 15 CUCs and are often arrived in a big way since 2015. So, for the better on its own accord, minutes south of Florida. Four years ago at Jose Marti noisy, Havana’s nightly symphony too, have Internet connections at suggested only the collapse of the Americans still come, but their airport, I was cornered by unsmiling of babies, televisions, dogs, car plazas and parks, where people sit Venezuelan government and the end clogging of Havana streets and and relentless Cuban security horns, conversations and slammed with their phones and laptops for of its oil for Cuba will bring the civil restaurants has subsided. The personnel and closely questioned. doors riffl es easily through porous long stays. Internet-access cards unrest that will trigger what Obama collective reaction, according to This time, Jose Marti’s previous buildings, and not so plush. cost a few CUCs for a few hours. failed to provoke: el cambio. dozens of Cubans, appears to have tension was gone. There was little Four years ago, Cubans spoke Bandwidth is decent. There were other entrepreneurs been a shrug. They are resilient, sign of police. That was because of cautiously of their government’s A lingering image from four who nodded their respect to Trump inventive and practised at pushing the surge of Americans that Cubans repressions, mixing metaphors, years ago was the Malecon sea wall for a ‘mano dura,’ or hard hand. through disappointment. got used to, many people told me. questions and third-person at the city’s edge, facing Miami. But they were a small minority. An auto-repair businessman In 2015, changing dollars for declarations so that it was As twilight dissolved to darkness, Obama is still widely embraced said the end of the Obama era and Cuban Convertible Pesos, or CUCs, impossible to say if they were guilty a community sat and chatted, and ‘Trump crazy’ is often one of its American tourism money is anywhere but at a government of being critical. Maybe with the enjoying breezes off the Straits of the fi rst things Cubans say within “diffi cult at fi rst but better in the currency exchange felt treacherous. passing of Fidel Castro, he died in Florida. seconds of realising they are meeting end” because its fl ow of cash had This time, seemingly, everybody 2016 at age 90 and the ubiquitous A lingering image last month at an American. As many US citizens enabled the Cuban government and gladly calculated the dollars- billboards with his portrait and the Malecon was the soft glow of found in the four years between needed to stop. to-CUCs math: in hotels, taxis, slogans have since been taken down, faces, illuminated by phone screens. the presidents, the US and Cuba But many yearn not for political restaurants and hole-in-the-wall there is more openness. In 2015, as Obama eased are familiar neighbours and worlds upheaval but opportunity, including art galleries tucked into Havana’s Cubans, particularly artists in restrictions for Americans travelling apart. the kind that the American invasion crumbling streets. The infl ux storefront cubbyholes that seem to to Cuba, there was a palpable “Enjoy my country but just don’t had promised. “I don’t want to of Americans created a boom in be everywhere, now readily share excitement for ‘el cambio,’ the try to understand it.” That advice change the whole revolution,” said a restaurants and rooms-for-rent their views with American strangers. change. came at a junk-yard art gallery, taxi driver. “Just a few things.” From operated out of private homes. “A lot of other countries are doing But the anticipated big change while the artist held court and Wednesday, July 17, 2019 GULF TIMES 9 AVEL COMMUNITY g and nothing has changed

CHANGE: Four years ago, Cubans spoke cautiously of their government’s repressions, mixing metaphors, questions and third-person declarations so SHARING VIEWS: Cubans, particularly artists in storefront cubbyholes that seem to be everywhere, now readily share that it was impossible to say if they were guilty of being critical. Maybe with the their views with American strangers. passing of Fidel Castro there is more openness.

ARCHITECTURE: Havana combines colonial architecture in a dizzying flux of LESS STRESS: Previous tensions at Havana’s airport have lessened significantly in recent years. disintegration and reconstruction.

Santeria-infused music and dance and a high monthly salary is about swirled outside. $60 a month. Cuba is diffi cult to understand. That has left Cubans healthy, Havana combines colonial informed and hungry for meaningful architecture in a dizzying fl ux of pursuits. They typically enjoy disintegration and reconstruction, talking to Americans, often because Russian, Chinese and Venezuela they have a mother in Houston, or infl uences, infusions of global have visited Miami, or have some tourism and continued constrictions other visceral bond with the US. of a communist government. During the Obama Thanks to the embargo, Havana administration, Americans thronged mirrors the 1950s, with American to Cuba under the Treasury cars fl amboyantly plying island Department’s “people-to-people” roads. Their skins declare classic permission aimed at cultural Detroit but conceal a puzzle of engagement. Trump eliminated that transplanted engines, transmissions option and shut down popular travel and brakes that are new, antique, via cruise ships. international and handmade. Permissions that remain include By outward appearance, much of visits for family, government the city comes across as a dangerous business, journalism, professional, ghetto. Wrong. It’s a police state religious, educational and where guns are outlawed. Streets humanitarian matters. are safe. And while the exteriors of Another is “support of the Cuban many buildings are in a shocking people,” or engaging “in a full-time state of exotically gorgeous schedule of activities that enhance deterioration, inside they are contact with the Cuban people.” scrupulously clean and tidy. It feels often like there is a kinship “That is the Cuban way,” a of one or two degrees of separation businessman said, chuckling, of between Floridians and Cubans, via the nation’s devotion to domestic the lawyers, stylists, pharmacists, cleanliness. “I don’t know why.” teachers, police and others who But there is a recurring theme. are our friends and neighbours in For decades, the government Florida and came from Cuba. has provided free housing, But on the island of Cuba, Cubans healthcare and subsidised staples. are blessed and burdened in ways Job placement for everything that would be unimaginable to most from tradesmen to professors to Americans. COMMUTE:American cars flamboyantly ply Cuba roads. Their skins declare classic Detroit but conceal a puzzle of professionals is centrally controlled, – Orlando Sentinel/TNS transplanted engines, transmissions and brakes that are new, antique, international and handmade. 10 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 17, 2019 COMMUNITY PHOTO ESSAY

Doha — Brightly lit at night

Amidst the tall structures that stand there as an ant. Hair fl ying in the air, wind on your face, such a gorgeous view. The joy of seeing changing colours of the building in the night is spectacular. The glass and mirror on the building dazzle at night in the refl ecting light. The whole view is so colourful, fi lled with hues of orange and red. The adjacent water body refl ects the skyscrapers, increasing its grandeur to another level. Just seeing it is not enough, you would want to freeze the moment. So I have captured it through my lens in a way that everybody can experience it. — Text by Keerthana Kandarajam, photos by Santhiya Kandaraja (santhiya.09) Wednesday, July 17, 2019 GULF TIMES 11 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE COMMUNITY Petting dogs, cats may reduce stress in college students

ollege is stressful. quietly for 10 minutes without their Students have classes, phones, reading materials or other exams and so many stimuli, but were told they would other pressures common experience animal interaction soon. in modern life and For the fi ndings, several salivary Cnow researchers have found that cortisol samples were collected petting dogs and cats can improve from each participant, starting in students’ mood with stress- the morning when they woke up. relieving physiological benefi ts, a Once all the data was crunched study shows. from the various samples, the According to the study published students who interacted directly in the journal AERA Open, many with the pets showed signifi cantly universities have instituted “Pet less cortisol in their saliva after the Your Stress Away” programmes, interaction. where students can come in and These results were found even interact with cats and dogs. while considering that some “Just 10 minutes can have a students may have had very high or signifi cant impact,” students in our low levels to begin with. study that interacted with cats and “What we wanted to learn was dogs had a signifi cant reduction in whether this exposure would help cortisol, a major stress hormone,” students reduce their stress in a less said Patricia Pendry, Associate subjective way. And it did, which Professor at Washington State small groups with cats and dogs for exposures to animals, the second same animals available during is exciting because the reduction University. The study involved 249 10 minutes. They could pet, play group observed other people the intervention, while the fourth of stress hormones may, over college students randomly divided with and generally hang out with petting animals while they waited group was “waitlisted”. time, have signifi cant benefi ts for into four groups. The fi rst group the animals as they wanted. in line for their turn. The third According to the researchers, physical and mental health,” Pendry received hands-on interaction in To compare eff ects of diff erent group watched a slideshow of the those students waited for their turn said. – IANS

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI March 21 — April 19 April 20 — May 20 May 21 — June 20

You may be shy when it comes to expressing your emotions today, You may not know which way to turn, Taurus. You may be Your mind may be going in many diff erent directions, with fantastic Aries. This could be a rare thing for you. Other people may wonder if emotionally weighed down by sentimental feelings and memories ideas about how things should be done, Gemini. The diff iculty is something is wrong. The truth is, you may feel like you need to calm that bind you to the past. You may also feel restricted by authority communicating these ideas in a way that makes sense. Others may down and focus more of your attention inward instead of directing figures who’ve been around the block more times than you, and see you as a threat to their authority. Perhaps they feel your ideas it outward. Don’t look to others to resolve your problems. Deal with therefore feel they have the right to tell you how to run your life. Try would undermine their plans, so they reject them. Don’t give up. them yourself. You’re just going through an introspective period. not to let your thoughts get tied up in either of these scenarios. Fight for your right to be heard and respected. CANCER LEO VIRGO June 21 — July 22 July 23 — August 22 August 23 — September 22

In a philosophical or political conversation, you don’t hesitate to You should be in a good mood, Leo, although you might have a hard You may get the feeling that despite all the hard work you’ve off er your thoughts, Cancer. Your examples may be extreme, but time fully expressing yourself. Perhaps you feel like there is someone accomplished, something is still missing, Virgo. There’s still a long your principles are sound. You may get in over your head before keeping an eye on your every move. You may feel like a kid in class road ahead, regardless of the goals you’ve attained so far. Perhaps you know it and suddenly need an escape route. Your first reaction being watched by the teacher. Don’t be intimidated by those with a the thing you’re searching for is a tender moment with a loved one, may be to change the subject. It’s better to admit you don’t know the self-righteous air. You have just as much right to speak your mind as something that’s much closer than you think. Stop searching far and answer or don’t understand the question. anyone else. wide for the thing that’s right under your nose. LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS September 23 — October 22 October 23 — November 21 November 22 — December 21

Freedom may be a theme for you today, Libra. You’re beginning to You’re the liquid that takes the shape of its container, Scorpio. Even You may feel like a puppy that has been let outside for the first time, question what it is you’re trying to free yourself from. A person? Job? though this may seem like the most non-confrontational way to do Sagittarius. The air is warm and you’re full of energy. You’re ready to Commitment? These may be the very things you start to search for things, you may find that it’s actually a cause of great frustration for run over the fields and hills. Unfortunately, you’re tied to a stake and as soon as you’re free of them. Trying to figure out what you want you and others. People may be annoyed that you’re always following you can’t move beyond a ten-foot radius. Your heart is ready to fly, and need in life is sometimes easier said than done. Don’t get stuck someone else’s lead instead of taking the initiative. Try to be more but something beyond your control keeps you where you are. Start on one concept. Do your best to take things gradually. assertive while continuing to be easygoing. chewing the rope. CAPRICORN AQUARIUS PISCES December 22 — January 19 January 20 — February 18 February 19 — March 20

You may feel a strange tension. It seems that nothing you say or do It may be hard for you to maintain your self-discipline, Aquarius. If you’re unclear about the topic of discussion, say so, Pisces. Asking is quite right, Capricorn. As much as you may try to do the correct Your childlike nature wants to go out and play. Emotionally, you’re questions is an important part of learning. You shouldn’t be afraid thing, you can’t make things click the way you’d like. Try not to raise anxious to let loose and follow your playful, instinctual nature, yet to ask. Communication may take on a serious tone, and intellectual your expectations too high. Let go of the idea that things are going your sense of responsibility is holding you back. This diff icult internal discussions are likely to get heated. Bring up political topics at the to work out exactly the way you want. You may not even know tension may be the cause of irritation in many diff erent areas of your dinner table and give everyone a chance to speak on the matter. Don’t what’s best for you in the end. life. Do your best to come to a place of balance and harmony. try to change the subject in order to avoid the conversation. 12 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 17, 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. Wednesday, July 17, 2019 GULF TIMES 13 PUZZLES COMMUNITY

Super Cryptic Clues Colouring

Across Down 1 Monk’s garb is hot to some 1 Firm with nothing in stock (5) extent (5) 2 Gamblers associated with 4 Old rulers of Iran unaffected elders? (7) by revolution? (5) 3 Rent provided by tenant or 7 Organisms present in dressed neighbour (4) crab I ate? (8) 4 European coming from Paris 8 Spoil English horse (4) and needing translation (8) 9 Eddy, possibly, changed 5 Injured leader departs, colour (4) carrying a weapon (5) 10 Offering to pay for the lot? 6 Elastic band held by agent (7) (7) 11 Cook tangy pie- like 12 Sergeant may revert to mummy? (8) former state (4,7) 12 Journalist provided with cool 14 Drooping duck by Italian building (7) river - or African river (7) 13 One who flies from Swansea 16 Seaside attraction or via Torquay (7) something to eat by river (4) 15 Greek god on the Spanish 19 Helsinki resident, perhaps, jury (5) fine in north (4) 17 Composer left after dance 20 I can’t stir, I’ve become idle party (5) (8) 18 Naked animal we hear (4) 21 A girl not entirely repellent (5) 22 Loner forced to register (5) Answers Yesterday’s Solution Wordsearch Codeword 14 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 17, 2019 COMMUNITY SHOWBIZ Fashion moments at LSA2019

ux Style Awards are known for nothing Glitz safe or crowd-pleasing fashions. As Pakistan & entertainment industry Glam cameL together to celebrate one of Pakistan’s most cogitated By Muhammad Asad Ullah statuettes, as a matter of fact, the award that specifi cally defi ned what fashion and style is for Pakistan, we spotted some head-turner like every time he does. We loved appearances on the red carpet. the Ismail Farid outfi t – especially Nothing too conventional, but the jacket, and the understated look we got to see the stars to play it he pulled off ! He’s the dapper guy chic not safe by any means. Risks of the industry! Voila. yielded the event’s big wins this time. A series of show-stopping Sana Javed golden metallic gowns embellished Purple is the colour of luxury and to the hilt, the deployment of while passion, of princely robes and papal couture and a man who left the vestments, dazzling gems and fl orid standard tux behind twinning with prose. And now it’s the reigning his long-time beau and fi ancé; colour of the season, Sana Javed the red carpet was fi lled with proved this to us in an off -shoulder plenty of encore worthy looks, San Safi naz gown that had just a a pinnacle of iconic style. Badly perfect length of taff eta tail with it. structured silhouettes, too blingy Utterly glamorous and a colour that couture lines, awkward poses and suited the entire cheeky personality dodgy hairdos are often part of the of Sana herself. When it comes to narrative, but with sprinkling A-list fashion, you see, it’s something of a stylists, designers and makeup shrinking violet. artists working strenuously behind the scenes, every attendee pulls out all the stops when it comes to their red carpet looks. However where we had some extra ordinary glamorous silhouettes hitting the red carpet of LSA2019, we had equal misses. From Mahira Khan to Maya Ali, Iqra Aziz to Sana Javed, the stars transformed the vulnerable venue into a father-and fl ounce-fi lled Mahira Khan Maya Ali fantasia that was embellished for all the right reasons – each doing their best to step up to the grand occasion. Fluttery ruffl es, crystals aplenty and vintage gathered strapless gown, there are plenty of looks that broke the mould for awards season style. The fashion desk curates the hottest red carpet looks that made the cut this year.

Mahira Khan Thus far this season, there has been an about-turn in atmosphere on the runways: the protective layers have been shed and, beneath them lies a sheer abundance of glitter and gold, and we believe the power shoulders and golden revolution is just never enough. Beautiful, semi-sheer, strappy, body-skimming gown with gold embellishments made of lace, Sadaf Kanwal sequins, beads and crystals; a gold Not only did she win Model of leaf-inspired look — a dress by the Year at the LSAs, but she also Maison Yeya, is exactly what we won hearts with her neon yellow would’ve wanted to see Mahira Sana Safi naz dress! Kanwal styled Khan in. Her freshly trimmed hair neon like La’Shaunae, Rihanna, in layers, nothing too extravagant, and Kendall Jenner. It was all about paired with golden stilettos just tempering the day-glo hue with a caterwauled how a red carpet dark neutral colour, creating the is done! And who would know perfect contrast. The black bow and better than Mahira ehh? A look the peeking leg was supreme. Sana that shined quite literally, just like Safi naz have lately been venturing the Lux statue itself. Mon Cheri, Sana Javed Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui into clothes that does not defi ne Carina! their retail but are fashion forward – looks more statement than staple. with white hand-embroidered Gatsby fi gure, but shed just a bit of and where neon can be imposing Maya Ali Maya Ali set the tone with Nomi tulle. that mythic, stalwart exterior and on the eye and your pre-existing Wicked pretty! Nothing says Ansari’s exuberant, multi-tiered have a little fun with the details. wardrobe. this was just the perfect classic award night like a white dress that demanded to be paraded Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui Two words: Bow Tie. You can never highlighter piece – like an ode to dress, but this season’s crop – round town. Nomi’s white hand- The theme of the day: romantic, go wrong with a classic bowtie 80’s, the perfect balance between cascading with extravagant frills embroidered tulle ruffl ed bustier bohemian, and utterly casual. Cut a ensemble and Sheheryar proved it, neon and subtlety. Wednesday, July 17, 2019 GULF TIMES 15 SHOWBIZ COMMUNITY

Acting lets you forget who you are: Sara somebody else’s character, and that becomes you,” she added. Actress Sara Ali Khan, who wooed fans with her “This way, profession allows us to live so many lives radiating presence in the films Kedarnath and Simmba and have so many experiences that we wouldn’t have last year, says she wants to do “everything” on screen. been able to do on our own. Whether it was Kedarnath or “(I would like to do ) everything! People say that and Simmba, acting enabled me to feel and do things I don’t sometimes they don’t know what they are asking for but feel or do on a daily basis. Some of these experiences and I think, having shot Kedarnath and Simmba, and having emotions remain etched in our hearts forever,” she said. experienced the different opportunities and demands Sara also reminisced shooting for her debut film these films came with, I know I love them both equally. Kedarnath, which will have its small screen premiere on I would love to work on a period film with Sanjay Leela &pictures soon. Bhansali, I would love to do an urban relatable film, “In Kedarnath, the character was written so romantic comedies, commercial masala movies – beautifully and it was wonderfully nuanced. There are perhaps even try action and thriller,” Sara said. some projects you just want to be part of instantly, After doing two films, she will be seen in the sequel of and after hearing this narration I couldn’t imagine not Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal. playing Mukku. Sharing her Bollywood experience so far, Sara, “For a debutant who hasn’t trained in acting, daughter of actors Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh, said conviction in a script and the curiosity and excitement acting “enabled me to feel and do things that I don’t feel to essay a character is most important, since that’s or do on a daily basis”. the clutch that enables you to perform. I am thankful “The most exciting is that you forget who you are, to (Kedarnath writer) Kanika Dhillon for writing this between action and cut. You attempt to do justice to character that will always stay dear to me,” she said. – CHANGE: Sara Ali Khan says acting has enabled her to feel and somebody else’s life and somebody else’s story and IANS do things that she does not feel or do on a daily basis. Voicing Lion King hyena no laughing matter for Key

to be quite diff erent. In Toy Story 4, By Rick Bentley he and Peele were in two recording booths that faced each other. Being close enough to see Peele’s eyes eegan-Michael Key is made the recording sessions feel living the acting dream more like the days when the pair by being part of two were working together on their major movies hitting sketch-comedy show. theatres only weeks The Lion King director Jon Kapart. Favreau went for a diff erent He’s not only a part of the much- approach having Key and Eric loved Toy Story franchise with the Andre, who speaks for the hyena recently released Toy Story 4, but Azizi, work in a room that felt Key will be going head-to-head more like they were working on a with himself in theatres on Friday stage production. The pair were when the live-action version of The fi tted with microphones so they Lion King is released. In Toy Story could move around the room while 4, Key’s the voice of the not-so- delivering their lines. lovable stuff ed toy Ducky, while “Jon sat at a small table with a in The Lion King he speaks for the bottle of water and he would just hyena Kamari. watch us,” Key says. “He would “It feels satisfying. You can ask tell us to start from the beginning, any journeyman actor, someone invade his space, we are fi nding who works their whole career, something here. It was extremely sometimes you are doing it for the organic. love and sometimes you are just “Sometimes he would not be doing it for the money,” Key says. getting the line read that he wanted “But, you hit pinnacles and right and Jon would then act with us. If now is a pinnacle moment for me. you have seen the movie Made, with “It is a watershed moment him and Vincent Vaughn, it’s that for me in my career to have been dynamic. I’m him and Eric Andre is asked to what is ostensibly an Vince Vaughn.” American tradition – two American Key got to show off his traditions. When you can say two BLESSED: Keegan-Michael Key speaks for the hyena Kamari The Lion King. improvisational skills as in the words like Toy Story, Lion King, and early recording sessions. Favreau it evokes something in people, you would allow the actors to come are doing something special. I feel University. He credits his study of Key’s well known for his that style of working has a much up with their own material to go blessed.” 17th century restoration theatre for voice work, but he has an more organic feel than he needed with what was in the script. With The two big voice work jobs are his skill behind a microphone. equally impressive list of jobs to be able to do voice work. But the each session, the process got just the latest recording work for “That is a very archaic style where he’s performed sketch experience he gained by having to more refi ned until the hyenas had the Michigan native. His long list and a little baroque,” Key says. “In and improvisational comedy modulate his voice to play so many their voices. The freedom Key felt of credits with animated projects classical theatre, especially when from MADtv to Whose Live is it diff erent characters was an element when recording came from having include SuperMansion, American you are reading prose, there’s lots Anyway? and Key And Peele, where that helped him, especially in Toy a director like Favreau, who has Dad!, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer of syntax you have to try to manage he worked with his Toy Story 4 Story 4. worked on both sides of the camera. Vacation, The Star and Bob’s in specifi c parentheticals. It’s being recording buddy Jordan Peele, Both Toy Story and The Lion He says working with Favreau was Burgers. able to run into the parentheticals, who is the voice of Bunny in the King required Key to go in and out getting the opportunity to work The ability to handle voice work hit the semicolon, back up, small Pixar production. Key found over of recording studios for years. He from “a fellow soldier” who knew goes back to the training Key got pause to the period. That’s where the 16 years he did nothing but found the experiences of getting what it was like to work in the while attending Pennsylvania State the voice work training came from.” improvisational and sketch comedy his lines recorded for the projects acting trenches. – TNS 16 GULF TIMES Wednesday, July 17, 2019 COMMUNITY Young Sri Lankan expat campaigns for climate change in Qatar

ACTIVIST: A graduate in IT and business, Intiqab Rawoof started volunteering for different activities related to climate change at a young age.

He has actively been involved in force]. We as a group of young as well. I got Earth Lanka photography competition By Mudassir Raja raising awareness about climate volunteers used to take part in registered in Qatar as media group highlighting different climate change and its possible adverse different environment related highlighting different issues related issues in Qatar. We also effects in Qatar and around the activities in Sri Lanka. We became related to environment. collaborated with different radual degradation of world. The climate campaigner a very big group on climate change “I have also been taking part in schools and engaged young the environment is has been collaborating with other volunteers.” Conference of the Parties (COP) children in the campaigns to perhaps the only issue individuals, groups, organisations He added: “As my interest grew – UN climate change conferences. raise awareness. It was a kind of that threatens the and embassies and organising in volunteering for the climate My interaction with the UN has community event. planet earth and every different awareness campaigns change, I got involved with Earth enabled me to travel around the “Last year, we again arranged individualG needs to be responsible and exhibitions in Qatar to Lanka, an independent, non- world. I have been to as many as a photography competition and to mitigate its adverse effects. make people aware of their governmental and non-profit 44 countries so far. I also have an exhibition at Katara themed To have a cleaner environment responsibilities towards a better organisation. The group provides a passion to travel as travelling as ‘Green City’. The contributors is a global issue and it needs environment. news related to environment. teaches you a lot. It has helped me highlighted beautiful green places global attention. Every bit of Community recently spoke with They have journalists in different understand the climate change in Qatar. This year we also plan to effort to take action and raise Intiqab and discussed his efforts countries working as volunteers better and campaign for the cause have the second round of the same awareness about the issue is and viewpoints about climate – not paid. I got involved with more effectively.” exhibition.” worth noticing. change. the group and started writing for Nowadays, Intiqab has been The enthusiastic climate When it comes to raising A graduate in IT and business, Earth Lanka. This led me to the focusing on contributing towards campaigner believes that every awareness and taking initiatives Intiqab started volunteering for UN. I started attending different improving the climate issue more individual has the responsibility towards improving the different activities related to climate change conferences and than participating in different to improve the environment. environment, Qatar is not behind climate change at a young age. workshops in different countries.” conferences. “The whole world has to act. the rest of the world. There are “When I was in my high school in It was in 2013 that Intiqab “Two years ago in Qatar, we To make the world sustainable numerous organisations, groups Sri Lanka, I was always attracted moved to Qatar. started a campaign called My we need to think and act for the and individuals who have been towards the news about causes He runs his own company Climate Action in Qatar. We future we want. It is not about involved in all sorts of activities – and effects of global warming. providing IT solutions. “After as the group partner with the a certain country, it is about from raising awareness to cleaning I got involved with the United moving to Qatar, I started country that hosts international everyone. Simple, we need to beaches. Nations’ volunteers programme in looking for ways to play my role conferences on climate change. reduce use of plastic items in our Intiqab Rawoof, a young Sri Sri Lanka. as a volunteer for climate. I got We have so far partnered with daily activities. Every human Lankan expatriate, has been I became the group leader of a involved in different groups and German and Polish embassies being on the face of the earth has a living in Qatar for over five years. group called V Force [volunteer met the concerned authorities in Qatar. We organised a duty to improve the climate.”