November 21, 2017

TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2017 TECHNOLOGY | 7 ENTERTAINMENT | 12 Must-haves for Box office: ‘Justice those who value League’ takes top data privacy spot with $96m P 4-5 KNOW YOUR COFFEE Have you ever thought of the different coffee beans in your coffee cup? What is their origin and what processes do they go through before ending up in your favourite latte? TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2017 COMMUNITY / CAMPUS 03 Mövenpick Hotel Doha turns 16 s one of the first business hotels in Qatar, ŭƔU°¢ƔĎã°Ɣ°Ìã¢¿ƔãÌƔÌÖ¢ÆƔ²ÆƔÌ°ůƔÅ½²Æ¬Ɣ²ãƔƔ Mövenpick Hotel Doha has made every real Qatari landmark Aeffort to offer the warmest hospitality and ŭƔd¢¿ÌÅ¢Ɣ¿ÅÌÝãƔÌÆ¢ƔÅ²¿¿²ÌÆƔ¬è¢ÝãÝ the best accommodation experiences for the past To commemorate the anniversary, the 16 years. Mövenpick Hotel Doha team gathered for a For this reason, the hotel has kept its repu- reception on this special occasion. Amongst the tation as one of the cosiest hotels in the city, guests were media representatives, bloggers and preferred by both business travellers and key business partners. families. Mövenpick Hotel Doha’s General Manager, Amongst the hotel’s main achievements are: Sami Aawar said, “The celebration of our 16th ŭƔU°¢Ɣ«²ÙÝãƔ°Ìã¢¿ƔãÌƔÌÖ¢Ùã¢ƔèÆ¢ÙƔã°¢Ɣ8Ïñ¢Æ- year overlaps with drastic product enhance- pick brand in the Gulf region ments as the hotel prepares for a soft ŭƔU°¢Ɣ«²ÙÝãƔ°Ìã¢¿ƔãÌƔ°ñ¢Ɣ²ãÝƔÌòÆƔ8Ïñ¢ÆÖ²½Ɣ refurbishment in 2018, mainly in its public areas products and a part of the rooms. As a result, our prod- ŭƔU°¢Ɣ«²ÙÝãƔ°Ìã¢¿ƔãÌƔÌÙ¬Æ²Ý¢Ɣ½²ÝƒƔÌÌ½²Æ¬Ɣ uct will become more attractive to take on new classes and celebrate kids’ Christmas in Doha challenges and stay abreast with the ever- ŭƔU°¢Ɣ«²ÙÝãƔ°Ìã¢¿ƔãÌƔ²ÆãÙÌè¢Ɣã°¢Å¢ƔÆ²¬°ãÝƔ °Æ¬²Æ¬Ɣ°ÌÝÖ²ã¿²ãøƔÅÙ½¢ãŶƔd¢Ɣ¿ÌÌ½Ɣ«ÌÙòÙƔ in Doha to many more successful years ahead and thank ŭƔ ¢ÝãƔ ÌÅÖ¿²Å¢ÆãÙøƔ ¢ÝÝ¢ÙãƔ èÙ²Æ¬Ɣ ²ãÝƔ all of you for being a part of the Mövenpick famous Chocolate Hour Hotel Doha family.” AccorHotels’ golden anniversary celebrated ercure Hotel Doha celebrated the 50th Anniver- sary of the group company AccorHotels on M9Ìñ¢Å¢ÙƔĊĒŶƔU°¢Ɣã°¢Å¢ƔÌ«Ɣã°¢Ɣ¢ñ¢ÆãƔŴd¢¿ÌÅ¢- Heroes opened its doors to everyday heroes like civil defence personnel, medical staff, municipality staff, teach- ers and others who have been serving the community on daily basis. The event was graced by Ambassador of France, H E Eric Chevallier, who was welcomed by the General Manager of the hotel Mr Sebastien Vincent. Sebastien gave a brief about the group on how two friends, Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson, opened their first Novotel In 1967, the company had grown to more than 4,200 hotels worldwide, in different brands and in 95 countries, with a team of more than 250,000 dedicated staff with a purpose and heartfelt mission: to make every guest ¢¢¿Ɣd¢¿ÌÅ¢Ŷ Rajagiri Football team scores in School Olympic Committee tournament ajagiri Public School Football Team played two matches in the Level II Rselection round of School Olympic Committee tournament and has quali- fied to play in the second round based on the goals they scored in the selection round. The team scored 5 goals in total. The School Principal congratulated Fazal, the school coach, and the team members. 04 COVER STORY TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Noor Abdulla Jassmi up in your favourite latte? a student graduates from univer- through of a process of grading To start off, many coffee shops sity, a new coffee tree bears fruit. and sorting the beans according efore university, I didn’t claim that their coffee is ‘carefully But what happens after the tree to size and weight. Now all of that know much about cof- picked’ or that they ‘traveled the bears fruit? Usually, for high-qual- just to get the green coffee beans fee, nor did I need it world in search of the perfect cof- ity coffees, a harvester would go that are yet to be roasted. Now anyway being the fee beans and roasters.’ But what around and selectively pick the imagine if you had to do that all hyper teenager I was. does that mean? And how do we ripe cherries by hand. alone to get a cup of coffee and BThe more I went through my edu- go from a coffee cherry to a brew? Of course, for such a selective we didn’t have laborers working cation, the more I needed coffee First, coffee trees require wet picking method, to produce high- on it, would coffee still be as pop- to help me stay alert in my morn- or tropical climates for them to quality coffee beans comes the ular as it is? ing classes. It didn’t hit me until in grow which are mostly in coun- cost of hiring intense-labour Keeping all of this in mind, one of my lectures, I learned about tries like Colombia, Brazil, and workers which would then be paid some coffee harvesters do not get fair-trade, a term which many of Ethiopia. Such coffee-producing depending on the weight they har- paid enough for the hard work us probably heard of but never countries are mainly known as vested. So, every single they are doing. Which is why some researched or looked into deeply. developing countries which mean high-quality coffee bean you saw activists in the past fought for fair Almost every few months, that they “have a standard of liv- has been hand-picked by a per- trade coffee to be used by big cof- we hear about a new coffee ing or level of industrial son from a developing country so fee companies. shop opening, most of which production well below that pos- that they could gain a living. So what is fair trade coffee and have “specialty coffee” in their sible with financial or technical The process doesn’t stop here. how is it different from direct title. So, by having a lot of cof- aid.” The coffee cherries then go trade coffee? fee shops starting up in the According to the National Cof- through a series of operations Fairtrade coffee, as the name sug- country, have you ever thought fee Association, “Depending on the from drying and dropping the gests, means that it has been of the different coffee beans in variety, it will take approximately moisture content by 11 percent. produced under decent conditions your coffee cup? What is their 3 to 4 years for the newly planted Then, removing the entire dried where the workers or the harvesters origin and what processes do coffee trees to bear fruit.” Now husk of the dried cherries are being paid fairly under the they go through before ending think about it this way, every time which then go right circumstances. How fair is your favourite coffee? TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2017 COVER STORY 05 Fair-trade coffee is more expensive than regular coffee because in most cases, coffee producers do not put into account the wage they have to pay the harvester. A shot of espresso contains about 80 coffee beans which means that a harvester hand-picked 80 coffee cherries for this shot. So, by having fair-trade coffee, you are not only enjoying a good cup of coffee but most importantly, a fair cup of coffee where a happy worker is gaining their living for the hard work done. Most of the recent and successful coffee shops in Qatar have specialty coffee which means that the whole process of harvesting and roasting the beans has been done with extra care. Which in turn means that it has a higher price point because of the extra time and effort put into it. However, buying methods still differ in terms of how much the farmer is making in the end of the day. Specialty coffee pay premium prices for the sake of higher quality and sustainability. Interestingly enough, most coffee shops are trans- parent about the origin of the coffee beans as well as the brand and from where did they get them. So, by searching for the name, you can know under what conditions the beans have been produced. They key in helping coffee farmers live a happier life with fair-trade could be easily done by raising awareness about such a simple adjust- ment which makes a more significant difference. The writer is a Journalism senior at Northwestern University in Qatar. 06 LIFESTYLE TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2017 The Washington Post n the mid-1990s, manicurist Ber- nadette Thompson was working Ion a fashion shoot with Lil’ Kim, who was then on her way to becoming a hip-hop fashion icon and still years away from becoming a jail- bird. It wasn’t the first time she’d worked with the influential rapper, so Thompson was feeling a bit of self-imposed pressure to come up with something new and jaw-dropping - something creative enough to compete with the make-up, the hair and all the rest. The shoot was for a denim cam- paign, but Kim was also surfing a wave of enthusiasm for her contri- bution to the Junior M.A.F.I.A. single “Get Money.” That became the manicurist’s source of inspiration. She reached into her little nylon wallet, pulled out a dollar bill, cut it into pieces and strategically applied bits of currency to Kim’s acrylic nails to Lil’ Kim’s ‘money’ manicure create an eye-popping manicure by way of the US Treasury.

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