12 Established 1961 Lifestyle Features Thursday, December 3, 2020 he Oscar-nominated star of “Juno” sleeper hit “Juno.” The actor also entertainment industry and beyond. “The discrimination protections for transgender has come out as transgender, intro- appeared in the 2010 science fiction hit truth is, despite feeling profoundly happy people in the health care system, and Tducing himself as Elliot Page on “Inception” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, right now... I’m scared of the invasive- also banned transgender Americans from Tuesday in social media posts that voiced and the 2012 Woody Allen comedy “To ness, the hate, the ‘jokes’ and of vio- serving in the military. joy at sharing the news-but also fear over Rome with Love.” Page came out as gay lence,” wrote Page. Page also railed Harry Potter author JK Rowling has a possible backlash. In a landmark move in 2014, quickly become a flagbearer for against politicians who “criminalize trans been at the center of a firestorm in recent for a top Hollywood actor, the performer Hollywood’s LGBTQ community, and mar- health care and deny our right to exist,” as years over comments deemed insulting to formerly known as Ellen Page thanked ried dancer Emma Portner in 2018. While well as influential public figures who use transgender people. Rowling sparked supporters in the trans community for largely absent from big-budget Hollywood “a massive platform who continue to spew controversy in June for tweeting about the helping him on his journey to “finally love blockbusters since 2014’s “X-Men: Days hostility towards the trans community.” use of the phrase “people who menstru- who I am enough to pursue my authentic of Future Past,” Page has repeatedly “You have blood on your hands. You ate” instead of women-prompting some self.” “I love that I am trans. And I love that In this file photo Director/actor formerly shrugged off suggestions of being type- unleash a fury of vile and demeaning rage former fans and activists to call for a boy- I am queer,” wrote the Canadian-born known as Ellen Page attends the premiere cast or shunned by Tinseltown. Page joins that lands on the shoulders of the trans cott of her works. “You aren’t being ‘can- Page, who has recently starred in Netflix of the documentary “There’s Something in a small group of prominent Hollywood community,” added Page, noting high celled,’ you are hurting people. I am one superhero series “The Umbrella the Water” during the 2019 Toronto transgender figures, alongside “The rates of attempted suicide among the of those people and we won’t be silent in Academy.” His statement identifying as International Film Festival Day 4 in Toronto, Matrix” series writer-directors Lana and community. Alphonso David, president of the face of your attacks,” wrote Page, trans won swift praise across Hollywood Ontario. — AFP Lilly Wachowski, “Transparent” creator LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights addressing transphobia in general. and beyond, with LGBTQ charity GLAAD Joey Soloway and actor Laverne Cox. Campaign, thanked Page for “sharing GLAAD provided a “tip sheet” for journal- calling Page “remarkable” and “an out- deserve the chance to be ourselves and your truth with us, and for shining a bright ists covering Page’s statement, advising spoken advocate for all LGBTQ people.” to be accepted for who we are.” Netflix ‘I’m scared’ light on the challenges too many in our reporters to “use he/they pronouns when “He will now be an inspiration to count- tweeted: “So proud of our superhero! We On Monday, Cox described being the community face.” Although Page did not referring to Elliot Page.”— AFP less trans and non-binary people,” said love you Elliot!” Page, 33, burst onto the victim of a recent transphobic attack in name any specific individuals, President the group’s director of transgender media Hollywood scene with an Oscar-nominat- Los Angeles, underlining the hostility fac- Donald Trump’s administration has Nick Adams. “All transgender people ed role as a pregnant teenager in 2007 ing many transgender individuals in the attempted to roll back Obama-era anti- ab-grown chicken will soon be In this file photo a school teacher helps a pupil reads a In this file photo young Amazigh (Berber) women pose In this file photo a man waves the Amazigh flag as thousands of available in restaurants in text in Amazigh, an ancient tongue in Rabat. for a selfie photograph during the annual mourners attend the funeral procession and burial of Hocine Ait- LSingapore after the country —AFP photos “Engagement Moussem” festival near the village of Ahmed, one of the fathers of Algeria’s struggle for independence became the first to green-light meat Imilchil in central Morocco’s high Atlas Mountains. and a key opposition figure, in the Algerian village of Ait Ahmed. created without slaughtering any animals. US start-up Eat Just said Wednesday that its meat had been approved for sale in the city-state as an ingredient in chicken nuggets. The news marks a “breakthrough for the global food industry”, said the company, as firms increasingly try to find less environmentally harmful ways of producing meat. “I’m sure oussef Diab drives his truck survive. “Everyone uses it here,” he said. wrote her PhD thesis on the language in world,” said Mehdi Al-Howeiti, the head that our regulatory approval for cul- through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, The Berbers of Siwa are one of the main the oasis. It wasn’t until the 1980s that of the local tourism office. A son of the tured meat will be the first of many singing catchy songs in a local linguistic minorities in Egypt, the most Arabic became more common, due in oasis, he studied elsewhere, but returned Y in Singapore and in countries Berber dialect that clings to life despite populous Arabic-speaking country with large part to “tourism, mass media and to Siwa to live. around the globe,” said Josh the dominance of Arabic. The UN has some 100 million inhabitants and long the mobility for higher education or for work- Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat classified Siwi, the easternmost dialect of flag-bearer of Arab nationalism. ing purposes”. Preservation efforts Just. Consumption of regular meat the Tamazight language spoken across Located some 560 kilometers (350 Despite that devotion to their roots, is an environmental threat as cattle North Africa as far as Morocco, as miles) from Cairo, their oasis only came Siwa residents face several challenges in produce methane, a potent green- “endangered”. But few adults in the oasis under state control when it was occupied protecting their language, including the house gas, while logging forests to speak Arabic as their main language, by Mohammad Ali, the founder of modern cultural dominance of Arabic and the fact make way for animals destroys nat- and the children playing at the foot of the Egypt, in 1820. Its isolation “allowed Siwa the tongue is only transmitted within fami- ural barriers against climate ancient local fortress talk and shout in and its inhabitants to keep their specific lies. “In the past, our parents only spoke change. Siwi. Diab, a 25-year-old tourist guide traditions and a language that sets them Siwi, which had nothing in common with Demand for sustainable meat with a colorful Berber flag in his back win- apart from mainstream Egyptian culture”, Arabic,” said tribal elder Mohamed, who alternatives is rising due to growing dow, is convinced that the tongue will said sociolinguist Valentina Serreli, who wore a black Libyan-style skullcap on his pressure from consumers about the head. “Today, the language is becoming environment and animal welfare, but closer and closer to Arabic.” And while other products in the market are Egyptian curricula feature foreign lan- plant-based. There were concerns guages, neither of the country’s main In this file photo, a young Amazigh that lab-grown varieties would be minority languages-Siwi and Nubian-is (Berber) woman waits for her wedding too expensive, but a spokesman for taught at schools. “The language should ceremony during the annual “Engagement Eat Just said the company had be formally taught so it doesn’t disap- Moussem” festival near the village of made “considerable progress” in pear,” Mohamed said. The local organi- Imilchil in central Morocco’s high Atlas lowering the cost. “Right from the zation “Children of Siwa” has led efforts to Mountains. start, we will be at price parity for he Berbers are descendants of to jail for having brandished the preserve the language. premium chicken at a high-end pre-Arab populations across Amazigh flag, banned from rallies by Language still ‘dominant’ Working with Moroccan and Italian restaurant,” he told AFP. TNorth Africa, from the extreme the army. The UN in 2008 estimated that 15,000 partners, in 2012 it published a collection He did not reveal the price of the west of Egypt to the countries of the people in the oasis, half the population, of songs, poems and proverbs in both nuggets but said they would be Maghreb. The Berbers, who refer to Libya speak Siwi. But Serreli estimates that the Siwi and Arabic. It was the product of launched soon at a Singapore themselves as the Amazigh meaning Persecuted under dictator Moamer real figure is around 20,000. “UNESCO two years work with 60 young local peo- restaurant before other products- “free man”, have long fought for Kadhafi, who denied their existence, considers the language ‘definitely endan- ple and elders. But despite those efforts, including chicken breasts with lab- greater recognition for their ancient the Berbers of Libya have called for gered’ because ‘children no longer learn the book is now out of print and there grown meat-are rolled out.