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Intr Looks like the worst of the summer weather is over. I don’t want to jinx it, but dare I say we got off easy this year with minimal dust, minimal heat, and minimal humidity. The weather was pleasant all summer long, with only a few days of unbearable heat, which is to be expected when you live in one of the hottest inhabited cities in the world. If you’re reading this in the middle of a dust storm, and I start getting bombarded with hate mail, I totally understand and apologize in advance! The reason I mentioned the great weather first, is to point out something positive, because I guess I’m a little tired of the incessant complaining about everything in K-town. Yes, the traffic is a nightmare, and yes, the schools are too expensive, and most of them are ‘slightly’ run down, and yes, rents have skyrocketed, and yes, some of the new traffic laws are draconian, especially for us expats, but trust me, if you really and truly look around, the grass isn’t that much greener elsewhere. Traffic is a nightmare in Dubai, Cairo, Beirut, and Doha, and I dare you to run a red light in the USA or Europe! Schools are outrageously expensive in the UAE and KSA with an average two-year waiting list.

Rents have increased everywhere, especially in other GCC cities and in general people there complain about other things that don’t even exist in Kuwait, like high electricity bills, and expensive gasoline. It ain’t heaven, but it ain’t hell either!

In this special issue of bazaar we must firstly draw attention to the importance of the message of the month of October, which is to help spread awareness about Breast Cancer in the Middle East and worldwide, and make sure that all of our female friends and relatives get checked early, and more importantly regularly.

This month, we also touch on some very controversial and topical issues in our Inside/Out piece featuring Miley, our Miss America piece, and receive some helpful yet always debatable tips in our He Said / She Said feature about the cryptic statement of “when ‘nothing’ is wrong” .

The creative people inspiring us this month include Faisal, the founding member of Equait, Miranda and her stunning origami creations, the a-may-zing people at The Infographist, Yahia and his aphoristic poems, Dr Bucketman who brought his unique drumming style to Kuwait, and the Artist of the Month “Rush” a member of Egypt’s most notable hip-hop crew.

Not forgetting the frightening end of the month, we have included a couple of spooky articles about the conflicts of Halloween in Love/Hate this month, as well as a hands-on investigation on how Party Land can help you decorate for the occasion, and we also predict your future with our special Horrorscopes.

Before you go, you must take a look at the first of our new Arabs Abroad column featuring pivotal figures and their amazing projects overseas. This month features Alexandra Tohme and her e-commerce business amourah.com. Go on, relax, grab a Starbucks, read, and be inspired!

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For this month’s bazaar goes dining we find ourselves amongst the beautiful people at Seif strip’s newest addition, Atari. An Asian fusion dining experience the likes of which you have never before seen: the intersection of new, old-world, and absolutely inventive. Both hip and kitschy the ambience proves as memorable as the food itself.

In this month’s column on all the things that make us vacillate in opinion, we tackle the growing tradition of Halloween. Whether this is a new celebration for you, or just something you do for the kids, the ghostly season will soon be upon us. Check-in here for your guide to all things spook-tacular!

At the forefront of the new industry of data, those who will succeed will be those who can filter through and explain it to you. We check in with two budding entrepreneurs from Dubai to see why it is increasingly important to put this data in picture form.

After a successful previous column that assured we were all fighting at our mutual homes all month long, we are back with a new edition of our most divisive column yet. In this month’s He Said/She Said, we discuss what it means when your partner says that nothing’s wrong (when clearly something is)!

This month, we sit down with ‘Rush’ from groundbreaking Egyptian Hip Hop group, Arabian Knightz, just before the release of their new album. Outspoken, brash, and as innovative with their beats as they are with their rhymes, they remain a standout voice in the midst of a rapidly changing political climate.

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YAHIA LABABIDI

For those of you who know the wonderful tasty treat that is The Early Bird Café, you may already know the Borderless Chef. We check in with Bianca Simonian on how she created a new TV sensation and find out what it takes to film a pilot in Kuwait.

It has been several years since we caught up with Yahia about his work. On the eve of the release of his new book, Barely There, we find out what keeps him motivated.

A writer of many aphorisms and short stories alike, he shares with us his love for words and his hopes for the future.

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PERSONIFYING RESPECT

BREAST CANCER NUTRITION

Q8 BOOKS

In our new column, Arabs abroad (inspired by our previous letters from “An Arab Abroad”), we feature interesting Arabs doing interesting things from all around the world. Up this month: Alexandra Tohme and her new business geared specifically for Middle Eastern women.

With an avid love for fashion and an innate love for marketing, we get up close and personal with Amal Khreich. A vivacious, passionate person who sees this field as a way of life more than a studied science, this seasoned marketing guru will leave you riveted.

Faisal Al-Fuhaid takes on our truth or dare, and catches us up on all of EQUAIT’S latest developments. Bravely promoting respect and tolerance through this wonderful grass roots movement, Faisal invites us all to participate in making a difference.

Mother Nature never fails to impress. Meet the Breast Cancer food fighters: from salmon, pomegranates to all kinds of peppers, read all about the foods that will reboot your immune system, and fend off those pesky free radicals.

The local gem that was once a haven for reading enthusiasts in Kuwait reopens its door at the arts and cultural hub that is Bayt Lothan. We catch up with Fajer Ahmed as she explains how the legacy of the original Q8 Books lives on in a fresh new light.

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BERT STERN / MARILYN – JAMM ART GALLERY

LAST NIGHT(S) OF THE PROMS

all the family.

The main event is being organised by a group of highly dedicated Sixth Form students who are trying to raise as much money as possible for this very worthwhile cause. Registration has now opened for those wishing to make applications to take part in the Pink Tuesday Netball Challenge. Those wishing to take part by entering a team of seven ladies to play a number of short games of netball (at a cost of KD10 per team) are encouraged to register early. Players of all abilities are welcome and the dress code is pink.

For further details and to register your team please contact Stephanie Jones at stj@bsk.edu.kw. The deadline for registration is Thursday 10 October.

WHEN: September 16 – October 10, 2013 In late June 1962, just six weeks before Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death, Bert Stern took almost 2,600 photographs of the American star over three daily sessions at the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles.

Published in Vogue after the actress’s death, this photo shoot later became known as The Last Sitting.

Stern’s photographs carry a rare sensual and human vibrancy. Never before had the star allowed a photographer such intimate access, and Stern’s camera captures a revealing, naked portrait of Marilyn the person—a fragile, lonely, flawed woman who would die tragically a few weeks later. The exhibition features seven archival prints on paper, six of which have been uniquely enhanced with gemstones and pearls.

JAMM Art Gallery, Life Center, 2nd floor (next to CAP) Block 2, Street 28, Industrial Shuwaikh, Kuwait

WHEN: October 23, 24 and 25, 7pm.

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RICHARD CLAYDERMAN – LIVE IN CONCERT

PINK TUESDAY

WHEN: October 25 and 26, 6pm.

WHERE: Regency Hotel, Kuwait.

CONTACT: 6587 3423, 97228568 Richard Clayderman is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the compositions of Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie soundtracks, ethnic music and easy-listening arrangements of popular works of classical music. He is popular in Asia and is noted by the Guinness Book of World Records as being “the most successful pianist in the world.”

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WHEN: October 25, 2013 CONTACT: The 3 Club 6577 8598; www.theflyingstart.com The Flying Start triathlon is a race organised in Kuwait, on a bi-annual basis, typically every April and October.

The success of the first race in 2010 turned the Flying Start into a series to give the Kuwaiti community a continuous goal to train for. It is open to all levels, and it is over two main distances: Sprint and Olympic.

You can either join under the “individual” category, or the “relay team” category.

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WHEN: October 29, 4 – 6pm.

WHERE: BSK, Salwa During the month of October The British School of Kuwait will, once again, be hosting their annual campaign to raise funds to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year they will be raising much needed funds to support the excellent work of the Kuwait-based charity Ruqayah Abdulwahab AlQatami Breast Cancer Foundation.

As always, there are a wide range of fundraising activities taking place throughout the month, the highlight of which is undoubtedly set to be the Pink Tuesday Netball Challenge that will take place on Tuesday 29 October 2013. Alongside the tournament there will also be children’s activities, merchandise stalls, refreshments and more. As well as being an opportunity to raise funds for their chosen charity it will also be an afternoon of fun for

WHEN: October 24 – October 26, 2013 WHERE: Safir International Hall CONTACT: 2571 5933

FASHION WEEK

WHEN: October 5, 2013 WHERE: Jumeirah Messila Beach Hotel & Resort (Messila, Fahaheel Expressway at the 6th Ring Road) COST: Gold Tickets 20 KD; VIP Tickets 30 KD CONTACT: 6095 5510, 5518 4858

WILLIAMS-SONOMA CULINARY CLASSES

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware in the United States. In their Kuwait store, in Grand Avenue – The Avenues they offer high-quality, stylish products for every room in the house: from the kitchen to the living room, from the bedroom to home office. As part of Williams-Sonoma’s commitment to showcase their Kitchen product ranges, they now offer cooking demonstrations free-of-charge 4 times a day, every day. These allow customers to see how dishes are made in the in-store Kitchen (located at the back of the store), by their Swiss-trained Culinary Expert, and enjoy sampling the finished product.

Since last September 3 additional culinary activities have been introduced:

A SPACE FOR NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SULTAN GALLERY

WHEN: October 1 – 31, 2013 TIMES: 1st Oct, 7 - 9pm; 2nd Oct, 10am - 4pm and 7 9 pm; 3rd – 31st Oct, 10am - 4pm (Closed on Fri & Sat) A Space for National Achievement, a group show by the collective “GCC”, calls into question the accumulation of superlatives, and asks us to contend with the disconnect between a lavish award and the achievement it recognizes. This relationship becomes a way to manage image and control perception. In our societies, awards merely reinforce what already exists, rather than mark material gains. This symbolic power is actualized in this exhibition, which asks us to consider how national achievement is situated. In fact, these discourses are part of a systematic framework that organizes our existence.

Sultan Gallery is located in South Sabhan, Block 8, Street 105, Building No. 168. For more information, please call 24714325 Ext. 110 or visit www.sultangallery.com

Cooking demos, technique and public cooking classes are all scheduled by the Williams-Sonoma team and cover a wide range of cuisines from across the globe. Private cooking classes cover a range of topics that can be selected by the customer in advance (via the store) – from French cuisine to Southern comfort food and everything in between. Mark your calendars for a culinary treat this October!

Cooking Classes Every Wednesday:

2nd – Entertainment Demo: Afternoon Tea 9th – Entertainment Demo: Fun with Fondue 16th – Italian Flavors Demo: Rustic Italian Dinner 23rd – Global Favorites Demo: A Night in India 30th – Global Favorites Demo: Greek Flavors Williams-Sonoma is located in the Grand Avenue www.williams-sonoma.me

Technique Classes Every Friday: 4th – Fresh Fast and Fabulous 11th – Desserts 18th – Pan Roasting 25th – Knife Skills – The Avenues. Please call 2228 3101 or visit

For more event information please visit: GrapevineKuwait.com. Kuwait’s favorite & first true local events & activities website!

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AMAL KHREICH Letting inspiration in by bazaar staff

Amal Khreich is no stranger to Kuwait. Although this fashion and marketing guru previously left K-town, she knew that, someday, she would return.

Her vision as an accomplished marketeer extends beyond her position as Brand Marketing Manager at a premium retailer in Kuwait, as she views marketing as a way of life and an immersive ethos to live by.

Growing up in Kuwait, Amal now describes her return from any given visit to her hometown of Beirut as “leaving home, to return home.”

Having studied and worked in Lebanon as a distinguished publisher, a career she described as “all-consuming”, her work also involved brand building, creative and marketing consulting as well as business development. She depicts Lebanon as a craving; “You crave its rich, involving and intense vibe, where everyone competes to reach the exact same niche that could easily comprise of a tiny alleyway with a specific group of people.

Lebanon has always been my studying ground, and the birthplace for my professional maturity, whereas Kuwait’s wide horizon allows me the space to give back.” Embracing one’s surroundings, according to Amal, allows inspiration into one’s life. “My relationship with Kuwait is one filled with possibilities, it simply echoes with its widespanning horizon. This want, and need to create makes living and working in Kuwait unlike any other place in the region.”

With an approach to marketing that lies far away from cynicism, Amal sees most opportunities within limitations, “people could believe that we’re shrouded by this notion of ‘can’t’. Once you’ve understood your limitations, you are better equipped to innovate.” Still, she has her concerns that marketeers aren’t listening to their consumers.

Instead of following international trends in marketing, Amal believes that consumers in Kuwait are poised to create trends, rather than wait to follow the next ‘it’ thing. She explains, “Consumers in Kuwait deserve to be treated better. With high expectations and tastes exceedingly differentiated; the Kuwaiti consumer is now the producer. If they can’t find something they like, they’ll create it instead. On a positive note, though, I am extremely happy that the IAA is bringing back their creative awards. This is a great sign towards rewarding creativity and pushing the consumer even further ––we truly need that back.” Amal can’t help but feel the energy of customers’ needs, because “when you’re a marketeer, you must constantly interact with your environment.”

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Perhaps it’s her affinity for a culture she grew up with that makes her adamantly state that “Kuwait fits me like a glove,” or, it could be her fervent passion for fashion, yet another one of Kuwait’s fine attributes. Amal adds, “Kuwaiti women are incredibly ambitious and independent, they have an undeniable presence that resonates in society as well as a deep respect for their Middle Eastern beliefs.” Being deeply rooted in a society that creates, rather than follows, trends, makes Amal beam with pride. She believes that “the local fashion scene is one of utter amazement. Both Kuwaiti men and women are impeccably dressed, and we as marketeers could never lie to them about fashion. Their style, eclectic and multi-leveled at the core, resounds with my definition of fashion.”

She believes that fashion gives back in a manner that is completely personal, “It’s not about what you wear—it’s all about your attitude. In Kuwait, we love the flavor of a local machboos dish, yet

we appreciate an expertly prepared Mille-feuille. We love the traditional incense or oud, yet can’t help pairing this scent with a couture bag.”

We are living in a cosmopolitan society. One that, Amal believes, is only heading towards a positive direction. Working with an amazing team, she sees an upcoming generation intent on change. She concludes, “I only aspire to add to this change. My deeper understanding and passion towards what I’m doing always pushes me to think of how I could affect those around me. After all, that’s what us marketeers are meant to do.”

bazaar questionnaire: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Isn’t this an eternal quest? I constantly ponder if perfect happiness is an idea we learn to enjoy, if it is the perfect one, or if it could be better, or, if I could perfect it more. Lately, I’ve come to enjoy

happiness as a moment or a state of mind. It is as good as it can get, and any happy moment is always a perfect one.

What is your greatest fear?

An empty, blank, white paper… I dread the moment every time I have to face it, and run as far and as fast as I can. To think of something new and have to look into the white paper and wonder what will make sense and what would make a difference…that simply sends me to hell and back.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

My sarcasm where some people, especially those who aren’t close to me, are not used to it, so it comes across as an offensive gesture, when I’m trying to ‘warm up’ the encounter. I also have a bossy tone of voice, which I work on to tone down, but it still fails me at times and instead comes out as more demanding! Forgive me, nature rules.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?

A bad sense of style…it just says it all.

Pretentiousness, such people cannot read or portray themselves transparently. Lifelessness, or those who aren’t in-sync with the beauty around, carelessness and inconsideration, as well as people with no respect to the design industry. It is absolutely one that I consider as the most refined.

Which living person do you most admire?

My mother. She is an amazing woman that brings life, love and a big smile to everything and everyone she touches.

What is your greatest extravagance?

I have a great tendency for extravagance and I live it. Any moment where I feel like I can full-heartedly spread my wings, I embrace the extravaganza.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

AMAZING !!!I liiiiike !!!3an Jadd (seriously!) Yaa3ni (meaning) Ma Khassak (none of your business) When were you happiest?

Every time I win a challenge / feel the love I

know I am “happiest”. For instance, being able to enjoy a yoga session and embrace the present without any disruptions. In that moment, I am the “happiest” and I’m still thrilled by it.

Which talent would you most like to have?

Painting. I think it’s an extreme and rare form of human talent. I think that’s because of the energy one possesses to engage all the senses, visions, thoughts and feelings transferred from fingers onto a canvas that will make you either completely fall in love, or hate, at a glance.

What would you consider your greatest achievement?

I do not believe in the “est” of things, I’m someone that embraces every moment. Although, surviving the tough days while keeping one’s sanity in place is an achievement in and of itself. God Bless this mad world.

Where would you most like to live?

On the beach.

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truth or dare

EQUAIT: PERSONIFYING RESPECT Faisal Al-Fuhaid by bazaar staff

Co-founding what started as a grass-roots initiative is now evolving into an impactful organization, Faisal Al-Fuhaid is one with his cause. We previously covered Equait in these bazaar pages, we were thrilled to share in this youth-driven organization’s mission—promoting social equality and respect towards Kuwaiti residents from all walks of life.

Sick of the social stigmas attached with cliques, Faisal redirected his negative energy towards changing the sad phenomenon into a hopeful future via Equait. Facing discrimination, even as a Kuwaiti, for being different, he decided to pursue a hands-on approach for promoting change. As a 20-year-old university student at GUST, he’s worked with various organizations and individuals on a myriad of projects associated with Equait. From a monthly cross-cultural diwaniya in association with Global Aid Kuwait, to Model United Nations, the iRespect Football tournament which requires a multi-national team, to anti-bullying campaigns, he pares all of his efforts down to “learning to respect, accept, and more importantly understand, an opinion that is different from yours.”

Equait now works with a diverse network of adults as well as university students. He explains that, “Equait isn’t, and will never be, about my goals for the organization. It is a collective effort at its core, and its survival is ensured by more people standing up for our principles and taking the responsibility to lead with respect.”

Recently hosting the Y-workshop, Equait helped raise the question of why we should be involved in creating or participating in a not-forprofit organization, one that Faisal considers as a “step-zero, yet for something much greater, as it is extremely important to involve the youth in an effort to progress any change in society.” In the long-term, Faisal believes that Equait’s power and sustainability lies with the involvement of others.

Don’t hesitate to be a part of this organization, get in touch with Faisal at equait.org.

How would your mother describe you in one word?

Passionate How would you describe your mother in one word?

Correct What is the most insane question you’ve ever been asked?

“Where did you set up your tent and camel?”

(During a family trip to Orlando a few years ago) What is the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?

Singing “Somebody that I Used to Know”, with a 30

random person on the street last summer in New York.

What word in the English or Arabic language do you wish you had invented?

Tranquility Where would you like to live? What is your dream retirement location?

Ultimately, I would like the chance to reside among various different cultures around the world during my lifetime, just so that I can learn about different perspectives and ways of life, while also developing myself as a person.

As for retirement, any place where family’s close by or probably New York City.

What is the first famous quote that comes to your mind?

“You come at the King, you best not miss” from The Wire What animal best describes the kind of partner you’d be interested in?

Tiger, since they’re daring and passionate.

What do you miss about your childhood?

My Grandfather. He always believed in me, giving me the love and support I needed at a young age, and he is one of the main reasons I am the man I am today.

If you could change your name, what would you change it to?

Fahad, rather than Faisal, just so that the name confusion ends, haha!

How would you describe your handshake in one word?

Firm What is the toughest part of your character?

I am honest when necessary, even if it means

somebody gets upset during the process.

Who is your favorite historical figure?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., because his ‘I Had a Dream’ speech is one of the main reasons why I chose to pursue Equait. The values reflected in this speech are universal in every sense of the word.

What in the world do you least desire?

Getting paid handsomely to just sit and do nothing.

What do you think is lacking in the world, which if there was more of would make the world a better place?

I truly believe that if everyone around the world had access to education, the world would progress a lot faster and we’d have a lot more solutions to its problems.

Also, being nice to people because of who they are, as nowadays, too many people judge others over the silliest reasons, yet they don’t get the chance to see how amazing they are as human beings, which also leads to people disliking themselves because of it. If everybody learned to get along with one other, regardless of way of life or nationality, the world would be a whole lot better.

Why do you think most girls/guys like you?

Maybe it’s because I’m generally approachable as a person, but you really have to ask them why.

Finish this sentence: “Happiness is a thing called…”

Being yourself.

Get in touch with Faisal by following Equait on Twitter and Instagram, @Equait. For more information, please visit www.equait.org.

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inside/out

THE (TRUE) VALUE OF SHOCK by bazaar staff

When Miley Cyrus took to the stage for the VMA’s last month, she did so without a lot of expectation that she might do anything…well, noteworthy. As it turns out she did, and it created an absolute typhoon of public criticism on everything from race issues in America (the subjugation of African-American women and the co-opting and appropriation of black culture at large, for instance) to feminist empowerment (who really said that?) and cries of exploitation in equal measure. Then, in a bizarre twist of 24-hour media coverage “need more fuel for the machine” perfection, the story went meta: How we reported on the story became the story as the now publicly shamed Miley could not even be free to twerk herself into happiness without sitting in judgment.

Now, to be clear, I am not picking on Miley here, I would like to discuss what she is doing writ large. Still, since two data points on the same plot line are better than one, the next note in the progression (musical pun intended) is at the very least, notable. So, here we go, the machine starts up again: her new video seems to be a doubling down on the nudity=commercial success diatribe that continues to permeate the pop culture landscape.

Without actually trying to morally judge the acts themselves (I will leave that to everyone individually), let us consider the implications from an artistic perspective.

First of all, she is an artist, trying to vie for your mind-space and dollar, so I do not believe those that say she is not responsible for how she presents herself. Of course she is.

That said, you are a customer: it is up to you where to spend that dollar.

And the only reason marketer’s care at all about the fact that she had 4.5 million Tweet mentions during the VMA broadcast alone, is because there is an algorithm that directly equates that to sales. So, boom, it’s our collective faults for even paying attention in the first place. Every one of these artists is essentially like a futures trader, betting on where you 32

will spend your future time. X+Y=Z. that’s it. No mystery!

So, just as Justify My Love-era Madonna, begat school girl-era Britney Spears, who begat old Madonna kissing little “trying to stay relevant” Britney, who begat Lady Gaga in a meat suit, who in turn begat twerking Miley—whew, that was exhausting—the success of Miley’s VMA performance now begat the Wrecking Ball video response. In the video, Miley again seems to double down on the same mentality, while simultaneously (via the press) begging us to take a closer look at the deeper meaning of the wrecking ball video.

However, Miley sitting on a wrecking ball, singing that she’s “a wrecking ball” that wrecks things, as the ball wrecks a wall, in a song called… wait for it…Wrecking Ball, feels very straight forward to me. It makes little difference that she was mostly nude and licked a sledgehammer in the process, both of which were more comical than anything. Consider this though: the video got 19.3 million views in the first 24 hours, setting a record in the process.

Say what you will about the context of early shocking Madonna, but at the

end of the day (feel free to call me naive), she seemed to be a strong woman who was rebelling against the system that would have her stay quiet and proper. There is a bit of this that still seems to ring true even with Lady Gaga (whom incidentally, I am not actually a fan of), whereas Britney, and now Miley in turn, have just rung more empty. There seems to be no message behind it—just shock for shocks sake. Still, it’s hard to deny that it’s working for her.

So is this a behavior to be emulated by artists looking to make a name for themselves? While there certainly has been a case made for it, I would say, definitively, no! The problem with this sort of one-upsmanship, is that it so quickly becomes passé. One of my favorite headlines in the press the day after the VMA’s read: “Hey, Lady Gaga was naked last night, too, if anyone noticed.” And I suppose that the only thing sadder than somebody doing this for attention, is when somebody does this for attention but gets none at all because it is simply too expected.

In the end shock value only buys you shock, nothing more. Call it the difference between being an Artist and a Celebrity. In an age where we now

have celeb-utants famous for nothing more than being famous, man-child’s famous for hitting themselves in the groin, consider Miley the latest in the long line of things that collectively make us shake our head wondering what world it is we hath created for ourselves. Perhaps no one said it better than the normally reclusive Lionel Richie when asked what he thought about this trend for up-andcomers who resort to shock tactics when hitting the stage, “I’ve always said this -but once you start taking off your clothes, that means you’ve got to have a hit record, You’ve got to back it up with something.” He continues, “My philosophy is -- I’m the other way around. Give me the hit record first and you don’t have to take off your clothes. Taking off the clothes means, ‘I need that hit record.’” True words indeed, from a man who Dances on the Ceiling like it’s his job!

Inside/Out discusses all things music and musician related. Feel free to send your latest mix tape, live recording or Arabic cover of R.E.M songs (what you haven’t heard them yet?)—we are sick of singing to ourselves!

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Q8 BOOKS

Kuwait’s only dedicated used bookstore re-opens with a fresh twist by bazaar staff

Finding a good bookstore in Kuwait is difficult, so when we found one with a wide selection and a cause, it was like hitting the jackpot.

Four days before Q8 Books’ grand re-opening, its new owner, Fajer Ahmed, and a group of four young friends, shelved books, put together the final pieces of wall art, and put the final touches on the store’s renovations. These are the final actions of a project to revive Kuwait’s only dedicated used bookstore, and it looks like it will be a smashing success.

Fajer became the new owner of Kuwait’s only dedicated used bookstore when she purchased the titles from store’s previous owner, Mr. Jacobs, and gave him the promise to create a much bigger project.

“He wanted it to grow into a space where young locals would be managing it and benefiting from it. He believed that I was the right person for this task, as a humble reader and someone with good social connections.”

Q8 Books started almost ten years ago with 34

only 10 titles. It grew exponentially and became a recluse for many in Kuwait who wanted a homey place to curl up with a good book, or a good selection of affordable titles. In June, it closed its doors in Salihya, news that was met with disappointment by many bloggers and social media commentators.

Fajer, a law student and legal contributor to the blog 248AM run by Mark Makhoul, was captivated by the original vision of an escape where people were free to discuss ideas and literature. She knew she wanted to take the idea a few steps further, but she had to find a venue for the 15,000 titles she now owned. Many proposals later, she was contacted by Bayt Lothan, the arts and culture hub near Marina Mall, who offered a free space for the project.

“What followed next was the end of ‘I’ and the beginning of ‘we’,” said Fajer.

She enlisted the help of young volunteers to completely renovate the space. Cement was laid, the floors waxed, shelves hung on the wall and books arranged by genre and in alphabetical

order. Artists from the community contributed pieces, and the guys from Monstariam painted a mural in the outside seating area. They created a book haven in the midst of the desert, “and it will only get better,” she says.

It’s that sense of community that the founder of the original Q8 Books hoped to create, and Fajer aimed to foster. Beanbags and sofas in the bookstore are available for book and writing clubs to meet, and her team will offer workshops for younger audiences. She has even created a program to send books to Gambia.

If you want to immerse yourself in Tolken’s fantasy world or find yourself in Malcom Gladwell’s self-discovery advice, Q8 Books is the place to be. With titles ranging from less than 1KD to 4 KD, the expansive world of literature is now at your fingertips in Q8 Books.

For their latest news and events follow them on Twitter, Instagram @q8bookstore, or visit their website at q8books.com.

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bazaar goes dining

ATARI Kuwait’s most unique asian food bursts with flavor and character by bazaar staff

What do you get when a Kuwaiti restaurateur and a couple of Maldivian chefs get together on the famous Seif Strip? Asian tapas in a restaurant named Atari, and an unexpected experience for your taste buds. “We wanted to create a menu that had comfort food with an asian influence,” said Sulaiman Alderbas, cofounder of the concept. “Kuwait’s restaurant market is a survival of the fittest type, and it’s growing fast. So we wanted to create something that compliments, not mimics.”

Atari certainly breaks Kuwait’s asian restaurant mold. We fully expected the typical dark décor and the ever-prevalent sushi menu.

Our preconceptions stayed under the bright green entrance though, and we were transformed into a bright and homey setting. The old-school video game decorations brought back all those fond memories of playing Pongo for the first time.

The concept is based on the two understandings of the word Atari: the Japanese definition of ‘hit the spot’, and the childhood game you played with your friends. Be just as bold with your order as you were with your shots on Asteroid, and let everything you know about asian food go out the window.

“The recipes are tried and true,” says Alderbas.

He spent months with the chefs developing unique twists on all kinds of traditional dishes.

Then, they spent the month of Ramadan hosting taste tests at the restaurant. Now, just a couple of months after opening, the chefs have perfected what at first seems to be a very peculiar menu.

What makes the restaurant truly unique is the freshness of every single one of their ingredients.

Go in early enough and you may catch the chefs walking into the establishment with the day’s groceries, bought at a local market, and you’ll always be able to watch their progress from your seat on the bottom floor.

Order all the starters you can. Sure, there’s the regular edamame and miso soup, chicken wings and salads, but why not go bold? Try the Watermelon Crab Salad, a delicious combination of fried crab legs on a bed of watermelon and sesame teriyaki sauce. The watermelon gives a fresh twist to what might usually be a heavy starter, and opens up the appetite.

Japanese pizza may sound, well wrong, but there is nothing wrong with this rendition of the italian classic. Think of a gourmet pizza, sans the sauce and the traditional crust. Instead the chefs 36

put together a fresh ensemble of avocado, cherry tomatoes, olives, onions, greens and your choice of meat on a thin tortilla. The small handheld slices are a unique delight, and are bound to satisfy any pizza lover’s cravings.

Now take the influence further across the world to Latin and Southern America with Beef Wonton tacos and Barbeque Beef Burritos. What you end up with is a dish that looks like your order from your favorite mexican restaurant, with a vastly different twist. Light wonton shells push the flavors of sautéed onions and peppers and

spiced grilled steak, without the oily shell. Take out the spiced and flavored mexican rice, and replace it with sushi rice and you have korean inspired beef burritos!

The chefs have also put a new twist on some traditional asian dishes. Gyoza is a japanese appetizer adopted from their chinese neighbors (you may know them as dumplings). The light dough is usually filled with seafood, chicken or red meat and chopped vegetables then served with vinegar or soy based sauces. Atari has taken your old friend, and turned it into a mushroom

filled steamed, or deep-fried, sensation that explodes with the unique addition of a smoky teriyaki truffle sauce.

Even the lightest eaters will still have room for a great main course, and more classic dishes.

Their simply grilled cape cod or salmon, barbeque ribs with puree potatoes and chicken or beef curry will have you falling in love with the restaurant all over again. Don’t forget to leave room for dessert though. You will definitely miss out if you don’t try the fried chocolate chip cookie dough with raspberry or caramel. Although the idea of fried

cookie dough balls seems frightening, somehow the chefs at Atari have turned this dessert into a light and satisfying ending to a delicious meal.

Alderbas hoped to create a restaurant where friends could come together to share a meal, enjoy something new, and leave with the imprint of a new and completely unique experience.

Atari has achieved all these goals by moving away from everything the market knows about opening an asian restaurant, and sticking to what his patrons know about food. We think this is just the beginning for this delicious dining

establishment. Alderbas has big plans for Atari, including game nights.

“Once the weather gets nice we’ll have an outdoor seating area. We’ll perch up a white sheet and host Atari game nights.”

Until then, we’ll continue to enjoy the refreshing flavors of The Strips newest and most unique addition.

Atari is located on “The Strip” in front of Seif Palace on the Gulf Road. Call 2246 8760 for reservations and follow them on Instagram @atari_kw 37

bazaar music

MECHANICAL BULL by Kings of Leon

LOVE CLUB by Lorde

MGMT by MGMT

Mechanical Bull, released September 24, is the sixth studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon, via RCA Records. Kings of Leon, fresh off three acclaimed headlining performances at American festivals, have released the first promotional single from the album: ‘Supersoaker’. This single was followed by the release of the second single called ‘Wait for Me’. Bassist Jared Followill told press, “I thought we were going to make a really mature album but I’m amazed how youthful it sounds. It’s like a mix of Youth & Young Manhood and Because of the Times.” Rolling Stone can also confirm the band worked with long-time producer Angelo Petraglia in their new Nashville studio.

Lorde is the new breed. Stripped back sounds, fathom-deep lyrics and a social commentary that is pin sharp. Intense, intelligent and in town. Raised on a nutritious musical diet of Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, The Smiths, alongside a smattering of soul, she was definitely set off on strong melodic footing.

Later she discovered artists like James Blake and Drake, etc - all of whom made an impact in their own way. Lorde’s music melds concentrated, sharpeyed lyrics and multi-layered vocals with crisp, 2013 beatscapes. Tweeted about and picked up

by Buzzfeed, Perez Hilton et al - these are the beginnings of an impending roar, about an artist who is quite simply, cut from a different cloth.

MGMT are back with their self-titled third studio album. The successor to 2008’s Oracular Spectacular and 2010’s Congratulations, MGMT finds Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser continuing to push themselves to expand the boundaries of modern pop music. Returning to Tarbox Road Studios to work with longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann, Andrew and Ben experimented with various in-studio writing processes, allowing the music to tell them where it wanted to go. The result is a diverse and powerful collection of 10 songs (including a cover of “Introspection” by 1960’s psych band Faine Jade) that directly mirrors the duo’s encompassing surrealist view of the everyday.

PARADISE VALLEY by John Mayer Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician John Mayer returns with his new album Paradise Valley, which he produced with long-time collaborator Don Was. The album’s title is derived from a major river valley of the Yellowstone River with the same name, located in southwestern Montana, true to the album’s American roots themes. Country and folk elements abound; the filigreed guitar lines of “Wildfire” recall the Grateful Dead. Mayer’s laidback vibe here works to his advantage, allowing both his talent and his charm to shine. His boldface love life enters the picture in a lovely duet with his ex Katy Perry (“Who You Love”), as well as in “Paper Doll,” a measured if pointed response to Taylor Swift’s eviscerating “Dear John.”

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HESITATION MARKS

by Nine Inch Nails

Recorded in secret over the last year, Hesitation Marks is the new full-length album from Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor teamed with producers Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder to create the first new music from Nine Inch Nails in five years. The squalling guitars have been refined a little and the band sound more minimal and electronic than ever. Fans will be familiar with a couple of tracks already, both of which are surprising. “Copy of A” released last month, possesses a burbling, itchy synth line, while more perplexing still is its follow-up, the hearty college rock of ”Everything”. The musician is famously exacting when it comes to sound and, predictably, the album is impeccably produced.

DIDN’T IT RAIN

by Hugh Laurie

After the huge success of his debut album, Let Them Talk, on which he celebrated and revived classic material from the world of NOLA blues, Hugh Laurie, also from House fame, presents his second album. This album sees him depart the sounds of New Orleans as he follows the trajectory of the blues upstream and into the American heartland.

It includes songs dating back to early pioneers, such as W.C. Handy (“St Louis. Blues”), to more recent artists such as Dr. John (“Wild Honey”).

Complemented with the heart and accomplishment of his supporting musicians the Copper Bottom Band, the album also features several lead vocal performances from Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno and soul singer Jean McClain. source: www.amazon.com

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arabs abroad

ALEXANDRA TOHME AND AMOURAH.COM Interesting Arabs doing interesting things…elsewhere! by bazaar staff

Born in 1980, in the midst of the strife of an already war-torn Lebanon, Alexandra Tohme and her family would soon move to Saudi Arabia.

These early travel experiences would prove pivotal for a young Alex, and form a long-term love affair with wanderlust and world traveling.

After spending her youth in a Saudi British school, she would eventually go on to study at Manchester University. In addition to being a classically trained pianist and a frequent player of the Baroque recorder, she is also a cat lover that has more recently happenstanced her way back to the Middle East via Qatar, Lebanon, and Dubai. After working her way through school via a variety of sales jobs, she would continue with stints in marketing, and advertising. We catch up with her to discuss how these versatile business traits have all coalesced into a fortuitous union that has her positioned to launch her own website focusing on lingerie–Amourah.com.

Tell us about the inspiration for Amourah.com? Is there any significance to the name?

I’m part of a poetry collective in Dubai called “The Poeticians” run by the absolutely insane Hind Shoufani, and we were all at one of the poets house one day, and I demanded that we all put our heads together for the name. I wanted something that obviously had a meaning in Arabic without being too difficult to market. Amourah is the term that is used when addressing a young woman in a positive way, not a sleazy or misogynistic way.

Why this website/market segment?

Lingerie sites aren’t anything really new. But many of them seem to be the same. Essentially it’s a digital face for a regular retail business.

We are in an emerging market and there are still many more brands that haven’t penetrated here. In addition, when it comes to lingerie we are woefully underserved. A very narrow selection of bras in terms of size, combined with terrible fitting advice, makes for a good opportunity. The situation in Saudi lingerie shops is even worse.

They have attempted to change the law by making women, instead of men, work in these shops, but there will always be pushback from certain segments. Bras are a foundation garment and once that’s right, everything else fits better. I believe I can make a difference in a segment that no one is really paying attention to.

Any problems or particulars to the Arab world?

Of course. Typically lingerie sites will advertise their products on nearly naked models. This doesn’t really work here. My telco provider in 40

Dubai blocks certain websites, and in more restrictive countries access to these sites is impossible. So I have to be creative as to how to present the products. For investors, a viable long-term business has to have scale, and this can only be achieved by working across multiple countries in the region, which then affects margins due to various import and customs differences and transportation. Finally, deposits required at banks in order to accept money from online transactions, can be extremely prohibitive.

Who is your average customer?

Anyone who has breasts! There is no average customer really, but there are certainly segments that can be defined. Through my existing landing page I have gathered qualitative feedback from over 500 people which tend to revolve around; not knowing size, knowing size but not finding what they need in the shops, and then people who have had surgery or might have a medical condition that require specialist garments.

Will the site be meant to convey deals, or provide a more comfortable service for customers?

The million dollar question. I’m not looking at a discounted model at all. There are 3 main pillars.

1) Information. When you give women information they’re able to do a lot with it. No one will ever be able to get your size exactly right, but I have developed a new form of calculator that addresses

the fact that some brands use centimeters for sizing and some use inches. The conversion that the manufacturer makes is not correct. Additionally I can tell you which brand uses which sizing system, and I can even get to the level of telling you which models may run slightly larger in the band or the cup, so as to improve accuracy. I could write 3 more pages on the problems in this industry but this is a brief summary! 2) Comfort. We have the technology now to bring the shop to you. Why should you have to trek to a mall, take off your clothes in unforgiving changing room lights and still end up with a below optimal product? Why can’t you sit relaxed in your lounge and get all the information in the palm of your hand? 3) Longevity. Boobs are here to stay.

And they also change quite a few sizes over your lifetime. You don’t need to change your store or shopping habits if you use Amourah, depending on if you are a young twenty year old or post maternity.

It’s going to be with you every step of the way. You can keep using it for as long as you want.

Lastly, finish this sentence: In one year from now, the website will be…

The biggest mobile retail solution for women in the Middle East.

Amourah.com is already online. They currently have a questionnaire up to be able to assist you better in the future. Drop in and see what they are all about!

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HOIST THE BLACK FLAG!

by Jaye Sonia

Of all the months, October is my favorite.

In the States, the trees are starting to turn and those cool nights all but demand a fire. In Kuwait, the weather is also cooling, bringing an end to those long, oppressive hot summer days. Of course, the cooling weather also demands we get outside, promising late night chats over coffee or tea with new friends (like Mo and Stephanie from Team DC)! Of course, October is also a big release month in the gaming world, and this year, it means lots of console goodness.

First – and this is a game near and dear to my heart – is the release of Battlefield 4. It’s slated to be out on October 29th (November 2nd in Europe), but the Beta version (open for premium members) should be available slightly before the full release.

Like its predecessors, we’ll see an initial release on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. We should see BF4 available on the Xbox One and PS4 by the end of November. Unlike the previous versions (it’s the 13th installment in the Battlefield series), BF4 is slated to introduce a third playable faction – China. So, the dynamics of the multiplayer games are about to get very, very interesting. It’ll also feature a “commander mode” (originally appearing in Battlefield 2142), which should add another, complex dynamic to game play.

Personally, I’m super excited about BF4. It’s 42

one of the games that really shines when you’ve got your friends online and in your squad. Unlike a number of the first-person shooters I’ve played in the past, the various battle roles people play in Battlefield can (and do) make a big difference. Of course, with PS4 and Xbox One on the horizon, BF4 players are likely to see a platform shift with some of their friends (I know my coworkers are already discussing various platform moves), so players may have to suffer through that painful “noob” learning phase that comes with finding a good server.

October also means Batman: Arkham Origins (and who doesn’t like Batman?!?!) for the PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and WiiU. The third installment in the series (which started in 2011), this game is essentially a prequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum (set five years before that game). It is also the first game in the series to feature a multiplayer feature – so you’ll be able to invite friends over to play!

If you’re a fan of Assassin’s Creed, the end of October (early November in Europe) also means a chance to play Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

Like many good games, it’ll be available on most platforms (sadly, it’s a bit too much for your old Sega Genesis) and will feature one of the things I love most – pirates! Now while I’m no diehard Assassin’s Creed player, this game is already on my “must have list.” Why? Well, because while

pirates should be enough to sell most games, the Assassin’s Creed franchise already features a role that is notoriously similar to that of the ninja (both are awesome, silent killers) and pitting any ninja against any pirate means one thing; ninjas vs. pirates.

Go ahead and think about it.

No, it’s perfectly fine. I’ll wait.

Essentially, the Assassin’s Creed series is tackling the age old Internet rivalry and you’ll be able to play through it firsthand, both above and below the waves. Personally, I don’t know if the folks over at Ubisoft are trolling gamers around the world (and even if they are, do we honestly care?), but if not, then this game should deliver in ways previously unimagined! I can only imagine how awesome jumping around Havana will be, or how immersive swinging from the top mast, sword in hand, will be! If it is anything like its previous editions, then we’re all in for a very big treat!

Of course, Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag is the perfect introduction to November, which will unleash a wave of new games for both the PS4 and Xbox One – easily enough to keep all of us busy until 2014 sets in. So, while you may be hesitant to buy games for your current consoles, these three might just be worth doing so.

FIFA 2014, however, can wait.

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THE BORDERLESS CHEF

Local restaurateur creates TV program by bazaar staff

For the last several years, Bianca Simonian, the enigmatic owner of The Early Bird Café- has been the smiling face behind the favorite restaurant for many locals and expats alike. Normally it comes to one’s attention as being cited as the most authentic local California eatery. From the Cholula on the table to the variations of breakfast fare on the menu, the place oozes authenticity as much as it does delicious breakfast-y goodness!

Never one to stand still long enough to get bored, we caught up with Bianca in the midst of a recent California adventure to see what she is doing across the globe.

Give us a little background on how the idea for the show came to you?

Towards the end of my stay in Kuwait, I was approached by someone back in LA about putting together a reality-based show for Food Network on my life in Kuwait. There were two issues with that: 1) I was moving back home to Los Angeles, and 2) people in Kuwait are EXTREMELY camera shy. SO, instead of letting this opportunity slip through my fingers, I rearranged the concept a bit…hence “The Borderless Chef”.

What is the concept, title etc.?

“The Borderless Chef” is basically a food/ travel show that will kick off in Kuwait, and document me taking my story around the world in search of other risk-taking Americans who have opened food-related businesses abroad. I want to hear their stories. I want to get to know a culture and its food, through their eyes.

Who else is involved with the show (and what roles)?

I created the show, but there have been a lot of friends who have contributed along the way, either with production or even via our Kickstarter page, which was started to raise funds for this project.

Being a Los Angeles native, ironically I know next to nothing about the TV/film industry. But, the entrepreneur in me sees opportunity and is eager to tackle the challenge.

Give us any details around putting together the pilot?

The pilot was filmed in Kuwait at a variety of my favorite locations. It is being edited in Los Angeles now, and should be ready for viewing by the end of the year. So, for now we are just wrapped up in the work of getting it ready for you.

Where did you film when you were in Kuwait?

While in Kuwait we were able to shoot around town...Mubarakiya, which was particularly fun because I was able to get involved in making some fresh irani bread with the guys there, The Early Bird, etc. It was a total learning experience for everyone, in that, structuring a show like this can be challenging.

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always be guaranteed. So ALWAYS have a “Plan B”.

So you made a pilot in Kuwait, where is the next stop on the map?

So far, we have lined up a second episode where a young man has set-up his own restaurant in Costa Rica, and a third Episode where a young woman has set-up a detoxifying raw food retreat in Thailand.

How are the prospects for it so far (any potential roadblocks)?

Well, aren’t there ALWAYS? In starting a new

venture there are sets of “standard” roadblocks I believe. It’s whether or not you let them stop you that really matters. As of now, financial, organizational, and an evolving list of teammembers. Other than that…we have the whole world in our hands!

Follow updates for The Borderless Chef via Instagram and Twitter: @borderlesschef or at: www.facebook.com/theborderlesschef

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bazaar he said/she said

SAYING ‘NOTHING’S’ WRONG (WHEN SOMETHING’S WRONG) by bazaar staff

In the beginning...there was a him and a her - and nobody’s agreed on anything since. In this column, we present both sides, as if we may eventually come to a conclusion...you decide!

he said...

For most men (if my sample size and corresponding data ring true), there is for us, perhaps nothing more frustrating in an argument with our significant other, then the age-old response of being told “nothing’s wrong,” when clearly something is.

Most of the time it goes something like this: He: “What’s wrong?” She: “nothing.” He: “no really.” She: Really (while not looking you in the eye), He: “No really, I must know.” She: “I said nothing!”[(Etc., Etc., ad nauseam) squared!]. If this little skit alone is set to send you into a tailspin, rest assured that you are not alone.

First, if you’ll allow me, the harsh (and oversimplified) truth: we don’t care! I know it’s terrible, right? Still. You have to understand: as men, it is not in our DNA to be able to compute this ambiguous data. We are taught, from a very young age to speak up for what we want, assert our direction, handle conflict directly, etc. I can practically hear my father’s direction as I type. This does not mean we always do this, but it’s our aim, or at the very least what’s considered good and admirable amongst men. So, when you don’t say what’s wrong, we really cannot be bothered to pry it out of you (“at least, initially” he said, in attempts to be heard-out).

To take it a step further, consider this: If something is wrong, it is likely something I did. I, being me, likely did what I intended. So, if you are quiet about something, that something is likely in disagreement with me. If you are quiet about it, I am not responsible for changing anything, as for all I know…nothing is, in fact, wrong at all. So…exactly where is the incentive for me to pry it out of you? Ha! Brilliant! Oh, unless that is, the incentive is actually a healthy relationship that I would like to last longer than the ten minutes it takes you to pack your things and leave me. With that in mind, some suggestions for The Modern Fighter of Quiet, The Hero of the Unspoken, The Super Manusurper of passive aggression, The…I digress.

I think it’s fair to say that for me, one that has already walked through the fire on this enough to have permanently-scorched feet, there are generally three phases of dealing with this. Think of this as phases in the progression of a married man fighting his natural instinct.

Phase 1: “No – pretty please, just tell me, I must know! Tell me, tell me, tell me!”

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do it if you want, but it is generally not recommended, as by the time she actually tells you, it may be in the form of an explosion. So, do this if you want an immediate answer—at your own peril—but be prepared to have all types of unresolved conflict and coffee cups simultaneously hurled at you in the process.

Conclusion: Danger! This does not a happy couple make.

Phase 2: “Well if you are not brave enough to say it, that is your fault, not mine” The downward spiral of this should be fairly obvious. This is only going to exacerbate to your partner as exhibition that clearly you do not actually care how they feel at all. Conclusion: While a welcomed short-term fix, bad long-term indicator.

Phase 3: The great pause button of a relationship. …And then one day it hit me (or maybe she did—I can’t be sure). Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in between one and the other. Maybe she is not, in fact, putting off or stifling her own voice in some way at all; additionally, it is possible that she is not ready enough to say it (or even, place it) just yet.

It seems that sometimes, this is actually just a function in which to buy one more time to properly think about and process how she feels, so that she might not actually make matters worse. This makes a lot of sense, of course, given that we, as men, are not as likely to process how we feel at all. In fact, if you know how to do that, please write in and explain it to me—I jest! Conclusion: Welcome this time-out for all of the potential elucidation it might offer. In the end, the conversation will be the better for it. Unfortunately, it does mean that things may go unresolved longer than you would otherwise like.

So, in the end, the best advice I can give, is this: despite the fact that this great big relationship pause button may go against everything that is natural to you as a man with a want to fix the thing, it is in your best interest to let her tell you when, and if, she wants to.

She will either decide that in the end, it is not important enough to bring up at all, or that it is; at which point she will deftly approach you in a way that tricks you into thinking she was right (JOKING). Either way, hitting pause for a bit may just be the best thing for you.

Editor’s note: Please pay no attention to the fact that in the end the man comes to exactly the same practical outcome as he would have, had he just listened to his wife in the first place. (This is clearly a misrepresentation of the data.)

WHAt’S WRONG?

NOTHING!!

Uh OH...

Men have been searching for the one sentence to explain all that seems to lie behind the response “nothing.” The most popular explanation is a quote from Homer Simpson: “when a woman says nothing is wrong, it means everything is wrong.” If you don’t communicate, help around the house and with the kids, give your wife special attention, or try to understand her needs, like Homer does to his loving doting wife Marge, then yes, everything is wrong.

‘Nothing’ is me giving up.

I can’t generalize and say that every time I say “nothing is wrong”, or any woman says it, that there is something fundamentally wrong with our relationship and everything feels off. There is no one definition, or Holy Grail, that will explain this ambiguous and seemingly loaded response.

I have my moments, when I’m tired, hungry or just plain grumpy, nothing is wrong, but I’m not feeling like myself right now. This is the first level of nothingness. No one has made a transgression against me and I’m not harboring any angry feelings. It’s not that I don’t want to talk; there just is nothing to talk about. All I need is a hug, or maybe a spontaneous dinner out for a change of scenery.

Take it up a notch to where I’m having a bad day, but I don’t want to let it all out, and end up being the whining wife. Men are so good at internalizing their emotions without letting it affect their day.

Mine may be more obvious, but that doesn’t mean I need help working through my internal discovery.

I just need you to help a bit with the housework, or give me extra loving attention (not that kind!) to remind me how special I am.

These first two scenarios have nothing to do with you. It’s all about me and things happening in my life that I need to work out on my own. I need your support, but not your advice. Your insistence that it’s about you, and our relationship, makes me wonder if you’re the one with something to hide.

No doubt, there are times when I say “nothing, I’m fine”, but there is something festering in my mind, eating away at our great love. I can’t just unleash a gush of emotions, because I believe you will judge what you have difficulties understanding.

I probably also remember all those times I tried to talk to you about how I’m feeling, and your eyes

...she said

glazed over as you timed your “uh huh baby” just right, even when I get to the part where the monkey did the Macrena on my head. If you aren’t listening, I’ll stop talking. At this point, you’ve entered a danger zone where signs of affection are not enough. I need you to show me you want to listen, understand and fix the problem, without making me feel petulant and peevish.

If my significant other is given a ‘nothing’ response in anger, and with an incredulous look, it’s my way of saying “you should know exactly what is wrong and by asking that question you’ve made it infinitely worse”. At this point I’ve dropped hints, made comments and shown my displeasure at the thing that is bothering me most. Asking “what’s wrong” shows me that you have ignored everything I’ve been trying to tell you, and makes me feel like there is nothing more I can say or do to fix the issue. Men, at this point your best bet is to try as hard as you can to figure out what is the matter, and go back to your significant other with an acknowledgement of the problem and a way to solve it. Brownie points if you can fix it first then have the conversation.

If you decide to just ignore everything until I come to my senses and I am able to simply communicate with you in a way you understand, you risk entering crisis mode. Or, the ‘Homer Simpson’ mode, where everything is wrong and with that one word I’m letting you know that I can’t tell you what’s wrong through words or actions, and I can’t begin to think how to fix the problem. It has, at this point, grown so big in my head I don’t know where to begin, or if I even want to.

So men, listen from the get-go and try to understand those little signs we women throw around. Never, ever make her feel like what is happening inside is insignificant or petty. If you don’t want the ‘nothing’ response, you have to give time and attention to the relationship. Let her know that her feelings have been heard by making small changes, or drastic ones if need be. If you do that, you will get everything.

He said/She said is a bazaar column resurrected from old issues no doubt just to see us fight in the office. It’s working.

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closet Bibi

OCTOBER MADNESS

by Bibi Al-Falah

Not only does October bring us temperature drops, but it also allows us to digest another fast paced season of Fashion Week from last month. Each city that hosts fashion week has its own vibe, and best of all-inspiring street style. Let’s cover the most talked about trends from the infamous month of September.

Rather than the usual peach and pink colors that explode onto spring runways for 2013, many designers opted for fall colors with browns and burnt orange hues. We also saw metallic fabrics trending by major fashion houses in the forms of silver gowns and golden bronze fitted skirts. I have to say there was something refreshing about this, because warm weather doesn’t mean we have to dress like rainbows. One recurring trend we did see in almost every show was prints, which I’m actually not a huge fan off. How many times can you wear a printed dress or top before getting completely sick of it? I can’t last very long with a loudly printed top or dress before giving it away.

Crop tops also made a bold splash on the runways but with a variation from the belly-button showing 90’s style we’re used to seeing. This season, crop tops are showing a slither of skin above the belly button, usually in the form of a matching pencil skirt and top or a dress with a strategically placed cut-out. This trend is obviously hard to work in Kuwait but I can’t say that I’m disappointed as it takes a very specific body type and style to actually pull it off. We saw cut-outs in other forms too, often appearing at the sides of a top in daring, geometric shapes. Bottom line? Hit the gym!

As for shoes, models strutted down the runways in platforms as well as “flatforms”; a new term coined to describe platform shoes that are almost the same height in 48

the front and the back. These tend to look like clunky boats and I would steer clear of them if your style is ladylike. The sneaker trend is still going strong after several seasons from its original debut, most having a bit of a hidden wedge. Kitten heels are also still around, which is a relief for us working girls that don’t relish the idea of wearing 5 inch stilettos to meetings.

In addition to runway trends, the most fashionable women were actually the attendees of the fashion shows. Editors, bloggers and buyers tend to be the most stylish women of all and set trends in their own right. Needless to say, if you are ever in need of style

inspiration look no further than street style shots from all the major blogs and magazine websites like Harper’s Bazaar online, or style.com’s street fashion photos.

In other wardrobe news, you may have a Halloween fiesta coming your way on the last weekend of this month. If so- I think it’s extremely obvious what the costume of choice will be for all the ladies this year. Here’s a hintSparkly dresses, retro hair, and fabulously feathered headbands.

You got it- Great Gatsby inspired costumes. I am absolutely in love with the flapper girl look. However, last year’s influx of black swan costumes took the allure away

from the beauty of the outfit. As tempted as I am to go for this look, I have a fear of walking into a room and finding 6 other girls with the exact same idea. So what’s a unique outfit to go for instead?

Some of my personal favorites are Cleopatra, the Queen of Hearts and Pocahontas. I would advise ordering them online ahead of time because it gets really difficult to find costumes here, without having to resort to buying whichever cheesy option is left over the day before. Don’t do that!

Have a fashionable October and a Happy Halloween!

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RUN Q8 2013

Running for the cause by bazaar staff

Each year, the RunQ8 10K Run/Walk is organized by the Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute (FSRI) and Agility to raise awareness and generate support for a selected health initiative in Kuwait. This year’s event, which takes place on November 2nd 2013, is raising funds and awareness for the Children’s Rehabilitation Initiative. FSRI will dedicate the proceeds of RunQ8 to its non-profit Children 50

Rehabilitation Program. Through donations, they are able to offer the same much needed pediatric services to children in need and who cannot otherwise afford rehabilitation.

Last year, the runners’ registration fee contributions made it possible for a child suffering from injuries in a traffic accident to receive comprehensive rehabilitation services for one year—no small feat indeed. The dynamic

of childhood disability is such that it is seen along a continuum of growth; that means that a child requires ongoing treatment to constantly guide the child’s development in the correct way.

Due to the lack of multidisciplinary rehabilitation services in Kuwait, many families must travel abroad to get the quality of care that their child needs. A parent has sufficient difficulty in raising a disabled child, but to do this far from their home and from the support of their family demands too much. Inevitably the family must return home, where the child receives no treatment and their health deteriorates due to a lack of ongoing treatment. This can all lead both child and family towards a downward spiral of helplessness.

At FSRI, they meet regularly with pediatric healthcare providers in the US and Canada who regularly treat children from Kuwait, and assessed what needs to be done to begin addressing this problem locally. Petrochemical company Equate generously stepped in and provided initial funding to establish the program. When they first began offering Children’s Rehabilitation services, they discovered that not only was there a demand for these services, but sadly, there were many children whose families simply could not afford the cost of care for a severely or chronically disabled child. Through the generous donations of several private donors, and the proceeds of the registration fees from the previous RunQ8, they were able to offer year-long comprehensive treatment to some of these children who would otherwise be unable to get this treatment.

The Children’s Rehabilitation Initiative offers a structured, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary rehabilitation service that cares for all of the needs of the child, providing parents with a service which is available to them regardless of their financial situation, so that they do not have to watch their child’s condition deteriorate because they cannot afford help. FSRI fosters communication and co-operation between all practitioners caring for the child in so that they may work more effectively as a team towards a common goal, both within FSRI and with the wider healthcare community in Kuwait.

Please tell your friends, family and colleagues to come out Race Day and join in the fun! By joining RunQ8, you are not only having fun and improving your health but also improving your community and the lives of young people.

Run Q8 10km run/walk will take place on November 2nd starting at Marina Mall. For more details go to www.runq8.org, email them at info@runq8.org or visit Twitter @runq8official, Instagram @FSRI, or Facebook: RunQ8.

THE NORTH FACE

ORIGAMI

A vision unfolding by bazaar staff

We recently got to sit down with Miranda Winkler, a half Indonesian American who has lived in Kuwait for a little over 5 years now. As an Origami hobbyist, pencil artist and, more recently a painter as well, she continues to enjoy a multi-facted artistry that pushes boundaries. Self-taught in the arts as well as homeschooled overall, it seems that a “do it yourself” mantra was instilled in her at an early age. As her origami skills continue to evolve and improve into 3D masterpieces she continues to innovate and grow as an artist. We check in to see how she got started: How did you first get into origami?

It started sometime before I was 12, although I’m not sure how old I was exactly. I had a maid that showed me how to make an origami tulip. I was so fascinated to find that one could make such beautiful things out of something as simple as paper.

What is the hardest part of origami?

There are a lot of things that are hard about origami. The part that is hardest about it to me though, is memorizing the steps. Once I’m done making one thing and I make it a lot, I tend to forget how to do it later since I always move on to so many new things. It’s easy to forget since some steps are so complicated to memorize forever.

With 3D origami the hardest part is making the tiny pieces that I use to build my sculptures. It takes a lot of time to make the amount of pieces I need to make certain things.

Have you made any of your own shapes, or do you generally follow other ones?

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people did, to some extent I still do now, but I prefer to make my own things. I learn from people online so that I can use some of the elements to help me make my own. There are so many amazing origami sculptures that people make online, it’s amazing. I hope to continue to practice my craft so that I might be just as good as they are one day.

What is the biggest and smallest thing that you have ever made?

The biggest thing I have ever made is a dragon, which was roughly the size of an oversized book. Given the 3D component, it was also about 2-3 novels wide.

It took me one week to finish and I never left the house and stayed in my room to make it. The smallest thing I made is a rose about the size of my thumb.

How have people reacted to your art?

People have been very interested in my art so far, and often say that they have never seen anything like 3D origami before. Luckily, I had orders for my sculptures before I even started selling them. Everyone said that I was amazing and that I was so talented—it was weird being praised by my friends.

Tell us about your other work?

I have always liked to draw—that’s where my art started. I loved drawing primarily cartoons and animé. I loved drawing faces and would try endlessly to make the features I would capture of them as accurate as a models face. I’m not as fast as other people, as I like to take my time when I draw. I could easily take days to finish one drawing.

I have never used color (thus far), and prefer to draw only using a regular pencil.

I also do watercolors, which for me started when I was kid; I always wanted to paint! I loved the idea of playing with colors and using something other then a pencil to make art. I have only been painting Watercolor’s for two years now, so I am still learning; but I am enjoying the difficulty of it.

Is there a prevailing message that you are trying to communicate with your pieces?

I haven’t really thought of that, to be honest. I just love what I do, and I hope it shows in my work.

I want to do so many things still. I don’t want to be stuck doing just one thing. I guess I also want to show people that if I can do so many things, then they can too!

What is your dream for your art, and what would you like to accomplish in the future?

My dream is to have a good job that gives me the time aside to continue my art. I don’t want to make art my full-time job as I feel that it may take the fun away from it. In the future I hope to have my pieces in a gallery and be able to make a name for myself.

Is there anywhere we can find or buy your work?

For 3 months last year I built up a collection of ornaments and sold them at BSK bazaar, almost reaching 300 KD. I want to build up a collection before I sell again, and then put it on display at a future time, whether online or at a gallery.

Miranda Winkler continues to fold the world into beautiful pieces of art, one page at a time. You can reach her at: mirandamariewinkler@gmail.com

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KCCC and UHN offer their advice when it comes to Breast Cancer

by KCCC and UHN

Among women living in Kuwait, Breast Cancer continues to be the most frequently diagnosed cancer with as many as 367 new cases diagnosed in 2009, more than twice as many as Colorectal Cancer (the next closest statistic). Breast Cancer makes up one-fifth of the cancer cases diagnosed in 2009 and is the leading cause of cancer mortality among women as per the Kuwait Cancer Registry’s 2009 Report.

Signs and Symptoms If any of these signs or symptoms are detected, a doctor should be seen as soon as possible: • A lump in the breast or under the arm pit • An inverted nipple • Crusting or reddening of the nipple, or patchy areas on the nipple • Discharge or bleeding from the nipple • Changes to the shape and size of the breast • Changes to the skin of the breast • Changes in skin temperature of the breast Screening Experts agree that early detection is the key to cancer survival. Use the following guidelines to develop a screening schedule that is right for you: • Self-examination is another important aspect of early detection.

• Clinical examination by an expert (once every two years recommended for women over 40) • Mammography (once every year recommended for women above age 40) Family history can play a role in whether an individual will develop Breast Cancer. If any immediate family members have been diagnosed with Breast Cancer before menopause, be sure to alert your physician. He/she may adjust your screening schedule accordingly.

Risk Factors No one thing causes Breast Cancer, but there are a few common factors that seem to increase risk of developing it (please note that having these factors do not mean that you will get Breast Cancer, they only increase the risk): • Family history of Breast or Ovarian Cancer • Early menstruation • Late menopause • Having taken hormone replacement therapy for more than five years • Never having given birth • Giving birth for the first time over the age of 30 • Dense breast tissue • Radiation treatment to the chest area before age 30 • Being over the age of 50 • Obesity, alcohol consumption and the use of birth control pills may also slightly increase risk.

Treatment Breast Cancer treatment and care today is 54

so customized that a specialized treatment plan is tailored to the needs of the individual patient.

Breast Cancer treatment may include: • A lumpectomy removes the tumor while conserving most of the breast.

• A mastectomy removes the entire breast and sometimes the lymph nodes.

• Radiation is used to treat many stages of Breast Cancer and frequently used after a lumpectomy.

• Biological therapy helps the body’s immune

system fight cancer.

• Herceptin is used to treat human epidermal growth factor positive (HER2) tumors.

• Hormonal treatment is given to Breast Cancer patients who have estrogen and progesterone receptors on their cancer cells.

Information from the Kuwait Cancer Control Center and University Health Network partnership.

New Season ADOLFO DOMINGUEZ

artist of the month

KARIM FADEL, A.K.A. ‘RUSH’ A look into the arabian influences that have created the region’s most prominent hip-hop group. by bazaar staff

Egypt’s most notable hip-hop crew, the Arabian Knightz, is on a mission to spread freedom through their lyrics and incite change with their beats. Their song ‘Rebel’ was the first to play in Tahrir Square in January 2011 after communication lines were restored. The Knightz pride themselves on Arabic unity, with lyrics in both Arabic and English. Their latest album includes production from some notable names such as Fredwreck Nassar and the Wu-Tang Clan’s 4th Disciple. bazaar sits with the founder and originator Kareem Adel to find out more.

How did your musical journey begin?

It was in 1999 on a road trip, when I was listening to Jay Z’s new album hit ‘Big Pimpin’’ on my headphones. I heard Abdel Halim’s flutes from Khosara Khosara and I thought to myself, how many hits could an Arab rapper mix out of the millions in our history? I wrote my own lyrics, and produced a song. Soon after, I created the group MaddSkillz and combined my efforts with a few American friends.

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We started performing in clubs, and I met Sphinx. Before we spoke we free styled to each other. When we took it outside the whole club followed us and watched us go back to back.

Later he introduced me to our third member, Ehab, a.k.a. E Money. Each of us was in a separate group, but we decided to form Arabian Knightz.

Our goal was to show that hip-hop is for everyone.

Within 2 weeks we had 3 songs up on MySpace with thousands of views.

What/Who inspires you to compose your music?

Our music is about the people. So, my biggest inspiration is the reality of what is happening in my country and my surroundings. I also draw inspiration from my favorite authors, musicians and movies.

Why did you choose the genre of performing hiphop music?

Hip-hop reaches people because it gives the freedom to speak, and a non-violent method.

Yet, it’s art so it reaches people because it is interesting, without being forceful. People pay more

attention to the words of a musician than those of a politician or a sheikh.

What are some of the challenges of performing hip-hop music?

Dealing with show organizers is an ongoing problem in the Middle East. The least of our worries are the frequent technical issues during our shows.

Unfortunately, large scale organizers don’t consider Arab rappers as real artists. What is more worrying is our banishment from certain establishments because of our lyrics. Egypt’s Culture Wheel, which was created in Cairo to support freedom of speech through art, has banned others and us from performing there because we did anti-MB songs.

Is the final sound of a musical track an individual or group effort?

It really depends on the track. Usually I get the beat to the guys and we work on it together.

Sometimes I get really into the song, and it becomes my full idea like ‘Entrance’ and ‘Unknighted.’ The guys get their own moments of inspiration too, like Sphinx did with ‘Sisters’. But in the end it’s always

a group effort. We help each other out to make the best sounds we can.

Who/What in your early beginnings influenced your music?

I remember at the age of five, I took a cruise with my uncle and his car radio played Mohammed Mounirs album Shababeek very loud. I loved the songs and they stuck in my head. My mom would play Abdel Halim and other arabic music in her car just as loud, while she sang along. Music and songs became something you get absorbed into with a passion whether you’re making it, or listening to it.

Years passed and nearly in the same age I got into reading poetry, traditional Arab She3r Jahely, I also got into rap music and bought albums by rappers like Ice Cube and 2pac, Snoop and Wu Tang. It was from these new artists and old rhythms and beats that I drew most of my inspiration.

In your opinion, what was the hardest challenge you faced in your musical career so far?

The hardest part is getting your career off the ground, with no support from the industry, or

media. We’ve played shows all over Europe with no local coverage, despite our attempts to let them know we’re playing. Our albums have been banned, and so we don’t have a booking agent, manager or promoter.

How has the Middle Eastern world reacted to your sound?

We have a huge fan base all over the Middle East. Our web hits show they span from Morocco to Oman. We really want to go all over the region by tour bus and perform everywhere, but so far we’ve only done Egypt and Qatar.

Do you feel that music should always serve a specific purpose?

Music is music and it follows no rules. It’s a personal form of expression so it’s there to express how I feel at the time. Sometimes I just want to make songs that make me feel good or silly.

What are some of your favorite tracks, and why?

Every song we did has its place in our heart and I can’t pick one, they are all my babies. Each one took our music to a different level.

What is your dream performance space and destination?

I want to perform in the Bronx where they created hip-hop and in Saudis Souk Okaz where they created poetry battles 2000 years ago. But for now, next year’s World Cup. What would you like to accomplish in the future?

I want to push hip-hop in the Middle East to a global standard, so I can show the real image of this region to the world for once, and they know the truth about who and how we are.

Will hip-hop visit us in Kuwait?

I’d love to visit! I’ll come there as soon as I can book a show and stay as long as we are wanted. I hear it’s a beautiful country.

You can download the album from Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/4amazon11 or from iTunes at http://tinyurl.com/Itunes-usa-album. Follow the group on Twitter @ARABIANKNIGHTZ or Facebook at www.facebook.com/ARABIANKNIGHTZ.AK or email them at arabian.knightz.eg@gmail.com 57

DEAR MISS AMERICA, An open letter

by bazaar staff

With your recent win last month; I am quite confident that you are being bombarded with well wishes, while you set your agenda for the current years reign. However, true to form, it seems that the paint was not even dried on your fake silver tiara before people began to come out en masse and question your right to represent the country from which you hail. Their want to paint you as anything less than American is comedic, for all of its obvious foibles and apparent memory loss. Or could it be the medium…

My main problem however is the recent articles that purport to tell us how unhappy Americans are with you being Arab, this of course being besides the point that you are actually of Indian decent. While this might seem a minor mishap to some, I am quite certain that I understand the significant difference, as I myself get quite upset when people suggest that I am from the wrong side of California, to say nothing of mistaking me for Canadian—but at the end of the day, at least I can see, due to all our similarities, why they might make such a mistake. Further, as an unofficial member of the growing swath of the American public most often referred to as ‘Ethnically Ambiguous’, I can only say that I can identify with issues of racial identity, as well as the ever-changing dynamic of public opinion on the subject.

My primary want here is to say that this argument isn’t “real,” and thus you should pay it no mind.

Admittedly, this feels quite wrong, dismissive, and reductive to say the least. Let me clarify: I believe race issues in contemporary American society to be a very real thing indeed, not just because of unresolved and on-going disparities in incomes, prison sentencing guidelines and populations, and other societal undercurrents that continue to plague us, all of which of course is to say nothing of the Arab and/or Muslim’s plight in a post 9/11 world. Still, what I mean by it isn’t real- is that it isn’t really real. The subject is valid, but framed in a faux manner—as in, it’s not the real part of it.

It is not legitimately how the bulk of people feel.

It is not the tenor in the streets, it is not even my “increasingly closed-minded and often prejudiced in his old age” grandfather’s perspective (which is saying something); it is a rouse, it is a misnomer, it is a business plan. How this became a headline so close to your crowning, is, to me, representative of the problem, and quite frankly a distraction from the very real conversations that should be taking place about race in American society.

The old adage about statisticians comes to mind here: figures lie and liars figure. That is to say that, yes—some people clearly tweeted these things shortly after your win. But to report them as if to suggest that they are representative of a widespread American mind set overall, is so woefully inept that it could be considered naïve, if it were not so calculated 58

a decision. You see, quite simply, this is how you get site visits, which equate to dollars, which means the site keeps plugging away—one misleading story at a time. Do you know how many genuine nut-job tweets there are out in the world on the daily? Quite simply, some individual people think some pretty crazy individual things, and we happen to be part of a nation that lets them, and—believe it or not— that’s the good news. Thus, as long as people keep tweeting crazy things, websites that generate ad sells by virtue of traffic garnered through regurgitating this crazy-talk as fact, will continue to do so. The reality of the vast majority of American people is that they would be hard pressed to not find a point in their familial stories where they were not themselves immigrants. I really feel like this goes without saying, except that, given these tweets, perhaps it doesn’t.

The problem for you is obvious I suspect. Here you have worked quite hard at your craft (whatever that is) and are now stuck dealing with all this real-world negativity, when you would rather be discussing something heady, like diet tips. What will be of your reign? The problem for me is a different one entirely. As someone who currently resides in the Middle East, I am quite often one of the ones left with hat in hand trying to explain to our Middle Eastern brethren the subtle difference between: trollers, keyboard cowards, faux popular opinion, and honest and legitimate concerns that

any evolving society might have.

A lot of the negative rhetoric that I hear online and in the streets is not so much based on our current foreign policy decisions, though sometimes it is, but often comes rather as a direct response to what is increasingly being reported as “American Public Opinion,” as if that were just one huge paintbrush you could apply to your mental canvas.

So in short, tell the tweeters et al––it’s tough out here, cut out the crazy talk in public please, you’re making it harder for us to walk down a street safely!

I can only imagine how much harder it makes the work of your average soldier or diplomatic envoy.

There are some of us who still know that America, for all her faults, exhibits her wonder best through inclusion and not through divisive rhetoric.

The truth is, as the first Indian American Miss, who self-identifies more, American than Indian, who is at the crux of a ‘does not quite fit in the country of her birth, nor from where her parents came’ mind set, that is also likely too dark for the Bollywood films she portrays in homage (as continued exemplar of the cultural disconnect), you may just be the most American Miss America yet!

Miss America can be found at Rodeos and Car Dealer openings throughout the U.S. Midwest all this Spring. You can argue with her via Twitter or help her fight in support of Whirled Peas!

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bazaar movie night The latest from the big screen playing in cinemas across Kuwait in October

GRAVITY

DIANA

ABOUT TIME

Release Date: October 3 Theaters: Grand Cinema and Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller Cast: George Clooney/Sandra Bullock

Release Date: October 10 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Biography, Drama Cast: Naomi Watts/Naveen Andrews/Douglas Hodge

Release Date: October 10 Theaters: Grand Cinema and Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy Cast: Domhnall Gleeson/Rachel McAdams/Bill Nighy

Synopsis: Directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón and staring Oscar winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone.

Synopsis: Based on Kate Snell’s 2001 book, Diana: Her Last Love, and written by Stephen Jeffreys. The biopic focuses on the last two years of Diana, Princess of Wales’ life after she divorced from Prince Charles. Her relationships with Hasnat Khan and Dodi Fayed are also narrated. It also provides the details about how the Princess and Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan met. Diana is played

by British-Australian actress Naomi Watts and directed by German director Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Invasion, Downfall).

Synopsis: At the age of 21, Tim’s father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can’t change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place...by getting a girlfriend.

Tim finds out that his unique gift can’t save him from the sorrows and ups and downs that affect all families, everywhere. About Time is a comedy about love and time travel, which discovers that, in the end, making the most of life may not need time travel at all.

ESCAPE PLAN

EMPIRE STATE

ENDER’S GAME

Release Date: October 10 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Action, Thriller Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger/Sylvester Stallone

Release Date: October 17 Theaters: Grand Cinema Genre: Action, Drama Cast: Emma Roberts/Liam Hemsworth/DwayneJohnson

Release Date: October 31 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fi Cast: Harrison Ford/Abigail Breslin

Synopsis: Ray Breslin, one of the world’s foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called “The Tomb.” Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray (Sylvester Stallone) must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. This is the first pairing of action legends Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in leading roles, and co-stars Jim Caviezel, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Vinnie Jones, Vincent D’Onofrio and Amy Ryan.

Synopsis: After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis (Liam Hemsworth), settles for a security guard job. Chris makes the mistake of mentioning the company’s lax security to his best friend, Eddie, and is soon unwittingly drawn into an elaborate scheme to rob the abundant amounts of cash being stored there resulting in the largest cash heist in U.S. History.

As the stakes continue to rise, Chris and Eddie must outwit James Ransone, the veteran NYPD Detective that is hot on their trail, as well as the local crime bosses that want to know who pulled a job on their turf, or suffer the consequences.

Synopsis: The Earth was ravaged twice by the Formics, an alien race seemingly determined to destroy humanity. Seventy years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race.

He is separated from his beloved sister and his terrifying brother and brought to battle school in orbit around earth. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise himself as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family.

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For more details on movie timings and the cinema nearest you visit: Cinescape: www.cinescape.com.kw or Facebook - @Cinescape – Kuwait National Cinema Company, Grand Cinemas: kw.grandcinemas.com or Facebook @Grand Cinemas Kuwait.

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DRESSING BABIES AS…BABIES!

Dima Nuseibah talks motherhood and all things babycottons by bazaar staff

A young mother with an innate entrepreneurial spirit, Dima Nuseibah takes mom-dom (the everso-challenging kingdom of motherhood) to a whole new level with her latest endeavor—babycottons.

After a short time working in the corporate world, Dima opted out to pursue her own challenges.

From her earlier involvement in Nailpolish Salon, playing a pivotal role in its success and evolution, to drawing from her personal experiences as a mother, it is Dima’s nurturing disposition that led her towards choosing to bring this concept from the US to Kuwait.

As the brand’s first store in the Middle East, babycottons is a young brand that originates from Argentina with a refreshing design ethos: dressing babies like, babies. Using the highest grade of cotton in the world, also known as pima cotton, from northern Peru, babycottons provides a totally unique product offering that sets it apart from its competition. Dima personally chose this brand for her youngest. Having a baby marked a dynamic shift in her life that led her to discover the store while in Miami last year. She fell in love with the ‘babycottons spirit’, Dima shared the brand’s natural perception towards babies and children in choosing not just another clothing brand, but a natural bond. She adds, “the quality is faultless and the colors are calm and neutral. I was personally looking for matching sets that weren’t designed for either a boy or a girl, and the classic designs simply lured me in.”

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babycottons offers the local market something completely different and refreshing. Even though we have a myriad of baby and children’s stores in Kuwait, the focus at babycottons is child-driven before it incorporates the concept of style. Dima believes that this is a notion that we need to come back to how we consider dressing children, using the softest top quality pima cotton, combined with delicate colors and classic designs including matching onesies, hats, bibs, etc.

The store’s setting at The Mall-The Avenues, offers a pleasant, relaxing and harmonious environment, as it is clearly divided in sections highlighting different age groups from newborns, even preemies, all the way to six-year-olds. Dima further remarks that it is hard for moms to shop in Kuwait, especially if they are looking for high quality items that are affordable and durable. Besides garments for infants and children, also available are all the complimentary accessories any new mother would require using the same grade of fine pima cotton. Starting from simple undershirts that signified babycottons as a brand since its early beginnings, the store now boasts a wide collection that spans from ready-to-wear designs to diaper bags and changing stations. This means avoiding allergies, and constant comfort for your child.

The winter collection is currently in store, as Dima explains that every season is defined by special prints, so moms should expect fairies as well as polka dots for girls, and race cars for

boys. The one-woman show that she is, Dima does all of her buying and is personally invested in the brand. “As a young mom, it is so fulfilling for me to learn more about the needs of other moms, knowing how to buy for different tastes, and even picking up a tip or two along the way.” She humbly acknowledges that her journey with babycottons is an evolving learning process. Dima benefits from her customers’ feedback, and feels like their input is what ensures the success of any concept. So far, the response has been great, as other moms are drawn to the idea of affordable yet quality oriented products presented in classic designs.

Achieving that perfect balancing act between family and business, Dima chooses a completely hands-on approach that is attributed to her supportive nature. She emanates positivity as she speaks about babycottons, and we can easily see why this brand will fare extremely well in the market—she simply believes in what she is selling. She might choose to relax by the beach when she’s not working, but only because Dima knows that rest is required to foster more growth. In the near future, she plans to open more babycottons stores in Kuwait and the rest of the Gulf. She concludes, “babycottons is definitely a growing brand, and I’m so excited to be a part of its growth here in the Middle East.” babycottons is located on the first floor of The Mall-The Avenues. Please call 2220 0848 for more information or follow them on Instagram, @babycottonskw.

FACES

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE QOUT

Qout Market starts in November – mark your calendars!

by Qout Market

Qout Market, the first large farmer’s market in Kuwait, will be launching this year in November. It will be held on the first Saturday of every month throughout the growing season and will last until April, from 10 in the morning until 10 in the evening. The market is co-organized

by Noaf Hussein of Pretty Little Things and Budour Al-Qassar of The Oven Experiments.

Two avid foodies at heart, they’ve worked long and hard to deliver a format well deserving of an authentic farmer’s market experience. This initiative, ultimately, helps to support local food producers and encourage people to eat local, seasonal fresh food.

The first installment, as well as following markets, will be held at a popular urban location and will this season be located in Kuwait City at Arraya Plaza, the outdoor space between Arraya Centre and the parking lot.

This market first took shape when it was presented as part of the 2012 Middle East64

North Africa Active Citizen Summit, organized by the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL), in partnership with the US State Department. Budour Al-Qassar, along with 60 other young delegates from the MENA region, presented their active citizen projects in Washington DC, and the farmers market was the project she presented. At the end of the summit, the ACYPL gave out small grants to selected participants. They chose one project from each country and the farmer’s market project was chosen from Kuwait.

The name of this market is the Arabic word qout, which literally translates into ‘food,’ and this market is all about the wonderful realm of food.

Most importantly, Qout Market is a communitybased farmers market that aims to help and support local/regional farmers/artisans, and serves as an educational tool.

The format will be based on the ones we have come to love abroad, with open tents and

organic displays, but there will be a spin on it.

The market’s selection of vendors will include a combination of fresh produce and flowers, food items like fresh bread, cheese, honey, jams, and pickles as well as hand made items like crafts, soaps, and candles. In addition to all these items, a selection of hot food stands where people can pick up a variety of quick bites to enjoy on the spot, will be available. The focus will be on local chefs and local concepts.

In addition to meeting vendors, the vision for the market includes setting up talks on healthy eating habits and presentations on cooking and growing your own organic food. A community can hopefully be formed from which everyone will learn and benefit, as well as create a platform for educational activities the whole family can enjoy.

For more information, check out @Qoutmarket on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. For interested participants, please email qoutmarket@gmail.com.

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THE INFOGRAPHIST

Picturing big data by bazaar staff

The Infographist is a new and innovative design studio, established in the Middle East, with a goal of turning their customers’ data into self-explanatory visuals that connect with the intended audience.

A process they like to call Visual Crunching. TIGG was founded as a partnership that includes one content-obsessed information architect, and one icon-frenzied information designer. Join us as we sit down with Carla Saliba, who, along with her business partner Celia Jaber, have plunged boldly into the future with a new take on traditional data.

Tell us about the history behind TIGG labs (what were you doing before, and how did you all come together)?

I began my career as an architect and later moved to Milan to complete a Masters in Business Design where I specialized in ‘design thinking’.

Throughout the course of my studies I took a liking to information architecture and design. My 2.5 years in Italy were very inspiring and the wealth of information I acquired throughout the program served as an eye opener and I noticed a lack of insight for visual information in the Middle East.

This lead me to start-up TIGG, the first creative agency in the region dedicated to infographics and data visualization.

Tell us about your vision?

TIGG was founded on the idea of bringing together the rich pool of talent across the Middle East region to create meaningful projects that entertain as much as inform, and spread knowledge through the strategic value of design.

We work across all industries serving multiple sectors from marketing to education to internal communication. In a nutshell, we simplify and visualize information with the aim of facilitating and enhancing business communication.

Why infographs?

Whether you’re a baby boomer, Gen X or a millennial, you can’t deny the fact that we are living in the age of information overload and ‘big data.’ So how do we keep from drowning in this sea of information? Through visual aids we can engage audiences and facilitate the understanding and retention of information that shapes our perceptions and drives our decisions.

What does it mean to be based out of Dubai (and/ or doing this in the Arab world) presently?

To be amongst the pioneers of information design in this region is really exciting. There is so much potential and at TIGG we believe in the power of collaboration by drawing on the collective strategic value of creativity to help make data work for our clients. Being in Dubai (with the results of the Expo2020 host city very near), it’s definitely the most strategic place to be in right now.

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What is your favorite part (the picture versus the data) of creating an infograph?

I think both are equally fascinating. I love seeing the process and transformation from the content to the creative aspect. However, I am specialized in the content strategy part, which I find really interesting as I learn something new through every project.

How does your art and architecture background factor into constructing these?

Architecture definitely plays a massive role

in the construction of wireframes (the pre-design phase where the information is laid out structurally to flow and tell a story).

The beauty of being an architect is that you can apply the core principles of structure, scale, function and form across any design related disciplines. This has definitely been of great value.

What projects are you currently working on/ what’s next?

We are currently working on an interesting

project for the first microfinance startup in the Middle East, Pi Slice. Pi Slice is a peer-to-peer micro-lending platform that allows people from around the world to lend to the working poor to start or expand their micro-businesses.

What is your favorite piece that you have worked on so far?

One of my favorites is an infographic we did for the BMW Foundation that highlights their mission and vision through a real life story of two young leaders from the foundation.

Where do you see this organization in the future?

We see it as a model for development for niche creative agencies. We are working on a more global level by partnering up with like-minded individuals and organizations in other parts of the world, as well as creating a sustainable ecosystem between East and West in the creative industry.

What kind of project will benefit from an infograph?

All businesses can benefit from infographics as they engage audiences and facilitate the

understanding and retention of information.

These are key elements as visuals can shape our perceptions and drive our decisions. Moreover, visualizations can help companies discover new insights that are achieved through the mapping and visualizing of data.

The Infograph lab company can be found online at www.theinfographist.me. You can also follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @theinfographist.

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EID, HEALTH, AND IN-LAWS

by B. Qureshi

Eid-al-Adha is the ultimate holiday, provided you celebrate it in your home country with close family and friends. Traditional holidays flourish in your traditional landscape, whereas Eid as an expat in a Muslim country means a few days off work and the chance to visit co-workers if you wish; in the secular west, where religion is often a private matter, Eid can be as bleak as taking the morning off work for prayer at an Islamic center, and, being unable to find goat, thawing a grocery-store leg of lamb on the counter to eat alone later, as festive as a single candle on a cupcake for a party-less birthday.

My life’s few eventful Eid-al-Adhas have been celebrated in my mother-in-law’s house in Pakistan, where this Eid -- the big one -- unselfconsciously, and without being derivative in any way, compounds so many elements from my favorite American holidays. Goats or cows are spangled in colorful array like Christmas trees. Later they are slaughtered at home, their blood spilling onto the street, or in designated areas in the city. The poor and the needy buzz the gate for their share of the holiday bounty, retrieving packages of meat doorto-door, much like the root tradition of Halloween, where beggars begged alms rather than the contemporary spin of children “begging” candy from neighbors. Extended family and friends exchange gifts of meat, my mutton for your beef, somewhat like a protein-centric, non-commercial Christmas.

The morning passes in prayer, like most religious holidays around the world do, and throughout the day, after a brunch of liver and kidney among the household, the helpers separate pieces of meat on blood-soaked plastic drop cloths into twokilogram mounds for freezing while the men nap or watch TV and the women cook beef stew and mutton pilaf while awaiting the arrival of guests-quite like Thanksgiving, minus the vegetarian sides, complete with several weeks’ worth of beef leftovers (they do a cow and a goat each year).

Last year I found myself in an altercation with my mother-in-law concerning beef, beef, and more beef, pining for a dish of bottle gourd or yogurt curry even. Anything but meat! My baby was barely two months old then and after a complicated delivery, I had the bad luck of having a chronic condition which made digesting heavy foods difficult. I remember telling my husband how hungry I was, and how, knowing about how much attention our baby required and how I couldn’t make my own meals in my mother-in-law’s labyrinthine kitchen, organized jointly by her, my two sister-in-laws, and a maid, in a house where no one eats lunch, where some days I’d be able to find a single egg or a cooking spoon or a frying pan or a jar of cumin or none, how could he have even thought we should have come at all?

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in our bedroom, but was that enough to sustain a lactating woman?

Come to think of it, the uncomplaining members of the house had their reasons beyond personal preference for abstaining from fatty cuts of meat, the holiday notwithstanding. I was only advocating for them. My father-in-law had been irritated by a sore foot for ages, a sure sign of gout; my three brothers-in-law were on the heavy end of overweight (or the light end of obese); my husband was a near-vegetarian, taking all days of the week as meatless except those with “r” in them. And my mother-in-law had a laundry list of maladies, many of which get jumbled due to a combination of my poor translation, her lack of medical accuracy, and her Northern accent: asthma, depression, anxiety,

obesity, now a cataract, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, back and shoulder pain, followed by the more general fat-on-the-liver, just-another-rash, pain-in-the-tissue (which tissue? The tissue, she’d repeat), and feeling as if her heart would burst.

After that episode my sister-in-law fried me an egg with spinach, my third and a half egg of the day.

I began to remember Eid-al-Adhas of my mother’s youth in a Pakistan long since gone. After the meat was slaughtered far from home and generously distributed, my grandmother, a woman with a strong sense of a smell who had grown up in a city in India before Partition where “only poor people ate beef,” used to have lentils prepared for herself and for my mother. Over a pot of dahl and chapattis, they would celebrate the holiday, and be grateful.

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WADJDA

First feature film ever made in Saudi Arabia

by Dana Stevens

The first feature film ever made in Saudi Arabia is one of my favorites of the year.

There’s something about a kid on a bike— that combination of innocence, exploration, and autonomous forward motion—that’s always been a natural subject of cinema, from De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves to Spielberg’s E.T. to the Dardenne brothers’, Kid With a Bike. Wadjda—the first fulllength feature film to be made entirely in Saudi Arabia, and the first feature from the female director Haifaa Al-Mansour—turns a little girl’s quest to earn the money for her own bicycle into a poignant fable about growing up female (and growing up, period) in a place where women’s autonomy is severely restricted. It’s a stunningly assured debut, a slyly subversive delight, and one of my favorite movies of the year so far.

Tomboyish 10-year-old Wadjda (played by the charming Waad Mohammed, a 12-year-old in her first film role) lives with her parents in a middle-class suburb of Riyadh. Her mother (Reem Abdullah), a beautiful, sheltered woman with traditional Islamic values, lives in fear that her dashing husband, an oil-rig employee who’s away from home for long periods at a time, will take a second wife to give him the son she’s no longer able to have. Wadjda attends a religious girls’ school where instruction centers around memorizing the Quran, and whose rigid headmistress (played with scary intensity by the single-named actress Ahd) is always on the lookout for signs of impious or unladylike behavior.

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on the roof of a passing car, Wadjda becomes obsessed with the idea of owning one of her own, even though cultural custom frowns upon the notion. (“You won’t ever be able to have children if you ride a bike,” her mother warns her.) Wadjda convinces a neighborhood boy with a crush on her (Abdullrahman al Gohani) to teach her to ride in secret and begins running various small-time scams at school to raise the money for the bicycle she so covets.

When Wadjda hears about a Quran-reciting contest at school with a cash prize, her previous lack of enthusiasm for religious instruction gives way to competitive fervor. She’s always been an indifferent student, not to mention anything but devout—alone in her room, she listens to forbidden American pop songs, and from under the hem of her black abaya peeks a pair of beat-up Chuck Taylors.

But with the prospect of finally owning that bike on the table, Wadjda devotes herself to learning to chant scripture with an energy that delights both her headmistress and her mother—even if, unbeknownst to them, for all the wrong reasons.

I won’t reveal any more about Wadjda and her quest, because this is a movie whose pleasures unfold on a miniature scale: a meaningful glance between two schoolgirls or a shared moment of

forbidden freedom can constitute plot points in and of themselves. As simple as the story seems on the surface, there’s sharp social commentary embedded in every scene: Wadjda’s perpetually frustrated longing to obtain her own set of wheels, for example, finds its double in her mother’s resentment of the boorish chauffeur she must hire to drive her across town every day.

Though the parallels she draws are never heavy-handed, Al-Mansour’s message is subtly radical. This isn’t a fist-shaking feminist manifesto but a sympathetic portrait of a hidebound patriarchal culture in gradual transition to greater openness .(Though Al-Mansour sometimes had to direct via walkie-talkie from inside a van so as not to scandalize onlookers by publicly ordering around men, she made the film with the approval of the Saudi government, and it may be shown on Saudi television—movie theaters having been banned in the kingdom since conservative clerics took over in the mid-1980s.) The last few scenes may not reinvent the wheel as far as plot resolution goes, but I defy you not to choke up at them—or to resist feeling your heart lift in the few brief moments when this film allows its spirited young heroine the chance to pedal down a dusty Riyadh street with the wind in her hair.

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BIZARRE BAZAAR HALLOWEEN

Now showing at our offices: A spooky Halloween by Party Land by bazaar staff

At bazaar, we take Halloween very seriously.

From planning costumes as early as July, to coming up with more ‘tricks’ rather than ‘treats’, we’re all about celebrating ‘Halloween at work’.

We’re talking Halloween with all the fixings; costumes that rock, decorations that scare, and gingerbread skeleton creatures to boot (I submit as evidence that our Halloween Decorations have already gone up and we were barely half way through September).

When it comes to planning any Halloween event, it is only wise to head to Party Land. As the largest retail party supply store in Kuwait, the Party Land experts cater to your every party need.

Renowned for their wide supplies selections, you are never lost for your next party idea, let alone Halloween! We teamed up with the experts at Party Land and got an amazing Halloween theme that’s perfect to spook our many visitors, including the unknowing food deliveryman, always so hesitant to make it all the way across the office to deliver our lunch. Blame it on the tombstone, or the gargoyles.

Where Halloween is concerned, Party Land presents at least one brand new theme every year. The Party Land stores in Shuwaikh and Symphony Mall, Salmiya, are decked out with customized decorations produced by the Party Land designers themselves. If you fancy creating your own theme, as we did, then plan your time prudently as hours are easily spent perusing through row upon row of decorations, props, and costumes. Pirates, ghouls, monsters, bewitching cats, and angry pumpkins are all mere examples of which direction you choose to theme your Halloween event. If that’s not good enough for your creative choosing, then you can fashion real life cardboard cutouts in any shape you desire, styro cuts of your favorite scary characters (Frankenstein anyone?), or even specially designed balloons bearing witches and monsters. This year, we’re told to expect plenty of ghosts, pumpkins, and fantastical adventures from Jack the Giant Slayer.

Customization is key at Party Land, and as early as September, customers flock to their stores requesting the creation of different decorations as the Party Land experts will craft, design and print anything you could ever ask for.

For our bazaar Halloween, we had requested spooky, and boy did we get spooked. All we had to do is simply mention the word ‘spooky’, and out came the expansive cobwebs, the horrifying gargoyles, a haunted coffin with an unsuspecting skeleton, all complete with a motion activated fog machine and flashing lights. From the ceiling dangles a huge, almost 74

too real, tarantula clasping half a skeletal corpse (Yes, our taste may be borderline morbid, but we like it). Stickers of some overly angry mice have scared off our office gecko, potentially for good, as he remains to be found as of yet. That’s what happens when you come forward with your idea; the Party Land gurus are ready with a million props to realize your vision.

We expected one thing, and were delivered with a creative team totally willing to take our initial idea one step further. All that’s left is deciding

on our costumes, and we’re good to go!

Simply bring your ideas, and the Party Land experts will make them a reality. They customize, decorate, and deliver on your every expectation.

Party Land is located in Shuwaikh and Symphony Mall, Salmiya. Please call 18-PARTY, 18-72789 or visit www.partyland.com.kw for more information, or follow them on Twitter @Partylandkwt, Instagram: @partyland_kuwait and Facebook.com/Partyland/Kuwait.

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WHY CHOOSE SMALL GROUP PERSONAL TRAINING?

by Mike Campbell

Is it easier to achieve your health and fitness goals in a group environment rather than as an individual? And if it is, then which group styled training is best suited to me? Is this just entertaining me or am I really improving my current fitness levels?

It would seem that most people find that it’s much easier to stay motivated if you exercise with other people and not just by yourself.

This can take the form of fitness classes such as Les Mills Body Combat, to traditional forms of Yoga, Spinning Classes, TRX, MMA (mixed martial arts), Cross Fit or Running groups.

So what is the difference between Group Training and Small Group Personal Training?

Traditionally group training consisted of Group Fitness Classes or “aerobics” as it was coined through the 80’s and 90’s. These classes, that cater to 10 to 300 plus people, were based around music, and could be free-styled or prechoreographed in their structure. These classes were seen as an added incentive to join a gym or health club because it was fun, free (often no extra cost) and social.

During the early 2000’s many people understood that there are benefits associated with having professional instruction, structure, 76

and accountability in their exercise programs.

But this type of instruction was usually (but not always) found in a one-to-one format, and came at high cost.

Enter “Small Group Training” which quickly became a very fashionable trend. For less cost than a 1:1 personal training session, a small group of individuals or friends could spend training time together receiving a higher level of coaching and access to different exercise tools than what was received in larger class.

In a Small Group Personal Training environment, people now felt they received more accountability, motivation, support, experience, and expert guidance to reach their fitness goals.

All at a cost that could fit in their budget.

With a global fitness focus switch to “core and stability training”, people were exposed to BOSU, Swiss Ball’s and later TRX styled training classes. Many leading strength experts phrased this as “entertainment training” where the focus of the group training was to keep the client entertained, as some people tend to find strength and conditioning tedious and boring. Regardless of what side of the fence you sit on, it is only fair to say that all these tools may serve a purpose in an aspect of your training programming. And if it

works for you…then use it! Just don’t forget that the fundamentals of strength training cannot be replaced by a stability ball.

Nowadays there are many variations available for small group styled training in the facilities in Kuwait. There are options for all fitness levels depending on your level of commitment to the cause of improving yourself. When looking for which one best suits you, always come back to your own goals. Don’t be afraid to watch a class or ask to participate in one so you can gauge the quality of the workout.

Cross Fit is probably one of the most wellknown forms of small group training available in Kuwait.

There is the individual disciplines of Boxing, Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Boot Camps, street style “Parkour” or “free running” classes, or strong person training which is based on “strongman” exercises.

My personal recommendation is that if you’re interested in improving your quality of life, it can be an excellent idea to find a group of four to six other friends who are interested in achieving similar goals. Keeping the group small allows for good quality movement patterns and constant guidance and coaching through technique. You do not need to be approaching the exercise plan from the same place, nor do you need to be at the same level of fitness either. A well-structured small group training system will offer you both regressions and progressions to encourage all levels of ability to move towards achieving their individual goals.

Always make sure your coach has a plan, that you buy into this plan and that each session has an aim. Use small group training to support your 1:1 Personal Training or Group Fitness Classes so that you expose yourself to new fitness challenges and experiences.

When you’ve entered into a difficult stage of your exercise program, having people there alongside you to share in your experience and encourage you along the way is often the difference between a successful exercise plan and one that tends to fad out over time.

Mike Campbell is the GM and Co Founder of Inspire Pure Fitness. For further information please email: info@inspirekw.com or jane@inspirekw.com or visit www.inspirekw.com.

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BARELY THERE

Yahia Lababidi’s new book arrives by bazaar staff

It has been 6 years since we last featured our friend, Poet and Aphoristic writer extraordinaire Yahia Lababidi, in the pages of bazaar. With the release of his latest book Barely There, he continues to endeavor on the same mystical journey that influenced his earlier works: equal parts spiritual signposts and wise travelling companion on the walk of life, they maintain their place as words to live by (or at the very least—nearby).

As a child who spent his early school years in Kuwait, he began the transcontinental literary journey that would lead him from Nietzsche to Rumi in as many short breaths.

Still, to date, it is in the United States that he currently resides and has so far found his largest audience. Already becoming more widely read locally by those who seek out new and interesting Arab voices, he is thus currently in the process of partnering with more booksellers regionally. We check in with him to catch up on the power of words and how such big ideas can be expressed through such minimalistic approaches to art.

How did you first get into writing?

I grew up in a home where there was an informal literary salon, with intellectual and artistic luminaries like Luis Awad, Youssef Idries, Youssef Francis, and later Ahmed Ragab. So, it was in the air from very early on, even before I knew that it was to be my calling. My parents were also very encouraging. Reading the likes of Gibran, Wilde, Hesse and Nietzsche in my teens proved to be decisive, since they seemed to know me better than I knew myself. There was no turning back after that.

What/Who inspires your writings and why?

Everything really, I believe that if one pays proper attention, all things yield their secrets.

What prompts you to tackle different modes of writing?

To date, I’ve published several books in different genres: aphorisms, essays, poetry and conversations. Aphorisms, or short, original sayings, are perhaps the closest to my heart, and what my forthcoming book will be, once I find the right publisher for it.

These brief arts are, I believe, what’s worth quoting from the soul’s dialogue with itself.

Essays for me are more of a cerebral practice, such as my collection Trial by Ink: from Nietzsche to Bellydancing, and are thus more suitable for analytical thinking. Poetry is perhaps the marriage of mind and soul, while conversations, in the case of my last book, The Artist as Mystic, are a collaborative art - one that I hold in high regard.

In your opinion, what has been the hardest challenge you have faced in your artistic career so far?

The deprivations of the literary life are subtle. For one, it’s not exactly the best way to make a living. Secondly, art is a jealous mistress, and often requires that one live like something of a hermit or a mad monk, at times.

But, the rewards, are far deeper and transformative. To be able to connect with strangers on such an intimate level is an immeasurable privilege, and the artist is always learning from their own art how to ‘Be and Become’.

On a more personal level, one challenge that has been there from the beginning but seems to have gotten even trickier lately is how to share the fruits of Silence (the greatest teacher of all) in a manner that does not betray the life of the Spirit. In essence, how to use words to speak of that which is just out of reach of words…

How has the Middle Eastern and Western worlds reacted to your art (feel free to elaborate on either or both)?

I am fortunate to have a small, but loyal, readership among an English- speaking segment in my homeland, Egypt. The UAE was kind enough to invite me to read in their International Book Fair in Sharjah, and there’s been a smattering of interest in both Lebanon (where my father is from) and Kuwait (where I went to school as a kid). But, it is in the US, where I’ve been lucky to publish 5 books in the last 7 years, that I’ve received the widest attention.

Is there a prevailing message you are trying to communicate with your pieces?

It is perhaps not for me to say this, but to paraphrase a generous writer friend of mine—I should like to leave readers more awake, to stir them to a higher consciousness.

What is your dream for your art / what would you like to accomplish in the future?

The dream, the ideal, really, is to bridge the gap (maybe even gulf) between the person and the artist. In other words, to be equal, and worthy, of what I write.

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KNEELING IN STAGES Twenty years ago, a mighty spirit whispered to me and rearranged my days Drink, it said, of solitude, taste of silence; I did as told and it left me a writer Now, it’s back again with grander designs to rewrite my soul or transform my being Renounce, it insists, both word and world games and I have no choice but to submit and bow.

BREATH Beneath the intricate network of noise there’s a still more persistent tapestry woven of whispers, murmurs and chants It’s the heaving breath of the very earth carrying along the prayer of all things: trees, ants, stones, creeks and mountains alike All giving silent thanks and remembrance each moment, as a tug on a rosary bead while we hurry past, heedless of the mysteries And, yet, every secret wants to be told every shy creature to approach and trust us if we patiently listen, with all our senses.

Check Vimeo for a video collaboration with film-maker Swoon, for the above poem, ‘Breath’. Yahia can be found on Twitter: @YahiaLababidi. You can also read blurbs from his past books at: https://wipfandstock.com/store/Barely_There_Short_Poems. You can pick up his new book, available on Kindle, by going to: amazon.com/author/yahialababid.

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CARRIE, REVISITED

Chloë Moretz breathes new life in horror classic

by Mateo Anderson

In perhaps the scariest story of High School life ever depicted in modern American cinema, the 1976 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie was a blockbuster hit of teenage angst meets bullying and eventually, revenge.

In the film, we follow Carrie White through all of the trials and tribulations of adolescence while she struggles with her newly found powers. In this 2013 remake of the classic, directed by Kimberly Peirce, of Boys Don’t Cry directorial fame, and starring Chloë Moretz, we are shown both the timelessness of the tale and a deeper emotional depth of the character this time round.

In preparation for the movie, Mateo Anderson sits down with actress Chloë Moretz for her take on the film, and what it means to be Carrie.

What is this story about for you?

It is a true coming-of-age story in many different ways. Carrie is just experiencing certain aspects of a girl’s life (i.e.: first period, first date, rebelling against her parent, attending Prom…), but later than most girls. The world is finally opening up for her and she’s embracing her power as a woman and also her newly discovered supernatural abilities.

How do you see Carrie?

I see her as a young woman who is loved too much by her mother - to the point that she isn’t allowed to experience life in the way she wants. That relationship, while a source of safety, is the cause of Carrie’s internal struggle.

Her rebellion against her mother and her new experiences with those people around her causes a detrimental outcome. But, by gaining control she also loses control…

What are those things she wants to do?

Carrie just wants to live her life without restrictions, figure out who she is and do what any normal teenager does; but her mother, the girls at school and everyone around her seem to conspire to keep her from doing so.

How does she react to that restraint she suffers?

Carrie is trying to lead herself through a very scary time in her life, alone. She attempts to appease her mother and tries to make herself so small at school to be left alone. However, it proves impossible to continue to live in that way; so, she instead finds and embraces her strength. She begins to behave as if there are no consequences…

Did you watch the original 1976 movie directed by Brian De Palma, with Sissy Spacek in the leading role of Carrie, to prepare this character?

Even though I know what Brian De Palma and Sissy Spacek did was phenomenal, I didn’t want to watch the original movie because I wanted to make Carrie my own.

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So, where did you go in order to understand her complexities?

Apart from the script, I really used the book and took a lot of interesting stuff from there.

How would you compare Stephen King’s book to this movie?

I feel that in the book Carrie is mad at everything, whereas in our film she is more sympathetic with the people that hate her. That is, until the very end... Otherwise I feel the film is a true depiction of King’s novel.

And do you sympathize with her?

Yes because, like Carrie, I’m also a teenager trying to navigate some of the same things she’s experiencing.

What are those things that make you relate to her?

Well, I am also trying to figure out my relationships and who I am as a girl – which includes what my voice, motivation and drive are. So the topics of the film are fresh in my mind and relevant to my life, which made it easier for me to tap into the character.

What is the relationship like between Carrie and her mother?

Margaret loves her daughter immensely; however, it is that intense love for Carrie that makes Margaret behave in the way she does.

Carrie reciprocates but doesn’t agree with her mother’s reasoning and way of life.

How important was it to have a director like Kimberly Peirce on board?

It’s interesting to see this movie told through the eyes of a woman. I feel that it’s more realistic than if you had a man trying to figure out what it would be like to have your period and to be comingof-age as a woman. So it was great to work with Kim because I was able to relate to her, and we really got into this movie in a very organic way.

For more information visit www.carrie-movie.net.

Don’t miss out on seeing Carrie at Grand Cinemas Kuwait, from the 17th of October.

Image courtesy of Nino Munoz.

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WHY SHOULD GIRLS HAVE ALL THE FUN?

by Purva Grover

Men’s fashion demographic is being revolutionised. As effeminate ensembles influence the male wardrobe we dwell on this gender blurring fashion craze.

Just yesterday when we were sitting at a coffee shop a woman walked in sporting a pair of baggy, loose and distressed denims, also called boyfriend jeans. Some laughed at her and some gossiped about how she must be hiding a few inches behind the loose fit. And then today, at a business lunch a female colleague entered the restaurant sporting a bow-tie with a business suit. And just like that the agenda at the lunch shifted from business targets to dynamic fashion crazes. We are fashion devotees and we love fads that are ‘gendersensitive’. And that explains why we are going gaga over men looking up to women for their fashion inspirations. Honestly, the pink-pinch did take us by shock, but then we thought that if women could go androgynous, why couldn’t the men folk follow suit? So, the large-hearted fashion sensitive ‘us’ have opened our hearts to watching the men slip into breezy drapes and deep necks, meggings and torso-revealing outfits, and a lot more. At the same time, any reservations that we had on whether the feminine fads would gel with the rugged bodies have been proved wrong, and rightly so.

It was not very long ago that the men flashed their affinity for pink by sporting candy pink ties and champagne pink shirts. Little did we know then that pink was just the beginning of their romance with colors. Once they realised that there was a palette beyond vanilla, they decided to explore and experiment. Orange, green and yellow are their new blue, black and gray. No longer are men shying away from teaming up a pair of cheerful yellow pants with a white shirt.

Some are even calling the shirt, a top! The first time a male fashionista told us that he’d gone shopping for Jonathan Saunders vibrant tops, we had to try not to smile. Interestingly, they are thinking beyond stripes and checks too.

Katie Eary Spring-Summer 2014 line boasts citrus-hued tees and trenches in flamingo and feline prints. Would you feel threatened if a man was to walk up to you in prints clad in roses and peonies? Or would you appreciate the big change?

A few fashion brands have surprised us with their collections, boasting psychedelic colors and youthful styles, candy stripes and stars, and sparkly and shiny fabrics. The eccentric 82

designer Mikio Sakabe has actually gone a step ahead and created a line inspired by feminine sleepwear, which saw his male models walk the ramp in sheer fabric, skimpy shorts and voluminous shoulder shrugs. Men can now be seen in chiffons and stretchable material too.

Men sporting meggings is becoming a common sight these days, the male version of (female) leggings look great when worn with a pair of sneakers. We are also liking are the edgy breezy drapes for men. Seems like masculine fitted suits are no longer the favorite with the enthusiasts. Lest you think that the experiments are limited to mere outfits we’d like to draw your attention to the metallic bags that men have been making a statement with. The most lovable are in shocking pink and yellow, and the really bold men out there have even replaced

their messenger bags with metallic tote bags.

We’re all game for encouraging men to have some fun with fashion. Even spikes, which were once seen just on footwear for women have now made it to men’s shoes. Yes, silver rhinestones await the flamboyant men.

Did you know that the spotlight on the runway trends is on halter tops and torso-revealing outfits for men? Then there are skirts for men too! But these are not for the faint hearted. So we’ll leave them to the runway. As for the rest, we’d say the men should tame the trends to suit their personalities and make a few heads turn.

Bold, garish, flamboyant or playful, we are so looking forward to witnessing the times when men walk into cafes sporting jackets in lime green or tops in sunshine yellow. That would be a spectacle to behold.

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sources: The Estee Lauder Companies, The World Economic Forum, Arab Times Online

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bazaar love/hate

OUR TOP 5 CONFLICTS ABOUT HALLOWEEN by bazaar staff

As I type this, the Halloween decorations are being hoisted up and around me. So, to get into the spirit, it only seems fitting to poke my head out from behind the cobwebs, around the coffin, from under the perched gargoyle, and through the mist of the fog machine to bring you a bit of seasonal snark. There is so much to say about the one day of the year where it is a literal requirement to act like someone you are not, show up to strangers houses and ask for free stuff, and potentially don a cape to look like death, that we must dive right in: love it or hate it, it is certainly hard to ignore it. So here it is, your top 5 conflicting feelings about All Hallows Eve, better known as—Halloween!

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#5 Trick-or-treaters – If you love seeing kids stumble to your door in all sorts of spooky, cutesy and down right disturbing outfits, then it is a must that we start here. Some truly do not enjoy this. Random people walking across your lawn and knocking on your door until the wee hours of the night—unforgiveable! Personally, in what can only be a harkening back to my youthful days, where legend would grow about the house that gave out the best candy, I like to respond in kind, if only to keep the kids from kicking decorations off my lawn.

Not within my budget (or instinct) to simply give out full-sized candy bars to everyone, I always give one ridiculous over-sized candy bar to whomever I deem to have the best costume of the

night. Then, invariably, like clockwork, my friends all laugh when I—amongst a whirlwind of ooohs and ahhs—give it to yet another 1 year old in a pumpkin costume. It happens every year, and I am always surprised by it. What can I say—the chubby kids in round outfits are the cutest! #4 Haunted House – When you want to scare the bejeezus out of little kids, nothing does the trick quite like setting up your own little maze of horrors for them to navigate through. Some people go all out with more scary things than you could ever manage to deal with. Sure they are expensive to set up, time consuming, and generally disrespected by ever little brat that comes through your front door, but it’s all worth it when you get to scare the crap out of that little kid who has been knocking over your trashcans in the middle of the night.

Consider it neighborhood justice. #3 Inappropriate outfits – If you can think of any outfit that has ever existed for Halloween, rest assured that there is a less than appropriate version of it. Although this is a more recent trend (20 years? -I’m guessing here), it is amazing what can be done with a shockingly small amount of cloth and a can-do attitude. While most are really not appropriate to leave the house in, they do exist. On the other end of the spectrum, is potentially anything where the subject matter of the costume itself is offensive. I leave these to your fine imagination. For my part, though perhaps not inappropriate, I suppose I will spend another year as “the Karate-Kid-as-Trouble-MakingShower” from the school dance scene in the original Karate Kid movie...“It’s coming around…” #2 Halloween Parties (Dressing up at work/or school) – The only thing worse than having to dress up around the house for the general appreciation and merriment of your own kids, is having to go anywhere in public (or even semi-public). Whether its just answering your own front door looking like Fred Flintstone, or dressing up like the Witch from Wizard

of Oz for an office party, there is simply no escaping the embarrassment that comes from the inevitable photos.

So…flash forward: months later, you’re minding your own business in the conference room, and boomeverybody’s laughing at some picture of you in face paint and stockings— tres un-cool people! That said, if you choose to take the right approach, you could turn that around. For my part, I like to use the Halloween costume as a way to silently protest against a poor working environment. It goes something like this: My boss: “haha, remember when you were dressed like a homeless person for Halloween?”

Me: “ahh yes, that was the time you wouldn’t give me a raise and my whole family had to move back in with my mother-in-law while I roamed the streets for scraps of food.” Ok, so it’s not subtle—but it works! #1 Leftover candy – Let’s imagine that Halloween has come and gone.

You have either given in to the candy-munching monster, or you have somehow managed to stay strong—normally it’s the latter. Then, everywhere you go, everybody has their leftover candy on offer. It sits on desks, mocking you. It hides around the house, threatening to leap out of freezers. It hides in the car where it simply must be eaten before it melts!

After all, little ol’ you are just human—you must oblige the candy! Yes, the leftover candy monster seems to stretch out the candy threat into a solid and often debilitating second month. Good luck! Defend yourself accordingly.

Recommendation? Give it to those around you. Hawaiian Proverb (in spirit if not in principle): two ways to be thin, exercise often, or have fatter friends, so it appears you do!

Consider this dismaying observation: this month’s Love/Hate was a ghoulish production brought to you by a general feeling of foreboding, a spooky amount of subtext and the ever-present ghost of Scott Bakula, I mean Count Dracula.

Up next: Love/Hate…getting older.

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MUSICALLY GIFTED DOCTOR BUCKETMAN Spain’s master street drummer hits the world

by Shabana H. Shaikh

It was a case of being in the right place at the right time. Not one to frequent The Avenues, I am glad I went that day. As it happens, I was shopping, when a man wearing a black cap and Tee, placed ‘buckets, pots and pans’ outside the store and began to play with drumsticks! As soon as the rhythms floated through the open area, out came curious shoppers, and lunchtimers and passer-bys paused. By the time the music gathered momentum, there was a crowd of bemused spectators. Out came Smart Phones to capture ‘the drummer’ on video or snap pictures, while others simply stood and enjoyed the rare public rendition of music in Kuwait.

Meet Miguel Martin, a.k.a. Doctor Bucketman, the man behind the much-deserved-attention at The Avenues. A multitalented man, Miguel, is a musician, drummer, composer, artist and creative, who makes percussion musical very original and intelligent. Doctor Bucketman’s ‘drum-set’ comprises of paint buckets, pots, pans, tuppers and everyday items that people recognize instantly.

If you had the opportunity to see him play, you will readily agree that he is not only talented, but also has the ability to create quality, peppy and energetic compositions –all developed with excellent technical execution.

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to develop his own language. He is unique in composing coherent rhythmic ideas, which are pleasant to hear and easily understood. All music is his original composition and played solo to create a show that evokes awe, admiration and smiles amongst his audiences.

To appease your curiosity, bazaar caught up with the globe-trotting drummer, while he was recently entertaining in Kuwait.

Last month, I had the privilege to watch you play at The Avenues mall and it was super-fantastic. I saw you smiling as you played, and wondered how you feel playing in public areas in foreign places?

Every time I play my music in public places, I feel 100% myself. This is my job and I enjoy it. I spend a lot of my time to give 200% of me in every performance, and always feel good when I perform regardless, whether it’s my country or abroad.

From Madrid to Kuwait –how did that happen?

This year, a company from UAE called Dolphine Creative has engaged me to place at different places in the Middle East. Dolphine Creative (www.dolphincreative.ae) works with the best street artists in the world, and that’s how they found me and I came to Kuwait.

As a musician/drummer/creative, how do you incorporate the many facets of your talent?

Normally, when not playing in front of an

audience, I’m in my lab looking for ideas and new rhythms. Each new composition involves a lot of effort and months of hard work. My objective is to compose, so that the audience can keep their eyes on my performance, and this is very difficult to accomplish with four paint buckets and some old pans! It’s like composing for three drummers, but I play alone.

How does the creative process work for you?

For me, the essence of creativity is to do everything with nothing. My process begins when I’m ordering my lab. Suddenly, an idea pops into my head and start playing with that idea. After several days of obsessing with it, my lab is more cluttered than before, but my ideas have been written on paper. Then, my work is to turn ideas into coherent compositions, practice them, play in the street, and give a thousand rounds until every note is in place.

Sounds like work. Yet, you seem to do it so effortlessly.

It’s really hard work, but when I go to the street with a new composition and people receive it with applause, I feel rewarded.

Tell us about street drumming and how you started?

For me, there are two basic types of Street Drumming: Bucket Drumming is played only with paint buckets. Pots and Pans Drumming is played

combining paint buckets, pots, pans and other elements. This latter kind of street drumming is the style I play. There are other styles, for example, in London there was a guy playing on a battery mounted on a bicycle. It is necessary to differentiated from other drummers, and play the music that each one feels inside.

I started street drumming when the economic crisis hit my country in 2010. Back then, there was little work to play music, and very little money. After ten months of work and preparation, I went out to play in the street for the first time and it was an incredible experience. Since then I’m addicted to playing in public spaces, and nicknamed my project ‘Doctor Bucketman’.

I am curious to know why did you choose to call yourself ‘Doctor Bucketman’?

That story is long and uninteresting, but I can tell you I like the sound of it, like music!

A short documentary about you, shot by Carlos Carcas, recently won the first prize at CIMM Fest.

Yes, the film won the first prize for ‘Best Short Documentary’ at The Chicago International Music and Movies Festival (CIMM) and you can download it online for free. The documentary is directed by Carlos Carcas, who apart from being an ace documentary-filmmaker is also my cosmic brother. Besides CIMM, we have screened at IDFA

(International Documentary Festival Amsterdam), BIFF (Bradford International Film Festival, UK), JIMFF (Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, South Korea), and a few others.

How has your Middle East experience been, in general, and Kuwait, in particular?

My Middle East experience was great, and it’s a very different place from where I come. In Kuwait, I had very little free time, but I met some wonderful people. The Avenues, it seems, is a place where everything can be done and that’s good. I believe it will be good for Kuwait to have greater cultural offerings with more music, theatre, creative arts, etc. and I hope to return again soon.

Now that you have played your ‘buckets’ around the world, how has the experience been for you?

When I play in different cities of the world, I have a wonderful experience. There’s a picture in my head with all these places, all the people I’ve met, and my experiences. I feel like a privileged man.

Do you feel welcomed by people in foreign lands?

Wherever I’ve played, people are very surprised with my work. Everyone understands that my ‘instruments’ are paint buckets, some old pans and two drumsticks. They enjoy the music, and leave for their homes with something to tell their friends, some videos to share on social networks, or a fun photograph with me. People have undoubtedly

treated me with love and respect.

‘Music Makes the World a Better Place’, is your slogan. Is this your message to the world?

I have no intention to convey any message, it is simply a phrase that I like and agree with. Music itself is universal. In Kuwait, I had a driver, who was driving me every day to The Avenues, and listened to Indian music, which seems similar to flamenco music of my country. It is the same with Arabic music. I went to buy folkloric music in Souk Al-Mubarakiya, and found some parts similar to flamenco! If you speak with a Mississippi bluesman, he will tell you the same. This is the wonderful power of music, and that makes the world a better place....

Where are you likely to be seen playing your drums in the near future?

I will be playing in the Middle East, again before the year ends. In October I am scheduled to be in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, and this winter, I travel to Okinawa in Japan.

Doctor Bucketman lives in Madrid, Spain and can be reached via email: doctorbucketman@yahoo.es For the official movie page, log on to Facebook: DoctorBucketmanTheMovie or download on: https://vimeo.com//40655903 Images courtesy of Dr. Bucketman 89

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MANY MILES FOR MARY Land’s End England to John o’Groats Scotland - 1400 KM’s over 12 days for Kuwait local charities by bazaar staff

The loss of a loved one is tragic and painful, unforgettable and irreparable to the soul, but it can most definitely be inspiring.

James “Jamie” Milne, a Personal Trainer at Inspire Pure Fitness in Kuwait, is a living testament to this statement, as, with the loss of his late Grandmother Mary to Alzheimer’s in the late 1990’s, his farewell to her spawned a promise.

Jamie promised himself that he would always honor Mary, and bid her farewell in his own special way—giving back to many others touched by losing someone they care about.

“Many Miles for Mary” is a charity established by New Zealander Jamie in 2009, with the premise of taking on challenges to support various charities around the world. This November, Jamie and a committed team will be running the entire length of the United Kingdom in support of charities right here in Kuwait.

Jamie’s last challenges included: a 350-kilometer run from Cairns to Townsville, Queensland, Australia; over two and a half days for the Far North Queensland Rotary Association raising over NZD 10 thousand (KD 2,300); and in 2010 again Jamie and three other team members ran from Auckland to Wellington, NZ, 890km over 7 days, raising NZD 10 thousand (KD 2,300) for the Child’s Cancer Foundation NZ. As time progressed, the challenges became more intense.

In 2011, his team ran 900-kilometers from Wellington to Auckland along the coast of New Zealand’s North Island in 10 days and raised 7 thousand dollars (KD 1,600) for the Ronald McDonald House Auckland. He ran solo in 2012 covering over 922km, along New Zealand’s South Island in 11 days and raised 7 thousand dollars (KD 1,600) for the same charity.

On the 14th of November, Jamie and his team of three runners from Inspire Pure Fitness Kuwait will 90

take off from Land’s End England to John o’Groats in the highlands of Scotland, covering a total of 1,407 kilometers over a period of 12 days. Not only will this year’s run mark a fifth feat of endurance completed by Jamie, but his team also aims to raise awareness as well as funds for local charities in Kuwait. Conducted as a team relay, the team members will complete 30 kilometers at a time, each totaling around 120 kilometers every day!

To prepare himself and the team for this massive run, Jamie will be mainly utilizing Crossfit Endurance

Training Methods. To make sure that they are fully ready for the strenuous challenge, no more than 20 kilometers in total will be run each week in prep for this Ultra Marathon.

Along with Jamie and his inspiring team, we’d like to invite you to participate in this immense undertaking, as this challenge requires unrequited support and encouragement for all of the runners as well as their need for additional funds to achieve and succeed in their goals in this incredible journey. Stay tuned to ‘Many Miles for Mary’ on Facebook

and Twitter, in local media, as well as television and radio stations from New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. There will also be daily updates during the whole challenge via digital media, which is also helping fundraising efforts for the duration of the event. Many Miles for Mary will also be selffunded and supported by Inspire Pure Fitness.

For more information on how you can support this event, or information on how to donate, visit Facebook: Many Miles for Mary

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‫تربية الحيوانات المفترسة‬ ‫‪by Strawberry Girl‬‬

‫لم يعد غريبا تربية الحيوانات المفترسة مثل الشيتا‪،‬‬ ‫واألسود‪ ،‬والنمور أو حتى التماسيح في الكويت‪ .‬لم نعد‬ ‫نتعجب كثيرا إذا رأينا شخصا يقود سيارته وبجانبه تجلس‬ ‫شيتا مفترسة على المقعد األمامي‪.‬‬ ‫هذه الحيوانات ال تعيش في بيئتها الطبيعية ويتم‬ ‫تربيتها كحيوانات أليفة‪ .‬وتصبح معتادة على األشخاص‬ ‫الذين يربونها و يطعمونها‪ ،‬إال أنها تبقى حيوانات‬ ‫مفترسة‪ .‬ويرى المختصون أن هذه الحيوانات يجب أن تعود‬ ‫إلى بيئتها الطبيعية‪.‬‬ ‫في كثير من األحيان تصبح هذه الحيوانات ضحية‬ ‫لرغبات هؤالء األشخاص في اقتنائها‪ .‬و عندما يقررون‬ ‫التخلص منها يأخذ بعض األشخاص هذه الحيوانات إلى‬ ‫الصحراء و يتركونها هناك‪ ،‬و يفقد البعض األخر هذه‬ ‫الحيوانات بالخطأ دون ارادتهم مثل هروبها أو سرقتها‪ .‬و‬ ‫قد تسبب هذه الحيوانات الخوف والهلع إذا وصلت إلى بيت‬ ‫الجيران‪ ،‬حيث أنها حيوانات خطيرة حتى لو كانت مدربة‪.‬‬ ‫أحد هؤالء الضحايا كان شبل صغير والذي صادرته‬ ‫الهيئة العامة لشؤون الزراعة والثروة السمكية‪ .‬لقد تم‬ ‫العثور على هذا الشبل في منطقة الشاليهات في الخيران‬ ‫وأصبح مشهورا بعد أن عرضت صورته في الصحف اليومية‪.‬‬ ‫و قامت الهيئة بنقل األسد إلى الحجر الصحي في حديقة‬ ‫الحيوان إال أن الحديقة صغيرة وال يوجد لديهم مكان كاف‬

‫لألسد حيث أن امكاناتهم محدودة‪ .‬المشكلة األخرى التي‬ ‫واجهت العاملين في الحديقة هي أن األسد الصغير يحتاج‬ ‫إلى عناية خاصة حيث أن صاحبه قد أزال أنيابه و مخالبه و‬ ‫لذلك ال يستطيع تقطيع القطع الكبيرة من اللحم فيجب أن‬ ‫يكون اللحم مفروما‪.‬‬ ‫و بحسب رواية أحد العاملين في حديقة الحيوان فقد‬ ‫اتصل صاحب األسد بالحديقة وطلب استعادة األسد حيث أن‬ ‫ثمنه باهض فقد كلفه ‪ 3000‬دينار كويتي‪ .‬إال أن الحديقة‬ ‫لم تتمكن من اعادة األسد ألن ذلك يخالف القانون الذي‬ ‫ينص على حظر اقتناء أو تربية الحيوانات المفترسة ولذلك‬ ‫اضطرت الحديقة لإلحتفاظ باألسد‪ .‬وألن امكانات الحديقة‬ ‫محدودة فال يستطيعون شراء الحيوانات من األشخاص‪ .‬و‬ ‫قد أخبرهم صاحب األسد أنه أخذه إلى الشاليه الذي يملكه‬ ‫في الخيران و أن أحدهم قام بسرقته عندما كان الشاليه‬ ‫خاليا‪ ،‬و ألن اللص لم يستطع التعامل مع األسد المسروق‬ ‫فقد تركه في الطريق العام‪.‬‬ ‫و بعد هذه الحادثة بأسبوعين تقريبا عثر رجال األمن‬ ‫على أسد آخر في منطقة بيان السكنية و ألقوا القبض‬ ‫عليه و سلموه لهيئة الزراعة‪ .‬و قد ظهرت صورة األسد وهو‬ ‫في سيارة الشرطة أثناء نقله في الدورية إلى مخفر بيان‪.‬‬ ‫وحذر وقتها مدير إدارة شرطة النجدة من ظاهرة تربية‬ ‫المواطنين للحيوانات المفترسة في بيوتهم‪ ،‬مطالبا إياهم‬

‫بتوخي الحذر وترك هذه الهواية الضارة‪.‬‬ ‫الهيئة العامة لشؤون الزراعة والثروة السمكية هي‬ ‫المؤسسة المسؤولة عن مصادرة الحيوانات المفترسة أو‬ ‫المتوحشة و تسليمها لحديقة الحيوان‪ .‬تسمح القوانين‬ ‫بمصادرة الحيوانات المفترسة أو المتوحشة و لكن ليس‬ ‫من األماكن الخاصة‪ ،‬إال أن الهيئة مخولة بمصادرة هذه‬ ‫الحيوانات من المزارع والجواخير وأسواق الحيوانات حيث أن‬ ‫هذه األماكن تابعة للهيئة‪ .‬ولدى الهيئة موظفين متدربين‬ ‫على التعامل مع هذه الحيوانات الشرسة‪ .‬و يمكن لموظفي‬ ‫الهيئة أن يأتوا ألخذ تلك الحيوانات إن قام أصحابها‬ ‫باإلتصال عليهم ألخذها‪ ،‬أو يأخذونها أيضا من المنازل أو‬ ‫حديقة المنزل إن تواجد أفراد من الشرطة في المكان‪ .‬و‬ ‫يقومون بعدها بإيصال الحيوان إلى حديقة الحيوان‪.‬‬ ‫و يشرح الطبيب النفسي د‪ .‬عدنان الشطي بأن‬ ‫الحيوانات المتوحشة تتصرف بطريقة الحيوانات األليفة إذا‬ ‫تمت تربيتها في المنزل‪ ،‬إال أنها يمكن أن تصبح خطرة إذا‬ ‫تعرضت لظروف معينة مثل أن تكون جائعة بسبب عدم‬ ‫إطعامها‪ .‬كما أنه يرى أن تلك الحيوانات تشعر بالغيرة‬ ‫مثلها مثل الحيوانات األليفة أو اإلنسان حيث أنها تبحث عن‬ ‫اإلهتمام و لفت اإلنتباه‪ .‬و يضيف أن الطفل إذا تواجد في‬ ‫المنزل قبلها فسوف تتقبله بينما لو أتى بعدها مثل حديث‬ ‫الوالدة فقد تشعر بالغيرة منه‪.‬‬ ‫‪92‬‬

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bazaar books Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. ~ Jessamyn West

THE GEOMETRY OF PASTA

THE LOWLAND

DAVID AND GOLIATH

JIM HENSON: THE BIOGRAPHY

MOB BOSS

by Caz Hildebrand/Jacob Kenedy

by Jhumpa Lahiri

by Malcolm Gladwell

by Brian Jay Jones

by Jerry Capeci

You no doubt enjoy pasta with some regularity — but do you know where this versatile, yet simple culinary staple comes from? In The Perfect Shape + The Perfect Sauce = The Geometry of Pasta you’ll find everything you didn’t know, that you didn’t know, about pasta. Wheels and tubes, twists and folds and grooves—pasta comes in hundreds of shapes, each with its own unique history, beauty, and place on the dinner table. For centuries these shapes have evolved alongside Italy’s cornucopia of local ingredients; if you know how the flavors relate to the forms, you hold the secret formula to good taste. The Geometry of Pasta pairs over 100 authentic recipes from acclaimed chef Jacob Kenedy with award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand’s stunning black-and-white designs to reveal the science, culture, and philosophy behind spectacular pasta dishes from throughout Italian history.

A triumphant fusion of food and design, The Geometry of Pasta invites us to unlock the hidden properties of Italy’s most mathematically perfect deliciousness.

From the Pulitzer Prizewinning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America. A tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.

Born just 15 months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother’s political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family’s home, he goes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind. Long-listed for the 2013 Man Booker Prize.

In David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago.

From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms – all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity. In the tradition of Gladwell’s previous bestsellers--- The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw---David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.

Aside from the classic Metallica album, there is no “master of puppets” in American pop culture as big as Muppets creator, Jim Henson. This new 608-page biography on the man behind Bert & Ernie, Big Bird and Miss Piggy takes readers up close with the influential weirdo genius who created some of the most iconic kids TV and films ever. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination.

The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were just part of his remarkable story. This extraordinary biography— written with the generous cooperation of the Henson family—covers the full arc of Henson’s all-too-brief life: from his childhood in Leland, Mississippi, through the years of burgeoning fame in America, to the decade of international celebrity that preceded his untimely death at age fifty-three.

Mob Boss – The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the man who brought down the Mafia is a compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounting the life and times of the American Mafia boss Alfonso “Little Al” D’Arco, who was the highestranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti’s top aide, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D’Arco’s life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for 4 decades. Until the day he switched sides, D’Arco lived and breathed the oldschool gangster lessons he learned growing up, and finetuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D’Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on mob secrets going back a hundred years.

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RENOVATION VS ‘TO DO’

by Dr. Susannah J. Schuilenberg

I have a wonderful, close friend I’ll call Ruby.

Two years ago, her doctor told her that the condition of the discs in her spine meant that she absolutely, positively MUST stop making excuses, get more active and lose some weight. He was quite firm with her about the consequences of not doing something drastic, and mentioned words like “surgery,” “steel rods,” and “titanium screws” and other horrible things she did not want to contemplate.

Ruby took the doctor’s words to heart and spent a year getting back in shape, watching her diet, and following a regimen that resulted in the loss of 80 pounds (36 kilos) and a whole new lease on life. She was active, walking or running nearly every day. She told me that she felt “amazing.” Better than she had in years. I saw her over that summer two years ago, and we did some fun things together. She was like a new person.

This past summer, I saw her again. She’s regained 60 pounds (28 kilos), and she is once again struggling with chronic pain, limps as she walks, and her exercise routine has been reduced to walking for 15 minutes a day on the treadmill.

We did way less together (we sat more) this time than we had the year before.

We are long time friends, Ruby and I. We talk about everything in our lives and in general (we joke that if we weren’t already busy, we could probably rule the world) and we talked about the difference one year made. Ruby said, “I had a goal [to lose weight and be healthier] but I never considered that the reason I wasn’t healthy and had gained weight in the first place was because there was something wrong with my thinking. I didn’t change my thinking about myself, how I am always last in my own consideration, and I strongly resented the feeling of needing to be “selfish” to get healthy. When I did get to my target weight, I celebrated by going out for dinner with my husband, ticking ‘Done’ on my To Do List, and immediately – the very next day – went back to my old habits. It was actually a relief to stop fighting with myself over the time ‘getting healthy’ was taking every day.”

Lifestyle wellness requires more than just a change in health. To achieve lifestyle wellness, there must be a parallel renovation of thinking, and this is the challenge for most people. There is a big gap between doing things differently, and being different. Anyone, including me, can sustain a determined effort for a period of time to accomplish a desired end, but if there is no consideration of what happens when that goal 96

is reached, then the ‘determined effort’ fades away, the habitual thinking takes over with a vengeance, and all the benefits of achieving that goal – in this case lifestyle wellness – are undone. Usually in less time than it took to accomplish the goal.

Finding and maintaining a healthy balance between caring for myself and responding to the needs/demands of others is lifestyle wellness.

When I am so caught up in the responsibilities I have to others (family, work, relationships, friends) that I am no longer important enough to make wise, healthy choices for my own good, something is very, very wrong. And that ‘wrong’ is manifested in poor physical and psychological health. To really renovate your life and find that all-important balance for lifestyle wellness, the change has to be mental, physical, emotional, and psychological. Which means it doesn’t all happen in the gym or on a dinner plate.

Ruby is back on track, losing weight again, but this time she is using a holistic approach. Not only is she exercising again and being mindful of her diet, she’s also seeing an Emotional Fitness Coach, and at the same time, has begun seeing a

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapist who specializes in this area of psychology. This time, Ruby’s determination is directed toward a goal that is far more long-term than the first time. She has decided she wants to be “…in the best shape I can be when I die. Whenever that is.”

Sounds good to me.

Lifestyle wellness simply will not happen if I am a) unwilling to acknowledge my own needs – all of them – and b) choose at least a good portion of the time to give priority to those needs over anyone else’s.

Period.

Food for thought – In what ways do you wish you were healthier? What would you need to do/ change to make it so?

Dr. Susannah-Joy Schuilenberg is a Canadian psychologist traveling the world on a busman’s holiday. Bossy from birth, compassionate by choice, and funny by accident, Dr. Susannah writes about anything that catches her attention. Visit: www.soorcenter.com or follow her on Twitter: @drsusannah

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AAVS JORDAN

Architectural Association’s Visiting School explores desert ecologies.

by Muneerah Alrabe

An awe-inspiring collection of colossal rock formations, climbing rock formed bridges at sunset, and a bumpy four-hour 4-wheeler ride was the start of our excursions into the vast desert landscape of Wadi Rum. Our eventful day was followed by a mesmerizing fairy-tale walk along a candle lit pathway below the starlit Jordanian sky that led us into the passage of Petra. Finally, as the day was winding down, we gathered for a hearty Bedouin feast in the beautiful campground of The Rock - Petra Camp. This was only the start of the Architectural Association’s Visiting School (AAVS) 10 day workshop in Jordan titled Desert Ecologies.

The title, Desert Ecologies, was initially the main reason I was attracted to such a program. I stumbled upon a flyer while browsing through my Instagram feed, and out of curiosity sought out to 98

investigate more information about it on the AA website. I found a whole section dedicated to AA Visiting Schools both worldwide and in the Middle East, and found that the AAVS Jordan program suited me best. Having recently graduated from college and moved back to Kuwait, September was approaching and I began to fall back into school mode, eager for the start of a semester that didn’t really exist anymore. The AAVS Jordan workshop was located so close to home, and it included explorations of Wadi Rum, Petra and Amman; an architectural design experience that fit perfectly into my schedule.

Reading the AAVS Jordan brief, I got excited once again - it was that feeling you get on the first day of school and you find out what class you are in. The agenda of the program was to

intervene within the Jordanian Desert with the aid of computer generated modeling techniques and computational analysis software, a brief description that nonetheless grabbed my attention.

I imagined all the different projects we might be working on, and how exciting it would be to intervene in an environment that you’ve lived in your entire life. I had no expectations of who else would be participating, except the fact that it would mostly be Jordanian students due to the location.

However, the reality of this experience was far more rewarding. After an extensive ten-day workshop in Amman, I’ve learned that in just ten days it’s possible to assemble a comprehensive conceptual proposal for an urban settlement within the Jordanian Desert. Having gotten so immersed in the ambience and excitement of what we were

learning, naturally, I wished the experience could have lasted longer. Regardless, it is a start of something great. Ten days was enough time for a proposal, a general design concept, and a final model.

Those ten days were packed with comprehensive work sessions filled with quick how-to tutorials to help you understand the basic concept of how certain programs work. At an introductory level, we covered the basics to allow us to start a path in the parametric design field (generative modeling).

Ten days will also teach you that it’s never about the computer program learned; it is about starting to imagine all the opportunities that the program can allow you to compute. Most importantly, to understand how they can be applied to help improve or develop your design. This was only made possible with the help of the tutors and a great

team. My unit was lead by the founding directors, Ursula Frick and Thomas Grabner who came to tutor at AAVS Jordan from Austria. Not only were the tutors incredibly talented with their programs, they’ve written some of the most used software amongst architects today. They were a pleasure to work with and always packed their presentations with good energy to ensure we were learning everything we could within the given time. We called them the ‘magicians’. You’ll also learn that 10 days can quickly transform a group of strangers into one big family. Spending hours working with a diverse group of participants from all around the world helped build a strong bond between us. The participants of the Visiting School were a diverse group of people from Europe and the Middle East, ranging from sophomore college students to

practicing professional architects and designers.

Participating in the AAVS Jordan workshop gave me the opportunity to visit the beautiful city of Amman and the wonderful sites of Petra and Wadi Rum. It allowed for us, the participants from within the region, to start to engage in an architectural and urban discourse amongst ourselves and within the context. The workshop was a great opportunity for me to learn new skills and to work with an amazing group of people.

Riyad Joucka, an AA graduate and Architect who has taught at Visiting Schools across Europe and Asia and is now based in Hong Kong, directed AAVS Jordan. For more on AAVS Jordan, check them out on: Instagram @AAVSJordan, Facebook.com/AAVisitingSchoolJordan, and Tumblr www.aavsjordan.Tumblr.com 99

Loaay's Two Cents Got business problems or challenges at work? With his Two Cents page, Loaay Ahmed shares his expertise in strategic management consulting to help managers, employees and entrepreneurs thrive.

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I’m a middle manager in a large organization and it’s difficult to find a job elsewhere. I’m overqualified for lower positions and equal positions are either filled or have been promised to assistants for internal promotions. Is it possible for a middle manager in her late thirties to find another job?

There are always options depending on why you want to change.

You’ve built equity within your current organization over the years.

Is there an opportunity opening next year for a higher position in other departments? If so, maybe you can join them now and prepare for that position. If your eyes are on other organizations, be honest with yourself and define clearly what you want from your job. Are you after more money, a bigger title, less hours, less work, challenging work or a better cultural fit? Understand your career goals and priorities and target organizations that fit your needs. If you’re after less working hours, there’s no point working for a retail company because the line of work they’re in is demanding. If you want significantly more money, don’t look at the public sector for middle management jobs.

If your goal is more independence, you might consider starting a small business while staying at your job, assuming you have the time, your productivity at your current job won’t be affected, and there’s no conflict of interest. Once that business is steady, you might want to consider quitting your job. If being an entrepreneur is not for you, work on your corporate publicity profile and start networking professionally. When you combine what you know with whom you know, opportunities might cross your path more often than you think...and that’s just my two cents.

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I find most staff in shops or restaurants not engaged.

As consumers, we deserve a better service. What can I do to demand a decent treatment when I’m paying money?

Expecting friendly service from a person working in a shop is fair.

However, just because consumers are paying money, it doesn’t mean they have no role to play in the entire experience. While shop assistants aim to serve and delight their visitors, they’re not servants; they’re regular people providing a service. A long time ago, when trading started to have an organized structure, consumers needed assistance with their shopping, so business owners looked at the entire market and said, “Who’s willing to assist their fellow consumers and receive money for their time?” It was as simple as that. Unfortunately, shoppers tend to forget this basic principle of human equality, which leads to awkward situations that take away the joy of shopping.

Let’s put you in an assistant’s shoes for a second. You received training. You try to apply it with enthusiasm. However, most visitors

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ignore your smiley greetings, treat you as a slave, and talk to you with disgust as if they’re forced to deal with you. Multiply that day times your first 100 days at this job; it will eventually wear you down and make you give up on tying to be nice. If you treat shop assistants well, look them in the eye, smile back, be friendly, and remember that shopping is fun, you’ll boost their morale after so many disappointments and that will get their friendly engines going.

Having said that, some people don’t have what it takes to be in such jobs. If you did your part right and received an unpleasant service, bring it to management’s attention – read last month’s article on how customers can force management to listen. But if you encountered a person in the wrong job, don’t treat the next shop assistant badly.

Difficult? Well, now you know how they feel. It’s nice to be nice...and that’s just my two cents.

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Our investors care only about pushing for more profit without thinking about the impact on staff. And the employees act as if they’re school children by bickering and sabotaging each other. How can the company grow and continue in the market for decades to come with such an internal mess?

Assuming you have hired the right staff as far as their technical skills are concerned, you have the responsibility to show them how they’re expected to behave within your business environment – it would help if you hired people with a cultural fit as well. The next step is to genuinely care for their benefit and advancement. Paying this much attention to your ‘internal customers’ is one of the pillars of financial success. Applying this management style brings out the best in people in terms of performance and makes it easier for them to focus on work. By shifting their focus, employees will gradually lose interest in participating in negative issues like beating morale to death, feeding internal politics and creating an unprofessional environment.

Employees play politics when management is hiring, promoting, and giving bonuses and other benefits for the wrong reasons. What are the wrong reasons? Anything other than productivity and results will start ‘Nightmares on Corporate Street’...and that’s just my two cents.

For Loaay Ahmed’s advice on business or work matters, send a short email to loaay@knightscapital.com. Regrettably, only the questions chosen for publishing will be answered.

Loaay Ahmed is a management consultant and strategic expert. To learn more about Loaay and his consulting service, strategic business therapy, visit www.knightscapital.com.

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THE SANCTUARY THAT ONCE WAS

Remembering the British Council Library

by Zainab Mirza

Once upon a time in Kuwait, there lay a small sanctuary deep in the ground, for lovers of the written word. It thrived with visitors young and old, wandering through the aisles awestruck, the sight of the innumerable tomes appeasing their insatiable thirst for words. This lone oasis was all they had, all that was there in the desert that could offer them any satisfaction when it came to reading English books.

The two guardians of the sanctuary welcomed them in and then let them be, knowing that they preferred to be alone with the great masters they were about to meet.

The sanctuary I speak of is the British Council Library, often abbreviated to the BCL, which once flourished in the basement of the British Council in Mansouriya. The guardians were the librarians who’d been working there for years.

When I was four, my mother initiated us into the BCL’s family membership. For years after that, I escaped from the mundane realities of school and homework by exploring new realms and sharing countless moments of joy with my companions on our many adventures—whether it was discovering the Golden Ticket with Charlie Bucket, soaring through the earth’s orbit with Willy Wonka in the Great Glass Elevator, stumbling into Narnia with the Pevensies, fighting in battles by Prince Caspian’s side or vanquishing smugglers and kidnappers while camping all over the British countryside with the Famous Five. I led a very full life indeed.

When not saving the world or performing remarkable feats, I was absorbing facts on dinosaurs and the universe from Dorling Kindersley encyclopedias.

When my sister was born a few months after our first visit, my mother would carry her in one arm while browsing the Adult section. As she grew, she’d crawl all over the gray library carpet in the Children’s section. Once she started reading, she and I would dig deep for children’s books we hadn’t read, concealing some strategically, to borrow on the next visit.

There was a book sale once; the BCL’s Adult section was to be discontinued. Hardcover books were priced as low as a quarter KD. My mom went through the following week with an ecstatic smile after she bought bags and bags of books for a mere 30 KD. One of them, weighing at least two tons, detailed the entire history of the British monarchy. I remember excitedly tracing King Richard the Lionheart and Prince John’s line; I’d just read Robin Hood and had assumed they were fictional characters. Learning they existed made me believe the legendary outlaw was real, and I proclaimed him my hero.

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included a video library. This was where we would often find our mother, flipping through the video catalogues for BBC and other TV series, while our father would look for Bond movies to watch the umpteenth time. My sister and I often borrowed VHS tapes of documentaries for information; vegetable, animal and mineral, along with children’s movies. I dreamed of sailing the high seas like Horatio Hornblower as he marched the decks of his ship, let my imagination soar with the incorrigible Pippi Longstockings, and sang all the songs of Oliver: The Musical over and over, while secretly crushing on the Artful Dodger.

When the age of the personal computer began, the BCL brought in the internet, computers and a variety of interactive CD encyclopedias and games. I had an intense fascination with dinosaurs, and would occasionally spend an hour or two surfing a particularly informative CD

on the reptiles. It was around this time that I encountered Harry Potter and broke him out of Privet Drive with Ron and his brothers in their father’s Ford.

The blissful times at the BCL were not to last, for the Dark Forces were at work. Six years ago, we received the fateful phone call from one of the guardians, with news that evoked a great deal of sorrow. The library was closing down.

There was a time when books held more worth to children than the latest ‘thingamajig’ dominating the tech market, when what was deemed worthy of showing off was how many books you’d read, not what your score was on Candy Crush. My childhood is intrinsically linked to the BCL and life would not have been as rich without it. I grieve for Kuwait’s loss, while cherishing a secret hope that the sanctuary will miraculously spring up again.

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BREAST CANCER FIGHTERS

Foods that fight and help prevent Breast Cancer by bazaar staff

We all know that Mother Nature has a wonderful way of surprising us when it comes to our health and how are bodies respond to certain foods. Where Breast Cancer is concerned, there is definitely a huge influx of funds towards medical treatments and research, yet there is never focus placed on a woman’s nutrition.

After all, research has shown that certain foods provide Breast Cancer survivors with the proper nutrients to surpass the difficulties associated with the disease and treatment. Collaborating with the nutrition guru Ali Al-Haddad from Kuwait Get2Fit, we present you with the ultimate Breast Cancer fighting foods.

Salmon Proven to provide the body with essential nutrients like Omega-3s, Vitamins B12 and D, Salmon also helps in regulating cell growth and cancer prevention. Research has further shown that specific types of Vitamin B12 aid in cancer treatment.

Broccoli and fellow sprouts A characteristic of all cruciferous vegetables is a richness in sulforophane and indoles—effective in regulating cell growth in various ways to not only help fight Breast Cancer, but other ranges of the same disease like Lung, Bladder, Prostate Cancer and Lymphoma.

Flaxseed A recent study has shown flaxseeds as a natural cure for various ailments. Whether you buy it in the form of a whole seed, ground, or oil, the composition of flaxseed depicts a protective barrier against free radicals or cancer cells responsible for the creation of Breast Cancer.

This all comes down to the rich Omega-3s, fibers, and lignans found in flaxseeds.

Garlic My grandmother used to say that garlic is nature’s version of modern-day antibiotics, and she couldn’t have been more accurate. Containing a cancer-busting compound called allium, also present in all the members of onion-garlic alliance such as leeks, scallions, and chives, allium has shown to slow down tumor growth and prevent Breast Cancer and other forms of cancer.

Pomegranate Containing polyphenol, a type of ellagic acid known for its anti-oxidizing properties that effectively prevent cancer growth, pomegranates make for a delicious treat in sweet or savory dishes.

Brazil nuts Even in the smallest quantities, Brazil nuts are known to fight diseases attacking the immune system, help in reducing inflammation, as well as minimizing tumor growth. Why? Brazil 104

nuts happen to be extremely rich in selenium, fibers, and other phytochemicals.

Dark-green leafy vegetables With the powerful combination of fiber, Vitamin B, chlorophyll and phytochemicals, anything dark and green is basically a mean cancer-cell fighting machine. Consider spinach, collards, kale, swiss chard and any dark-green leafy vegetable.

Green tea Also a powerful anti-oxidant, drinking green tea on a regular basis serves as a dual agent: detoxifying the body from harmful free-radicals as well as serving as a Breast Cancer preventative.

Peppers Whether you choose a specific type, or decide

to introduce the complete variety of peppers into your diet- your body will be in for a healthy treat.

The spicier types, such as chilis or jalapenos are potent with capsaicin that actually combats the growth rate of cancer cells, whereas green peppers are known to bind cancer-inducing carcinogens found in the gut.

For more information on nutrition, and how it can help you live a better and longer life, you can contact Kuwait’s GET2FIT. You can also check out @GET2FIT on Instagram. The GET2FIT Clinic is located on the first floor of Shaymaa Tower in Kuwait City. Please call 9718 8033 and 5571 0033.

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HANGIN’ WITH THE HOMIES AIR FRESHENERS

You know that dream where you’re flying across the sky, soaring effortlessly without the aid of a vehicle? Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be a dream, thanks to Squirrel Wingsuits (KD 470 and up), and a (possibly-unhealthy) dose of courage. They offer several suits, the swift, called a beginner suit, the aura, a more balanced suit, and the colugo, made for pilots of intermediate to expert ability. Each suit is completely customizable, so you can build it to match your tastes, and based on years of research and experience in wingsuit base jumping.

This inflatable circular lounge, Beach7 AirLounge XL, which seats 30, and is also available in the 15-seater, is an ideal addition to your next backyard bash. If mother-in-law is coming she can easily blow this bad boy up, but if she’s still in treatment, no worries, it comes with an electric pump that will inflate it in just 10 minutes. The best part of all this is one can easily fold it away for later use despite the large inflated size. It is also supposedly not affected by the heat, so will fit into any Kuwaiti chalet yard!

Show your solidarity with the original Compton crew when you deck out your rearview with these Hangin’ With The Homies Air Fresheners (KD 3). This first run comes with three air fresheners, featuring Eazy-E and Dr. Dre of N.W.A., and Darlene Ortiz (in her famous pose from Ice-T’s Power), scented in apple, black ice, and vanilla, respectively. Even if you aren’t from the mean streets of South Central LA, that doesn’t mean you can’t represent with three of hip-hop’s most iconic personalities — and make your ‘64 smell as fresh as possible.

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SAMURAI KITCHEN KNIFE SET

PURE FIX GLOW BIKES

Addicts everywhere will rejoice upon seeing this Nespresso capsule holder. A contemporary styling for the already sleek Hologramer company now features the likes of Donkey Kong inspired holders. The classic arcade game has made its way to residential walls everywhere– and you can be in on the action.

This isn’t something that simply dispenses your Nespresso capsules….it doubles as an art piece!

Starting from the top, you’ll place your capsules into the Donkey Kong cutout where all 50 can roll and fit comfortably down into the barrel slot for easy access.

It’s the perfect start to any morning, afternoon or evening for making that quick cup of coffee.

It’s easy to feel like half the man you used to be when you’re wearing an apron and properly pronouncing endive. One possible antidote to Kitchen Emasculation would be to get your dishpan hands on this set of Samurai sword knives. The set of 4 includes a bread, utility, and paring knife as well as a chef’s meat carver, so all your culinary bases will be covered, and the knives have stylish red sleeves to store them in when not in use. Although this set may not turn you into a real Samurai warrior, it will make for some fun kitchen role-playing games with vegetables.

Turn your hipster-street-cred up to 11 with Pure Fix Glow Bikes (KD 115). These deceptively-minimalist, fixed-gear road bikes have a surprisingly attention-getting feature — at night their solar-activated paint glows bright, neon green (one hour of time in the sun equals one hour of day-glo at night).

Designed for urban travel on flat roads, these bikes have front caliper brakes and 700x28 tires for a great compromise between speed and comfor t. Choose from several models, including the hotel, the kilo, the micro kilo, and the zulu.

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BAYAN DENTAL Now open: Jahra! by bazaar staff

With the recent opening of their fourth branch location in Kuwait, it is clear that Bayan Dental aims to be Kuwait’s leading specialty dental center. By providing high quality dental care delivered by caring and reputable professionals, all in the presence of modern offices with a warm and friendly feel, they are setting the bar high, for others to live up to. The organization of Bayan’s business and operational models are structured in a way, that gives the entire office a consistent brand of dental service, rather than a clinic that might be more limited in their dependence on a specific doctor. This model has made Bayan unique and one of a kind in the region.

The mission of the Doctors at Bayan Dental practice is to provide top quality dental care in a state-of-the-art environment with careful attention to detail and a deep personal respect for their many customers. Given their stated aim is “to occupy a prominent position in the health care field both nationally and internationally,” it is safe to say we will continue to see them grow in the coming years. And, with their recently opened location at Jahra, they continue to prove this intent out.

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At Bayan, they consider both the human aspect and the environment in all they do. As such they are the first medical company in Kuwait (and the Middle East) to be Green Business Certified, a designation for companies working to address environmental concerns in business.

In addition, by actively engaging in community fundraisers (such as Cancer Awareness), and having invested in handicapped accessible rooms, they prove that they are trying to actively go out of their way to be sure that all feel welcome as they do their part to better society, one smile at a time. They further feel that their personal ethics are illustrated in the way that they treat each individual patient. At Bayan Dental patients come first. All these values align perfectly with their stated motto: “show off your smile.”

By expanding and opening its fourth branch Bayan Dental is catering to the public by going to them rather than the public coming to them, thus making it more convenient. In addition Bayan wants to provide superlative dental service for Jahra’s 500,000+ residents. While the newest clinic represents the fourth location they will open their

fifth in the near future as well. They have employed U.S certified specialists and have hand picked the latest technologies in the region. They have also earned Superbrands status for superlative quality and service with a growing client base of +48,000.

At their newest location, replete with 9 full-service examination rooms, which include special ones for children, you can get in and out without much hassle. Additionally, they are able to perform all of the same procedures that are available at their other 3 locations, for your convenience.

One of the distinctive and unique features of Bayan is the separation between ownership, management and medical practice tasks to achieve high degrees of growth and corporate governance.

Established in 2005 and is owned and controlled

by Al Razzi Holding Company, Bayan boasts a loyal and growing patient base and is aggressively expanding in Kuwait and through the GCC. Bayan Dental Center’s locations are Salmiya, Kuwait City, Egaila and Jahra. Give them a call at 2382 4000.

Follow them on Twitter @bayandentalkw and Instagram @bayandental, or visit www.bayandental.com

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bazaar a la mode RALPH LAUREN FALL 2013 MENS COLLECTION: POLO and RLX Polo Ralph Lauren presents a season of heritage inspired looks paired with youthful American roughwear.

Offerings include versatile tailored pieces and a range of sportswear—from estate tweeds and signature fairisles to a special selection of nylon and down jackets crafted by RLX and mixed with Polo. Tailored clothing showcases traditional silhouettes with clean lines. Suitings are cut from select wool in solid or subtly patterned gray, dark charcoal and rich navy, pairing handsomely with blue and white shirts. Repp stripes, heraldic crests and simple handblocked prints adorn neckwear in dark luxury silk. A modern take on a sartorial mainstay, Polo tailored clothing unveils a new tuxedo in charcoal wool, featuring a trim double-breasted silhouette and sharp satin peak lapels.

Polo celebrates a legacy of timeless country dressing with a dynamic blend of refined weekend-wear and rugged outdoorsy pieces inspired by fishing and hunting lifestyles. Bright oranges, greens and purples are set against an autumnal backdrop of olive, brown and navy in a number of seasonal layered looks. Polo and RLX are paired in a fresh mix of casual sportswear—vintage-inspired novelty sweaters and slim-fit jeans, logging pants and cargos—with bright graphic outerwear.

LEIGHTON DENNY EXPERT NAILS LAUNCHES INTO KUWAIT Leighton Denny Expert Nails is now available in Kuwait via the distributor, Naiwa General Trading Company. The very first salon stocking Leighton Denny Expert Nails range of products in Kuwait is Saks Hair & Beauty in Mahboula. Leighton Denny Expert Nails is a multi-award winning British brand, which started in the renowned department store Harrods in Knightsbridge. The much loved and trusted brand offers a range of premium quality at-home nail color and treatment products as well as professional treatments in-salon to ensure the nails look their very best, every day. Leighton Denny Expert Nails has considerably expanded in the past 8 years and is now available in 500 stores and salons in the UK, including John Lewis and Marks & Spencer. “We are so excited to be launching Leighton Denny Expert Nails in Kuwait – what an exciting market! We can’t wait to be able to show off our beautiful range of colors and nurturing treatment products, as well as our salon treatments of course. We hope that you love the products, as much as we do.” Leighton Denny.

MAKE UP FOR EVER RELEASES “BLUE SEPIA” COLLECTION FOR FALL/WINTER 2013 This Fall/Winter 2013, MAKE UP FOR EVER launches a limited edition of a boldly sophisticated and feminine collection: Blue Sepia, to create a sensationally glamorous icon of elegance with a style both modern and vintage. Blue sepia palette: This fall/ winter star eyeshadow palette highlights 8 essential shades: 5 vibrant shades of brown, shimmering light pink and basic black completed with the it-shade of the season, Petrol Blue for a perfect autumnal harmony. It offers an ideal range of textures and effects to create any makeup look, from simple, to sophisticated, to extremely artistic. Blue sepia aqua liner: Aqua Liner, the renowned high precision waterproof liquid eye liner which had been spotted on the catwalks of many International Fashion Shows, is now available in the new Deep Petrol Blue shade which beautifully enhances each and every eye color. Blue sepia false lashes: False lashes are the defining detail, the ultimate touch of glamour that gives the look its couture feel. The Blue Sephia False lashes, adorned with two Petrol Blue Swarovski crystals, is the perfect blend of extreme femininity and refined sophistication.

COACH MEN’S FALL 2013 Coach Men takes its collection to an even higher level this fall with new designs incorporating bold color, fresh materials, graphic patterns and more functionality than ever before. From statement pieces to timeless essentials, the Men’s Fall 2013 collection offers an even greater breadth of possibilities for the Coach man’s business and casual needs. The Bleecker Collection, as always inspired by a casual and rugged yet refined lifestyle, is updated this fall with handsome combinations of smooth, textured and pebbled leathers paired with suede and nubuck. These mixed materials further elevate the season’s designs with subtle tones and texture, giving the assortment a distinctly luxurious, expensive feel. The Bleecker Harness Field Bag in Black/ Mahogany is the new everyday business essential, offering a defined yet relaxed feel with heritage bridle-leather details for style. As a whole, the men’s collection has an elevated look and feel this fall. Distinctive design elements, like the suede gussets seen on the Legacy Mixed Leather Fulton Tote, lend it a modern, streamlined look that’s become a hallmark of Coach design.

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FREESTYLE WITH FINESSE - REEBOK AUTUMN/WINTER 2013 DANCE FOOTWEAR AND APPAREL COLLECTION Reebok’s functional and fun dance collection continues in AW13 with the launch of more oh-so stylish and striking footwear and apparel ranges. Fusing bold colors and layering options, the dance-ready apparel will help you freestyle with finesse. Made for all workouts, the Own Mix Hoodie comes in bright colorways and a cool cropped v-neck design that compliments any look and layering. On the inside, the moisture-wicking PlayDry technology keeps your skin comfortable whilst the printed inner hood liner and hood drawcords add a little extra functional style. Pair with the new Own Mix Capri and see yourself swing, stomp and twist in breathtaking style. The dance-friendly harem silhouette offers great freedom of motion, plus the cuffed hems keep the pant legs in place. Perfect for all workouts and routines the drawcord at the waistband provides easy adjustability whilst the PlayDry fabric will keep you feeling great.The footwear collection continues to respond to a dancers feet with the thoughtfully engineered Dance UR Lead Mid 2.0 featuring a 3D ultralite midsole, eye-catching ankle straps and asymmetrical outsole grooves and pivot points for easy changes in direction.

The Reebok Dance collection is available in stores throughout Kuwait and through www.reebok.com.

SACOOR BROTHERS’ 2013/2014 WORLD AUTUMN/WINTER CAMPAIGN Actor Patrick Dempsey, from the US hit show Grey’s Anatomy Patrick Dempsey, the Hollywood superstar, who is now the face of Sacoor Brothers’ new autumnwinter collection, was chosen because of his versatility and charisma. Better known as “McDreamy”, Dempsey is the charming and romantic ‘Dr Shepherd’ in the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. Having starred in almost 70 films during his career, Dempsey has worked with famous and diverse names, such as John Turturro, John Malkovich, Ashley Judd, Julia Roberts and Hilary Swank. Considered a heartthrob and one of the most charming men in Hollywood, Patrick Dempsey is the highlight of Sacoor Brothers new campaign and models the great quality items of the latest collection, which is arriving in boutiques soon.

The elegance and sophistication the brand has accustomed its clients to, have inspired the campaign concept “Share”, which characterize a collection where warm, soft and comfortable clothes enhance the elegance of the lines of Mens’, Ladies’ and Kids’, using high quality materials with tailor-made service.

For further information on Sacoor Brothers, visit www.sacoorbrothers.com.

HARVEY NICHOLS KUWAIT CELEBRATES EID WITH LAUNCH OF FALL/ WINTER 2013 COLLECTION Harvey Nichols Kuwait, the premier fashion retailer, has launched its Fall/ Winter collection for 2013, and is showcasing the trends with key brands for the season ahead. The upscale department store is keeping pace with the latest trends of the season to provide its most brand-savvy clientele with the ultimate fashion experience just in time for the festive Eid holidays. New brands introduced at Harvey Nichols Kuwait this season include Burberry Prorsum, Jonathan Saunders, Ostwald Helgason, Suno New York, and Maria Grachvogel in designerwear, Finders Keepers in contemporary womenswear, Dannijo, Holst + Lee, Vita Fede in jewellery, Casadei and Sergio Rossi in women’s footwear, and Marc Cross in accessories. The menswear department also features new exciting brands, such as Denham, while the childrenswear department debuts Gaultier Junior and Moncler for the first time.

PARFOIS FALL/WINTER COLLECTION The new Fall Winter collection is inspired by three major trends: the Grudge, the Casual look and the 40’s Wardrobe. The young meets the elegant to celebrate the new season. Mixing materials with textures, Parfois creates a collection for the modern woman. The Grunge, with black boots and metallic chains in black nickel and the fur and polka dot handbags, are featured in this major collection trend. The jewelry, inspired by the grunge mood, uses claves, studs, denim, and pearls as details. A touch of minimalistic appearance added to the clean image of materials inspires the Casual look. Brown, beige taupe to navy blue can be found in the accessories. Belts, scarves, jewelry, bags in big sizes, and envelope clutches, designed for the urban woman that aspires elegance and discretion. The 40’s Wardrobe is also well represented in a very trendy way, transporting the masculine touch into the feminine shape of the collection. The colors of the season are inspired by the simplicity of earth tones. Crocodile clutches, sneak totes and jewelry with powerful and sophisticated details, that project an atmosphere of mystery, beauty and romance.

Parfois is located in Al Kout and Awtad Malls in Kuwait. For more information please visit www.parfois.com, and www.facebook.com/parfois.

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“WALKING DEAD” COLLEGE COURSE

by Neal Ungerleider

Will fans want to take an online, interdisciplinary course all about the zombie-filled world of The Walking Dead? AMC, UC Irvine, and Instructure all think so--and that it will be one of the largest MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) ever.

Zombies may just want to eat some brains, but AMC is betting that fans of The Walking Dead will want to fill their brains with some sweet, sweet zombie knowledge. The network is embarking on an ambitious partnership to turn the popular television program into one of the largest free online college courses ever. Society, Science, Survival: Lessons From AMC’s The Walking Dead is an eight-week course taught entirely by University of California, Irvine faculty members all about the world of the popular television show. The interdisciplinary course begins October 14th, and each weekly installment will cover themes addressed in that week’s episode of the show.

A college course on zombie studies? It’s not as ridiculous as it sounds. The massive open online course (MOOC) is the brainchild of Instructure, a Utah-based online learning company that competes with much better-known companies such as Coursera and edX. Instructure’s co114

founder, Brian Whitmer, told Co.Create his firm originally reached out to AMC about a MOOC based on their programming. AMC gave their blessing, and Instructure brought in UC Irvine. All three parties get something out of it: AMC receives a prestigious, low-cost burst of publicity, UC Irvine gets a chance to increase their name recognition and attract potential students, and Instructure gets a valuable opportunity to steer participants towards their many other online courses.

Melissa Loble, UC Irvine’s associate dean of distance learning, said the most important thing was recruiting the right mix of professors to handle a multidisciplinary course based around the lives of some of the last surviving humans in a ravaged, post-apocalyptic zombie world. Topics for the course include public health epidemiology (how would a zombie outbreak decimate humanity?), physics (why do walkers react differently to axes and bullets?), sociology (what exactly happens to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs after the world ends?), biology (what long-term effects would stress have on survivors), and other disciplines. Courses, which require between two and four hours weekly of participants’ time, include video clips from the show

to teach different educational concepts.

For the professors involved, the course is an opportunity to explain how fictional television concepts have parallels and equivalents in the real world. In a phone conversation, Irvine physics and astronomy professor Michael Dennin told Co.Create that he “has done similar courses for outreach that took place on a very general level.

I talk about physics topics first--things like energy, momentum, and how they are illustrated by the zombies on the show. People don’t often think about the connection between simple physics and how things work.”

But the big question for all parties involved is how many participants in the MOOC will actually finish the course. Purely vocational- or careeroriented MOOCs have an infamously difficult time retaining users, and an entertainment-based course such as “Walking Dead” will have an even harder time. There’s no real precedent for a fictional television show launching a tie-in college course tied to a program where classes are keyed to each week’s episode. It’s new territory, and if it becomes viable, expect to see many more entrants in this category.

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The biggest Centrepoint and Home Centre stores in Kuwait at The Avenues by bazaar staff

Landmark Group marks a new milestone with the opening of the biggest Centrepoint and Home Centre stores in Kuwait. With a new home at The Avenues, the local market is in for a definite retail treat.

Make sure to pay this magnificent location a well-deserved visit. There is not one, not two, but at least five entrances to the location, which allows customers to shop in a specific segment of the Centrepoint and Home Centre stores.

Both stores span over 11,500 square meters, starting from underneath The Mall segment at The Avenues, until the high-end Prestige area.

The recent unveiling of this location signifies a 9th Centrepoint and a 5th Home Centre store in Kuwait, also Landmark Group’s biggest location in Kuwait.

With this launch, you will see Home Centre in a totally inventive and refreshing layout.

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styled furniture on display. Feel free to pick up the latest catalogue, or simply browse freely from one section to the other. The aisles are wide and the lighting is absolutely soothing, ensuring that you will find that much-needed piece for your home.

The latest collections feature a mix of modern and transitional furniture and accessories in the brightest colorful styles, as well as timeless products that hold utility value and aesthetic appeal. Home Centre’s combination of unique designs and refreshing colors reflects popular global trends in home décor. Whatever the occasion or event is, adding a modern, or even classic touch to your home, doesn’t get easier than following the brand’s slogan: “Finding your home in ours.”

The Centrepoint store at this brand new location is every shopper’s must-visit destination for the ultimate retail therapy session. All of Centrepoint’s concepts are given more space to truly shine and dazzle the customer. Serving up the latest trends at the most affordable prices, Shoe Mart, Shoe Express and Splash will have your fall

wardrobes updated in no time. Even the lifestyle section, abundant with beautiful accessories for the home, ensures a leisurely stroll to add to your retail experience. The Beauty department, with various cosmetic brands, takes center stage. Kids run off to the Children’s department, spending their time browsing between their favorite cartoon character themed toys, clothing and much more.

With this new location, the shopping needs of the entire family are met in one place.

As a pivotal entity in the retail market, Landmark Group has built its success in Kuwait and the Middle East based on a single, simplistic yet ultimate principle: Great fashion at great value. At this new flagship location, Landmark Group delivers a one-stop shopping destination for the entire family.

The new Centrepoint and Home Centre stores are located at the 3rd Avenues at The Avenues. For more information, please visit www.landmarkgroup.com.

You can also connect with the group on Facebook, Twitter and on Instagram @LandmarkQ8.

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AN ‘IT’ BAG FOR BREAST CANCER AWARENESS

Patrick Demarchelier, Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell for Tommy Hilfiger’s 2013 BHI Campaign by bazaar staff

In its continued support of Breast Health International (BHI) for seven consecutive years, Tommy Hilfiger group reunites supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for the launch of a new limited edition handbag. Proceeds of the bag’s sale will be donated to BHI international, a leading non-profit foundation that works to advance Breast Cancer research and treatment.

Premiering once a year, the iconic limited edition handbag takes on different forms and shapes and has been modeled by various celebrity ambassadors including singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, photographed by Drew Barrymore; Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger; France’s former First Lady Carla Bruni; international supermodel-turned-acclaimed-photographer Helena Christensen; supermodel and actress Milla Jovovich; and Italian actresses Claudia Gerini and Cristiana Capotondi. Reuniting both Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, Tommy Hilfiger believes that these annual collaborations allows the brand to spread awareness in a powerful way, and effectively raising significant funds for the BHI organization. The global BHI initiative provides assistance to women with Breast Cancer and their families, by covering costs or addressing unique problems associated with their care that may not be covered by health insurance programs.

“Being able to play a part in this admirable campaign means a lot to me,” said Naomi Campbell.

“As my own mother has suffered from Breast Cancer, and I’ve seen first-hand the hardships and challenges the illness can cause. I’m a passionate supporter of breast health education, and I’m honored to be able to contribute to BHI’s amazing work.” Also commenting on her participation, Claudia Schiffer states, “I’m very pleased to partner with Tommy, Naomi and Patrick to raise awareness and support for such a wonderful organization; I hope with this campaign we can increase early awareness for early detection, and help support women and families in need.”

In tune with the ongoing satchel-tote trend for 2013, the special edition midsize bag works as a satchel-tote crossover design, with a midnight blue core and cherry red side panels. Made of Italian pebbled leather, the bag embraces Tommy Hilfiger’s classic, American, cool aesthetic. A white hangtag accent and white interior zipper toggles are nautically-inspired. Additional features include a large exterior side pocket with magnetic closure, interior central divider with zipper, mobile phone pocket and brass accents.

The Limited Edition Handbag is priced at KD 195, where KD 39 will go to BHI. The bag will be available at the Tommy Hilfiger Boutique at The Avenues this October.

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APPLE IS MAKING YOU THE DEVICE With the iPhone 5S’s fingerprint sensor

by John Brownlee

Apple has always been good at convincing people to interact with their computers by making them more intimate. The Apple II convinced people they needed a computer in their homes; the Mac anthropomorphized computers, made the metaphor of computing as relatable as a friendly face and a desktop. And the iPhone, of course, was a revolution precisely because it put a computer that responded to touch alone in the pockets of hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Last month, Apple introduced a new feature to the iPhone 5S: a built-in fingerprint sensor called Touch ID squirreled away under the home button that gives you increased security for your iDevice. At first blush, a fingerprint sensor seems like a step back from the spirit of computer-age intimacy Apple has made a business of selling in various permutations over the course of the last three decades. Everyone needs security, but there’s nothing intimate about a deadbolt. Or is there? Locks are actually the model of intimacy: two unique pieces that belong to each other and only work when they fit together just so.

That’s what Apple is after. To make you and your iPhone two parts of a whole. This humble fingerprint sensor, hidden away under the home button, is just the latest evolution to a product that Apple has been trying to build for 30 years.

As far back as July 2012, the writing was on the wall: Future iPhones would come with a builtin fingerprint sensor. Superficially, the benefits of a fingerprint sensor in every iPhone were obvious. iPhone theft is such a major problem that New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has blamed iPhone thefts for the first crime-rate increase in 20 years. With iOS 7, Apple has unveiled a new feature called Activation Lock, guaranteeing a lost or stolen iPhone can’t be wiped without access to a user’s iCloud account. In conjunction with Touch ID, if a thief pickpockets you for your iPhone 5S, about the only thing he can do with the device is sell it for scrap.

But it would be short sighted to think that Apple’s aspirations for this dainty fingerprint sensor top out at locking out intruders. There are many things Apple can do with this technology besides just unlocking an iPhone. Apple has launched Touch ID modestly as a passcode and iTunes password replacement, but in the future, Apple could do more. Imagine logging into your Mac just by pressing your iPhone’s home button within range of your home Wi-Fi network. Or go the other way: Imagine a future of iCloud where no matter what iMac or iPhone you’re using, a simple fingerprint turns it into your device, complete with all your apps and data.

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pursuing all along. The iPhone 5S is hammering another mental link between Apple and our own senses of self-identity. For years, Cupertino’s M.O. has been to convince us to link our identities with some coveted, sexy object made real through the power of industrial design. There’s a reason the devices that Apple makes are called I-phones, I-pads, I-pods and I-macs. Apple means for us to see these devices as extensions of ourselves.

Where touching your finger to your iPhone’s home button literally injects it with your data, Touch ID could literally make your data device (but not platform!) agnostic.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to get you to live within the confines of Apple’s walled gardens. These gardens--iOS, OS X, the App Store, iTunes, AirPlay, and so on--don’t easily lead out, but they do lead to one another, tying Apple’s customers up into a beautiful knot of consumerism that is just as much of a labyrinth as it is a matryoshka. Tantalizingly, the iPhone 5S’s Touch ID sensor opens up a door to another garden--mobile payments--that could revolutionize the experience design of retail, and break Apple’s ecosystem out into the physical world.

Just think: in a couple of years, Apple will have

all the pieces in place to start taking a transaction fee out of physical purchases, not just digital ones.

There will be iPhones in the pockets of hundreds of millions of people, and each one will be tied to a working credit card number. Not only that, but each iPhone will be uniquely self-identifying and fraudproof in a way that a credit card can’t be.

Credit card fraud is one of the biggest day-to-day risks for business owners: If Apple could solve that problem, retail would jump at taking payments by iPhone, rolling out the infrastructure to do so and giving Apple a cut of real-world purchases. Likewise, imagine the convenience of leaving your wallet at home and not only paying for things with a wave of your iPhone but identifying yourself with it as well.

This isn’t a far-off pipe dream. Apple has already patented ways in which an iPhone with fingerprint sensor could be used to make retail payments.

The future Apple wants us to be heading toward is one in which we are all intermingled with Apple. A future where, united with Apple through design, we do not so much buy Apple devices as we are the device. A future where it’s not just you, but iYou. And if Apple pulls it off, it all starts now, with a fingerprint.

POWERHOUSE

MOTI MAHAL DELUX

Authentic North Indian cuisine, now in Kuwait

by Shabana H. Shaikh

The attribute of a good restaurant is not always its size or location, but rather the quality of its food and service to the customer.

In this context, India’s premium restaurant, Moti Mahal Delux, makes no compromises and delivers exactly what it promises. Its name, which literally means ‘pearl palace’, has become synonymous with serving the best of North India’s gastronomic delicacies for over seven decades.

The stellar restaurant made a quiet appearance last June, joining the throng of American, Lebanese and European diners dotting prime space on the Arabian Gulf. Moti Mahal Delux was brought to Kuwait by Al Ghunaim Trading Co, the same group that represents popular franchises such as Chilis, Noodle House, etc. and is the only fine dining restaurant in their repertoire.

As it happens, Moti Mahal has a history, and I have a thing for places with stories to tell. The franchise is an extension of the original restaurant, which opened in 1929 in Delhi and till date, follows the recipes created by the original owner – Karam Chand Sarwal.

Young Karam Chandji was already experimenting and developing new concepts in Tandoori cooking, way back in the 1930s and 40s in the bylanes of Peshawar, in what was once an undivided India, but now falls in Pakistan. The tragedy of partition forced him to flee to Delhi with nothing but his skills as a creative user of the “tandoor”, an oven used by the common populace of North India. He established the first Moti Mahal in Darya Ganj, to put Delhi firmly on the culinary map of the world. His restaurant soon became renowned for its food and it was usual to spot State Guests, visiting Foreign Dignitaries, business tycoons and film personalities amongst its regular patrons.

It piqued my interest further, when I discovered that Karam Chandji was inarguably a pioneering chef, who is credited with several firsts, most notably being; the first to serve Mughlai and Barbeque cuisine in Delhi; the first to serve the now ubiquitous ‘tandoori chicken’; and the father of the infamous Murg Makhni, popularly known as ‘butter chicken’. His traditional authentic creations are magical (there are no other words to describe them), drawing the maximum of flavor from the very freshest of ingredients. It is the inheritance of the creative skills of the Royal Mughal Chefs that has been Karam Chandji’s most important legacy.

The first thing that makes an impression, as you approach Moti Mahal, is the huge engraved wooden door that requires assistance to be pushed open and closed. And once the door closes behind you, you find yourself in a demure setting of gold and maroon textures, giving it a feel of the bygone Nawabi-era, without being overdone. I am told that diners prefer lunching 122

at the restaurant, as they get a pleasant view of the Arabian Sea, while the day is still bright. But the most striking feature of its décor is a large rectangular chandelier in the center of the dining area, which simmers like gold and unerring, giving the restaurant its most distinct attraction.

In the background, the music alternates between classical and contemporary. The staff are pleasant, service is impeccable, and I am informed that each of the staff undergoes intensive training in India. As a result, your servers are fully knowledgeable of the menu, the ingredients the dishes contain, and are capable of recommending dishes to patrons effortlessly.

Moving on to food, the menu is not too exhaustive, which is a relief. I started out with a bowl of Murgh Yakhni Shorba, i.e. chicken soup.

The term ‘yakhni’ means broth or soup and

traces back to ancient times. This clear soup is naturally thickened in chicken stock, without thickening agents, and flavored with herbs. Moti Mahal relies on unique cooking techniques to give their dishes flavor and texture, completely avoiding additives or taste enhancers common in most commercial outfits.

Next to come, were the appetizers. An assorted mix included Zafraani Kasturi Kabab, Nawabi Chicken Tikka, Fish Kabab and prawns, rendered from their trademark tandoors. And to the delight of my taste buds, the tandoor cooked chunks of meat, chicken and fish, were well spiced and succulent. It is often that tandoor cooking is over done; rendering the meat dry, but not in this case.

For my main course, I went with my host’s recommendations, starting with Murg Makhni, of course, seeing how it is Moti Mahal’s signature

dish and after much finger-licking (ahem!), I highly recommend it. However, I equally relished their Lucknowi stir-fired lamb mince with herbs –my personal favorite –and a dish of Dal Makhni. Moti Mahal’s Dal Makhni is exceptionally delicious, because of their method cooking and ingredients used. The popular vegetarian dish is soaked overnight and then slow cooked in pure Indian clarified butter and cream – giving it a velvety taste.

At Moti Mahal, vegans can enjoy as thoroughly as non-veg eaters with a selection of dishes. You can also request your dishes with minimal spices and literally un-spiced! The Chef promises to deliver every dish tasting the same, but that is the Chef’s most guarded secret. It is also noteworthy to mention that Moti Mahal Delux neither uses MSG nor food coloring, and only the choicest ingredients go into the making of their recipes.

Finally, the most anticipated dish of my main course arrived - Chicken Parda Biryani. A fixation in North Indian cuisine, the variety of biryani is cooked and served in a pot sealed with dough, wherein the ‘dough’ is the ‘parda’ (veil) concealing the biryani, and retaining the fragrant aroma, until it is served. When it arrived on my table, the server slit the bread crust before serving. As it turns out, the flavor of every spice and condiment was evident to taste, but was incredibly light on the stomach.

In spite of indulging in a scrumptious meal, I did not feel ‘over-full’, as I had expected. Instead, I had the distinctive feeling of having eaten one of the lightest and non-greasy Indian meals, ever. That in itself is a huge plus point in favor of Moti Mahal.

So, what are you waiting for? Why not put Moti Mahal Delux to your personal test, and join

a reputable line of personalities – such as Indian leaders like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, President Zakir Hussain, and world leaders like President Bhutto, President Nixon, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the Shah of Iran, King of Nepal and Soviet leaders Alexie Kosygin, Nikolia Bulganin and Nikita Krushchev – to acclaim Moti Mahal and its fine tandoori delicacies.

Moti Mahal Delux offers catering service and will be opening up its second branch in Mahboula shortly. Keeping the tradition of sumptuous nongreasy, non-spicy yet delectable food alive, the branches and franchise restaurants, all maintain Moti Mahal’s strict quality standards.

Moti Mahal Delux is located on Arabian Gulf Road, Exit 5 (next to Johnny Carino’s). For reservations call 2266 7050.

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BEST OF TED

by Yara Al Wazir

desalination to create an alternative mining industry, simultaneously protecting the oceans’ marine life.

Brine is the concentrated salt solution that is left behind when factories extract fresh water from seawater. It’s usually pumped back into the oceans, increasing the saltiness of the ocean. Damian’s research would use bacteria to ‘eat’ itself, creating a charge that would attract the salt ions to it, which the industry would go on to sell for millions of dollars.

TED Talks are about ideas worth sharing. TED stands for Technology, Education, and Design – the talks are inherently about using these topics to make our lives, economies, and our world a better place, through motivating the audience and giving them lifechanging ideas.

In this article, I discuss my favorite three talks of the month: IF I SHOULD HAVE A DAUGHTER – Sarah Kay “If I should have a daughter, instead of [calling me] mom, she’s gonna call me ‘point-B’; that way she knows that no matter what happens, she can always find her way from point-A to point-B.” It’s openings like that that have me hooked, not quite a talk this time, but spoken word poetry by Sarah Kay, a poet who tells the audience about her story of determination, self-doubt, and perseverance, which 124

combined, lead to her becoming an internationally-renowned poet, and teacher.

But TED isn’t just about her story; it’s about using Sarah Kay’s experiences and translating them to whatever you want to do in life, whatever you’re passionate about, what you love, and what you want to share.

According to Sarah, her story can be simplified into three steps; step one, is believing that she can do this. Telling herself that she can become a poet, she can perform. For you, it may be about believing that you can do whatever you set your heart to.

Step two, is taking the leap to actually doing this. Getting out of the ‘planning-to-plan’ mentality, and into actually doing something about what you love and what you’re passionate about.

Step three is about climbing out of your comfort zone to grow,

take risks, and challenge yourself.

If you’re a poet, there’s comfort in knowing and performing a piece that you know will gain applause, and it might be convenient to keep performing it. But growth is about performing a new piece, testing something different, and stirring the audience to make them think. Make yourself think.

MINING MINERALS FROM SEAWATER – Damian Palin Whenever I have to write a research paper, the first place I go to isn’t the library or Google Scholar, it’s TED.com. Usually, that’s because when I first start a research paper, my motivation and innovation levels are at rock bottom.

Damian Palin’s talk on mining minerals from seawater is one that hits Kuwait where it’s close to home - desalination. The topic of his talk is his research in mining the brine by-product of seawater

Audience Choice: HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE ACTION – Simon Sinek Faisal Al-Fuhaid is a Computer Science student at GUST, and the Founder of Equait, an organisation that promotes equality and peace in the country. Also, look out for him in bazaar’s truth or dare column this month.

His choice of the month was Simon Sinek’s “How great leaders inspire action” talk.

He starts his talk with asking why Apple is so innovative, when there are so many other computer companies out there. Why did Martin Luther King lead the Civil Rights Movement, when he wasn’t the only one to suffer during that era?

Simon thinks it’s because of the way we think – from the outsidein, rather than from the inside-out.

Transforming our way of thinking from a what-how-why process, to a why-how-what process would lead to great things.

Faisal was hooked because of the way that the talk made him think, and the applicability of the talk to his own work at Equait. This talk led him to rethink the communications strategy for Equait to make sure he reaches more people. He used this strategy to run the Equait Youth Project Development Workshop in late-September.

What’s your favorite TED talk? Get in touch through Twitter: @YaraWazir or Instagram: @YWazir

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TOP 5 WORLDWIDE NON-ART MUSEUMS compiled by virtualtourist.com

When you mention the word “museum,” most travelers imagine the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the thralls of people trying to sneak a peak of the Mona Lisa at Le Louvre.

While art may be the first thing to come to mind, many other subjects can be found enshrined in museums around the world.

1. National Air & Space Museum Washington, D.C. The National Air and Space Museum, part of the Smithsonian, is both the world’s largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft, but also one of the most visited museums in the world.

It houses landmark pieces from scientific history, including the original Wright brother’s 1903 Flyer, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, and the command module from Apollo 11. It’s also a safe bet that you can get astronaut ice cream here.

As with all Smithsonian museums and the zoo in Washington, D.C., admission is free for all.

2. Lower East Side Tenement Museum New York, N.Y. Although Ellis Island reveals that immigrants’ hardships continued upon arriving in America, few museums or landmarks illustrate the plight of immigrants in major metropolitan cities. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is such a place. It is housed in an original tenement building that was discovered intact in the late 1980s, and a guided tour through the dark, cramped quarters shows what living conditions could be like in New York City before housing laws were established. Ironically, the Lower East Side is experiencing a great resurgence, due to its proximity to popular Soho and trendy East Village restaurants — the contrast between the inside of 97 Orchard Street and what’s occurring outside the museum’s walls is truly remarkable.

3. The VasaMuseet Stockholm, Sweden In 1628, the Vasa commenced her maiden voyage, but heeled over and sank in the middle of Stockholm harbor, sailing less than one nautical mile. After three hundred and thirty-three years underwater, the ship was finally recovered in 1961. Now, the Vasa is safely ashore and on display at the VasaMuseet, the most visited museum in Scandinavia. While a large part of the museum’s focus is on showing visitors the ship, an even greater effort has been expended on the preservation process itself, which visitors can explore through permanent exhibitions.

4. Museo Nacional de Antropología Mexico City, Mexico Many visitors to Mexico walk the ruins at 126

Chichén Itzá and Xochicalco, but few realize there is a central location to admire Olmec, Mayan and Aztec relics within Mexico City. The Museo Nacional de Antropologia is considered one of the world’s finest archaeological museums, with an incredible display of pre-Columbian artifacts, including the Piedra del Sol, or the “Stone of the Sun,” the Aztec calendar stone found in Mexico City’s main square.

5. The Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library Vienna, Austria Visitors to Vienna are often focused on the city’s musical heritage and magnificent examples of different architectural periods, but the city also has some very unique museums to explore. Adjacent to the Museumplatz, the Austrian National Library houses the Globe

Museum, the world’s only institution in which terrestrial and celestial globes are acquired, researched, and presented to the public.

Presently, the museum holds more than 650 objects including globes of the earth’s moon and of various planets, as well as instruments linked with globes (armillary spheres) and instruments in which globes serve an important role, like planetaria and lunaria. For anyone who loves travel and maps, this museum is a unique experience and just a few blocks away from the primary museum area of the city.

Whether you want to see how another generation lived or the very craft that changed the way we travel today, these five non-art museums are a great start to an educational experience during your vacation.

VIDAL SASSOON

RUNNING THE MARATHON

by Ayman Nassar

Birthdays are a strange occurrence. They represent a bittersweet moment, a joyous celebration despite the ominous connotations they bring forth with them such as the passing of age and loss of youthfulness.

As of 2002, I celebrated my birthday by smoking a lone cigar; an activity I knew would definitely shorten my life expectancy; however it seemed a good way to celebrate. Starting 2012 however, I decided to do the exact opposite. They say smoke shortens your life expectancy whereas exercise increases it. I chose to exercise.

Last year I turned 26, in celebration I ran 26km. It was an arduous experiment, my greatest distance to date, 3hrs18mins of constant movement. I decided to add a kilometer for every year on every birthday.

April 21st I turned 27, this time however, I decided to go all out and run a full marathon of 42.2km.

My resolve was strengthened by the encouragement of my running group, the Q8FootSoldiers. One member in particular, Adam Ayesh, would remind me every morning of how many days I had left to “The Great 42”.

On D-Day, I was aroused from sleep by the ringing of my lazy alarm, oblivious to the task I had set at hand; persistently filling my ears with annoyance to the point that I was required to make the conscious physical effort to silence it, removing me from the land of dreams completely.

I lay in bed for the next 15 minutes, my body desperately attempting to convince my mind to drift back to sleep, to not put it through the arduous torture of a 42km that it had never experienced.

My body begged and pleaded, and had it not been for my heart stepping in and saying, it shall be done, I would have most likely fallen back to sleep.

I forsook the usual morning pick-me-up of coffee, as it does terrible things to long distance runners.

Arriving at the starting point, the intersection of the Fahaheel Expressway (Road 30) with the 6th Ring Road, in good timing, as the sun was just about rising; I set about finding a parking spot and synchronizing my equipment.

For the journey I had packed 30 dates in packs of 3, placed inside a weight belt that was devoid of any weights, and a lone 330ml water bottle. The dates would provide energy during the run, and as I was not used to drinking water for running 25km, I rationalized I would only need a small amount by the end. How wrong I was.

At 5:40am, I set out to conquer my quest.

The first few kilometers were relaxing. I ran into Adam somewhere in Salwa and he selflessly followed me on his bicycle, making sure to keep the traffic away from me, as well as document the journey on film. Had it not been for Adam, I would not have lasted the distance, as he also replenished my meager water supply which I had severely 128

underestimated given the weather conditions that set in.

The first 10km was knocked out in 50mins; previously my fastest 10KM was in 45mins, so the law of energy consumption was being followed.

At 21.1km, the halfway point, I was at 1hr42mins, previous record being 1hr35min.

At exactly Souk Sharq, I had to rely on Adam to replenish my water supply. Before reaching the Palace I noticed that the sprinklers were turned on for the sidewalk gardens, and the effect they drew with a myriad of rainbows was intoxicating, mesmerizing me like a siren song, and I ran through the sprinklers, getting a much needed cooling factor.

Past the point of 25km, my knees began to protest and my shins began to tire. As the music steadily flowed into my aural canals, I persisted to push forward. Adam’s constant motivation was a breath of fresh air as well. As we reached Kuwait City, the KPC building came into view, and the final leg of the journey began.

My legs were screaming at me to stop. The Nike+Running App lady on my iPod urged me to continue.

We reached a traffic light where Adam pointed to a sign and asked me to read it, in English it read “Detour Up Ahead”, but Adam corrected me saying it read “Greatness Up Ahead”.

We arrived at KPC with 7km to go to complete

the 42. The sun was blazing down upon us, sapping our strength through the pores of our skin, relentlessly beating down upon our tired minds but unable to faze our determined spirits. We ran around the garden near KPC, Adam discarding his bike and joining me on foot. When I would falter, he would urge me on.

At long last, the final 200m was joyously received with a sprint after 42km crossed; there was a little left in the tank for one last hurrah, a dash toward determination, a proclamation that any obstacle no matter how demanding can be overcome with the proper mindset. The final verdict was I had maintained a steady speed of 5mins per kilometer, 165 strides per minute; Total time: 3hrs30mins.

It was then that another savior from the Q8FootSoldiers came to our rescue; Cristian Craita, one of the first few to run from the northern border of Kuwait to the South, and the coach that guides me. He arrived bearing refreshments, replenishment for lost sugar and fluids, besides the ones that Adam had been carrying on his back for the entire distance.

Our personal goals can be accomplished with the help of friends. Had it not been for both of them, this goal would never have been accomplished.

Images courtesy of Cristian Craita.

HOME CENTRE

FALL FASHION TRENDS TO TRY

by Jennifer Barger

Oversize coats, gray hues, cobalt accents, chunky sweaters and leather everything defined the runways of the fall/winter 2013 ready-to-wear shows last spring. As the weather cools, Jennifer Barger, fashion editor for Fashion Washington and Express; Paige Speyer, of Wink boutique in Washington, and Lauren Rothman, of Styleauteur.com and author of Style Bible, give their advice for wearing fall’s must-have items.

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Monochromatic neutrals, especially in shades of gray were a frequent sight on runways in New York in February.

Barger suggests pairing multiple shades. “The key to doing gray without looking dour is to layer in different tones . . . inky, steely, pale. And a pop of color,” such as yellow or purple, Barger said, “can spark things up.” Rothman says gray hues such as those seen at Jason Wu’s fall 2013 show are an extension of a trend of menswear for woman: “The

new suit is the coordinated skirt set, the skirt with the matching sweater or jacket. It is not necessarily a suit but head to toe is a monochromatic color.”

The sweater and skirt “new suit” trend was also seen at Marc Jacobs, as well as another big trend for fall: shades of greens and emeralds. Rothman suggests jacquard pants and jackets for a take on the classic menswear look.

If a houndstooth coat, such as a bold pattern from Michael Kors’

fall 2013 collection, seems too overwhelming, Rothman suggests a houndstooth accessory such as a purse or large scarf.

Oversize coats were also a big trend at runway shows, including J. Mendel. But not everyone can wear such a large garment, Rothman says.

“That oversized coat that was very cocoon-like doesn’t play so well in everyday life,” she says. “I’d really rather go with a statement coat that will turn heads, whether that has a really big collar, it’s belted, or maybe you choose to go loud with a great pattern, maybe a plaid color blocking or leather details.”

“Leather is everywhere, but what I am loving is hybrids . . . a coat with leather sleeves, a skirt with leather panels,” Barger says. “It tends to be cheaper and a bit less biker chick.”

Adds Rothman: “I think it is one of the ‘it’ accessories. It’s very luxurious, and quilting especially is very luxurious. It gives that nod to Chanel.”

Band of Outsiders similarly showed a lot of leather items during its fall 2013 show. “We’re getting a lot of leather, a lot of coated denim, leatherette,” says Wink boutique’s Paige Speyer. “Leather tops, leather accents, in details on sweaters, skirts, leather trim on dresses — it’s everywhere.”

Speyer says she has also been stocking a lot of chunky sweaters, including varieties by Tibi, similar to the ones shown in the designer’s fall 2013 show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. Speyer also loves Mara Hoffman sweaters for fall; including a leopard-print pullover similar to the prints seen on the runway during the designer’s fall show. Barger recommends pairing a big cardigan or pullover over breezy dresses or straight pants.

“Chunky knits look fresh layered with lighter florals,” Barger says. Or try a graphic print, like the looks from Tibi’s fall 2013 runway.

Cobalt is another fresh color for fall, Rothman says, like the shade seen on dresses from J. Mendel. Rothman says she often urges clients to incorporate trends with accessories instead of entire outfits, such as the cobalt shoes and bags seen at Rag & Bag.

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bazaar checks it out POWERFUL NEW ALL-WHEEL DRIVE GLK-250 LAUNCHED IN KUWAIT A.R. Albisher and Z. Alkazemi Co. – the exclusive general distributor for Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait – has launched a new turbo-charged, all-wheel drive version of the dynamic GLK compact Mercedes-Benz SUV. With an output of 211 hp and torque of 350 Newton metres, the state-of-the-art direct injection engine in the GLK 250 4MATIC delivers effortlessly superior performance and well-balanced drive comfort. Featuring a four-cylinder petrol engine for the first time, the lightweight, high-tech 2.0-litre unit offers the impressive drive comfort of MercedesBenz with impressive performance and conservative fuel consumption, accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.9 seconds, with a 215 km/h top speed. The sporty and dynamic new GLK’s improved performance combines an exhaust gas turbocharger and fast-acting piezo injectors to make multiple injections of fuel possible, while reliable combustion of the air/fuel mixture is ensured by demand-actuated multi-spark ignition. The new model year also brings the added benefit of sporty design courtesy of an Interior Sport Package with burr-walnut wood trim, and exterior sporting a Chrome package, ILS (Intelligent Light System) with LED daytime running lights, rolling on five spoke, 19 inch light-alloy wheels. The GLK also boasts a newgeneration infotainment system with extended functionality for the GLK, as for all SUV models from Mercedes-Benz. The latest generation of infotainment systems extends the possibilities when the optional COMAND Online system is specified. A photo-realistic map display in the navigation menu is among the new features, as well as an additional Bluetooth profile that makes it easier to integrate an iPhone into the vehicle’s communications architecture. The GLK 250 4MATIC bespoke specifications for A.R. Albisher and Z. Alkazemi Co. Mercedes-Benz customers in Kuwait include Active Parking Assist including PARKTRONIC, Media interface including cable kit, Audio 20 radio including CD changer, Light package, Interior Light package.

The new Mercedes-Benz GLK 250 4MATIC is available to view now at the A.R. Albisher and Z. Alkazemi Co. Mercedes-Benz showroom in Shuwaikh with a starting price of KD 12,700.

For more information on Mercedes-Benz products and services in Kuwait, please visit www.mercedes-benz.com.kw or join them on Facebook: MercedesBenzKuwait. You can also follow them on Twitter and Instagram @MercedesBenzKWT. The iPhone application for Abdul Rahman Albisher & Zaid Alkazemi Co. can be downloaded for free by searching for ‘MB Kuwait’ in the Apple online app store.

BALSAMICO - EXCELLENT ITALIAN CUISINE ARRIVES AT THE REGENCY Balsamico, Kuwait’s first authentic Italian restaurant for refined dining, opened its doors September 23rd at The Regency. The entrance to the restaurant is from Al Liwan, leading to the lower ground floor in the north wing, with a separate grand entrance. The restaurant has a unique atmosphere with rich carpets, artistically hand painted walls with beautiful paintings and adding floor to ceiling windows overlooking the pool and beach. It exclusively serves à la carte and is open for dinner from Monday to Saturday, 7.00pm to 12.00am. Perfect for couples, families and more romantic occasions and celebrations the restaurant, with 48 seats, features stylishly designed furniture and elegant interiors to ensure richly satisfying authentic Italian experience. At Balsamico, Italian Chef Carmine De Filippo along with his international award winning team will serve freshly prepared authentic Italian Cuisine. Chef Carmine was born and raised in Milan. He has graduated from CAPAC institute in Milan and his specialty is Italian cuisine. Balsamico, The Regency hotel’s new innovation, is simply the one destination for lovers of Italian cuisine!

For more details or reservations please call 2576 6666 or visit their website: www.theregencykuwait.com.

GULF BANK WINS ‘BANK OF THE YEAR’ AWARD FROM ARABIAN BUSINESS MAGAZINE Gulf Bank announced today that it has won the ‘Bank of the Year’ award from Arabian Business, one of the most respected business magazines in the Middle East. Michel Accad, Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Bank was presented with the ‘Bank of the Year ‘trophy during the awards ceremony, which took place at a gala dinner in the Arraya Ballroom – Courtyard Marriott on Sunday 22 September 2013. Also attending the event was Omar Kutayba Alghanim, Gulf Bank’s Chairman, together with senior members of Gulf Bank’s management team. Commenting on the Bank’s accomplishment, Mr Accad said: “I am very honored to receive this award from Arabian Business, and on behalf of Gulf Bank I would like to thank the judging panel for selecting us this year. Receiving ’Bank of the Year’ solidifies our position as the leading bank in Kuwait, and one that consistently provides our valued customers with the best and the fastest banking services possible. The ‘Bank of the Year’ award ceremony was attended by key figures in the business, financial and banking sectors in the country.

The award was evaluated by a panel of judges from the ITP Publishing group.

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MORE THAN 170 STARBUCKS PARTNERS ENGAGE IN COMMUNITY CONNECTION ACTIVITIES ACROSS THE REGION Making the world a better place cannot happen overnight, but it can certainly be achieved if we contribute to the community that we belong to. As the world’s leading coffee retail chain, Starbucks strongly believes in this and is as passionate about contributing to its community as it is about coffee.

Starbucks demonstrates its commitment through its Community Connection program of initiatives. The program reflects Starbucks mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit. The Community Connections program is a global initiative which focuses on the environment, youth and education and is about making a difference in the communities in which Starbucks operates. Most importantly, it is led by Starbucks partners, its employees. Across the Middle East and North Africa, more than 170 Starbucks partners have been very active in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Egypt, by delivering initiatives related to education and the environment in the communities in which they operate. Recently in Kuwait, Starbucks partners have taken it upon themselves to go out and make a difference in a number of ways.

At the Kuwait National English School, a team of Starbucks partners painted the library corridors, adorning them with educational mottos and engaged the students by holding a reading competition, which emphasized the importance of literacy. On a visit to the Zahraa Abeer Home for the Disabled, partners organized a day of educational fun and activities for the children with mental disabilities and donated educational books, board games, a foosball table and educational computer toys to support the needs of the children. Starbucks partners went on to paint and redecorate the Abdulmajid Al Khanfar School’s playing area, as well as the classrooms of the Nagat Private School, and contributed to the environment by organizing a cleanup of the Shuwaikh beach, making it a better environment for visitors.

Starbucks connects people from all around the world, not only through the perfect cup of coffee, but also through its dedication and inspiring approach to change the world, one neighborhood at a time.

KENZO KENZO’s street chic Parisian heritage, meets laid back West Coast cool, in the house’s new timeless handbag, Kalifornia. Born and raised in Southern California, Humberto and Carol’s LA heritage is an integral part of the new KENZO point of view. Kalifornia brings their urban sensibilities, honed in downtown Manhattan, together with the spirit of sun-drenched afternoons between the shore and the pavement. Distilled from their adolescence among the essential California tribes of beachcombers, bikers, and skaters, this luxe and versatile leather bag exudes KENZO’s fresh attitude. Kalifornia is relaxed, yet precise, blending KENZO’s French atelier craftsmanship with Humberto and Carol’s Pacific Coast nonchalance. The soft, deconstructed design is punctuated by two “K” zip details flanking either side of the bag, that double as pockets, an ode to the ultimate biker’s perfecto.The hardware proportions of the KENZO metal zipper pulls, and 3 snap closure, are oversized and immediately recognizable as Kalifornia. Inside the contrast color Interior, the bag features multiple pockets and holding areas to store all of her most important items. Launching in October 2013 – Kalifornia is available in multiple color-ways including biker black and racer red.

ISABEL MARANT FOR H&M: A MUST-HAVE WARDROBE WITH PARISIAN ALLURE Creating wearable looks with attitude is Isabel Marant’s straightforward design credo. Her collection for H&M synthesises this distinctive philosophy: real clothes that capture the moment. Picking up the most beloved and iconic pieces from her career, Marant has put together an eclectic wardrobe of must-have urban staples with trademark Parisian flair. Everything a contemporary woman needs is included, from tees to sweatshirts, from tailored outerwear to dresses, from chunky knits to attractive boots and bohemian accessories. Everything goes with everything because Isabel is convinced that style is all about individual attitude. She encourages the wearer to interpret, freely. This collection is an eclectic mix of boho elegance and rock ‘n’ roll insouciance. The spirit is quintessentially Marant: mannish tailoring – coats and jackets with strong shoulders and cocooning cuts – is featured alongside skinny trousers, sweatshirts, loose blouses, floaty dresses and textured knits. Embellishment adds nuance: tie-dye prints on trousers and blouses, western piping on lean trousers. The collection oozes the same ease and taste for embellishment that has won Isabel Marant a dedicated following. In this ground breaking collaboration with H&M, these clothes are made available, for the very first time, to a wider audience of all ages.

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8 NEW JOBS PEOPLE WILL HAVE IN 2025

by Ben Schiller

New technologies will change the kinds of jobs people have in the coming years. Don’t be surprised if one day you’ve taken on the position of microbial balancer, corporate disorganizer, or urban shepherd.

New technology will eradicate some jobs, change others, and create whole new categories of employment. Innovation causes a churn in the job market, and this time around the churn is particularly large--from cheap sensors (creating “an Internet of things”) to 3-D printing (enabling more distributed manufacturing).

Sparks & Honey, a New York trend-spotting firm, has a wall in its office where staff can post imaginative next-generation jobs. Below are eight of them, with narration from CEO Terry Young.

1: DIGITAL DEATH MANAGER “Life-logging” will be a way of life, affecting how we record and remember what we do. Young sees a role for someone who can take the mass of life-logged material, and make stories out of it.

That could be useful during our lives (for personalbrand purposes) but also in death. “Today, it happens only with important people. Andy Warhol has a foundation, and so on. We’re imagining this is going to ladder down to other people who want to shape what their legacy means,” Young says.

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box-ticking exercise will be over. The future will be more diverse. People will plug in a year of education here and there, a month now and again, and un-schooling counselors will guide them the whole way. “We’re seeing the evolution of the traditional counselor to someone who can hack your life together so it’s unique,” he says.

3: ARMCHAIR EXPLORER Machines will be connected, producing tons of data about their performance and surroundings.

Communications technology that has been expensive in the past (like satellites) will be widely accessible. This will create opportunities for “armchair explorers” who will travel the world, checking on systems, buildings, and hard-to-reach places. We’ll need people to break through the fog, and give us a clear picture.

4: 3-D PRINTING HANDYMAN Today when your handyman fixes something, he usually has to order a spare part from China.

One day, he might print it right in your yard. Say you need to replace the pipe under your sink. Why wait for the whole thing to come in from out of the country, when it can be done there and then? We already have 3-D printed shower heads, after all.

5: MICROBIAL BALANCER From the gut to your mouth, the microbial world is a big focus of current research. Young sees a job for a “microbial balancer” who can keep you

aligned with your bacteria: “They will understand how to read your genome, your gut, and your mouth bacteria and get you better balanced at a house, school, or individual level. They’re the equivalent of the Feng Shui person who sets up your apartment.”

6: CORPORATE DISORGANIZER Big companies want to be more like start-ups, seeing innovation as vital to future profits. Young says they’ll want “corporate disorganizers” who can introduce a little “organized chaos.” Young says: “The disruptor will be tapping into the new systems of the collaborative economy, creating greater fragmentation and a more distributed ecosystem.”

7: DIGITAL DETOX SPECIALIST The digital “overload” will become even more overwhelming. That will open the way for people who can help lead less data-centric lives, or at least find a better balance. In some cases, they will even organize digital rehabs. It’s going to get that bad (actually, it already is).

8: THE URBAN SHEPHERD With cities getting greener, we’ll need “urban shepherds” to look after the new infrastructure.

“You need someone who is going to take care of the urban beehives, who’s going to make sure your composting is set up correctly, and who is going to know how to curate all the vertical gardens,” Young says.

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bazaar apps Apps to get you through the fall

UNCRATE

BREAST CANCER: BEYOND THE SHOCK

HALLOWEEN PARTY SOUNDBOARD!

FINDIT

The Android counterpart to iPhone’s Soundlab, the Soundboard is pure fun. Select a delay (from 5 to 60 seconds), choose the scariest sound from Psycho to Scarecrow, keep your phone hidden, and give your friends the scare of their life as the sounds play by itself! Now with new Halloween sounds and Halloween characters - Vampire, Mummy, Scarecrow, Frankenstein, Undertaker, Devil, Witch, Psycho and Monsters!

Available free for Android devices.

A new mobile application offering universal search across emails and files stored in the cloud. The application helps you search your phone for content according to person, time or type. Searches span across your phone, Gmail, Google Drive and Dropbox, so you can always find the file you need, when you need it -- even if you don’t remember where it’s stored. Becoming more and more important these days as more people keep their whole lives on their phones.

Available for free on iOS devices.

PAPER ARTIST

TWINE

Paper Artist allows anyone to create amazing artwork sketches and can turn any normal looking photo into a piece of art. Styles of paper includes clean white, colored and washed out, dirty and used paper patterns, to make your art unique and more appealing.

Paper Artist takes any photos from your gallery or camera and then allows you to share them with friends or on your social media such as Instagram. Available for free for Android devices.

The pretty girl in your history class. The interesting guy on the bus to work. The friendly smile from someone cute in the elevator. We miss so many potentially interesting conversations and encounters every single day. Twine changes that by connecting you with people nearby that share similar interests with you. Think of Twine as your mobile wingman that knows what topics both of you would enjoy talking about. Twine is different because you remain anonymous while you chat and get to know them. If you become interested, you can choose to reveal your identity and make a connection.

Available free for Android Devices.

We at bazaar love Uncrate. It is the ultimate gear guide that’s full of stuff you never knew you wanted. They scour the globe for the best stuff—from gadgets to cars to watches—so you’re always in the know when it comes to the latest and greatest. Five shiny new things are posted every day. They have found and written over 10,000 awesome things since 2005, and more than 1.5 million guys read Uncrate.com every month. With the Uncrate app, you can quickly check out what’s new, see the most popular gear, save stuff to your Stash, browse by section, or submit your own cool finds. Available free for iOS devices.

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Beyond the Shock literally helps users get beyond the emotional paralysis of the first weeks of Breast Cancer. The app is designed for everyone touched by Breast Cancer: women who have been diagnosed, their loved ones, and interested health professionals. Filled with education about Breast Cancer, this app also lets users ask questions and interact with women who have been in their shoes and lived to tell their stories. It can be an invaluable tool to help the newly diagnosed readjust to their new life.

Available free for iOS devices.

COSMETIC SURGERY CLINIC

A TALL ORDER

by Nico Hines

The sky isn’t the limit for an architect building the world’s first invisible skyscraper.

Charles Wee, one of the world’s leading highrise architects, has a confession to make: he’s bored with skyscrapers. After designing more than 30, most of which punctuate the skylines of rapidly expanding Asian cities, he has struck upon a novel concept: the first invisible skyscraper.

As the tallest structure in South Korea, his Infinity Tower will loom over Seoul until somebody pushes a button and it completely disappears.

When he entered a 2004 competition to design a landmark tower, the Korean-American architect rejected the notion of competing with Dubai, Toronto, and Shanghai to reach the summit of man-made summits. “I thought, let’s not jump into this stupid race to build another ‘tallest’ tower,” he says in a phone conversation. “Let’s take an opposite approach—let’s make an anti-tower.”

The result will be a 150-story building that fades from view at the flick of a switch. The tower will effectively function as an enormous television screen, being able to project an exact replica of whatever is happening behind it onto its façade. To the human eye, the building will 138

appear to have melted away.

It will be the most extraordinary achievement of Wee’s stellar architectural career. After graduating from UCLA, he worked under Anthony Lumsden, a prolific Californian architect who helped devise the modern technique of wrapping buildings inside smooth glass skins. Wee, 54, moved to the U.S. at age 12, when his family emigrated soon after the Korean War. “I have a love-hate relationship with the country where I was born,” he says. “I marvel at their advances and their technology, but at the same time they are ranked one of the lowest on the happiness factor. There is quite a bit of vanity; they chase after too many things. One of the things in the back of my mind was trying to say to my fellow countrymen, ‘Why would Korea need another tallest tower?’ ” Like the huge billboards that cover buildings in Times Square or along the Las Vegas Strip, the giant screen on the disappearing building will be made of tiny LED lights; the tower will be coated in millions of the little lights, arranged in 500 rows. By installing 18 high-definition cameras, a 360-degree panoramic view of the tower’s environment can be

captured and re-projected onto the outside of the building. “It is a cloaking technology,” Wee explains.

“Hollywood has used it quite a lot. I don’t know if you remember the movie Predator. The monster basically cloaked itself and jumped around in the trees. James Bond’s car in Die Another Day. It’s the same technology.”

The invisible car was ridiculed when that Bond film was released in 2002. Critics felt it was too far-fetched even for an action movie. Yet the ground will be broken on the real-life skyscraper version next year. The project is expected to be completed by 2018 at a cost of around USD 400 million.

Wee, president of GDS Architects in California, says the technology required is surprisingly simple.

The toughest part of the development has been securing the building permits, which were granted last month. Wildlife enthusiasts were convinced birds would fall victim to the lack of visibility, and air-traffic authorities and the Korean Air Force worried that planes might crash into the structure.

“People can’t seem to understand that it’s only invisible from the ground. From the air, it will look like any other building,” Wee says. “It’s just an optical illusion.”

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10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GALAXY GEAR

by Salvador Rodriguez

Samsung has kicked off the smartwatch race by unveiling the Galaxy Gear.

The South Korean tech giant introduced the device early September in Berlin. Users wear the Galaxy Gear on their wrists like any other watch, but this watch is capable of making voice calls, running apps, taking photos, displaying alerts and more. Here are 10 things you need to know about the Galaxy Gear: 1. It connects with Samsung devices.

Samsung said the Galaxy Gear connects with the Galaxy Note III and 2014 edition of the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, both of which come out by October. The Galaxy S 4 will also soon receive an update to be compatible with the Galaxy Gear, and in the future, other Samsung devices will too.

The Galaxy Gear connects to those devices using Bluetooth in order to perform its numerous functions.

2. It has a small touchscreen.

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touchscreen. The display has a 320 by 320 pixel resolution.

3. It will show you notifications.

Whenever you receive a new message, email or alert on your smartphone, the Galaxy Gear will display a notification. If you want to see the full message, simply pick up the Samsung device that the Galaxy Gear is connected to and that smartphone or tablet will automatically open to the message.

4. It can make calls.

The Galaxy Gear will also alert you when you have an incoming call. But you don’t have to pull out your phone to pick up; the smartwatch has a speaker and microphone on its wristband that you can use to talk.

5. It responds to voice commands.

You can use that microphone to also give the Galaxy Gear instructions. The device runs S Voice, which is Samsung’s version of Siri, so you can give voice commands such as “Is it going to rain today?” or “Set a reminder” and the Galaxy Gear will respond appropriately.

6. It can also take pictures.

Besides a microphone and speaker, the Galaxy Gear’s wristband also has a small 1.9-megapixel camera attached. The camera can be used to quickly take pictures or shoot video.

7. It runs apps.

Like a smartphone, the Galaxy Gear is also capable of running apps. For now, there are only a handful of apps specifically designed for Samsung’s smartwatch — they include the Path social network and read-it-later app Pocket — but the company said more will come soon.

8. Its battery lasts a full day.

You won’t have to worry about charging the Galaxy Gear often — Samsung said the smartwatch can last 25 hours on just one full charge.

9.It comes in six colors.

Tr ying to appeal to all kinds of consumers, Samsung will release the Galaxy Gear in black, gray, orange, beige, rose, gold and green colors.

10. By the end of October it will be released in most markets.

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bazaar around town SHEIKH SAAD AL ABDALLAH TERMINAL BECOMES HOME TO FLYDUBAI’S OPERATIONS IN KUWAIT The move to the new terminal offers Kuwaiti passengers a more convenient flying experience flydubai recently celebrated moving its eight daily flight operations from the main terminal at Kuwait International Airport to the Sheikh Saad Al Abdallah General Aviation Terminal.

The move to the terminal offers an enhanced customer experience for flydubai passengers flying in and out of Kuwait. flydubai’s inaugural flight, FZ057, touched down at the terminal at 1330hrs local time and was welcomed with a water cannon salute. Mr Fawaz Abdulaziz Al Farah, President of Kuwait Civil Aviation and a delegation of Kuwaiti officials received the aircraft on the tarmac. His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority and Chairman of flydubai, led the delegation that included H.E. Jamal Al Hai, ESVP for International Relations and Communications at Dubai Airports; H.E. Tariq Al Hamed, Kuwaiti Consul General to Dubai; Mohammed Abdulla Ahli, Director General of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority together with flydubai’s Chief Executive Officer, Ghaith Al Ghaith; Hamad Obaidalla, Chief Commercial Officer and Kenneth Gile, Chief Operating Officer. Mr Fawaz Abdulaziz Al Farah said: “We welcome flydubai and are pleased to open the doors of Sheikh Saad Al Abdallah General Aviation Terminal to passengers who will benefit from all the convenient facilities this terminal has to offer.” flydubai’s newly introduced Business Class premium offering will be available on selected flights on the Kuwait route starting in October. Together with the move to the dedicated terminal, this will provide a greater choice for passengers, who will have access to faster checkin services, shortened queuing time at the immigration desks and a more personalized flying experience. flydubai launched its operations to Kuwait in March 2010 with a double daily service. Three years later, the carrier transported more than one million passengers between Dubai and Kuwait and increased its frequency to eight flights a day.

Flights between Dubai and Kuwait can be purchased from flydubai’s website: (www.flydubai.com), through its local office (Tel. 2241 4400) and accredited travel agents. flydubai also offers visa facilitation services to passengers travelling to the UAE. Details of the carrier’s car rental services are also available on its website.

ADVANCED PRO TRIPLE BARREL WAVER FROM LABEL.M A new addition to the label.m electrics range, label.m Advanced Pro Triple Barrel Waver 25mm has been designed to create soft and natural salon perfect waves every time. The Tourmaline Ceramic Technology ensures heat is evenly distributed whilst transmitting negative ION’s to smooth the hair fiber resulting in a salon perfect frizz free finish.‘Express heat up’ technology means the waver is ready to use in a matter of seconds and the temperature is easily controllable. The waver heats to a maximum temperature of 220°C and using the LCD display you can clearly see the actual barrel temperature as they heat, meaning you will always know the level of heat applied to your hair. The variable temperature range means the waver is perfect for any hair type. Added features include a ready light, a locking mechanism handy for travel, 360° three meters swivel cord, cool tip, with a rubber coated soft touch handle.

For more information please call beau-tique cosmetics international on 2225 1285.

OMAR ALGHANIM NAMED ‘BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR’ BY ARABIAN BUSINESS MAGAZINE Mr Omar Kutayba Alghanim, Chairman of Gulf Bank and CEO of Alghanim Industries, has won Arabian Business magazine’s ‘Businessman of the Year’ award. Mr Alghanim received the award at a prestigious ceremony that took place at a gala dinner in the Arraya Ballroom – Courtyard Marriott, on Sunday 22 September 2013. Mr Alghanim received the award in his capacity as Chief Executive Officer for his outstanding role in successfully building the Alghanim Industries brand into one of the region’s most recognizable companies. Originally founded in 1932, the company has developed into a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, employing over 14,000 employees in 30 businesses, and operating in over 40 countries across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Mr Alghanim is also Chairman of Gulf Bank, having been elected in March 2013, after serving as a Member of the Board since 2009. The Bank was recognized as ‘Bank of the Year’ by Arabian Business at the same ceremony. Gulf Bank, Kuwait’s second largest commercial bank, is known for its dedication and commitment to customer services and products, as well as its highly successful ongoing ‘We Promise’ campaign, which promises customers the best and fastest retail banking services in Kuwait.

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‫‪INTRODUCING THE FASTEST, MOST AGILE, MOST RESPONSIVE RANGE ROVER EVER‬‬ ‫‪Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive Company Unveils All-New Range Rover Sport in Kuwait‬‬ ‫‪Luxury automotive manufacturer Land Rover and Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive Company‬‬ ‫‪the exclusive distributor for Land Rover in Kuwait marked the official launch of the All-New‬‬ ‫‪Range Rover Sport today with an exclusive event at Jumeirah Messilah Hotel & Spa. Recently‬‬ ‫‪unveiled at the New York Motor Show, the All-New Range Rover Sport is the ultimate premium‬‬ ‫‪sports SUV and the fastest, most agile and most responsive vehicle ever produced by Land‬‬ ‫‪Rover. The event included VIPs and dignitaries, customers and members of the media. Who‬‬ ‫‪were treated to an exclusive unveiling of the All-New Range Rover Sport, with a chance to get up‬‬ ‫‪close and personal with the new, modern interpretation of Range Rover Sport that completes‬‬ ‫‪the three-model Range Rover portfolio. The night started with a show of the international‬‬ ‫‪magician Felipe Scherson, who impressed the guests with his visual tricks. Followed by a‬‬ ‫‪show by two sand artists from Kazakhstan. Guests were greeted by Mohammed Alghanim‬‬ ‫‪Group General Manager of Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive Company, who presented the‬‬ ‫‪All-New Range Rover Sport to them. Developed alongside the highly-acclaimed All-New Range‬‬ ‫‪Rover, the All-New Range Rover Sport now delivers the brand’s best-ever on-road dynamics‬‬ ‫‪together with class-leading, genuine Land Rover all-terrain capability. The new, technology‬‬‫‪packed, Range Rover Sport, presents customers with a more assertive and muscular exterior,‬‬ ‫‪more luxurious interior and the flexibility provided by the option of occasional 5+2 seating.‬‬ ‫‪The dynamic All-New Range Rover Sport has a bold and progressive exterior design that is‬‬ ‫‪assertive, powerful and muscular, hinting at the improved driving performance, and positioning‬‬ ‫‪the vehicle clearly between the Range Rover and the Range Rover Evoque through a clear,‬‬ ‫‪shared design DNA. While it was developed alongside the Range Rover and shares some‬‬ ‫‪commonality with its sister vehicle, the All-New Range Rover Sport benefits from 75 percent‬‬ ‫‪unique parts, a significant number of which directly influence the way the new Sport looks‬‬ ‫‪and feels. At launch, customers will have a choice of three engines – two supercharged petrol‬‬ ‫‪engines (5.0-litre 510PS V8 and the new 3.0-litre 340PS V6). Across the range, acceleration‬‬ ‫‪times for the 0-100kmph dash start from sub-5.0 seconds, while fuel consumption is cut by‬‬ ‫‪up to 24 percent – depending on model. An extensive choice of colors, finishes and details‬‬ ‫‪will enable customers to create the ultimate bespoke SUV.‬‬

‫مركز طيبة للعيادات التخصصية ‪ -‬الفنطاس‬ ‫صرحت السيدة منال عمر مديرة التسويق والعالقات العامة لدى مستشفى طيبة والعيادات التخصصية التابعة لها‬ ‫عن أنضمام عدد من اإلستشاريين إلى طاقم مركز طيبة للعيادات التخصصية مركز الفنطاس‪ ،‬وذلك في إطار سعينا‬ ‫الدائم لتقديم األفضل في األمان والتطور في الرعاية الصحية ‪ .‬حيث انضم إلى طاقمنا البرفسور محمد عبدالرحيم‬ ‫حواس إستشاري مسالك بولية وأمراض الذكورة والعقم أستاذ بكلية الطب وعضو جمعية المسالك البولية األمريكية‬ ‫متخصص بعالج أورام وتضخم البروستاتا بالمناظير والطرق الحديثة وعالج سلس البولي وعالج العقم وضعف اإلنجاب‬ ‫وعمليات دوالي الخصيتين وعالج اإللتهابات البولية والتناسليه المتكرره وجراحات أورام الكلى والمسالك البوليه‬ ‫والخصيتين وجراحة انسداد المجرى البولي وعمليات الخصية المعلقه عند األطفال والكبار وإصالح عيوب األعضاء‬ ‫التناسلية الخارجية للرجال واألطفال‪ .‬وأيضا األستاذ الدكتور حسام الشنواني إستشاري أمراض األنف واألذن والحنجرة‬ ‫إستشاري وزميل كلية الجراحين الملكية البريطانية زميل الجمعية الطبية الملكية في لندن متخصص بتحسين مجرى‬ ‫التنفس وعمليات الجيوب األنفية بالمنظار وعمليات تجميل األنف واألذنين وأمراض النوم والشخير باإلضافة إلى عمليات‬ ‫األذن والحنجرة الميكروسكوبيه وأورام الرقبة والغدد وجيمع حاالت األنف واألذن والحنجرة الطبية والجراحية‪ .‬وانضم‬ ‫أيضا األستاذ الدكتور سيف النصر محمود إستشاري جراحة العظام والمفاصل والعمود الفقري دكتوراة جراحة العظام‬ ‫والكسور الزمالة السويسرية لجراحات العظام يعالج حاالت الخلع والكسور أيضا يقوم بعالج أالم وإصابات العمود الفقري‬ ‫وعالج إلتهابات وخشونه المفاصل وهشاشة العظام ومشاكل أوتار وأعصاب اليد والقدم وعمليات تغيير واستبدال‬ ‫مفاصل الحوض والركبة وعالج المفاصل والغضاريف واستخدام المناظير الجراحية وعمليات تصليح تشوهات األيدي‬ ‫واألرجل لدى الكبار والصغار وعالج اإلصابات الرياضية وعالج نقص الكالسيوم وفيتامين د‪ .‬أيضا إنضم البرفسور‬ ‫محمد فتح اهلل إستشاري األطفال وحديثي الوالدة كلية الطب جامعة عين شمس عضو الجمعية األمريكية لطب األطفال‬ ‫يقوم بأستقبال حاالت حديثي الوالدة وعالج أمراض الجهاز التنفسي وحساسية الصدر وتشخيص وعالج حاالت فقر الدم‬ ‫وفقدان الشهية وعالج نقص الوزن ومتابعة النمو الطبيعي لألطفال وعالج لين العظام وأمراض سوء التغذية وعالج‬ ‫أمراض الجهاز الهضمي واإلمساك والنزالت المعوية وعالج التبول الالإرادي وتطعيمات األطفال‪.‬‬ ‫وأفادت العمر بأنه يوجد لدينا عيادة الجلدية باإلضافة إلى جلسات الميزوثيرابي إلذابة الدهون المتراكمة في البطن‬ ‫والفخذ والذراعين والذقن وأيضا يقدم القسم جلسات التقشير للبشرة وعالج الثعلبة وإزالة الشعر بأحدث أجهزة الليزر‬ ‫بدون ألم وعيادة أمراض النساء والوالدة من األقسام الكبرى واألساسية والمتميزة لحاالت العقم وحاالت الحمل الطبيعي‬ ‫والحمل ذو الخطورة الكامنة ومتابعة الحمل‪ ،‬وعالج أمراض النساء وعالج حاالت اإلجهاض المتكرر وأمراض سن اليأس‬ ‫وأيضا الفحص الدوري ألمراض عنق الرحم والثدي‪ .‬وسيتم قريبا إفتتاح قسم األشعة التشخيصية والتصوير الطبي‬ ‫باإلضافة إلى التحاليل المخبرية والباثولوجية‪.‬‬

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FACEBOOK FOLLIES

by Sumayyah Meehan

“When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs!

Like, what is that?” Christina Aguilera Just about anyone who is...well...”anyone” is an active Facebook user. Let’s face it, our Facebook culture pretty much dictates everything we do, from shopping in the mall, to going out with friends. Back when Facebook was launched, it was a place to reconnect with meaningful friends and forge ahead in noteworthy conversation.

However, these days, Facebook has morphed into a much larger beast. On the upside, it is an excellent resource for sharing knowledge and creating a unified front when the situation arises. On the downside, the vast majority of what is shared is mindless dribble that is a waste of time and space. Everyone, and their mother, is on Facebook sharing an insane, never-ending stream of worthless status updates that aren’t worth the time it takes to click “send”.

Quite notably, in the history of mankind, never before have humans been able to reconnect with insignificant others who should have been mere blips on the radar screen of life. But oh no! Thanks to Facebook, you can reconnect with that little red haired girl that you sat beside in first grade (what was her name?) and even the pizza deliveryman who stoically delivered your pizza to your home back in the day. With all the information being shared, there are countless Facebook follies being committed that make the person posting look like a...er...variant on a donkey! Save yourself some embarrassment by avoiding these Facebook follies the next time you feel the need to update your status!

The “TMI” Folly I see this folly time and time, and time, again!

And each time I see it, it causes me to shake my head and curse the Facebook powers-thatbe for putting such a valuable tool in the hands of idiots. It truly isn’t necessary to let all your Facebook friends know “Too Much Information” when it comes to topics that should remain forever hidden in your dungeon of shame.

No, I don’t want to see a photo of your gnarly and bloodied toe that you nicked on an errant Kuwaiti desert rock. And I seriously, and I mean SERIOUSLY, do not need to know when you’re constipated or just not feeling “regular”. When it comes to anything and everything related to your body, remember, the less you share, the better everyone else will feel!

The Soap box Folly Granted, Facebook is an amazing platform for getting the word out about your latest cause or project. We all know that the power of Facebook has altered politics and helped to lend a hand to the oppressed around the world. However, pick your causes wisely. I mean, before you climb up 144

on that big ol’ soap box lamenting the migratory pattern of desert birds...ask yourself this, “Who cares?” To avoid annoying your friends and family, choose soap boxes that others can rally around, like Breast Cancer Awareness or crowdfunding an inventive start-up. Remember, the distance between your soap box and someone who can throw a rotten tomato in your direction is much closer on Facebook than it is in real life.

The Over-”Shares” Folly This, perhaps, is the most exasperating and painful of all. You know that little “Share” button that beckons to you each time you stumble upon a hilarious kitten photo or inspirational quote that

you just know will touch the hearts of every one of your friends? Don’t, by any means, click on it unless what you are sharing is truly something helpful or memorable to others. Not, that image of a fluffy hamster bemoaning the advent of Monday morning while nestled in a coffee cup…It makes my blood boil. And that equally ahhh-mazing picture quote about how the more things change, the more they stay the same? It does everything BUT impress me. Please follow the Golden Rule in reverse when using Facebook, by not doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Instead, only share things that truly rock or are mischievously disturbing!

GARMIN

FOREST WHITAKER

Pours his heart into The Butler

by Donna Freydkin

Forest Whitaker is back in the game. The soft-spoken actor, who won an Oscar for playing demented dictator Idi Amin in 2006’s The Last King of Scotland, is again topping awards short lists for portraying an outwardly dispassionate valet in Lee Daniels’ The Butler.

His performance has been hailed as “finely tuned” (New York Magazine) and mesmerizing (Entertainment Weekly). But here’s the thing about Whitaker. If you so much as bring up the big O, he immediately changes the subject to the other O: Oprah Winfrey, his friend who plays his wife in her first major acting turn since 1998’s Beloved.

“She’s so amazing in this movie. She’s so truly the character that that’s all you think about. You just fall into their relationship,” he murmurs. No, really, do those reviews, and the accompanying awards talk, affect him at all? “I can’t get caught up in that. I really want people to see this movie.

It’s a special film and it has a lot to say. This movie is about love, between a man and a woman and a father and a son. There are many ways to combat social injustice,” he says.

The Butler is Whitaker’s most high-profile, but by no means only, project this year. He’s co-starring in the November drama Black Nativity and the December thriller Out of the Furnace, and produced the critically acclaimed drama Fruitvale Station, another almost-certain contender during awards season. “I feel very proud of the projects,” the 52-year-old says, without braggadocio.

That humility is par for the course, say those who know him. Talk to his peers, and that’s the word most often used to describe Whitaker, a towering man with a sweet smile.

“There is a great saying: Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I always think of Forest this way,” says Sandra Bullock, whom Whitaker directed in 1998’s Hope Floats. “He’s the kind of person who can command hundreds of people’s attention while making a film, and yet still offer to help a friend out with mundane day-to-day errands.

Forest truly believes he is no greater than anyone or anything else.”

Scott Cooper, who directed Whitaker in Furnace, likens him to a “big teddy bear. Forest is a big man.

He’s a commanding presence. But he puts you right at ease. He’s very perceptive.”

That unpretentiousness and attention to detail work in his favor as The Butler’s Cecil Gaines, who works in the White House for 34 years, delicately and demurely serving presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan. Even as his furious son decamps to become a Black Panther, even as his wife drinks herself into angry oblivion, Whitaker’s Gaines remains impassive at work, staying out of the political fray.

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a compressed shooting schedule, Whitaker clocked in 18- to 20-hour days on set, playing Gaines in his 90s, 50s and 30s on any given day. And that meant sitting in the makeup chair for three hours, only to have the prosthetics removed and replaced by more gunk to play him at a different age.

“He worked longer than I did on set every day. He was never cranky and he never brought attitude. That’s the kind of cat he is on so many levels,” says Daniels. “He’s meticulous. He gave me three or four different voices and dialects to see what I wanted.”

He had to learn how to believably wait on people without conveying any emotion or shifting a muscle — when Lyndon Johnson (Liev Schreiber) was constipated on the toilet, for example, or Richard Nixon (John Cusack) rants about the Black Panthers to his advisers.

“I’ve never worked this specifically on a role in my career. There wasn’t one day where I stayed the same age. I had to be so specific to know exactly

where I was, how I felt, what I’m thinking. I had to figure out how to serve. I realized how tough it is on your back,” he says.

Whitaker didn’t mind auditioning with Winfrey, at Daniels’ request, to make sure the two had chemistry and were believable as a couple. “Can you imagine? He came in and read with Oprah and he’s such a humble, honest man,” says Daniels.

Winfrey had wanted to work with Whitaker for years, and reached out to him after seeing his furious, terrifying turn in Scotland. She threw a party for him at her home, and the two became friends. But going from that to an amorous married couple took work off-camera.

“I’d stand behind him and rub his shoulders or take his hand so that the moment we had to have a moment of intimacy, it wouldn’t come out of nowhere. He took my lead in that. What thrilled me about working with him is he is just as I imagined him to be. He has a quiet strength and power,” says Winfrey. “He is just grace personified.”

SNYDERS

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GLOWING NIGHTS

by Emma Abdullah

I’d like to dedicate this story to the glowing necklace boy on the Gulf Street, whose name I will never know but whose story will stay with me always.

When I was younger, I always thought the moon followed my car. I felt proud it had chosen mine and not any of the other cars. Whenever I rode in a car in the evening, I’d look out to see if the moon was following me and every time, there it was. There was some comfort in knowing something bigger and greater than myself was looking out for me. There was a warm feeling in seeing the mysterious silver ball lay in the sky like a great pearl and in telling myself that it was watching over me. When we passed tall buildings, I’d play peek- a -boo with the moon. It would hide behind a structure and I would count the seconds till it came back out again. Sometimes it took a while and I was afraid it had gotten lost or it didn’t want to play with me anymore. After all, there was nothing special about me and there were other children who wanted to play with the moon. Suddenly, everything felt a little darker and my heart sank a little lower until from a stretch of grey clouds I’d catch a glimpse of silver, and would smile because the moon was back for me again.

The moon didn’t follow me when I was home. It hung still in its sky of dark clouds to watch over me and when I was alone or feeling afraid, I’d go over to my window and smile because the gentle moon would keep me company. The gentle moon would smile. One day I wondered if the moon would still follow me if I didn’t have a car or if it would protect me if I didn’t have a home. I wondered if it would be there when nothing else was, or if like all other things, it left when times were hard. The thought had scared me and I had decided to look around when I was in my car and check if the people walking in the streets also looked up like I did. It was then that I saw him for the first time.

He had eyes like those of a frightened animal; they darted from side to side as car headlights reflected in them. He scurried between the cars waving glowing necklaces at the drivers with a pitiful look, before moving on as they shook their heads. He couldn’t have been any older than I was and the thought of him being out there alone made me afraid. Where were his parents? I remember asking my own parents why such a little boy was out on the street by himself and why nobody seemed to want to buy the necklaces he was selling. Why didn’t we 148

buy one? Why didn’t we help him? My question was answered by the traffic light turning green and the roar of nearby engines as everyone hurried to get to where they were going. I held my breath as the little boy zigzagged between the moving cars before safely reaching the sidewalk with his necklaces. He still had all of them. Nobody had bought anything.

Every time we passed by the Gulf Road, I asked the moon to let me watch the little boy instead. When the traffic light turned red, he only had a few minutes to try to sell his glowing necklaces. I observed as he waved them at car windows until someone handed him a note or some coins which he would tuck neatly into his pocket. Whenever he came by our car, I would beg my mother to buy a necklace and lower my eyes so as not to make eye contact with him when I knew she didn’t have change. I watched people turn their heads as he approached, pretending they could not see him even when he knocked at their windows or stuck his little face on the glass and smiled. Some pretended they were busy and others told him to go away. It hurt me to see people ignore him and my heart stopped for a moment when the traffic light would turn green and he would have to sprint to safety. I wondered then why it was that some children had homes and cars and moons to protect them. I wondered why some could go to school and learn and hope to become greater people when others were condemned to living a life of begging, running and fear. I wondered why it was that I had been chosen to be one of the lucky children instead of him, when he was so much braver than I was. The years passed and still I saw him. He grew.

He was there almost every night with his necklaces that glowed against a moon greater than he was but who would not look after him. I stopped observing him because I could not do it without guilt in my chest and I became like all the others; those who looked but pretended not to see or those who simply turned their heads so there would be nothing to see at all.

As I got older, I stopped playing with the moon. I stopped paying attention to it or fantasizing about its mysteries. There was nothing special about the moon. As things got more complicated, there was no more comfort or warmth in watching it. It followed me like it followed everyone else and when the clouds in the night sky were too dark, it would hide behind them like the coward it was.

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WORLD IS SLIGHTLY HAPPIER THAN IT USED TO BE Report says

by Deborah Netburn

Great news, Earthlings! As a whole, you were 0.5 percent happier from 2010 to 2012 than you were from 2005 to 2007.

Statisticians may think that’s a negligible number, but part of being happy is looking on the bright side, right?

This information on world happiness comes courtesy of the 2013 World Happiness Report, published by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Researchers analyzed data on happiness collected from people living in more than 150 countries to discover which have the happiest — and unhappiest — citizens and to see how happiness has shifted around the world over a five-year period.

The five happiest countries on Earth are Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden. This despite the fact that they all experience cold, dark winters. All five countries are pretty much as happy as they were the last time the report was published.

The United States ranked as 17th-happiest country — slightly happier than the citizens of Ireland (No. 18) and a little less happy than Mexico (No. 16). Americans saw their overall happiness drop by about 3 percent over the five-year period between surveys.

Canadians are the sixth-happiest people in the world. Israelis came in at 11th, and the French rank 24th.

The unhappiest countries are the Central African Republic (No. 154), Benin (No. 155), and Togo (No. 156), which placed last.

The authors found that in general, happiness was up 7 percent in Latin 150

America and the Caribbean, up 5.1 percent in East Asia and up 5.9 percent in the Commonwealth of Independent States (former Soviet republics). It was down 11.7 percent in the Middle East and North Africa and down 6.8 percent in South Asia.

To determine which countries are the happiest, the researchers asked an average of 3,000 people per country to rank their overall sense of life satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10.

After analyzing tens of thousands of responses, the researchers identified six main dimensions to happiness, including income, mental and physical health, social support, freedom to make your own choices, being inclined to help others, and living under a government that doesn’t seem corrupt.

“There is no one key to a society’s well-being, but if you take these variables, they explain about three-quarters of the observed variation across countries,” said Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and an author of the report.

He added that governments around the world have expressed great interest in the report.

(Editor’s note: Kuwait is ranked 32nd-happiest country, just after Trinidad & Tobago, but just before Saudi Arabia. UAE is in 14th place, Oman 23rd, Qatar 27th, and Bahrain 79th).

Visit the World Happines Report online on Issuu for more detailed information: http://issuu.com/earthinstitute/docs/worldhappinessreport2013_online

CROSTI

bazaar techno Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

BENDDESK

BEDDIT SLEEP TRACKING DEVICE

TWISTBOOK

The innovative BendDesk is basically a working prototype of a large desk that manages to successfully combine its vertical and horizontal surface and transform it into one big multi-touch display computer. The workspace can be used to display several types of digital content such as photos, videos or documents. BendDesk’s display is curved towards its center which allows for seamless integration between all areas. Users can also occasionally place several types of other objects on the desk’s smooth flat surface like paper documents, pens, and even steaming hot mugs of coffee, without damaging the computer.

Improve your health by learning more about the way you rest with the Beddit Sleep Tracking Device (KD 30). While it’s certainly not the first sleep monitor to hit the consumer market, it’s one of the only ones that you don’t need to wear when you sleep. The sensor comes in the form of an adhesive strip that goes underneath your sheets and connects to your smartphone over bluetooth — no armbands or headbands necessary. The iOS app tracks your sleep schedule, your heart rate, your snoring, and your breathing, giving you reliable data and tips that help you improve your sleep, and your life.

Now you are not going to see this in stores any time soon, but if you have always liked the idea of mimicking the act of reading a book, then take a look at the Twistbook. TwistBook, created by Fabrice Dubuy, is an eReader with not 1 but 2 eInk screens connected by a flexible binding to mimic the familiar split of paper books. The bisected shape is perfect for protecting the dual screens and can be easily collapsed to throw in a bag or backpack. For enhanced personalization, users can customize their TwistBook by applying photos or art directly to the printable outside and inside covers.

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IDOORCAM

SIGMO VOICE TRANSLATION DEVICE

FLIIKE

See who’s ringing your doorbell without even leaving the couch — or from miles away — with the iDoorCam (KD 38). This easy-to-install device connects to your existing doorbell wiring using only a screwdriver in just a couple of minutes. It’s WiFienabled, and contains a button, day- and nightvision camera, microphone, speaker, and motion sensor, letting you see and communicate with whoever rings your door. It pairs with an included iOS app, letting you monitor your door from inside your home, at the office, or away on vacation, so you can choose whether to interact, or just let it ring.

For those of us who live in Kuwait it’s likely you’ve run into a language barrier at one stage or other.

With the Sigmo Voice Translation Device (KD 15) you can avoid those issues, without resorting to learning a new language. This device connects to your iOS or Android device over Bluetooth and, using existing services, translates your voice into one of 25 different languages. Just speak into the microphone and it will translate everything you say, playing it back over the speaker. It’s small and light, so you can bring it anywhere, attach it to your clothes, or hang it around your neck.

File this one under: gadgets for people with social media obsessions that may border on clinical disorders. Fliike (KD 110) is a real-life mechanical counter that displays the number of Facebook likes your page has. Simply plug it into a wall outlet, connect it to Wi-Fi, and sync it to your account to see (in real time) how internetpopular you or your brand really is. Display it prominently and you may just fill up all five of those digits. We’re not totally sure what happens when you get to 100,000 likes — but we’re thinking it probably explodes.

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STARBUCKS

MISCALCULATIONS OF MARRIAGE

by Abrar AlShammari

It was ecstasy – no, euphoria is the right word. But no, euphoria has a bit too much energy in it to describe what it had been.

Perhaps, then, bliss would be the appropriate word. Yes, bliss, synonymous with paradise: the heavens you are rewarded with if you have spent your entire lifetime avoiding sin and temptation… But, no, because even though it felt like bliss, it was tainted with wondrous sin and beautiful temptation that were meant to be devoured, similar to that apple that was meant to be eaten, and meant to damn us all to the median between heaven and hell. Yes, it was gloriously delicious, and it most certainly did bring me the sweetest anguish one could ever sin for.

I wanted so badly to create an invincible shelter of sorts. The point of it was to protect its inhabitants, and to rightfully harm any outsiders who would attempt to intrude. Hedgehogs function similarly, I learned once in a documentary. Their spikes will remain in place so long as you respect their personal boundaries; if you do trespass, they will defend themselves by releasing their razorsharp spikes into your face, and they will not stay behind to behold the damage.

We were much too exposed, and that left us much too vulnerable. I was 23, and torn in 154

never-ending limbo between my days of loathing humanity, and my insomniac nights of loving her.

Except I loved her from afar, you see; I come from a horrible community of hypocrites where people pretend that they have never loved and have never had their hearts broken. Instead, they dictate these same detestable rules to everyone else surrounding them, and scoff and sneer at those of us brave enough to admit that yes, we have indeed loved, and we have indeed had our hearts broken, and we enjoyed every minute of it.

I loved her from afar, and perhaps that helped her love me too; she was much too fragile, and would not have been able to bear the burdens that I carried with me. I loved [her] like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of, as Bukowski once said. I wrote poetry that made her weep with sentiment, sentiment that swelled in her heart for me. To be fair she still weeps with sentiment, except now she weeps with sentiment because of me.

We married at 25. Divorced at 26.

I was not the man she imagined me to be. I wish I could say it disappointed her; truth is, it broke her. She tugged, I pulled. Her feet jumped left, mine shuffled right. My hands dipped down, hers shot up. I said now or never, she wanted all or nothing. Her eyes looked at my face searching for

answers to questions she did not have the courage to ask, mine gazed at her lips waiting for them to form the letters of my name.

I gave us a shelter. My intention was to protect her – to protect us. She wanted her freedom, she said. She felt suffocated. I was not willing to give her more air at the expense of our shelter.

She told not a single soul of her disappointment with me, perhaps because she hoped her silence would revert me back to my initial status of a pleasant fantasy. No matter her reasons, I respected her silence. I hated her silence when we were married, for I had spent two excruciatingly long years daydreaming of what I thought would be a lifetime of her uttering my name. I never thought I would be so grateful for it when we divorced.

The disappointment almost broke me too. And truth be told, it would have, had it not been for my opposing perception of our misfortune. My goal, primarily, had not only been to win the pretty girl who my family seemed to be keen on. It had been to win her with love, with words, with romance, with all the forbidden tools that I was permitted to use.

And I did; whether it worked out well is another debate altogether. It was 1 for me, 0 for society.

And that victory was one that would remain chalked and framed in my mind for the remainder of my illfated existence in that society.

HYPOXI

bazaar HORRORscopes In celebration of Halloween, we have put together a monstrous mash-up of each astrological signs horoscope and corresponding fears; enter at your own risk…

MUHAAAAAHAHHAHAH!!

by bazaar staff

LIBRA

ARIES

SEPT 23 – OCT 22

MARCH 21 – APRIL 19

You are accustomed to making everyone else in your life happy, but this month, you can tend to your own needs without ghastly guilt—it’s so unfair! It’s a time for pushing your own personal projects and interests ahead. Spine chilling surprises are in store in a close relationship around the dreaded Full Moon on the 11th. Clashes in values and spirits or conflicts over money with a long-gone friend can be irksome around the 26th, but money matters improve overall in the last week of October. It’s a strong time to make an investment or to clear some cobwebs and debt.

Others tend to look for a commitment from you this month and will depend on you for consistency and routine. Whether you solidify an afterlife partnership or decide that a relationship is not living up to its ghostly potential, relationships are seriously spooky this month! The Full Moon on the 11th can bring a long-standing problem and devilish demons to light. Career and finances are strong this month, but you won’t notice as you will arrive at the bank 5 minutes after it closes-all month long! Be as above-board and professional as you can -- others are taking note! Late October is favorable for taking out loans or refinancing and going door to door for free treats, if necessary.

SCORPIO

TAURUS

OCT 23 – NOV 21

APRIL 20 – MAY 20

Conversations open up this month, but you are unsure whom to trust. You stand to either make a new connection that lasts in the long term, or to enhance the bond of a non-existing one. Nevertheless, you can be rather withdrawn until a morbid mid-month as you prepare for a startling astrological year and build up your negative energy reserves. Career matters are freakishly fast-paced, stimulating, and sometimes rocky this month, as bosses can be deafeningly demanding. You may need to watch what you say around the 26-27th, did you hear me? Beware! Personal charisma runs high and love matters are superstitiously strong and kinetic.

Work commitments may be hefty this month, and you should watch for taking on more than your share—if you do, you just might lose your mind. Frankenstein-ish frustration can come to a (fore)head around the 11th. You are taking the lead, taking action, and romantic interests are never short in supply. All signs point to cemeteries, or to you moving forward. Family life is animated and perhaps restless at times. Recently, you have been getting rid of the non-essential things in your life, and you could find that your attitude towards moving forward has improved as you rid yourself of excess bloodcurdling baggage - the literal has led to the figurative.

SAGITTARIUS

GEMINI

NOV 22 – DEC 21

MAY 21 – JUNE 21

While the desire to be with friends is strong this month, be careful that you don’t overcommit in the process, as you’re likely to feel the weight of your obligations if you do; some of your departed might just stick around…long after they’re welcome. Be helpful and involved, but avoid the tendency to forget your beckoning call in the poltergeistlike process. Increased clarity about a love affair or creative matter comes around the 11th, when a new relationship may begin for some of you. Recognition and possibly increased remuneration for your work is very possible in the last week of October. It’s a time to shine your light through the dead of an all black evening. Be humble, but don’t hide your abilities in a mysterious masquerade of duplicity.

Purely superficial elements of partnering are no longer tolerated-you just may be left alone with no lantern-RIP. A relationship can deepen, perhaps due to resolution of a long-standing problem. Getting serious about a shadowy romance or a creative project can figure strongly. Some of you may enter a phantom business partnership.

This is a favorable time for turning a creative undertaking into a profitable hobby. Job opportunities can emerge towards the end of the macabre month. More determination and motivation will aid any new fog-filled fitness or nutrition program started now. Watch for hurried speech and impish impulsiveness all month.

CAPRICORN

CANCER

DEC 22 – JAN 19

JUNE 22 – JULY 22

Purely superficial elements of partnering are no longer tolerated-you just may be left alone with no lantern-RIP. A relationship can deepen, perhaps due to resolution of a long-standing problem. Getting serious about a shadowy romance or a creative project can figure strongly. Some of you may enter a phantom business partnership. This is a favorable time for turning a creative undertaking into a profitable hobby. Job opportunities can emerge towards the end of the macabre month. More determination and motivation will aid any new fog-filled fitness or nutrition program started now.

Watch for hurried speech and impish impulsiveness all month.

Eerie issues surrounding family and career capture much of your attention this month. A job offer may be hard to refuse around the 11th or a career matter reaches a (Ichabod Crane shaped) head. Opportunities to strengthen a potion-filled partnership this month are especially strong. Some of you may take a friendship into unexplored romantic territory, or meet a significant apparition through a friend or group association. You are also more focused and ambitious when it comes to your work, health, fitness, and self-scare programs in October. You feel inspired and motivated to take better care of yourself as you fear that nobody loves you...

AQUARIUS

LEO

JAN 20 – FEB 18

JULY 23 – AUG 22

While the desire to be with friends is strong this month, be careful that you don’t overcommit in the process, as you’re likely to feel the weight of your obligations if you do; some of your departed might just stick around…long after they’re welcome. Be helpful and involved, but avoid the tendency to forget your beckoning call in the poltergeistlike process. Increased clarity about a love affair or creative matter comes around the 11th, when a new relationship may begin for some of you. Recognition and possibly increased remuneration for your work is very possible in the last week of October. It’s a time to shine your light through the dead of an all black evening. Be humble, but don’t hide your abilities in a mysterious masquerade of duplicity.

Purely superficial elements of partnering are no longer tolerated-you just may be left alone with no lantern-RIP. A relationship can deepen, perhaps due to resolution of a long-standing problem. Getting serious about a shadowy romance or a creative project can figure strongly. Some of you may enter a phantom business partnership.

This is a favorable time for turning a creative undertaking into a profitable hobby. Job opportunities can emerge towards the end of the macabre month. More determination and motivation will aid any new fog-filled fitness or nutrition program started now. Watch for hurried speech and impish impulsiveness all month.

PISCES

VIRGO

FEB 19 – MAR 20

Financial matters need careful handling this month, and you have all of the necessary tools at your disposal to make important changes to your spending and borrowing habits- do so at your own risk. Work can be demanding but shockingly motivating this month. Conflicts with cadavers may arise, but if you tame impatience and attempt to work independently at your own pace, their likelihood decreases with the arrival of dawn. Opportunities to break out of your normal routine abound and excite later in the month, but you wont remember it by the next. It’s also a time to shine on the level of cruel and unforgiving communications. You can be recognized for your wizardry and mysterious ability to express yourself.

AUG 23 – SEPT 22

You’ve been worrying about money much of the year, and now is an excellent time to take charge of your frightful finances. Yes, you need to buckle down, but it feels good to do so as you get your priorities and hocus-pocus straight. Romantic opportunities might come from people of an entirely different background or culture (like the great beyond!), or possibly through education and travel. Relationships with shadowy siblings and nightmare neighbors improve and are a source of happiness. Many of you are enjoying more success in your studies. Nevertheless, energy levels are low or they fluctuate. Get extra rest to prepare for a frightening fall. source: www.2013astrology.com

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‫ﺇﺑﺘﺴﺎﻣﺔ ﻫﻮﻟﻴﻮﻭﺩ‬ ‫ﺗﺠﻤﻴﻞ ﺍﻷﺳﻨﺎﻥ ﺑﺈﺳﺘﺨﺪﺍﻡ ﺍﻟﺰﺭﻛﻮﻥ ﻭ ﻗﺸﺮﺓ ﺍﻟﻘﻴﻨﻴﺮ‬

‫ً‬ ‫ﺇﺑﺘﺪﺍﺀ ﻣﻦ ‪98‬‬

‫‪NOOR CLINIC‬‬ ‫ﺩﻳﻨﺎﺭ ﻛﻮﻳﺘﻲ‬

‫ﻧﺴﺘﻘﺒﻞ ﺗﺄﻣﻴﻦ ‪KPC‬‬

‫ﺧﺪﻣﺎﺕ ﻗﺴﻢ ﻃﺐ ﺍﻷﺳﻨﺎﻥ ‪:‬‬ ‫ﺗﻮﺭﻳﻴﺪ ﺍﻟﻠﺜﺔ ﻭ ﻣﻌﺎﳉﺘﻬﺎ‪.‬‬‫ﺗﺒﻴﻴﺾ ﺍﻷﺳﻨﺎﻥ ﺑﺄﺣﺪﺙ ﺍﻟﺘﻘﻨﻴﺎﺕ‪.‬‬‫‪-‬ﺗﺒﻴﻴﺾ ﻣﻨﺰﻟﻲ )ﻗﻮﺍﻟﺐ(‪.‬‬

‫ﺗﺮﻛﻴﺒﺎﺕ ﺛﺎﺑﺘﺔ ﻭ ﻣﺘﺤﺮﻛﺔ‪- .‬ﻗﺸﺮﺓ ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺮﺍﻣﻴﻚ )ﻓﻴﻨﻴﻴﺮ(‬‫ﺳﻦ ﺍﻟﺒﻮﺭﺳﻼﻥ )ﺍﻟﺰﺭﻛﻮﻥ(‪.‬‬‫ﺯﺭﺍﻋﺔ ﺍﻷﺳﻨﺎﻥ‪.‬‬‫ﺍﳊﺸﻮﺍﺕ ﺍﻟﺘﺠﻤﻴﻠﻴﺔ‪.‬‬‫‪-‬ﺗﻨﻈﻴﻒ ﺍﻟﻠﺜﺔ ﻭﺍﻷﺳﻨﺎﻥ‪.‬‬

‫ﻋﻼﺝ ﺍﻟﻌﺼﺐ‪.‬‬‫‪-‬ﺧﻠﻊ ﺟﺮﺍﺣﻲ ﺑﺪﻭﻥ ﺃﻟﻢ‪.‬‬

‫ﺇﺧﺘﺼﺎﺻﺎﺗﻨﺎ ‪:‬‬ ‫ﺍﳉﻠﺪﻳﺔ ﻭﺍﻟﺘﻨﺎﺳﻠﻴﺔ ‪ -‬ﺍﻟﻨﺴﺎﺀ ﻭﺍﻟﻮﻻﺩﺓ ‪ -‬ﺍﻟﻠﻴﺰﺭ ﻭﺍﻟﺘﺠﻤﻴﻞ ‪ -‬ﻃﺐ ﺍﻷﺳﻨﺎﻥ ‪ -‬ﻃﺐ ﺍﻟﻌﺎﺋﻠﺔ‬

‫ﻣﺮﻛﺰ ﺍﻟﻔﻨﻄﺎﺱ ﺍﻟﺘﺠﺎﺭﻱ‬

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