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Int October in Kuwait is always one of my favorite months of the year. It’s still warm enough to go swimming during the day, but cool enough to sit outside and enjoy the weather in the evening. That, combined with the fact that once Eid is over there are no more long breaks until Christmas/New Year’s (for those of you lucky enough to get time off, that is), creates a sense of stability, since you aren’t preoccupied with trying to plan a holiday, while trying to figure out a way to hand over your work to someone else, while trying to convince HR that you can take those extra two days off, while waiting for the government to decide what the exact days of the holiday are in the first place! I must admit though that it always pains me to see the mad exodus of people lined up to leave every time there is a break, regardless of how short it is, since if all that hard earned cash was spent in Kuwait instead of in Dubai, Beirut, Sharm El Sheikh, and Istanbul, one can only imagine the huge boost to the local economy that would create. This issue of bazaar is a very special one indeed. With Breast Cancer Awareness once again hitting our newsfeeds, and coinciding with the worldwide launch of the United Nations’ HeForShe campaign (inaugurated in an amazing speech by Emma Watson “because gender equality is not a woman’s issue, it’s a human rights issue’) we are highlighting inspiring, powerful and independent local women in our October issue. When we initially got up close and personal with Kuwaiti artist Ghadah Alkandari to learn about her constantly evolving and imaginative work, we were drawn into her incredible world. Don’t miss our 5-page exclusive feature where we not only showcase the inspiring artist, but we also get an insider’s look at her upcoming exhibition entitled Secretary. Other examples of women who inspire us include the lady behind the infamous Jacqui Doll and the addictive tech blog ‘Couch Avenue’, Jacqui Al-Ghadban, and our artist of the month, Tamara Quaddoumi who is achieving recognition for her constantly evolving music, from Kuwait, to Beirut, to the streets of London. Even though their creative pursuits may vary, they are all united in their differences and they inspire others to follow suit. It wouldn’t be bazaar, and we wouldn’t be in Kuwait, if we didn’t take you to some fantastic new restaurants in this issue. And we once again don’t disappoint, by showing you some of our new favorite Asian dining choices currently tantalizing our taste buds; the magical Japanese tapas at Ora in Arabella, the new Bento Box creations at Katsuya, not to mention the flavorful Szechuan goodness - without the fat - at Wok Hay. Transport us there any day! Local concepts are once again highlighted in this issue as we introduce you to some incredible new successful businesses such as the “ceriously’’ tasty cereal at 5STRIPES, the perfect gift and stationary selection at Craft & Company, as well as every dinner party host’s dream come true concept, Drop Off, providing deliciousness sans the hassle, by the talented Chef Adoola. Finally, don’t forget Halloween on the 31st of October – check out our scary reads, our horrifying Tropes piece to inspire your 2014 costume, as well as our horror-scopes helping you prepare to be spooked! Happy reading! Ahmed El-Adly
About The Cover Every now and then, two worlds collide on a cover of a magazine. This month, bazaar’s cover was interrupted by a figment of Ghadah Alkandari’s imagination. Photographed by the talented Jana Alnaqeeb, Ghadah presents model Dawnn Karen, wearing an original Alkandari creation, fashioned out of a utility shower curtain and safety pins. Brought to you by the creative collaboration of Ghadah Alkandari and the bazaar team, our October cover arrives as a part of Ghadah’s upcoming exhibition, Secretary, at The Sultan Gallery.
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With the introduction of Conscious If, like this bazaar team, you find Denim at H&M, denim lovers can yourself hopelessly addicted to now find a collection that is both cereal, then our in-depth feature contemporary and sustainable. For about locally created cereal brand the first time ever for H&M, the 5STRIPES will totally satiate your washes used on its denim have been every craving. Whether you like your cereal sweet, crunchy or fruity, graded to assess their environmental 5STRIPES unleashes your potential to impact. We speak exclusively to Erik Karisson and John Loman about create the perfect blend of what the #HMConsciousDenim. founders call “ceriously tasty cereal”.
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The ever so eclectic David Lynch serves as inspiration for Kenzo’s Fall/Winter 2014 collection, injecting it with hints of surrealism and eccentricity. For the pop culture connoisseur, this collection has struck sartorial genius. With iconic styles like “Midnight Dorothy” and “Wild Lula Lime,” one can never go wrong.
Tamara Quaddoumi might be labeled as a beautiful songbird, yet her talents go beyond music, as this performing artist stunned us with her many abilities. From drama, dance, events production to music, we learn all about Tamara’s inspirations and aspirations for the future in our artist of the month feature.
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Jacqui Al-Ghadban might prefer to virtually exist in our cyber space, but this awesome blogger takes a break from caring after her astounding collection of Apple products and speaks to bazaar about all things techy and wonderfully geeky in this month’s edition of truth or dare.
Being a new parent can be difficult, just ask the bazaar writer who went from “I get a solid eight hours,” to “Sleep? What’s sleep?” Babies have taken over the world and it seems like everyone’s got one now. Read our top five conflicts about this wonderful transition.
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Poe and Stine might have scared us out of our wits at one point, but the three books chosen here will haunt you. Playing on your nerves and tapping into your worst nightmares, these books are best read in the dark. Possibly with a flashlight under the blanket. You know, old school.
30 days, 50,000 words, let the games begin. In November writers worldwide challenge themselves to write a complete novel’s first draft. Some succeed, others fail, but the outcome is magnificent. The bazaar team has accepted this challenge and is currently planning their masterpieces. Will you join in the madness?
Sisters Farah and Haya Alanjari are a creative duo. Always crafting and looking for cute functional pieces and funky gifts, Craft and Company was conceived. From the USA and Europe and all the way to Kuwait, this online store is the destination for all you need and more.
Adoola has done it again! Join us as we sit down and talk to Chef Adoola about her latest concept, Drop Off. Offering you fine dining in the comfort of your own home, Drop Off is the perfect gastronomic experience for your gatherings. Just make sure to place your order 24 hours in advance.
This month, our Great Hunts series took a turn to the land of spice that is India in search of our top choices for the Murg Makhani, a.k.a. butter chicken. Come along with us as we sample traditional and contemporary versions of this yummy plateful of saucy goodness in our Great Butter Chicken Hunt.
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what’s on? WE’LL BUILD THIS CITY ON ART AND LOVE by Shurooq Amin Date: September 14 – October 23 Location: Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC), Gate Village Building 3, DIFC, DUBAI. In We’ll Build This City on Art and Love the roles of women in Arab society remain central for the artist, however, moving away from the individual Amin further reflects upon a variety of social maladies, ranging from child marriage in war-affected areas to the marginalization of the Bedoun in Kuwait, and the moral and material ramifications of stalled “dream” construction projects such as Silk City. In the combining of various media, the use of bright pink and red, tongue-in-cheek imagery, and a sense of whimsy, Amin’s canvases are vivacious even while approaching subject matter of a serious or delicate nature. In We’ll Build This City on Art and Love the artist employs materials as diverse as wood, reclaimed photographs, and Braille; the materials imbued with their own set of histories and tactile possibilities come together to insert new complexity into Amin’s chosen artistic themes. Authors long admired by Amin, including Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani and British author Lewis Carroll, are among several influences found in these visual motifs. The exhibition opening will be accompanied by the launch of Shurooq Amin, a monograph exploring the intricacies of Amin’s decades-long career through comparative discussions of her works within the broader milieus of international art and literature. For more information email difc@ayyamgallery.com or call +971 4 329 2395.
SECRETARY by Ghadah Alkandari Date: Opening Tuesday October 21, 2014; 7pm – 9pm October 22 and 23, 2014, 10am – 4pm. Location: Sultan Gallery On 21st October, Sultan Gallery will open an exhibition of works by artist Ghadah Alkandari. Her solo show Secretary is a visual account of the artist’s last six months leading to October 2014. As with many of her exhibitions, this collection is a series of journal-based drawings grouped into three main installations. A dynamic show, Alkandari hopes to entice visitors with the promise of touching, organizing and re-organizing her work. After all, a secretary’s job is never done. The Sultan Gallery is located in South Sabhan, Block 8, Street 105, Building No. 168. You can contact them on 2471 4325 Ext. 110 ; or 6097 0001; sultangallery1969@gmail.com or visit their website: www.sultangallery.com.
KUWAIT DRIFTERS! ARE YOU READY?: Red bull car park drift is back Date: October 31, 2014 Venue: Bassel Salem Al Sabah Track Location: Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC), Gate Village Building 3, DIFC, DUBAI. Following the tremendous success of the past four years, “Red Bull Car Park Drift” has become a highly anticipated yearly event, not only in Kuwait but in most of the Middle Eastern countries participating in the regional competitions. This year it returns to Kuwait on Friday 31st of October with heady rounds of drifting competitions, leading up to the crowing of the “King of Drift” and the representatives of Kuwait in the Dubai finals. The competition, sponsored by Ford, will take place at the Bassel Salem Al Sabah Track at the seventh ring road. Red Bull Car Park Drift returns once again to provide motorsport lovers in addition to the thrilling show performances, a chance to experience high speed and utmost suspense. Middle East Hill climbing champion and Red Bull driver, Abdo Feghali, will be evaluating the drivers’ performances along with a panel of esteemed judges. The evaluation will mainly assess the drift shows presented by the drivers in their modified cars, through the use of hand breaks and exertion of outstanding skills to take on turns in the most dazzling and accurate ways. In addition, judges will consider the engines’ roars and the external look of the car, the smoke produced by the friction of the tyres and finally the audience’s excitement and cheers for each performance to make their final decision. Last year’s competition led to the crowning of Nasser Al Mutairi, as he represented Kuwait in the final qualifications in Dubai, after taking on 30 other drivers who fiercely competed in front of a raging crowd of five thousand spectators. To participate in Kuwait’s qualifying championship on Thursday October 30, please call 6640 6020. Participating cars must be four-wheel or rear drive.
COZMO SPRAYBOX Dates: October 24, 2014, starting at 4pm. Location: Shaab Park. October 24th, from 4pm, will be the grand opening of Cozmo Spraybox, Kuwait’s first Graffiti Park! Artists will be able to come and spray, brush or paint marker to their hearts content in a legal, controlled and safe environment. The organisation will provide all the supplies people need to paint their own wall, including safety gear like masks, gloves, coveralls and of course, paint. If you really like your wall you can even buy it and take it home with you. For the grand opening they will have performances by Arabique, REDD, Coco, Amin, BBoys and (tentatively) Sons of Yusuf. Shakshooka will also have their market set up there, so there will be plenty for all to see and do! Of course, all of Kuwait’s best street artists will be there too. Cozmo Spraybox is the brainchild of Monstariam and TJC Films who are the media and design team for Cozmo Entertainment, which is cool enough to believe in this project! They will also be hosting Art Classes, Special Events and a monthly BBoy Battle called ‘King of the Cage’! For more details phone 2574 4975 or check out the hashtag #cozmogroup. 26
THE FLYING START TRIATHLON Dates: October 25, 2014. Location: Khiran Pearl City. The Flying Start is a triathlon race organized in Kuwait on an annual basis, typically every October. This year it is going to be held on the 25th October at Khiran Pearl City.The race was first organized in 2010, as a way to motivate ‘The 3 Club’ members to continue training for triathlons. The success of the first race turned The Flying Start into a series to give the Kuwaiti community a continuous goal to train for. The race has been created and organized by Pro-vision Sports Management company and is open to all who can SWIM, BIKE and RUN. Also it is open to individuals and teams over two main distances: Sprint and Olympic. For more information visit www.theflyingstart.com, phone 2225 4567 or follow them on Instagram or Twitter @q8sportevents or Facebook: Kuwait Sport Events.
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THE ‘IT’ GEEK Jacqui Al-Ghadban by bazaar staff
We all virtually, and in rare instances, personally, know of Jumanah Al-Ghadban a.k.a. “Jacqui”. She might prefer to solely exist in our cyber space through the renowned Jacqui Doll, but this consistently awesome blogger has won her place in our hearts with her informed opinions on the world of technology, literature and entertainment. Jacqui started blogging in 2004, where she loved the idea of sharing her notions about our crazy world online. She explains, “I started writing about my college days, what I would do, how I felt, and shared things that I found interesting. Back in 2004 we were just a handful of bloggers and most would either share personal stories or stories about Kuwait, and 80% were anonymous. I think my passion for reading and thinking a lot in my head led me to want to jot down those thoughts.” The content we see nowadays on couchavenue.com however, is far more organized. We get personal tidbits intertwined with exacting details about her views on the latest television shows and her favorite topic ever: Apple products. She added, “My obsession with Apple helped me write more gadget-y posts, whereas the fact that I watch more than 150+ television shows a year led me to create Fall Television Schedules for which most of my readers await anxiously.” Jacqui delivers all of this information in such a seamless format. She expertly discusses Apple’s latest releases, provides price comparisons between different smartphones, and much more. In a time when the popularity battle between Android and iOS is peaking, we asked Jacqui what she would do if all Apple products somehow become obsolete, “I would pretty much join them and become obsolete. I think there is an Apple where my heart should be.” She might not originally remember why she fell in love with 30
the brand in the first place, but Jacqui currently boasts an astounding collection of Apple products that includes, and is not limited to, an iMac 27”, MacBook Pro 17”, MacBook Pro 15” with Retina Display, MacBook Air 13” (a couple of them actually), and a MacBook Air 11” whom she calls her ‘children’ and not to mention the countless iPods (her first foray into the Apple craze) as well as numerous iPads and iPhones. Whether you follow her on Instagram or through any other social media channel, this blogger’s voice is loud and clear. Jacqui loves the interaction one enjoys via Instagram, but she’ll be there to read your comments and wacky feedback regardless! How would your mother describe you in one word? Talented. How would you describe your mother in one word? Genius. What is the most ridiculous question you’ve ever been asked? I guess it must be “Are You Kuwaiti?” I seem to always exude a foreigner image and not a Kuwaiti one. What is the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done? Travelled all the way to Dubai just to watch Johnny Depp’s latest movie for one day. What is your theme song? Inspector Gadget’s theme song or any song by Tupac, especially “Thug N Me, Thug N You”. What word in the English or Arabic language do you wish you had invented? English: “Awesome”. Arabic: “3ajeeeeeb” Where would you like to live? What is your dream retirement location? I would love to live in either New York City or Italy. I pretty much fell in love with the New York lifestyle, walking everywhere and only grabbing taxicabs when
you are in need of them. Manhattan just seems so beautiful. Whereas, Italy is a dream location since forever. I still haven’t set foot there though. What is the first famous quote that comes to mind? “Live like there is no tomorrow” someone said that, I can’t remember who though. What do you miss about your childhood? Being an only child and having all the attention focused on me. What animal best describes the kind of partner you’d be interested in? Jaguar. If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Jacqui, I have adopted it as a name now, I actually answer to it. Describe your handshake in one word? Strong. What is the toughest part of your character? My bluntness and straightforward words, I don’t like to sugar-coat things, even when talking to family members. Who is your favorite historical figure? Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance man. What in the world do you least desire? Illiteracy (Stupidity). What do you think is lacking in the world, which if there was more of, would make the world a better place? Humanity. Why do you think most girls/guys like you? Because I am down to earth, and easy to talk to. Finish this sentence: “Happiness is a thing called…” Burgers and pizza. Actually, happiness is a thing called Apple. Visit www.couchavenue.com to check out Jacqui’s blog, or follow her on Instagram @jacqui.
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…” – The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe by bazaar staff
R.L. Stine once wrote, “There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,” she said softly. “Most people don’t know that.” Worlds exist within the world we live in, a scary thought but a necessary one. Are they similar to ours, perhaps? But living in a world that differs from ours, even by an inch, is enough to send a shiver down anyone’s spine. And with All Hallows’ Eve quickly approaching, this bazaarite prepares for a good fright with these reads. Bringing to you three dystopian thrillers that are sure to get you hiding behind a pillow, here’s the Halloween edition. Brought to you with the sounds of A Nightmare on Elm Street playing in the background. Before there was The Hunger Games, a Japanese author by the name of Koushun Takami brought forth a far worse imagining of violence. Battle Royale was considered a controversial exploitation of violence amongst teens that find themselves in the midst of war. Kill or be killed, forty-two students walk in but only one walks out, or crawls; no one cares. The students are kidnapped from school and sent to a deserted island where they’re forced into collars and sent out for the ‘Program’ to begin at random 32
selection, one male one female. The premise? Pick up your backpack (packed with a random weapon), and run. Run as fast and as far as you can if you want to survive, and always be on the move else the collar explodes. Got your attention yet? Gorey and haunting, this tale is not for the weak of heart. Was that too much carnage for your liking? Well try to sit back and relax, this might not be murder-filled, but it’s still disturbing on some level. Collectively known as The Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance are the titles in this triad of disturbance. Reminiscent of Lovecraft’s writings, Jeff Vandermeer has portrayed the hauntings of dystopian settings to a bone chilling intensity. Discomfort and tension are two of the emotions this story plays on. In a space civilization has abandoned, Area X remains uncharted and unexplored. With every expedition sent to it either never returning physically, or mentally, we follow the twelfth expedition into Area X to live through their encounters as they progress deeper into the area. Expect anything when crossing the border of Area X, and hope for the best. Area X is dangerous and should be treated with caution, but will you
survive? *Cue maniacal laugh* Less gore, less disturbia, the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2011, Lauren Beukes plays on her readers’ nerves brilliantly. A ‘zoo’ in Zoo City is far from the place you take your kids to see animals. A ‘zoo’ is the title of those with a criminal record due to the presence of a spirit animal at their side. This dystopian novel follows the life of a ‘zoo’ living in a time where committing a crime equals attaching an animal to your spirit. Specializing in finding lost and valuable items, Zinzi, the protagonist, has a sloth attached to her as she runs around procuring what you long for, at a reasonable fee. But living in Zoo City as a ‘zoo’ automatically makes her a suspect to any case she might have been near. While missing persons cases are automatically refused, she finds herself forced to take the case to save her life. Bone chilling and disturbing, these thrillers are set to create a sense of foreboding doom as the reads progress. In the words of R.L. Stine, “Reader, beware, you’re in for a scare!” And as Edgar Allan Poe had put it “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
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NEW PARENTS by bazaar staff
Well, kiddos – it’s happening. Right as I type this, your friends and mine are moving on and having babies. I know what you’re thinking not my friends, they would never – and maybe you’re right…for the next ten minutes! But it’s coming. In light of our new baby around the bazaar office and your bazaar writer currently suffering from an acute case of ohnoIhaveababynow-itus, here they are – your top 5 conflicts about the great life transition that is the new parent. #5 Going out – I must admit, though there was a time when I loved going out, I had been a bit of a home-body in the year or so leading up to baby. But at least going out used to be an option! These days, unless that baby is strapped to my chest, I don’t get out at all. I’m pretty sure at this point that my friends just picture me as his head on my body – thank you baby Bjorn! On the one hand it is your ultimate trump card to not go out when you don’t want to. Amazing right? There is nothing they can say. People have to understand if you miss a work function or somebody’s birthday. On the other hand, if you do want to, you can’t, as in EVER. Ouch. #4 On the accumulation of mountains of toys – Let me just be the first to say that I was not happy to have to get rid of the pool table to make room 34
for the crib. Nor did I think it fun when the ping pong table got moved out for the baby’s jumper. Apparently these kids require a lot of structural support to keep them moving along. Aside from the baby toy junkyard that my apartment is quickly becoming, it is like setting up a refuge camp every time we go to someone’s house for a few hours, complete with enough food to survive in the wilderness for a few days and potty facilities. You, sweet child-o-mine, are officially high-maintenance. On the plus side though, the mountain of toys is exactly what is keeping him occupied long enough for me to write this. #3 The long game – It is hard not to look into your sweet baby’s eyes and just see…all that money running away from you, or worse, being poured down the drain with the same tenacity as your new jewelry after the toddler finds your jewelry box. Probably best to not focus on that. And people say I’m the insensitive one for making the baby wear a “daddy’s little tax shelter” t-shirt… On the up side though, your kids are basically a retirement plan right? I mean this is basically someone required to take care of you once they’re of an age where they can do so? Let’s just look at them that way. Start planning where
you want to retire and make sure they pick a good spouse – or else! #2 The free time – What free time? Nuff’ said. #1 Sleep – I used to think there were only two timeframes that existed: night and day. I was completely unaware that there is this third ethereal time bending netherworld of the half-dead zombielike people known as new parents. You never quite get to sleep; you never quite get to wake up. You just float through life from coffee shop to store to get diapers and float around the city in a haze. But this is not just some willy-nilly sleep when you feel like it hippie-dippie hangout spot. No, this is monarchist boot camp and you will not sleep until the baby king says you can. And he never says you can. Then, just as you see his eyes start to glaze over and you are ready to celebrate your coming respite…the slightest noise from the water truck passing by wakes up the king and you must start all over again. On the plus side though, you can get a surprising amount done in your day once you are forced to be awake for most of it. This love/hate has been sent to you from my child’s room, where I have been stuck for the last 5 months. Please send a nanny!
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up close and personal
ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE
GHADAH ALKANDARI by bazaar staff
Without her, all is lost to chaos. She is meticulous. She seeks order in every facet of her work. Today, she carries the modern title of ‘Executive Assistant’, but artist Ghadah Alkandari still identifies her as the Secretary. The secretary’s world, with all of its mundane simplicities, comes to life in a celebration unlike no other. Renowned for her affinity for stor ytelling through her journal-based drawings, regularly seen on her blog prettygreenbullet.com, Alkandari’s Secretary is poised to present a detailed visual account grouped into three main installations, and we’re invited to partake. As a prelude to the unveiling of Secretary, we initially wished to get up close and personal with the artist, only to find our team’s creative energies intertwine with Alkandari’s presentation. We became a part of her journey and a part of the artist’s process, only to find that a secretary’s job is, indeed, never done. Alkandari’s paintings have already been interpreted in every which way; the brush strokes analyzed as raw and straightforward, the use of color powerful and poignant, and they mostly feature ‘her women’. Their resilience was exemplified in The Yellow Tape Portraits (2008-09) and their unabashed playfulness was shown to the world in Stories of Eves (2010-2011). The artist, however, doesn’t necessarily care for anyone’s opinion. When she paints, she is king; “Painting is a safe place for me. When I paint or draw, I feel great. I look at my older work and it inspires me to continue.” Beyond the canvases, paintbrushes and her valuable sketchbooks, Alkandari’s daily musings are on display on her blog prettygreenbullet.com. This online space allows us to clearly witness her canny ability to merge between the realms of writing and drawing and we’re also given the option to further engage the artist in an open dialogue about her work, intrinsically becoming a part of her story via this interaction. Alkandari’s journals are not just journals; they are a part of her storytelling process and any body of work that she progressively creates. Everything stems out of experiences and she visualizes them on paper, canvas or whatever captivates this artist’s attention. [continued...]
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[...continued] Alkandari acknowledges a controlling part of her personality when it comes to her work. Her installations, however, shed a completely different light on the artist’s evolutionary process, where she detaches herself from the body of work presented to the viewers. She said, “A big part of being able to create, is witnessing how people interact with your work, and how the work evolves and changes at the actual showing while having people there. How do they change it? How do they change? I feel a great sense of satisfaction when I see these reactions.” This began with the extremely personal installation, Heart and the Gutting (2008), where Alkandari’s display of paper bags filled with daily notes that she prepared for seven months, involved people opening these dated bags and then tacking their contents onto a corkboard. This interaction is once again prominent in Kiss & Cut (2013), where both exhibitions stem from a place of sadness and mourning. Most recently, Alkandari was invited by Doha’s Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art’s Project Space to take up a residency, whereby she worked alongside the research-based curator Ala Younis, to merely exist as ‘the girl in a box’. During this time, Alkandari shed the realities of the everyday and took up a bare white room as her canvas. She said, “I
“A big part of being able to create is how people interact with your work, and how the work could evolve and change to deliver an unexpected end result.” loved working with Ala, she is incredible and I learned a lot from her on how to go beyond how I think. This helped me to structure my thought process, and a methodology was formed in my mind to manifest my surreal sketches to life, allowing visitors to interact with objects included in my sketchbooks such as the suspended milk carton and cup.” Alkandari worked tirelessly, testing her artistic boundaries. What began as a residency for the artist, evolved into an exhibition for museumgoers, as working in this space was part of the residency, “The space was my home for a week. I worked, sketched and blogged – nonstop.” Alkandari counts her ability to deliver these different facets of art, whether on her blog, paintings or installations, as a blessing. Otherwise, the artist would feel deprived of expression, eventually “shutting down.” Ever since Heart and the Gutting (2008), and most recently encouraged by her residency experience in Doha’s Mathaf, Alkandari loved how people interacted with her work, and she promises yet another experience that is true to her emotions at the upcoming show, Secretary.
As far as Alkandari is concerned, the conscious decision to base the premise of her upcoming show on the role of the secretary began about two years ago, and was instigated by her use of carbon paper coupled by the artist’s love for office supplies. A trip to Mogahwi’s stationary store, a place where one can still find old ledger books and retro office supplies, awakened a sense of yearning in the artist. She stated, “I suddenly relived an old desire of mine to work in a ministry, carefully writing down people’s names in huge books.” With Secretary, expect to see beauty in the mundane, an interpretation by Alkandari as an ode to the secretary of yesterday. Finding old office supplies excited the artist, and she went on to draw the women she imagined by utilizing these items as a central aspect of their quotidian lives. You will find her women, with their perfectly arched eyebrows and facial expressions bearing various emotions, appear and disappear in all of these office supplies. With layer upon layer of repetition, they are all different yet similar. She imagined their stories and their observations, and became entwined with these fascinating women and their meticulously detailed lives. On calling the show Secretary, she knowingly chose the term for what it stands for. “If I were one, I would want to be called a secretary, and nothing else.” The term, in and of itself, is old fashioned and echoes with Alkandari’s nostalgic inclinations. Alkandari’s interaction with different textures of paper, paints, pencils and her incorporation of carbon paper produces many of what she likes to call, happy accidents, that are inherent to her process. She allows for unplanned smudges and smears, and even the occasional appearance of the renowned ‘Eve’. Our October cover, for instance, showcases a different manifestation of this body of work, and another happy accident, where Alkandari’s prominent ‘Eve’ character photobombs a woman holding a leash that is attached to an old typewriter. This month’s cover adds another dimension to the upcoming exhibition, yet easily blends in with bazaar’s identity and tendency to utilize images that are both interpretative and covetable. Once Alkandari began organizing this ongoing body of work, the notion for the installation beckoned her to produce more as she found herself craving a sense of efficiency. She said, “I actually wish someone were to teach me how to organize things. Secretarial work always has a solution, as it is administrative at the core. There are different methods, but they are all proven to be successful and efficient.” The body of work, however, is not complete until people become a part of the artist’s final story. The story will continue to evolve up until the exhibition is due to commence on October 21st. Her repurposing of outdated office supplies is simply where all the fun begins – for the artist, this bazaar team, as well as whoever visits the upcoming exhibition. Alkandari concluded, “People finish what you start. You could initially work at home, feel like your work has served its purpose, and then you share it with the world.” [continued...] 39
up close and personal questionnaire What do you most value in your friends? A really good sense of humor. And it’s important that they like to eat. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Sitting in a hotel room after a long day at the pool, waiting for my room service to arrive. What is your greatest fear? Going blind or my teeth falling out. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I overanalyze things. What is the trait you most deplore in others? People who take themselves too seriously. Which living person do you most admire? Any living person I admire is probably dead. What is your greatest extravagance? My periodic long-weekend trips to the English countryside. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? According to my sister, it’s ‘honestly’. And she’s right. Honestly. What is it that you most dislike? Trends and cultural references to my work. Which talent would you most like to have? I wish I could play the piano. If you could have any job, what would it be? An architect. What would you consider your greatest achievement? I love my blog. It’s not a great achievement but it’s everything I’ve ever done in the past five years! What is your most treasured possession? My sketchbooks and journals. What is your most marked characteristic? My imagination. It comes in handy when I’m working but tends to get me in trouble in real life. Where would you most like to live? Suffolk, UK. What are your favorite words to live by? I don’t have a motto, but I always try to remember the positive things about myself, because by default I am the world’s biggest pessimist. Born in Delhi in 1969, Kuwaiti artist Ghadah Alkandari received a BA in Mass Communications from the American University in Cairo in 1992. She has produced various bodies of work that range from large-scale acrylic paintings, primarily figurative, exploring the wide spectrum of human emotion and familial complexities, to smaller, intimate and surreal pen and ink drawings detached and focused on everyday happenings. She had several solo exhibitions in Kuwait, and participated in various group exhibitions such as the “Arab Culture in Diaspora” exhibition in Kuwait and “Femmes Artistes Du Koweit” at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (2006). Since 2009, Alkandari uses her blog ‘prettygreenbullet’ as a platform to display her work on a daily basis. Secretary by Ghadah Alkandari will showcase at The Sultan Gallery on October 21st. For more information about the artist, visit www.ghadahalkandari.com. For her daily musings, you can check out her blog www.prettygreenbullet.com. Follow her on Instagram @PrettyGreenBullet, and if you’re missing the infamous ‘Eve’, check out @Stories_of_eves. Our October cover was photographed by Jana Alnaqeeb and modeled by Dawnn Karen. 40
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Kuwait’s new online lifestyle boutique by bazaar staff
We’ve all been there. One week before a friend’s birthday and you were at your wits end. You went to all the tried and true places, but nothing caught your eye. You searched online, but shipping times were too long, and the looming chore of then finding the perfect wrapping, weighed heavily on your mind. Enter Craft and Company, Kuwait’s one stop shop for amazing gifts, stationary and accessories. “We are here to accessorize your life and your friends’ lives,” said Farah Alanjari. Farah and her sister Haya had come up with the idea for Craft and Company years ago. The idea was a bit different then, with a café and weekly DIY meetings. Yet, they decided to keep the big store on hold while they focused on bringing high quality stationary and accessories to the Kuwaiti market. “The thing we had in common was we loved well designed things,” said Haya. “So, we always knew we wanted to do something together.” The girls headed to New York City for a design expo, and started a collection that is bound to catch any woman’s eye. Their main criteria: it has to be something they both liked. The stylish women curated a selection of items from around the world, including 42
many from boutiques in Europe and the USA. With an amazing inventory, Farah used her background in multimedia design to create the perfect site. The stay at home mom was invigorated by the challenge to create a user-friendly website that reflects their style. Haya used her finance background to create the business model for the site. The result is beautiful office, home and personal accessories at the click of a button, and on your doorstep within 24 hours. “We are starting to have a personal relationship with the clients,” said Haya. “This makes it a lot easier to reorder and we give them recommendations.” The girls order a limited supply of each item, so if you see something you like, buy it as quickly as possible. One of their most popular products, the bag organizer, sold out almost as soon as it came out. Created for small, medium or large bags, the organizer will end the lost moments of searching for your keys, lipstick or phone in your bag. Simply place it inside, and organize to your heart’s content. The handmade pieces sold out almost as soon as Farah put them online. For the girl who likes to keep everything in a notebook, check out the Mini SmartDate Set. The
small binder comes with a full calendar, weekly planner sheets, month tabs and inserts, in six different colors. It’s perfect for the woman on a mission, or purchase the gift-wrap, and have it arrive at your doorstep ready to surprise your favorite person! When asked what their favorite items were, Haya immediately pulled out her arm to show us the Lele Sadoughi bracelets she had purchased for herself from the site. The beautiful stones set in 14k gold plated links were an amazing addition to her simple outfit, and can be paired with other pieces. Craft and Company can help with more than just shopping for stunning accessories. Their home selection has stunning Tozai photo frames, beautiful cushions and unique hooks to liven up any home. Shopping for the kid in your life? Check out their kids selection with adorable wall clocks in the shape of a space shuttle, an owl or even a robot. There’s bound to be something that surprises and pleases you and your loved ones at Craft and Company. Check out craftandcompany.co to see their full selection. You can follow them on Instagram @craftandcompany for updates on their products.
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CAN WE TALK ABOUT THEM PLEASE? by Purva Grover
Breasts are a personal topic, a secret best not spoken about, that’s what we tell our girls. And that’s how in one line we can sum up the level of unawareness that surrounds breast cancer. When our daughters start to ‘grow’ we teach them how to sit properly, talk politely, laugh softly, dance appropriately, walk gracefully, eat and cook healthy food, work passionately, love endlessly and care boundlessly. We introduce them to their five senses, legs and hands and back and stomach. And knowingly and unknowingly we ‘fail’ to acknowledge their breasts: it is personal. One fine day we tell our teenage daughters that they need to wear a bra. We offer no explanation on why she has to stop wearing a simple vest with a Barbie doll on it and move to sporting an elastic band around her chest. We tell her it’s a personal garment and it’s not to be flaunted, be it on the clothing line or under a shirt. A few months or years later when she comes home and narrates to us an incident where an unknown man/woman or a known classmate/ 44
colleague (male/female) refers to her breasts as fresh or young, juicy apples or oranges, bulky balls or tiny pimples: we tell her to either laugh it off or ignore it. Don’t judge us, women are ‘supposed’ to live and laugh through such crude descriptions. The day she is dressed up as a bride, we hug her and bid her goodbye. She’s off to a new home. We smile sheepishly when her friends gift her sensual lingerie. We hear them talk about sexy straps, laces and silk. When we visit her to congratulate the family on the new addition, we watch her breastfeed her child. We take pride; our little girl is all ‘grown-up’. Years pass by and then one day we learn that she is battling breast cancer. We are alarmed, our girl was always healthy. A rash on a leg, face or a back needs attention, we’d taught her that. She raises an alarm when she spots one. A swelling in the feet or hands requires medical interference, we’d trained her so. She visits a doctor. A lump or red spot on her breasts, we forgot to talk about that. A change in size and shape of
her breasts, we were too busy speaking about the expanding waistlines. A regular check-up with the doctor? We’d given her the contact details of the renowned aesthetic and other ‘health’ care experts. When breast cancer defeats her, we tell everyone she was a brave person: only if she’d caught the cancer at the right time. One fine day, we fall apart. We miss her terribly. We realize that we never taught her to look closely: we never acknowledged she had breasts: the ignored, least spoken body part. But is it too late to make a start? We say, NO. So we pledge to empower our girls: We’d talk about the breasts. The word ‘breasts’ would no longer be restricted to brochures about cancer: it would be part of our vocabulary. When we talk to our daughters, fathers, friends, colleagues, grandfathers, wives, mothers, sisters, school friends, sons, collage mates, grandmothers and husbands: we’d talk of breasts. And we’d also tell them: It’s not just women who need awareness; men fight breast cancer too. We are pledging, can you too?
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bazaar goes dining
ORA JAPANESE TAPAS A minimalist culinary escape in the heart of Arabella by bazaar staff
Arabella has given us much to look forward to when visiting the Al Bida’a area. With the gorgeous promenade, an unbeatable view overlooking the Arabian Gulf and a wide spanning selection of culinary delights that would suit any person’s dining preference, Arabella is now home to many of our local favorite dining destinations. If you’re looking to stray away from the traditional, however, and wish to foray into the world of Asian fusion, then you should try out the Japanese tapas at Ora. You’re not mistaken; you did read Japanese and tapas in the same sentence. That’s the beauty behind Ora at Arabella. You can opt for the traditional sashimi, or you could swap that safe choice for Yellowtail Carpaccio. Your favorite chicken meatballs dish is reimagined in the form of a Korean Donburi, or Asian rice bowl, with Korean chili. Why? Because the good people at Ora believe that your palates deserve something different. Each and every dish will offer your taste buds something different and pleasantly unexpected. The décor is minimalist, with a simple and understated monochromatic theme dominating the space. Despite the sleek and chic aesthetic, the staff will offer you an extremely warm welcome. The atmosphere is a refreshing break from other similar establishments, as the décor definitely alludes to a fine dining experience, yet the setting is functional, and even casual if you choose to come here for lunch. This is what the five founders of Ora envisioned for the space. Co-founder Talal Algharaballi spoke of the dining experiences he enjoyed as a student in California, where the current founders of Ora originally met their culinary partner Executive Chef Tiger, and said, “We simply wanted to create a space that is both inviting yet offers a refined menu. You can come here for a special occasion, or a family lunch. We felt like finding Asian fusion dining options here in Kuwait can be limiting when it comes to the type of food and atmosphere that is available.” Sometimes, you simply want to enjoy an upscale menu in an uncomplicated environment, and that is what makes Ora completely unique. When it comes to restaurant design, looks can sometimes be deceiving, however at Ora, the opposite rings true. The secret behind Ora’s exciting menu is the amazing Chef Tiger, who constantly delivers dishes that are complex, rich in flavor and above all, memorable. Chef Tiger not only spearheaded the kitchen at the original Katsuya in Brentwood, Los Angeles, his extensive background and gastronomic experience clearly shaped his vision for the dishes at Ora. As one of the founding 46
partners at Ora, you will see the chef’s unwavering commitment to quality ingredients, equipment used and even the presentation of the dishes at Ora. The dining experience at Ora is a distinct one, characterized by a particular flow of dishes. Traditionally, diners are recommended to follow the flow of the menu as this is based upon the length of time incorporated in preparing the dishes, ensuring that you consistently receive dishes that are freshly prepared in the kitchen. We started off our fusion-filled journey with a refreshing round of drinks, courtesy of Chef Tiger. We tried J’s Mojito, with fresh mint and lime, lemon puree, passion fruit syrup, mojito syrup, and soda water. The Gaslamp delivers the same minty freshness of the mojito, except that it is injected with grenadine syrup and orange juice. We loved these
drinks, as they weren’t too sweet, and offered that exact dose of acidity that perfectly complements the tapas that arrived to our table. From the warm tapas, we tried the signature Tiger Creamy Shrimp dish; this includes perfectly battered tiger shrimp with delectable crispy bacon bits, caramelized onions and tobiko with Ora’s homemade spicy aioli. This dish alone ticks all of our boxes. Depth of flavor: Check. Texture: Check. Presentation: Fabulous. We also highly recommend that you inject some Mexican elements into your choice of tapas with Yellowtail Tacos! A common denominator shared amongst all of the dishes at Ora is the quality of the ingredients. You can taste the difference in the salmon, yellowtail, beef and chicken. When a dish is freshly prepared with quality ingredients, it is simply ingrained in
your memory. From the signature sushi options, we selected the Cajun Salmon Mango for our love of all things Creole. With Cajun seared salmon, avocado and mango topped with a Saba vinaigrette and mango salsa, we relived the Latin flavor that is homemade ceviche, yet in the form of a roll. You can also enjoy this experience in the form of sashimi, the salmon’s flavors amplified with accents of lime and chili and yuzo soy. Then came the dish that stole our hearts, and self control, the Crispy Rice Wagyu Beef. Imagine an expertly prepared battered rice cake, crafted with Robata-grilled Wagyu tenderloin, with just the right amount of wasabi guacamole sitting between the beef and the rice cake and a teriyaki balsamic glaze. The delectable beef melts in the mouth, followed by an explosion of flavors and
textures coming from the rice cake and wasabi. You can easily enjoy this creation with the option of Spicy Tuna, Salmon Tartar and Yellowtail Tartar. The Short Rib Truffle followed, also a dish that we devoured in mere moments. The combination of slowly braised US Angus short rib drizzled in a truffle soy reduction with a side of truffle mashed potatoes and tempura Brussels sprouts was heavenly to say the least. Just when we mustered up the courage to declare ourselve full, our desserts arrived. We first sampled the selection of homemade ice creams and sorbets, including caramel honey, green tea, Tahitian Vanilla, Mango sorbet (This tasted like biting into a really, really perfectly ripened mango) and the slightly sour Yuzo sorbet. They arrived artfully laid out in pristine white scooping spoons, with
only the fresh colors of the flavored frozen goodies livening up the neatly plated dessert. For bread pudding lovers, the Cinnamon and Pecan Bread Pudding, think layer upon layer of baked croissant infused with cinnamon-sugar crusted caramelized pecans, topped off with sweet cream, along with the Chocolate and Salted Caramel Bread pudding, are reason enough to keep you coming back to Ora. Did we mention that the Salted Caramel and Chocolate bread pudding is laden with Nutella goodness? Case closed. Ora Japanese Tapas is located in Arabella in Al Bida’a and is open for Lunch from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. and dinner from 6 p.m. – 11 p.m. For more information please call 2227 5090 or follow them on Instagram @Ora_kw. 47
WHEN TROPES ATTACK! Who’d ya rather? by bazaar staff
The world is a big bad scary place and everything is out to get you. At least it seems like it is thanks to just about every TV show and movie out at present. Yes, everybody is afraid of the end of the world and the future of humanity is always in peril. But which version of the end of the world should you be most afraid of? We dug through the bazaar ‘World’s Out to Kill Us’ archives to determine who would win a battle royale of all-time scary creatures, just in time for you to choose your Halloween costume – proceed accordingly. Zombies – As a general rule, these are the guys who seem to not have any mind control and are no longer present in their bodies – basically animated corpses. Typically, they fall into two separate camps: magical and medical. The medical zombie is basically one that adheres to your regular rules of science. There is some biologically explainable reason for their existence. Now their magical brethren on the other hand normally ignore most parts of science altogether. Either way though, there is a good chance they want to eat your brain, or bite you. These guys are only going down if you cause an enormous amount of damage to their heads. 48
Vampires – If you believe most movies lately, these are the saddest of all the killers. Poor little melancholy bat-like creatures working on their poetry about love lost in perpetuity. I would feel bad for them if they didn’t want to bite my neck and steal all the blood from my body. When it comes to killing them, sunlight is a nice touch, though it can be pretty hard to get them to meet you at a café for brunch. So you may need a plan B. I’m going to say, go with the wooden stake. Sure it takes a little more work, but there’s a reason it’s a classic. It works. Werewolves – Also known as lycanthropes, these animal-like shape-shifters have a long history of people-eating and general exhibitionism throughout the hills of Eastern Europe. I don’t know why tearing off their clothes is the first thing they always do, but apparently they don’t plan ahead. They are dangerous and have super-human strength that can easily take out little ol’ you. So how do you get rid of them? You’re going to want that silver bullet. I’ve heard it speculated often that any bullet will do and that there are potentially other ways to kill them, but when you’re facing near-certain death from a werewolf in front of you – is that really the time to try out new methods? Stick with the tried and true – the silver bullet.
Psycho Killer – Though obviously the most realistic of all the tropes involved here, these guys are the unofficial weaklings of the bunch. Being afraid of them is like being afraid of your little sister – it just shouldn’t happen. First of all, they’re generally social outcasts who couldn’t form a coherent sentence if their – I mean your – life depended on it. When they are bright they tend to be self-involved to the point of self-destruction; an Achilles’ heel that not even they can outrun. Just grab the closest mirror around and let them fall in love with their own image as you run away. BONUS: Natural Disaster – OK, at first glance you are probably thinking, what are natural disasters even doing on this list of scary stuff in personified form. But think about it. Is there anything scarier than…MOTHER NATURE! Will it be a flood, a tornado, an earthquake, a tsunami? Global Warming? Climate Cooling? After years of abuse she is angry and she will have her vengeance! Make no mistake, there is nowhere to hide with this one. Her devastation is all encompassing.
If you are reading this then the zombies have already infiltrated the Free Trade Zone and have gotten to us. Save yourself. RUN!
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bazaar music “Music can change the world because it can change people.” ~ Bono
24 KARAT GOLD
EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT IN THE END
OZZY OSBOURNE: MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN
24 Karat Gold - Songs From The Vault is the eighth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter and Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks. The follow up to 2011’s In Your Dreams, the album includes new versions of demos that Nicks primarily recorded between 1969 and 1987. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, Nicks said she was inspired to reimagine these older tracks after stumbling across a slew of the original bootlegs on YouTube. “[W]e found all the songs that, somehow, were taken from my house or picked up or loaned out or whatever,” she said, adding: “I call them my 24 karat gold songs.” It was produced by herself, Dave Stewart and guitarist Waddy Wachtel. “The Dealer” is the lead single and was released in August followed by the single “Lady”.
Weezer will release their highly anticipated ninth album Everything will be Alright in the End produced by Ric Ocasek, who previously helmed production on the band’s first and third records. This album is the band’s first collection of new material in 4 years. Since forming in 1992, Weezer has released a myriad of celebrated, chart-topping albums, selling over 13 million records worldwide. When it came time to record the material, Weezer reunited with the man who helped them make some of their most iconic album-length work, Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. Organized thematically around three groups of songs, it is an album that utilizes that sound from the band’s earliest days to tell new stories in 2014, creating some of the finest, most heartfelt songs Weezer has ever recorded.
Memoirs Of A Madman serves as a career spanning audio release featuring 17 of Ozzy Osbourne’s greatest hit singles remastered and compiled in one place for the first time in his career. This set offers fans of the multi-platinum recording artist, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and three-time Grammy winning singer and songwriter the ultimate collection from Ozzy’s distinguished solo career which spans four decades as both a successful solo artist and as the lead singer of Black Sabbath. His music is as relevant today as ever. For all the things Ozzy Osbourne has been known for, Memoirs Of A Madman puts the focus squarely on the thing he does best: crafting some of the best, most passionate rock and roll of all time.
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SONIC HIGHWAYS
by Stevie Nicks
by Taylor Swift 1989 is the upcoming fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Swift began planning her follow-up project in 2013 and continued work into 2014, during which time Swift collaborated with producers including Max Martin and Shellback. Their efforts resulted in her “first documented, official pop album,” which represents a musical departure from the country pop styles in her earlier work. Not only is the album title in dedication to the year in which she was born, it’s also a referential mark to the era from which she’s found new musical inspiration. “Shake It Off” was serviced as the lead single and debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 becoming Swift’s second number-one single to debut in the peak position. 50
by Weezer
by Train Three-time Grammy winning San Francisco band Train’s new album, Bulletproof Picasso, debuted in September. Produced by previous Train collaborator Butch Walker, it reflects frontman-singer/songwriter Pat Monahan’s penchant for distinctive musical stylings. The album’s first single, “Angel in Blue Jeans,” soared to the Top 15 of Triple A, joining the band’s successful arsenal of other radio-embraced singles throughout their career. Their gift for delivering memorable songs that capture the listener’s imagination has seen them achieve unprecedented radio and social media traction. If this album is anything like their previous chart-toppers “Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me),” or “Hey Soul Sister,” this album is definitely worth a listen.
by Ozzy Osbourne
by Foo Fighters Sonic Highway, the new album from rock legends the Foo Fighters was recorded in eight different cities, with a different “local legend” sitting in on each song. It was conceived as “a love letter to the history of American music,” with sessions at iconic studios all over the US. In a statement Grohl says,“I think that these cities and these people influenced us to stretch out and explore new territory, without losing our ‘sound’.” The album’s guests are rumoured to include Public Enemy’s Chuck D, the Eagles’ Joe Walsh, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes and Kiss frontman Paul Stanley. The album will also be documented in an eight-part HBO miniseries, due to premiere on 17 October. source: www.amazon.com
NANOWRIMO IN KUWAIT 30 days, 50,000 words by bazaar staff
Here in the bazaar office we are obsessed with all things grammar and writing. We share notes on the latest novels we are reading, and critique each other’s articles before they go out. The joy we find in weaving together sentences that paint a picture in your mind, is indescribable. So, when one of the bazaarites suggested we get together and take on the extreme writing challenge, NaNoWriMo, we jumped at the opportunity. The competition started in 1999 in San Francisco when Chris Baty and 20 of his friends decided to challenge themselves to write a novel each in one month. In the growing city of Internet sensations and young millionaires, the freelance writer wanted to seize the moment of innovation exploding around him. For him and the first NaNoWriMo participants, the obsession was literary. “In short, we adored novels and glorified writers, and thought that if, after a month’s labors, we could drain even the thinnest alliance with that world, something mysterious and transformational would happen to us,” wrote Baty in the introduction to his book No Plot No Problem. The group met in coffee shops for writing marathons, pushed each other over writer’s block, and fueled themselves with caffeine. In the end, only half labored over the keyboard until the very end. The result? Six pretty bad novels, and a revelation. “Writing requires editing, but getting the story out is the first, most important part,” said Baty. “The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not lack of talent, it’s lack of deadline.” Today, the competition attracts more than a quarter million participants and produces more than 35,000 winners. To win NaNoWriMo you must upload at least 50,000 words of an original nonfiction piece written during that month. That’s 1,666 words a day. The competition has produced some great pieces, including Like Water For Elephants, a New York Times bestseller readapted for a feature film starring Reese Witherspoon. It has also produced some surprising authors including self-published 14-year-old high school student Hannah Powers with her novel Night and Day. Numerous books, blogs and how-to manuals have been produced to give participants that extra push to get to the finish line. Yet, not all the critique has been positive. “Why does giving yourself permission to write a lot of crap so often seem to segue into the insistence that other people read it?” said Laura Miller in her Salon article ‘Better yet, DON’T write that novel’. “Nothing about NaNoWriMo suggests that it’s likely to produce more novels I’d want to read…Even if every one of these 30-day novelists prudently slipped his or her manuscript into a drawer, all the time, energy and resources that go into the enterprise strike me as misplaced.” Miller’s post sparked much debate on the value 52
of participating and completing the competition. She claims that publishers enter the month of November with dread, knowing that in 30 days they will have to start dealing with a flurry of first draft entries from winners dying to see the bound copy of their manuscripts. She suggests to the world to stop encouraging writers “who, let’s face it, will keep on pounding the keyboards whether we support them or not,” and start promoting readers. She claims there are already way too many novels out there. Yet, we at the bazaar office feel that the magic of NaNoWriMo may be lost on Miller, not a novelist. The world does need to do more to encourage reading; that cannot be denied. Neither can the fact that a 50,000 word first draft of a story will not a ‘great novel’ make. Our purpose is to bring to life the worlds we have imagined. We are writing because we love to write, but we know we don’t make enough time for it. This is an organized way to make sure we get the words out, just to see where the story takes us. Through a Skype conversation, WhatsApp group and shared Evernote notebooks, we’ll be editing each others
work and exchanging ideas. Our goal is not to create finished manuscripts we can immediately send out to publishers, that is unrealistic and takes away from everything about NaNoWriMo. We just want to breathe a little life in our stories, and watch words bring new characters to life, even if they are all on life support by the end of it. Instead we’ll take James Patterson’s advice: “You’re not crazy, I promise. I know because I’ve written a novel in a couple of months,” he wrote in the nanowrimo.org article ‘Pep talk from James Patterson’. “Yes, I’m a human being (just ask my editor, or my wife) and I do sleep. The book even got published. So anyone who tells you it’s impossible is wrong and you should probably stop taking their advice.“ Editor’s note: If you are keen to join the bazaar team on their NaNoWriMo journey, please contact us on info@bazaar-magazine.com. Sign up for NaNoWriMo at nanowrimo.org. Follow them on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @nanowrimo.
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KENZO CHANNELS DAVID LYNCH FOR FALL-WINTER 2014 by bazaar staff
This fall, pop culture fans are in for a treat at Kenzo, as the premier French luxury house has teamed up with none other than David Lynch for the Fall-Winter 2014 collection. Considered one of the most interesting and insightful directors, artists and musicians of our time, David Lynch’s surrealist overtures are clearly visible in every creative facet of Kenzo’s fall-winter collection.
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David Lynch’s imagination and ingenuity can stimulate forgotten emotions through his canny use of whatever medium he chooses. Following Kenzo’s men’s and pre-fall collections earlier this year, the Kenzo women’s fall-winter 2014 collection is the crescendo in a trilogy of collections inspired by Lynch’s oeuvre. The creative forces at Kenzo, including Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, worked with Lynch on the set design and music for this show. As the experience progressed, they found themselves drawn into the head of the creator, and explored the various beautiful, idiosyncratic and elliptical characters he dreamt up for his myriad of works. The end result is truly inspired by David Lynch’s portrayal of love, revenge, the strange and mysterious with equal candor. “I really liked working with Humberto, Carol and the people at Kenzo. I wanted to try to get a different feel for a runway show, having mystery and emotion swimming together.” said David Lynch. The marriage between Lynchian art and fashion in this collection is beyond spectacular; bright saturated colors mark the collection, limbs oddly stick out of perforated walls in the campaign presentation and models even walked in front of a sculpture of a tortured face at the runway show. The collection’s silhouette holds contrasts in volume, and everything is amplified. Lean and tall or high waisted and exaggerated, the structure remains resolutely, ultra-feminine. Collars are reinterpreted, blown up and tied around the waist as nonchalantly and intimately as the appropriation of a mans coat. The whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. Tool creatures, printed and embroidered onto jackets, skirts and pants come in woods, metals and Perspex. Tailored suits are quilted with down. Fox fur coats named after Lynch’s most remarkable characters “Wild Lula Lime”, “Laura Lilac” and “Midnight Dorothy” transform with detachable paneling. Lacquered twill jackets in flame inject fire colors to the palette. Skirts and dresses with shaved kangaroo are paired and layered with cross coats and embroidered and shredded organza. Foiled mohair grosgrain ribbons appear as belts and as inserts on trousers. Prints this season come in warped versions of habitual vistas, the David Lynch herringbone flooring and reflections of a mountain in shattered glass. A layered organza adds a 3-D effect to skirts and tops. Sweaters feature high definition tryptic embroidery and metallic foiling. For accessories, creatives Humberto Leon, Carol Lim and David Lynch were inspired by a northwestern American steelworker’s vestiary. Safety boots in pony and rubberized leather feature trapeze buckles in copper or matte metal. The Kalifornia is revisited as a tote for fall in knit, wool or printed quilted nylon. Pochettes in nylon and fur trimmings walk alongside those inscribed with the timeless “forever, no?” The Kenzo boutique is located at the 2nd Avenue – The Avenues. Please call 2259 7500 for more information or visit www.kenzo.com. For Kenzo’s latest updates in Kuwait, you can follow @Alyasra on Instagram. 55
CELEBRATING THE WOMEN OF GEEKDOM by the collective efforts of two geeky bazaarites (for the first time in a while)
The challenge; write an ode to six badass women of Geekdom. Lists, upon lists accumulated and we continued to dwell deeper into this universe until we found the ultimate six that deserve recognition. We of course thought of all the obvious badasses, but decided to take it to the greats with cult followings. Disclaimer: This piece may contain SPOILERS! So tread carefully through these lands, and sit tight as we take you on a journey through space, time, and all things “wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey.”
River Song, Doctor Who “Hello sweetie.” A badass from birth, Professor River Song, or should I say Melody Pond, is dangerous in her own accord, and knows how to use a gun. Appearing for the first time in 2008 in the two-part episode titled “Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead” of Doctor Who, Professor Song was a mystery. She became a fixture in the Doctor’s timeline, but the order they meet in is random and never chronologically sane. Brought up to be the Doctor’s doom, River marries him instead. Defacing historical monuments with “cute” messages for the Doctor, breaking out and back into her jail cell, the one thing we’re certain about is that this femme fatale is never the victim.
Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter “We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.” Oh Minerva. There’s so much to love about the strict Professor who scares the living hippogriff out of you, but somehow still manages to command your respect. She’s a leader who is fearless in the face of danger, a fiercely loyal friend no matter the circumstances, and funny in the most deadpan of ways. Professor McGonagall is no-nonsense, a woman not to be crossed and only loses her cool when she is feeling most passionate. From unabashedly screaming and shaking her fist at cheating Slytherins during Quidditch, to yelling ‘Charge!’ and leading transfigured objects, not to mention actual bits of the building, into the Battle against Voldemort. Whatever you’re up against, you’re going to want Minerva McGonagall on your side – after all, she is rather good at magic.
Yvaine, Stardust
Valentine Wiggin, Ender’s Game
“You said ‘bubbling’.” A happy evening star, Yvaine spent most of her life people-watching and craving adventure. That is, until she, literally, got knocked out by the Royal Ruby of Stormhold. Taking human form upon impact in Faerie, she finds herself pursued by a number of threats. Witty, sharp-tongued, and quick on her feet Yvaine is not a force to be reckoned with. Anger her, and she might unleash a waive of starlight so bright it’ll turn you to dust. The ultimate badass of Gaiman’s imagination, Yvaine has the ability to lash out with a demeanour of grace and dignity, even when she’s making Tristran’s life difficult. Did we mention she befriends a unicorn along the way?
“We may be young, but we’re not powerless.” The thing about Valentine Wiggin is – the reason she is rejected from Battle School is actually her strength. ‘Too compassionate and mild,’ she is in some ways exactly what society expects from a woman. Still, Valentine is brave, intelligent, wise and calculating. She serves as Ender’s protector when their brother, Peter tries to torture him and has no problem standing up to Colonel Graff when he tries to pressure her into his plan involving Ender’s training. She finds power in empathy and expertly manipulates her surroundings with the belief that she can make a difference. An intellectual badass – by the age of ten.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Starbuck, Battlestar Galactica
“I hate tombs.” English aristocracy and a ladyship in the bag, this explorer would much rather go on an adventure than a ball. Beautiful, intelligent, and athletic are just some ways to describe this badass. A true action hero, Lara Croft went from being sweet to ruthless, with a top priority to survive. Even though her first incarnations were considered crude and distasteful, her latest self is the epitome of badass. Nobility aside, this 21-yearold reincarnation of herself doesn’t rely on her looks to get the job done. Exploring and retrieving archaeological treasures is her thing, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop her. Resourceful and tenacious, Lara Croft is a great example of a badass (even if she is fictional).
“Our job isn’t to be careful, it’s to shoot Cylons out of the frakking sky!” The reimagined Battlestar Galactica presents us with a universe and civilization where women being equal is a given and not a fight. So, while there was controversy when the original Starbuck was made a woman for the new series, Kara Thrace is presented in much of the same way as her predecessor; a rogue soldier – strong, reckless and cocky, the best damn Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet. Starting out as a loose cannon, as the series progresses, her personality grows until she becomes a fearless and admirable woman ready to do the right thing, make hard choices and not let pressures veer her from her beliefs. All with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. “Kara Thrace and her special destiny? That sounds like a bad cover band.”
There you have it! Let’s give it up to our six badass women of the Geekverse. Till next time, we bid you farewell. “So say we all.” 56
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IS CARDIO MAKING YOU FAT? by Bibi Al-Falah
After weeks of hinting that too much cardio was no use, I finally sat down with my trainer and he explained the science behind it. Every girl has believed that the longer you live on that elliptical or treadmill, the skinnier you will be. Our training shoes have practically imprinted onto our elliptical of choice at the gym where countless hours have gone by. It is basic math right? Burn more than you consume and you will lose weight? That’s what they keep telling us. Although mathematically nobody can argue with this equation, not all cardio is created equal. So what exactly is the kind of cardio that makes you fat? In short: the stable, intermediate kind that drags on for an hour or longer. What my trainer basically explained is that all forms of exercise cause stress, which in turn spikes your cortisol levels and leads to weight gain around the stomach area if carried on for long periods of time. You have to be selective in the kind of exercise you choose and how effective that exercise is. Basically, your exercise is more efficient when you really get your heart rate up and back down in less than an 58
hour while making sure there is some kind of weight training involved. The more you prolong a medium intensity cardio workout that isn’t very challenging (over an hour), the longer your cortisol levels stay elevated. Over time, what this does is burn muscle tissue which will lower your basic metabolic rate or the rate at which your body naturally burns calories when you are not working out. So what’s the best kind of exercise to effectively burn fat without invading muscle territory? Higher intensity workouts in shorter amounts of time. It seems like a dream that you can actually workout less and burn more calories, until you realize that dream involves plenty of sprints, squats, and pushups to the point of near exhaustion. The effort, however, is well worth your while. An effective workout does not need to exceed 60 minutes, longer hours spent at the gym does not equal better fitness; proper training does. Go for HIIT classes, otherwise known as high intensity interval training. These usually involve a combination of high intensity cardio with weights and movements with your own body as resistance, such as the widely detested “burpee” move. If it’s a
cardio day for you, try to switch up the intensity a lot (eg. alternate between running and walking). Don’t get into a workout rut where you only do the same machine either. Try switching between different cardio machines and do weight training after. Another common mistake paired with long cardio sessions is under eating at the same time. When women do this for prolonged periods of time (over two weeks) the body starts going into starvation mode and begins storing any shred of fat we eat, which instinctively piles up around our hips in our body’s ironic and cruel way of protecting our reproductive system. A great strategy to avoid this horrific plateau is to focus on getting enough rest and remembering that your results are 70% nutrition, 30% proper training. If you are not overeating then you don’t need that extra time to burn more calories, you need more toning moves and weight training. I would suggest that anyone with a gym membership should take the time to sit with a trainer and allow them to explain the right way to train and discuss the best nutrition choices to go along with this plan. Happy October!
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BREAST CANCER AND THE MIDDLE EAST by bazaar staff
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2012, there were approximately 14.1 million new cancer cases in the world: 7.4 million (53%) in males and 6.7 million (47%) in females. The non-profit organization, Cancer Research UK estimated in 2012 that Kuwait has approximately 100 cancer cases per 100,000 people, and you have to look hard these days to find someone who has not been affected by the disease, either themselves, or a person they are close to. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, which is the most common cause of cancer related deaths in both women and men. Research shows that early detection is the most important strategy to combat breast cancer, and the Arab Health Roundtable 2013 – ‘Breast Cancer in the Middle East’ reports that awareness is the single most important step toward promoting effective breast cancer screening programs in the Middle East. “The age-specific rate of deaths from breast cancer compared to the age-specific incidence of breast cancer is higher in Africa and the Middle East than in Europe and North America, so clearly this is a major problem” says Dr. Gillian Newstead, Clinical Director of the Section of Breast Imaging at the University of Chicago. Experts agree that the difference is screening, although, regular self-examination still plays a key role in detecting any abnormalities (such as a lump, discharge/bleeding or a change in color of the skin or nipple) and taking the first step to visit the doctor. Data from worldwide breast screening programs makes it “very clear that mortality is particularly affected by finding the cancers early,” Dr. Newstead contended. In one particular study, the proportion of cancers detected (at over 25 mm) fell from 70% before screening was reduced to 20% after. Even when treated with modern therapies, the data suggests “relatively little improvement in survival” in the absence of screening. Family history can also play a key role in whether an individual will develop breast cancer, so it is even more important to regularly schedule screenings if this is the case. These days, most screening programs are based on mammography, which is very effective, but many centers around the world, including those in the Middle East, are adding more sophisticated tools for high risk patients, such as MRI and ultra-sound. One major barrier to screening, particularly seen in the Middle East, can be the reluctance to undergo breast examination due to female modesty. However, this phenomenon is not unique to this region. Dr. Tejas Mehta, Chief of Breast Imaging at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center goes on to say, “where I am, there are people from multiple parts of the world and breast cancer screening is always a challenge because there are women who feel that the breast is a private organ and is not something you talk about.” She emphasized that awareness of the notion that cancer can be cured if found early is a key piece of 60
information to change this behavior. Another cultural barrier can be the unwillingness of women to focus on their own needs and doctors have observed that many women intentionally place themselves last. “Women tend not to take care of themselves. They take care of their children. They take care of their husband. They take care of their parents. Their concern about their health is all the way at the bottom,” Dr. Mehta noted. Education to encourage women to focus on their own health needs is a critical step toward participation in breast cancer screening programs. Another common obstacle to breast cancer screening in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world is the stigma associated with cancer. To avoid this stigma, women simply avoid a cancer screening test even if this will eventually lead to a bad outcome. Dr. Rola, Chief of Women’s Imaging at Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, says, “The word cancer is not as scary as before especially as we promote the message that breast cancer is curable.” Actually, as increasing public awareness within the Middle East reduces the fears associated with breast cancer, the only barriers to screening become similar to those seen elsewhere in the world, such as financial and geographical issues (reaching those in rural areas). In Kuwait, the Hayatt Foundation and the Kuwait Cancer Control Center (the KCCC) are both doing their bit to raise awareness about the disease on a national scale. Please contact them if you need
any further information or support. HAYATT FOUNDATION KUWAIT The Hayatt Foundation, a nonprofit organization, was founded after an insightful grandmother, who after being touched by her grandson’s short life, wanted to positively impact the lives of other underprivileged people afflicted by cancer and most of all, give them hope. These days, the noble group of people in the Hayatt Foundation, as well as the many gracious volunteers, further fulfil their mission in Kuwait to raise awareness of cancer and positively serve many people whose lives are affected by the disease. To donate to the cause through banks in Kuwait visit www.hayatt.org/donations.asp or for more information visit: www.hayatt.org. KUWAIT CANCER CONTROL CENTER The Kuwait Cancer Control Center (KCCC) is dedicated entirely for the purpose of providing care for those with cancer, in Kuwait. Founded in 1968, KCCC is a governmental center affiliated to the Kuwait Ministry of Health. With over 600 highly qualified medical oncology staff, as well as a 200 bed hospital complex located in Shuwaikh and equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment and services, they treat over 2000 new cancer patients each year from Kuwait and the region. For more information about KCCC you can visit: www.kuwaitcancercenter.com.
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TO INTERVIEW A MOCKINGBIRD Tamara Quaddoumi, the performing artist by bazaar staff
Born in the enchanting city of Paris and moving back to her hometown of Kuwait only a few years after, twenty-three year-old Tamara Quaddoumi found herself constantly surrounded by the arts. Morning drives to school meant more time to sing along with her mom, though she barely understood the lyrics, to the sounds of The Bee Gees, The Beatles, and Carol King. Early memories of her Scottish grandmother humming tunes from the 1950s, where Tamara would also be an active participant, nourished this songbird’s appetite for music. As a child, Tamara’s extracurricular activities shaped how she perceives her music and performing arts career as an adult. From competing on a regional level as an expertly trained figure skater, to ballet dancing, horseback riding, to performing with her school’s choir and theater groups, Tamara’s interests as a young girl utilized all of her creative talents and fueled her desire to enter the field of performing arts. The age of thirteen saw Tamara experience a crossroads: Either embark on a full-scale figure skating career, 62
where she had conquered her ability to perform on ice, or live the life of a normal teenager and continue her school years at The American School of Kuwait. Choosing the latter, she found an environment at ASK that nurtured her love for both music and theater. Tamara’s college career further exposed her to the many facets of the realm of performing arts, where she first started at the Drama Centre at London’s Central Saint Martins, followed by a year where she concentrated on events production at the London College of Communication and also completed a semester at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. All of these experiences honed her skills even more, allowing Tamara to confidently apply all of her talents, both innate and learned, in the performing arts field. Today we find the artist in a constant state of evolution, where Tamara usually finds herself traveling between the creative scenes of Beirut and Kuwait while finalizing her studies in London. How did your musical journey begin? I started playing piano by the age of five, and I practiced for a few hours on a daily basis. It
was like waking up everyday to eat. Music fueled me. I started performing on stage by the age of nine singing 1940s French cabaret songs by Piaf and Gréco and that’s where it took off. I moved to ASK, which had a proper decent choir that I auditioned for and from then on, I was taken under my conductor’s wings. I was involved in all three of the school’s choirs, traveled to schools around the region for theater and music and participated in every performance I could find up until I graduated. Do you write your own music/lyrics? I do write my own music and lyrics but there is nothing that I feel ready to showcase yet. The single “Bruised” by Slime Music, featuring myself, is the only officially released track in London that was showcased two years ago now. My music is a work in progress for now, much like a painting, where the hardest part is knowing when to put your brush down. Who or what inspires you to write your music and lyrics? There are many beautiful unique characters
I’ve encountered in my life. Some of which I know better than myself and others are complete strangers who could be walking on the street. Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Bukowski influence my writings very much among many others. Can you tell us about your involvement with the theater? How did it first happen? I started off with musical theater since music was my comfort zone. It felt natural to me to act what you were singing. Other than school musicals and plays, I was finally old enough to take part of Kuwait Little Theaters productions. Being the only student within the production was an excellent experience, as I worked with a large, mature cast. I was graduating from high school that year and auditioned to one of the top drama schools in Europe. I thought, if this was a field I wanted to dive into, then why not plunge myself into the heart of theater and its stage, Shakespeare. Drama school training is very hardcore. You work 12 hours a day in the institute, practically living there, taking up subjects like history, psychology, movement psychology, lots of yoga to
unwind, learning about all religions and cultures, constantly reading, researching and absorbing the drama culture in large doses. They only took 10 girls and 10 boys and I was lucky and thankful to get to attend drama school at Central Saint Martins in London. This move definitely opened many doors for me. What do you love the most about being on stage? What I love the most is the nothingness that surrounds you when you’re in tune with your character. Everything flows so naturally when you’ve accomplished molding yourself into a character you’re growing into and making their words your own. Successfully building that relationship within yourself and your audience makes the nature of story telling the most inexplicable feeling of fulfilment. It is very hard explaining to someone that you enjoy being everyone but yourself on stage, but I guess that’s the feeling we love. We hide behind many masks. In your opinion, what is the hardest challenge that an emerging artist would face when embarking on a musical career? The hardest challenge would be to never give
up, as clichéd as that might sound. This is a very psychologically, physically and mentally exhausting industry and it’s not just about your talent, looks, hard work, and commitment. You might have all of the above but at the end of the day, it’s all about luck. You must learn to be open to A LOT of criticism and let-downs from people working around you. You will be rejected many times, but it’s not a bad thing. You must be open to your work evolving as you go. You are constantly tested to see how easy you could be knocked down and you need to be able to see through that. And once you accomplish that, which is much harder then it sounds, then nothing is stopping you. You allow yourself to grow, but to always grow as yourself in a healthy manner. Ups and downs are healthy, and that is a form of inspiration that builds your journey. And when you look back, you learn to embrace and find beauty in every moment its put you through because it’s worth everything. And if you can’t do that, then it’s not for you. Do you feel that music and theater should always serve a specific purpose? If so, what do you think that purpose should be? When you listen to a song or watch a movie you naturally relate it to a situation in which you feel that you’re in at that moment in time. You alter the story of that movie or song to feel like “this is exactly what I’m going through right now”. Why do we do that? Because music, art, theater and film are there to reassure us that we are not the only ones who feel this way, that there are other people who are in our situation. And because it’s relatable, it eases the feeling of emotional survival. The purpose should always be an awakening. Whether historical, political, or the genuine awakening it might be, that is up to the artists all around us. What were some of your most recent projects? The last musical project I performed in was around April in Kuwait with local artist Zahed Sultan. I worked alongside many talented musicians who flew in and brought his album, Eye Am Sound, to life at the Contemporary Art Platform. My last theater project was in London around the month of June performing at the Rose Theater in Kingston bringing one of Chekov’s classic plays, Three Sisters, to life for two nights. Are you working on anything at the moment? I am working on my EP at the moment in London along with many side projects that are slowly emerging. We’re looking to record in Paris around December of this year. What would you like to accomplish in the future? I would like to open up the theater and musical world within our region. Kuwait has so much potential and I believe that we need more exposure. It will take time but this emergent artistic movement makes me very happy. We just need guidance and more people to support what the arts truly bring to our community. We are all storytellers; we just need someone to listen. You can follow Tamara Quaddoumi on Instagram @Tammyque. 63
ADOLFO DOMINGUEZ Autumn/Winter 2014 by bazaar staff
Once again, acclaimed designer Adolfo Dominguez liberates our autumn/winter wardrobes from the preconceived shackles of fashion. His vision has redefined our choices of what we consider wardrobe staples. So much that, it comes as no surprise that the talented designer won the National Fashion Designer Award in the best professional career category in Spain. Held by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Adolfo Dominguez is recognized for his contribution to the fashion industry over the past 40 years. Not only does this award recognize the career of this remarkable designer, founder and chairman of the brand, the award further celebrates his innovative mentality in the use of materials and patterns. His vision doesn’t serve any specific trend. Instead, 64
Adolfo Dominguez strives to deliver a collection that serves an elegant purpose that celebrates life and all of its changes and movements. Adolfo lovers share in the designer’s belief that style dares to be different and evolutionary. The Autumn/Winter 2014 collection for both men and women delivers the much-desired tailored aesthetic. It is minimalist at the core, with clean lines and simple pieces that allow for colors, contrasts, texture and shape to take center stage. Looser silhouettes for women express a new kind of femininity, liberated from dainty shapes in the form of reinterpreted masculine styles. Evening wear takes an elegant stance with flashes of shimmering black and gold separates, set against regal tulle gowns in shades of emerald and amethyst. Everyday wear
exudes a playful spirit for women, with beautiful shades of azure blues displayed in surrealist dyes across coats, blazers and trousers. Pair any of these artful pieces with a basic pant or pencil skirt, and you’ve got a playful and dynamic look that seamlessly works. For men, unique prints in daring winter colors convey an eclectic spirit – the freedom to express art and style is simultaneously apparent in the canvas of colors used in this collection. Textures are key for the entire collection, denoting the brand’s commitment to create an expressive and cosmopolitan wardrobe. Adolfo Dominguez is located in the 2nd Avenue – The Avenues. For more information, call 2259 7836 or follow them on Instagram @Adolfo_Kuwait and Facebook: Adolfo Kuwait.
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PETER THIEL by bazaar staff
In 1998, Peter Thiel made e-commerce easier, faster and more secure by cofounding and leading PayPal, which now has more than 128 million active financial accounts. In 2002, he sold his company to e-Bay and founded the global macro fund Clarium. In 2004, in addition to founding Palantir Technologies, a platform for finance companies, he also became the first outside investor in a then little known company called Facebook; he still serves on their board to this day. He cofounded and manages Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund and has also been directly involved in helping the next generation of tech companies such as SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, RoboteX and Spotify. Peter Thiel is a contrarian by nature. It comes down to how he sees the world. He often reduces the world to a single question (though one he poses many different ways to suit the occasion) and likes to use it in interviews: Tell me something true that nobody agrees with you about? The premise of this question is not necessarily new. The want to ask essentially “what would you do different,” which is a reoccurring theme in the business world. But for Peter, it runs everything he does. Over the course of an hour he forms the same question 9 different ways. A few years back Thiel returned to his alma mater, Stanford, to teach a class that combined what he has learned from the business world, tech, and investing. Though he has been as critical about the world of formal education as he has 66
been about other mainstream business practices. For example, he thinks all businesses should at least be striving for a monopoly, and reduces most forms of competition in terms of this model. After his class was wrapped up at Stanford he looked for a way to offer the information taught in his class in another format that might reach a larger audience. The resulting book, Zero to One. For a guy who has such a magnificent track record of being in the right place at the right time, he is surprisingly humble and giving about the keys that have led him there. In Thiel’s mind, the great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, he shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Copying others takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace; they
will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places. When talking about the SpaceX investment he says that they received a lot of flack for making what seemed like a risky move, but insists that the business model was surprisingly sound. About his investment with Facebook he states that he couldn’t give them the check fast enough: he simply knew it was going to be something good. Since so many of his former employees have gone on to create such amazing companies on their own, the question naturally comes up about how he picks his team. He simply says that it helps to be friends. He cites that he is much more likely to invest if the partner’s backstory is a deeper one. Proving altogether why everything for him is balanced. He says, it is good to be the contrarian, it helps to be right. As a guy who does not like the broad speech of most opinionating these days, but instead would rather distill the problem to its simplest form, he is as measured with his words as he is with his investments. In the end, the point remains the same: be bold in your ideas, and patient in the results. Zero to One is available at most booksellers. Go to zerotoonebook.com for more information.
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H&M by Night
Nighttime glamour alludes to illustrious lace, a celebration of black, and evening kimonos. We’ve fallen head over heels for this season’s most stunning eveningwear collection by H&M. Featuring a range of feminine dresses and delicate detailing, make this fall season a festive one with shimmering sequins, lightweight shapes and bright colors. The collection is full of chiffon flounces and chic draping, metallic beading and fringing, in black and silver with a hint of green. These are the kind of pieces that make a wardrobe special. The H&M eveningwear collection is available throughout H&M stores in Kuwait. For more information please visit www.hm.com/kw.
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HAPPY DINING
Wok Hay is all flavor without the fat by bazaar staff
When you think of Chinese American food the words delicious, tasty and saucy definitely come to mind. Yet the trade off is usually an unhealthy meal that will leave you feeling run down for the rest of the day. Fortunately, Kuwait has a new restaurant that will give you your fix of Szechuan deliciousness, without ending your day, Wok Hay. According to store manager Alok Kumar the name translates to ‘happy dining’, an idea they have fully embraced. Located next to Green Island, the restaurant offers diners a beautiful view of the Arabian Gulf through floor to ceiling windows along two walls. The sunlight bounces off ornate Chinese artwork, filling the space with a fusion of bright reds, and yellows. In the background you get a taste of the growing Korean Pop music all the kids are raving about these days. Certainly a great place for happy dining. As soon as you sit down you begin your meal with complimentary fresh jasmine tea, and two 70
types of Szechuan cashews, then scroll through their electronic menu as you munch away and work up an appetite. Start by ordering one of their delicious drinks like the Ginger Mojito, Blue Margarita, Sangria or the thick and delicious Strawberry Daiquiri. No matter what you choose at Wok Hay you will be pleased, as none of their meats are frozen in storage. Everything they use is fresh, and it really shows. We started with the traditional chicken lettuce wraps and some pan seared dumplings. The amazing chicken is cooked to perfection with almonds, water chestnuts, carrots, shiitake mushrooms and scallions. Just put a spoonful in a piece of lettuce, add soy sauce to taste (or without), and be delighted by this refreshing appetizer. For a warmer start go with the dumplings. The ground chicken has crunchy Napa cabbage, chopped scallions and sweet-hot ginger and is tucked by hand and steamed, then pan-seared for ultimate tastiness.
If you are a noodle lover Wok Hay is definitely the place to be. We went for the classics on this course, and we were amazed by the flavors. We stepped a bit from Chinese cuisine to Thai food with the Pad Thai Noodles. The prefect blend of sweet and spicy sauce creates a unique flavor that perfectly accents the typical peanuts, tofu and scrambled eggs with rice noodles. We went back to basics with a dish of Hong Kong Lo Mein. The amazing egg noodles are wok made with carrots, bell peppers, onions, shiitake mushrooms, oyster sauce and cabbage. The fresh ingredients are deliciously toasted with a sweet sauce and egg noodles for a classic dish bursting with flavor. For the mains Wok Hay has created two sections, the traditional done better and the contemporary, where they create new dishes from all the old flavors you love. We tried the traditional General Tsao’s beef, which is delicious and void of the deep-fried oily taste. The meat is flash fried and wok seared,
with garlic and scallions in a Wok Hay special dark sauce chili paste and orange peel to give a perfectly balanced dish. Or try the Spicy Wok Hay with carrots, snow peas, water chestnuts and oyster sauce. Watch out for the red hot shot of flavor. Our traditional favorite was the Open Sesame. Juicy chicken cubes are covered in a delicious sweet soy sauce tossed with sliced red, yellow and green bell peppers and showered with sesame seeds. The chefs at Wok Hay really show off their culinary talents with the amazing Contemporary Asian menu. First of all, let’s be clear: anything with mangos is bound to be delicious. So when we saw the Bangkok Spicy Beef with Mango, we knew we had to try it. The sliced beef is soaked in their signature dark sauce, sriracha, lime, onions, peppers, garlic and, of course, mango, and served with broccoli. The mix of textures and flavors is a refreshing twist on familiar tastes. Naturally when you are dining in a place with
such a lovely view of the water, your appetite might call for a bit of seafood, and Wok Hay aims to please. Go for something simple like their Lemon Pepper Salmon, a healthy choice of a fillet blanketed with a rich, tangy sauce and served with flash-fried spinach seasoned with kosher sauce and black pepper. Our personal favorite though was definitely the Prawns with Coconut Honey Walnut. The juicy, plump shrimp tossed in a sweet honey sauce with candied walnuts and topped with coconut was a delicious combination of flavors that compliment each other perfectly without being too sweet. Make sure to leave room for dessert though! At Wok Hay we tried what might possibly be the greatest home made frozen yoghurt. The simple dessert is served in a tall glass, and alone it’s a perfectly refreshing ending to the flavorful meal you just had. Want something more decedent? Try the Banana-Mango Spring Rolls. Think your savory spring roll, but filled with a real bananas
and mangos instead and topped with a drizzle of chocolate and caramel sauces. Or go for the Asian Fruit Carving, a fruit salad from the Far East made with fresh mango and pineapples on a bed of vanilla ice cream and topped with crispy bits. For a walk on the wild side try the Pistachio cake, which is reminiscent of a carrot cake, but with a delicious nutty flavor topped with amazing cream cheese frosting. We left Wok Hay that day feeling full, excited about the new concept and with a big doggie bag. To our surprise, when we reached for the leftover white takeout box the next day, there was none of the oil you normally see with Chinese takeout. We were definitely Happy Diners. Wok Hay is located at the entrance of Green Island on the Arabian Gulf Road. Contact them at 2226 4526 or follow them on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @wok_hay. 71
KUWAIT’S BONE DOCTOR IS IN Fixing bones at Taiba Hospital, with a smile by bazaar staff
As a young child Dr. Bona Tauro, pediatric orthopedic consultant at Taiba Hospital, loved working with his hands. He particularly enjoyed breaking things and then trying to put them back together. “I suppose the same passed to my adult life and my professional career,” he said. “Bashing things out and assembling them back again. That’s what you do to a bone, in a refined way.” Since his arrival in Kuwait, Dr. Bona has been adjusting to the heat and taking on patients with a smile. His good nature will undoubtedly put the most distressed patient at ease. With qualifications from both Europe and India, and more than 25 years experience in orthopedic consulting, you know you are in good hands. While he has seen many cases come into his hospital, one of the most frequent he has dealt with in his time in Kuwait is club foot in babies. This creates a condition where babies are born with their feet turned inwards. Sometimes this is the result of a lack of space in the mother’s womb, and so feet get turned inwards. Other children, and this is very rare, are born with the condition based on a genetic background. Often, this requires surgery and is more difficult to treat. It is impossible to reverse the effects of club foot before the child is born. However according to 72
Dr. Bona, early detection is the key. “The best results are when you start treatment right after birth,” he said. “When the child is born all the ligaments and the tendons are elastic, so it’s easy to mold them. Every day that passes it gets stiffer, and harder to fix. Parents must insist that the child is examined soon after birth.” He has also seen many cases of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in newborns, when the child is born with a dislocated hip or an inadequate development of the socket. The condition is common when the child exits the womb bottom first, and also seen in premature children or those that have been in the special care unit after birth. The condition is most frequent in the first-born and in girls, particularly those who have a family history of the condition. Again, Dr. Bona stresses on early detection. “Pick up the cases early, and the results will be good,” he said. “Whereas if you leave it long, things will be stiff and it will be difficult for the hip to grow normally. As a result the hip will be unstable, or in rare cases, out of joint.” Another frequent case, but not immediately alarming, is bowlegs or knock knees. In this case the child’s legs are shaped like archer’s bow and can curve in or out. Usually children grow out of the deformity within three or four years. If not, they may be placed in braces to support and straighten the
legs. In very rare cases surgery may be required. The most common cause of this irregularity is a Vitamin D deficiency. Our body produces this vitamin when exposed to sunlight, yet sometimes it’s not enough. Not many foods create it naturally so parents can opt for supplements, Dr. Bona suggests cod liver, or fortified foods. This includes breakfast cereals and dairy products, and fatty fish such as salmon and tuna. Dr. Bona, a specialist in trauma, also deals with every day breaks and fractures. His biggest piece of advice: if your child falls and breaks a bone, console him calmly because children often feel guilty for somehow creating the situation. Then support the broken limb, as movement will aggravate the pain and immediately take them to the emergency room. “I can’t recommend a place better than Taiba,” he said. “Taiba has an international flavor. You have medical, nursing and support staff that represents the global community here. We are the community. So it’s like treating family really.” To book an appointment with Dr. Bona call Taiba Hospital on 180 8088. For more information visit www.taibahospital.com. Check out their Facebook: TaibaHospitalQ8 or follow them on Instagram and Twitter @taibahospital.
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We’ve all done it – no matter how vigilant you are about keeping your eyes on the road, you’ve no doubt glanced at your phone to check on your directions or view an important notification. With Navdy (KD 85), that will be a thing of the past. This 5.1-inch transparent heads-up display connects to your phone via low-power Bluetooth and presents your navigation info and incoming notifications in a distraction-free way – above your dash, and between your eyes and the road. An IR camera lets you control things via touchless gestures, and thanks to an OBD-II power and data connection, it can give you pertinent info about your car’s performance and vitals, too, all without making any modifications to your existing ride.
When buying a padlock, you’ve traditionally had two options: buy a key-based lock and risk losing the key, or buy a combination lock, and hope you can remember the code. Both could potentially end with you wielding bolt cutters. Now, the Noke Bluetooth Padlock (KD 17) gives you a third option. Powered by Bluetooth 4.0, this smart padlock pairs with your phone, letting you open it simply by pressing the shackle – it will automatically sense your phone and unlock. And should your phone die, you can create a custom access code that has you press the shackle in a certain pattern to unlock. It’s just one less thing to worry about.
After a very successful Kickstarter campaign (raised almost 2Mil USD), the Anova Precision Cooker is now available for purchase. Once limited to the world’s best restaurants, precision temperature cooking (sous vide) is now available for your home, with Anova everyone can cook to perfection. Procedure is very simple, place the Anova in a pot of water, set the temperature, seal your food in a ziplock bag, set the timer, and go on with your life while your meal is cooked to perfection, tender, and moist, every time. Oh, and the Precision Cooker Connects to your phone, allowing you to cook amazing meals by simply touching a button!
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While Apple has just released their first watch to the world, their rival in Seoul has released yet another smart watch: the Samsung Gear S Watch. The first of its kind to feature an onboard 3G modem – albeit a slightly slower one than you’d expect in a fully-fledged phone – this watch can connect to the web, make calls, and receive messages even when it’s outside of Bluetooth range. It’s also packed with all the sensors you’d expect from a wearable (various motion sensors, GPS, a heartbeat sensor, and more) while sporting a keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a curved AMOLED display.
The check engine light – that enigmatic indicator that can signal anything from a loose gas cap or old spark plugs, to a worn out catalytic converter or an empty windshield fluid reservoir – is hardly an effective way of remaining in-tune with your car. But with Automatic you can finally decode that uninformative light, letting you know what kind of help your car needs and potentially saving a trip to the mechanic. And that’s not all it does: helping improve your car’s fuel economy, alerting emergency response in case of a crash, and automatically remembering where you parked are just a few incredibly-useful features. Add in that its beautifully-designed iOS and Android apps are constantly updated with new functionality, and you get the partner your car always needed.
Pavlok is a fitness tracker like no other, it zaps you if your fitness goals are not met! Yes, you read it correctly, the ‘wearable willpower’ gives you a mild shock if you oversleep or skip that trip to the gym. Pavlok uses positive reinforcement too (there’s a financial reward component in some challenges) and creator/developer Maneesh Sethi’s confident science is on his side – he cites research at Duke University that claims 40% of our day is occupied by habits, rather than conscious decisions. Pavlok does all the stuff you would expect from a fitness tracker, but aims to change users’ brains and form the habits they wish they had, sparking their commitment by delivering a mild electric shock.
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EVERYTHING MOMS IN KUWAIT NEED TO KNOW by Jamie Etheridge
I knew I needed help the day the A/C broke down. It was August. Hot. We took our newborn to Marina Mall for lunch. It was just after the 40 days, I was stir crazy and needed an outing. By the time we got home, she was a bundle of sweat. Flushed and in a deep sleep. I switched the A/C off, worried she would be cold after being outside. Then I grew paranoid, thinking she would be hot and turned the A/C on full blast. The baby slept on and after awhile I wondered, why wasn’t she waking up? Was the heat too much for her? What if she was dehydrated? Maybe she’s too hot? I unswaddled her and cut the A/C. Still asleep. What have I done? Is she suffering from heat exhaustion? Too much cold? On and off the A/C went, my husband and I debated going to the emergency room. I had no one to call and only Google for a resource. Finally we stripped her down and gave her a sink bath to wake her up. It did – and she peed all over me as a thank you for interrupting her nap. The crisis was averted. Only now a new problem had arisen: the A/C had completely stopped. Thanks to my fiddling, it just quit. We ended up in a hotel that night and for the next three days while repairmen tried to fix the damage I’d done. The whole episode cost a few hundred dinars, not to mention the stress and worry that something was wrong with the baby, and having to transfer to a hotel with a newborn. The incident taught me a lesson. First, always stay calm. Second, moms need support. We need information. We have lots of questions and need reliable answers. We need to know that we’re not alone. My husband and I didn’t know what to do that hot August day and as a consequence, we overreacted (okay, maybe I overreacted). That’s where the idea for the Kuwait Moms Guide started, from our need for help and reliable information about raising kids in Kuwait. Last October we launched the first Kuwait Moms Guide print edition. The book provides articles, information, news and a directory of services for moms in Kuwait. Overall, KMG has everything from parenting tips to humorous quotes, lists of preschools, pediatricians and places to take kids on the weekends. Moms can find information on afterschool activities, summer camps, places to go swimming, take yoga or ballet and we also do our best to answer any questions moms might have on life in Kuwait. On Instagram and Facebook we also post notices for workshops, carnivals, festivals, markets, children’s events and activities, and more. One of my favorite projects has been creating a list of local parks and playgrounds. Many moms like to take their kids to the park during the cooler months, but finding good parks that are well kept is not always easy in Kuwait. So I started making a list and visiting them. There are a surprising number of beautiful local parks, most located in residential 76
areas and most of them have playgrounds for kids. The parks project has been one of our most popular and we continue to update it. We plan to continue providing reliable and useful information, news and events for moms in Kuwait. This month we’re publishing our second print edition, the KMG Directory 2014/2015 that
will be available at various locations around Kuwait. Kuwait Moms Guide can be found online at www.kuwaitmomsguide.com. Readers can also follow them on Instagram @kuwaitmomsguide or on Facebook: kuwaitmomsguide or reach them by email kuwaitmoms@gmail.com.
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DKNY FALL-WINTER 2014
If there is anyone that could truly capture the essence and expression of New York through effortless fashion, it’s Donna Karan. The designer is continuing the brand’s 25th anniversary celebrations into the fall season with a mash up of old and new trends. The Fall 2014 collection has something for every urban woman living in a fast paced cosmopolitan city inspired by people on the street and the fresh spin they give to whatever they wear. DKNY’s 48 78
signature ‘beauty meets utility’ theme is ever present, but with an eclectic and empowering new twist. The captivating new collection is a collage of textures; sheers and lace, wool felts, longhaired shearlings, sequins, faux fur trims and a new addition of PVC slick as wet asphalt. It is chic and cool and above all, perfectly capturing the zillion sides of New Yorkers and their signature style. The fall line builds on this notion by pushing the
boundaries of style and creating a juxtaposition between old school and new school, which is captured in their sweaters, quilted bombers, faux fur trimmed peacoats and reversible stadium coats, all of which are in varsity colors, creating a sense of urban team spirit. The juxtaposition continues with the Fall 2014 collection also representing ‘classic gone cool’, with city high hats, platformed city creepers, oxfords or slick tubular boots and modern graphic bags.
Drama meets warmth with blanket statements; capes, skirts and jackets that are equally as eye catching on their own as they are teamed together. Finally, ‘chic meets street’ with the line featuring sweats and sequins, lumberjacks with lace, flannel coats stripped in shearling and banker’s suits all for a mix of slick and sane. Proving that only Donna Karan has the imagination and ability to put things that you’d least expect to work together, actually working together.
The color scheme takes things back to basics, with blacks, grays, bullion, whites, dark navy’s, bordeaux and touches of electric pink, which when added to the Houndstooth and animal camouflage prints brings the collection to life, adding depth and personality to every piece. The multidimensional nature of the collection does exactly what it’s meant to; taking you from day into night, night into day. All of these pieces perfectly reflect the laid back but sophisticated
quality that Donna Karan and her city are known for. Much like New York, DKNY is timeless and ever evolving, which begs the questions: Why commit to one expression when you can wear them all? The DKNY Flagship store is located at 2nd Avenue – The Avenues. Please call 2259 7111 or visit www.dkny.com for more information. Follow DKNY’s latest updates on Instagram @AlYasra. 79
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THAT INSTANT WHEN…EVERYTHING CHANGES by Dr. Susannah J. Schuilenberg
Years ago, as a fairly new therapist in Canada, a client I’ll call ‘Elaine” (not her real name, of course) informed me that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer the previous week, and she wanted to talk about how that news was impacting her thinking. She said, “All the things I thought were problems, the issues that brought me to see you, are nothing anymore. If my life is possibly going to be cut short, I want to figure out what I want to do, and get it done. No more wasting time on the small stuff.” ‘Cancer’ is an ugly word. It’s a fear-inducing diagnosis that many, many people will face this year. It seems in today’s modern, high-tech world there are more and more types of cancer impacting more and more individuals. It’s difficult to find anyone these days who doesn’t directly know someone who has had cancer. Speaking for myself, I’ve had several friends and family members who have been diagnosed with cancer; some recovered, some did not. A catastrophic medical diagnosis such as cancer changes everything. In one instant, the very second the doctor says, “I’m afraid it’s cancer,” life as we know it ceases to exist. It’s just gone. From that time, life becomes a series of moments. Days 80
no longer mark the week, and the future is this far-off, hazy and unformed place that doesn’t really matter anymore. Elaine’s ‘measuring stick’ for what was important, changed in an instant. She suddenly no longer cared about whether or not her boss was happy with her. She wasn’t interested anymore in what would advance her career. This morning’s fight with her husband was instantly forgotten. The world shrank to NOW. Her continuously looping thought became, “If I only have a limited time left, what do I really want to do?” Our work together consisted of figuring out what it meant to her to really live, just in case she died sooner than later. Thankfully for Elaine, medical intervention was successful. The road to recovery was long and painful, but she was eventually given a clean bill of health. But you know what? Her measuring stick for ‘important’ never reverted to what it was before. Fifteen years later she still asks herself every morning, “What do I really want to do today?” October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer; are being treated for breast cancer; or have survived breast cancer; take a moment to give some
attention and care to your mental and emotional state. Consider joining a cancer support group (research data says this has a huge measurable benefit). Maybe give yourself the gift of 5 or 6 sessions with a therapist whose expertise includes catastrophic or chronic illness. If your life is ruled by fear – of cancer, illness, death, (indeed any fear) – see a professional who can help; therapist… psychologist… coach… take your life back. In fact, don’t wait for a devastating diagnosis. Take those fears that are keeping you from really living now and get help to banish them. Life is for living, not just existing. Most importantly, in this month in which the world highlights breast cancer and its detection, treatment, and survivors, and remembers its victims, take the time to be screened yourself. It might be the smartest thing you’ve ever done. A Canadian psychologist traveling the world on a busman’s holiday, Dr. Susannah writes about anything that catches her attention. Bossy from birth, compassionate by choice, and funny by accident. You can visit: www.soorcenter.com or follow her on Twitter: @drsusannah.
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CHEESECAKE
America’s favorite casual dining restaurant now has two locations in Kuwait! The Cheesecake Factory’s newest location is now open at Arabella. With over 200 menu items to choose from, more than 30 legendary desserts and a beautiful sea view, it’s the perfect location for an unforgettable dining experience. This is how we do it at The Cheesecake Factory.
ARABELLA, ALBIDA’A – NEXT TO THE PALMS BEACH HOTEL & SPA, TEL: 22214980/90 GRAND AVENUE – THE AVENUES, TEL: 22283064/7 Like us on Facebook /TheCheesecakeFactoryMiddleEast
MASHUP DIGITAL MARKETING CONFERENCE Launches in Kuwait by bazaar staff
We’ve all laughed at some of the outlandish things we locally see on our social media feeds. Sure, there’s that one account that was selling sheep, yes, sheep, right before Eid Aladha on Instagram. The premise of this account might strike you as ridiculous, but you would be missing the entire point. A quick search of the hastag #Kuwait on Instagram will deliver you with more than 18 million posts. Kuwait is quickly evolving, and the campaigns happening on social media are staggering in awesome ways. If the entire world acknowledges that digital marketing is changing how we conduct our businesses, then Kuwait presents a ripe example of a nation that has fully embraced this change, now considered as the up-and-coming tech hotspot. With the upcoming launch of the MASHUP Digital Marketing Conference in Kuwait by the Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE), you now have an opportunity to become a part of this dynamic movement. At the upcoming conference, leaders should utilize their opportunity to develop the capacity to transform themselves, their organizations and their communities. MASHUP is a dynamic new conference from the team at the Centre of Digital Excellence, where innovators and visionaries will unite for two days to discuss how technology, market trends and new business models are 84
changing how the world does business, in the age of the connected consumer. Throughout those two days, the MASHUP topics will explore how the role of digital marketing is evolving, in addition to navigating the most pressing issues in marketing, media and advertising today. Themes include the effect of digital technologies on consumer behavior; new approaches to advertising and branding, social networks, the blogosphere and impact of “citizen” journalism, amongst other topics. Beyond the cope of the topic talks, the team has ensured to provide a series of guided training sessions to bridge those inspirations and demonstrate how these notions can be applied on a strategic and tactical basis. With a host of exciting speakers, seminars and workshops from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as the opportunity to network with some of the most powerful people in the world of digital technologies and marketing, MASHUP is an event that cannot be missed. A spokesman for the Centre of Digital Excellence said, “In the bustling metropolis of Kuwait, we will be bringing together an elite group of some of the brightest minds in digital marketing – it’s an event that is a must for anyone serious about furthering their own digital development and making some valuable contacts along the way.” The first line
up of speakers at the MASHUP conference are some of the world’s leading authorities in digital marketing, and they include: David Rowan, editor of Wired UK, CEO of infographics.ly, Carla Saliba, Ema Linaker, Regional Director of Holler, UAE, the MD of Dinamo Norway, Helge Tennø, Gian Caprini, a global consultant at Expedia UK and Nick Barron, CEO of MediaCom MENA. The MASHUP conference will take place on 16th and 17th November at the Kuwait Fair Ground Hall 7, and will be an event catering for the entire Middle East – a place where digital technologies are progressing in leaps and bounds as it becomes a global hub for business and online ventures. Anyone interested in attending MASHUP is invited to register on their website. There are also opportunities to sponsor the event, with various different levels available, from Academy Sponsorship to Networking Dinner Sponsorship. The conference offers fantastic ways for breakthrough brands in the digital realm to get their name heard and take the next step on the ladder, or for existing behemoths to reaffirm their status as leaders in the competitive sector. For more information about MASHUP or CODE, please visit the website http://codeglobal.ca/mashup/ or email media@codeglobal.ca or call 6669 2892.
TAIBA
BENTO GOODNESS Katsuya’s latest creations by bazaar staff
When one of Hollywood’s favorite restaurants landed in Kuwait, it became an instant hit. Zagat critics, and their devout following, frequent Katsuya for their innovative dishes and refined dining experience. Merging succulent foods with exquisite design, Katsuya by Starck is always serving Hollywood glamour with every bite. An echoing choir of “Irashaimase” always greets you as you walk to your seat, and the staff are friendly and bubbly at all times. And now, Katsuya brings you a classic with a twist, the delectable and legendary bento box. There is an immediate sense of power when walking into the restaurant with Starck’s blend of samurais and bento boxes, while the furniture eases you into a natural beauty of wood and stone to transmit you from the mall to a memorable culinary experience. The staff’s knowledge of the 86
menu is spectacular and their recommendations are always spot on. With five different kitchens in the establishment, there is sure to be something there for everyone. If you fancy a roll, opt for the delicious Hollywood Roll or the Rainbow Roll and sit back and enjoy. If sushi isn’t what you’re going for then may we suggest the steaming hot Mushroom BOP. A Korean delicacy, the BOP is an appetizing steamed rice pot with a sweet soy and mushroom sauce. Continuing to create an experience specifically tailored for the Kuwaiti market, Katsuya keeps giving its diners the refined sushi experience they expect. From genius concoctions to sip on, to inspired bites that take over your senses, Katsuya have perfected the fusion of Far Eastmeets-West-meets-Middle East in each creation. Like the Edamame Hummus created by blending
organic greens with tahini and spices, topped with olives and tomatoes and served with grilled pita bread, to create a lighter and creamier version of the traditional Arab dish. For a taste of Chef Katsuya Uechi’s creativity in merging flavors, try one of their signature dishes. Each one is bound to jumpstart your appetite and prep you for an even greater culinary experience. Our choice is always the Crispy Rice with Spicy Tuna signature dish. If something else catches your fancy, you’re guaranteed popping flavors that compliment one another. If you are looking for tuna, but would rather stick to something a little more traditional, try the Spicy Albacore Sashimi with Crispy Onion, an expertly prepared tuna sashimi topped with shoestring onions that make this fish absolutely divine. Boasting five kitchens that include plenty
of warm dishes, as well as Robata (Japanese charcoal grill), for those who are uneasy about an uncooked meal or just don’t have a taste for sushi, Katsuya offers you a range of gastronomic options. For a true glimpse into the spectacular culinary art of Chef Katsuya, go for the dishes in the menu that are inscribed in a box. Like the Miso-Marinated Black Cod which is marinated for 48 hours in sweet white miso and mirin, and then broiled to perfection. The result, a buttery cod full of a wonderful contrast of sweet and sour tastes, perfection! If fish isn’t for you, then the Wagyu Filet with Foie Gras is sure to hit the spot. Its succulent goodness is guaranteed to melt in your mouth with every bite. For an extra oomph, try out one of the highlighted dishes, and if they’re in a box then don’t even think twice! If you find yourself unable to choose a dish, why
not go for Katsuya’s latest offering, the Bento Box. Brought to us from Chef Katsuya’s very own favorite list, the Bento Box options are his dishes of choice presented to you all at once. Three chic Bento Box selections are carefully crafted for you to choose from. A true exploration into Chef Katsuya’s finest amalgamations, the Bento Boxes will soon be your favorite uniquely designed dining experience at incredibly competitive prices. The Bento Boxes are named after three monumentally famous places in America, “Miami Fever,” “Hollywood’s Most Wanted,” and the “Viva Las Vegas” box. Not only that, they also represent prominent Katsuya locations. The staples in all three choices are the Classic Miso Soup, four pieces of California Roll, and the Crispy Chicken Salad. The rest of the box is filled with a different selection of goodies depending on the box you choose. But the “Viva
Las Vegas” comes with Katsuya’s super yummy Double Chocolate Lava Cake. As value meals, the Bento Boxes are a spectacular way to sample several Katsuya favorites without breaking the bank, or your stomach. Be warned, the boxes aren’t meant for sharing, so order separately for each person. They’re perfectly constructed to give you a very rounded meal that will leave you light yet extremely satisfied in the end. So whether you’re going for the definitive Japanese experience, or are looking for the hippest place in town, Katsuya continues to be the ultimate dining destination. Katsuya is located at The Grand Avenue – The Avenues in front of Gaucho Grill. For more information follow them on Facebook: Katsuya Middle East or Instagram @KatsuyaMiddleEast. 87
JOIN RUNQ8 2014
Help improve a child’s quality of life by Eleanor Al Issa
It’s that time of the year again, so get out your running shoes! RunQ8 is the 10K race held every year in Kuwait to support local health initiatives, raise awareness about health issues and promote community health awareness and well-being. This year RunQ8 will be held on November 29th to raise money for the Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute (FSRI) non-profit Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC). Last year, the organizers had to close the registration with 1200 showing up to show their support and have a fun day out, as demand exceeded the target. This year RunQ8 have expanded and will admit 2000 registrants. Register now to ensure that you get your race number and chip. For those who do not wish to run, RunQ8 still encourages you to come out on race day and walk, or you can contribute directly to CERC and sponsor the care of a child or donate your registration fee. On Race Day, the RunQ8 Race Village is sponsored by local businesses who contribute to this community effort to improve health 88
care for children. It is a nice lively place to hang out and have a drink to recover from the race or wait for friends and family who are running. The RunQ8 team also encourages companies and school groups to join the race. Last year, Alghanim Industries turned up with around 160 racers and ACICO joined the race with over 70 participants. Bayan Bilingual School also joined with over 100 student runners and volunteers. If you have a group interested in participating, please contact FSRI through the RunQ8 website and RunQ8 will send registration forms to your institution. They even provide a reduction in the race fee for groups of over twenty. This is a great team building and community service activity and groups are recognized at the end of the race. Not only is RunQ8 fun to participate in, it has tangible immediate results in our community. As a result of the contributions of the runners and race sponsors and donors, CERC was able to provide free treatment to 20%, and subsidize the treatment
for 60%, of children in need. The children are prioritized by vulnerability and appropriate match for the rehabilitation treatments offered at the center. CERC also contracts with Bayt Abdullah to treat any referrals free-of-charge and provides referrals for those children who are not able to utilize CERC services, in addition to organizing training for local healthcare workers in pediatric rehabilitation. Contributions of sponsors and runner registration fees go directly to support children in need of rehabilitative care who would have limited or no access to the type of treatment offered in CERC. Family resources are often stretched to the limit when a child with disabilities and injuries needs ongoing rehabilitation and at CERC, the goal is to take the most vulnerable children whose needs can be met in the CERC facilities and provide them with treatment options that improve their quality of life. The funds generated from the run allow CERC to admit a number of vulnerable children who would otherwise have nowhere to turn. [continued...]
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[continued...] CERC works with children of different ages and nationalities, with a range of needs, tailoring care after assessment by a multidisciplinary team consisting of a pediatric physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech and audiology therapist, and clinical psychologist. An untreated disability in a child creates more disabilities – without intervention a child may be forced to live with chronic pain or social isolation. Families struggle with the costs and time that must be invested in care, and CERC mitigates this burden and gives hope to the family and child for a better quality of life. CERC is committed to providing treatment but also building the capacity of our local healthcare sector to improve treatment in the area of children’s rehabilitation for children of all nationalities. Currently, in Kuwait, there are only two pediatric physical therapists, and there is no established multi-disciplinary child rehabilitation evaluation team other than the CERC team. While they provide care to a number of children, they know that our local partners are the key to the future and their model is one of collaboration, providing 90
training and expertise to support local clinicians. CERC also implements outreach programs to community focal points – educators, school personnel, social workers, family doctors and others who regularly work with children. CERC encourages this partnering so that more people in our community have the skills needed to identify children who may need help and are made aware of the various care options in Kuwait. CERC also conducts research related to children’s rehabilitation in Kuwait, and works by providing training for visiting international graduate clinicians through the University of Alberta who donate their time to work in CERC with the children. CERC is also partnering with the largest rehab center in Canada, Glenrose Rehabilitation, in order to ensure the best practice. All of CERC’s efforts require community partnership and RunQ8 is at the center of this effort to raise awareness. Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute (FSRI) with Agility Logistics, their Founding Partner, initiated RunQ8 in 2010. Since then, the race has grown by 82%, with participants and volunteers from many
different nationalities and ages joining in to make this a great day. Runners last year were evenly divided between men and women, and more than 50% of the runners were Kuwaitis, which is a significant change in the race demographic from the first year. Over 120 volunteers distributed water, helped with ambulances, and race set-up and breakdown. It is exciting to have such a diversity of enthusiastic participants and supporters all join together for the sake of these children. Local sponsors also deserve a big thank you as more and more businesses realize the value of giving back to their local community. We hope you will come out and join this event on November 29th to make this year’s RunQ8 the best yet! For more information about RunQ8 visit runq8.org or email info@runq8.org or call 2572 0338. For FSRI Kuwait visit fsrikuwait.org, you can call 2572 0338 or 2572 1757 or email: info@fsrkuwait.org. Note about the author: Eleanor Al Issa is the Director of Communications at FSRI.
TIK TOK
bazaar movie night The latest from the big screen playing in cinemas across Kuwait in October
DRACULA UNTOLD
GONE GIRL
LEFT BEHIND
Release Date: October 2 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy Cast: Luke Evans/Dominic Cooper/Samantha Barks
Release Date: October 2 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller Cast: Ben Affleck/Rosamund Pike/Neil Patrick Harris
Release Date: October 9 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller Cast: Chad Michael Murray/Nicolas Cage/Nicky Whelan
Synopsis: Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6) stars in Dracula Untold, based on the novel Dracula by Irish novelist Bram Stoker, the film portrays the origin story of its title character. Gary Shore directs and Michael De Luca produces the epic action-adventure that co-stars Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, and Diarmaid Murtagh. Universal Pictures intends it to be the start of a reboot of the Universal Monsters franchises which include a series of distinctive horror, suspense and science fiction films made by the studio from 1923 to 1960 and include, The Phantom of the Opera, Bride of Frankenstein and The Mummy, amongst others.
Synopsis: Directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Synopsis: The most important event in the history of mankind is happening right now. In the blink of an eye, the biblical Rapture strikes the world. Millions of people disappear without a trace. All that remains are their clothes and belongings, and in an instant, terror and chaos spread around the world. The vanishings cause unmanned vehicles to crash and burn. Planes fall from the sky. Emergency forces everywhere are devastated. Gridlock, riots and looting overrun the cities. There is no one to help or provide answers. In a moment, the entire planet is plunged into darkness.
THE JUDGE
FURY
OPEN WINDOWS
Release Date: October 16 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Drama Cast: Robert Downey Jr./Robert Duvall/Vera Farmiga
Release Date: October 23 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Action, Drama, War Cast: Brad Pitt/Logan Lerman/Shia LaBeouf
Release Date: October 23 Theaters: Cinescape Kuwait-wide Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller Cast: Sasha Grey/Elijah Wood/Neil Maskell
Synopsis: Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town’s judge, is implicated as a murder suspect in this comedy drama from Warner Bros. He has to now defend his father in court against Dwight Dickham, a prosecutor determined to see Joseph put away. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family. Vera Farmiga, Robert Duvall, Vincent D’Onofrio, Leighton Meester and Billy Bob Thornton head up the rest of the starring cast, and directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers, Shanghai Nights).
Synopsis: April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany, in this war thriller starring Brad Pitt. In November 2013 the film caused controversy by shooting a scene on Remembrance Day in which extras wore Nazi uniforms. Ayer apologized for the incident, and Sony also made an apology.
Synopsis: When Nick discovers that he’s won a dinner date with his favorite star Jill Goddard, he’s incredibly excited to finally get the chance to meet her. That excitement deflates when Jill refuses to honor the contest and all of Nick’s hopes are dashed. He’s intrigued when Chord, a man claiming to be Jill’s campaign manager, offers him something he can’t quite refuse: Chord will give Nick the ability to constantly view Jill via computer. Nick is initially reluctant but Chord persuades him by saying that he should get at least some entertainment out of the actress. Yet, Nick’s decision will put himself and Jill at risk.
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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. *Above programs are subject to change without prior notice.
DROP OFF
5 SHADES OF CEREAL
Your breakfast passion, reignited your way by bazaar staff
That moment when you are standing in front of the cereal aisle trying to pick from the few dozen types that line the aisle. The child in you yearns for processed brands with cartoon characters on a sugar high that bounce around the front of the box. Yet, the adult in you tells you that even though all that bran and wheat are not titillating, they are good for you and the better choice. Enter 5STRIPES, a new locally created cereal brand that unleashes your potential to create the perfect blend of what the founders call “ceriously tasty cereal”, and gives you back those lost moments in the supermarket. “We want to prove to people that healthy is tasty,” said co-founder Dr. Abdullah Al Ali. “We really invested in the ingredients, and you can customize your own cereal to get the nutritional value that you need, without compromising the taste.” It all started when Mishaal Al Duwaila, an entrepreneur in the organic food market, and Abdullah Fakhra, wanted to bring healthy snacks made with premium ingredients to Kuwait. Al 94
Duwaila had been importing organic foods from the Czech Republic to Kuwait. Yet, the idea with Fakhra evolved to more than just importing an end product. Over almost eighteen months they visited more than 30 suppliers in Germany, Holland and the Czech Republic. The whole time they collected grains, freeze dried fruits and other samples from around Europe. “We were looking for quality and taste,” said Al Duwaila, also known as ‘The Hawk’ in the team for his detailed inspection of every tube that leaves their facility. “We wanted organic and we wanted something that tasted very good as well as looked good.” They teamed up with childhood friends Dr. Abdullah Al Ali, who practices family medicine, and Abdullah Al Muthaf, a local restaurant entrepreneur. The group set out to create a brand that enriched people’s lives as a whole, and the concept 5STRIPES was born. Their fifth partner? A rotating partner they will team up with, from local nutrionists, to artists, to other local businesses,
and you, the customer. All with a base of five core values, the stripes: creative, organic, socially responsible, healthy and above all, tasty. “The whole thing is based on customization,” said Al Muthaf. “You can basically customize your own cereal to get the nutritional value that you need, and get the most compatible cereal for whatever lifestyle you have.” Creativity may have started with the creation of this brand, but it happens every day on the 5STRIPES website. Simply log on and pick from one of seven bases including honey puffs, chocolate puff boons, and oat flakes. The site automatically fills your 550 gram tube with that base. From there, it’s time to get creative. Add grains like rye flakes or barley flakes. If you went with a bland base, try something sweeter like the chocolate crunchy flakes. Go crazy on nuts and seeds with everything from the tiny chia seed to the bazaar favorite, the cashew nut. Then, the fun parts: lyophillized fruits and extras. “We are really proud of our fruits,” said Al
Ali. “They are freeze dried, which means that you preserve their nutrients and a lot of the taste and texture. This is at a higher cost [than regular dried fruits] but we really believed that our investment in the extra cost would be noticed and appreciated in the quality of the product that we provide.” Choose from an array of fruits including coconut, strawberry and the incredible banana. Then add a bit of extras like white chocolate pearls or chocolate peanuts, and your cereal is ready to go. Check the nutritional information as you add and remove ingredients until you find the perfect blend for your taste buds and your lifestyle. Then save the mix so either you or your friends can reorder it. The bazaar team decided to get in on the cereal action and created our own mix. We put quinoa puffs, amaranth flakes, flaxseeds and almonds with a bit of banana, wild blackberries and applecinnamon on a crunchy base. Within 24 hours our tube was in the office and we were having the best cereal any of us had ever tasted. You can find the
bazaar mix by entering the ‘premixed’ section of their website and inputting the mix ID 3757945 into the ‘re-order’ tab. In their dedication to health, the team at 5STRIPES has created premixes for those of us with specific nutritional needs. For the athlete, The Beast has the highest amount of quality protein muesli, and with the Chocolate n Crunch it’s the perfect boost to build muscles and pump your workout. Have to go gluten free? Try their Gluten free can be tasty mix, based on organic gluten free cornflakes with amaranth flakes quinoa puffs and three types of fruits, this mix will fill you up without running you down. Want something for kids? The Sesame Street mix with white chocolate pearls and strawberries give the almond crunches and whole cornflakes that perfect sweetness for your child or the kid in you. Ordering from 5STRIPES is about much more than the cereal. The team has dedicated themselves to becoming a brand that gives back to the community in as many ways as possible. “We believe that your money is going to
institutions so you should hold them accountable for how it will be used,” said Al Ali. “The fact is we want to engage and give back to the community which we operate in.” They have a very transparent social responsibility agenda. Every year they pick causes that are health and environment conscious. You can, for example, bring them 10 tubes to recycle and they will give you one free. They have also dedicated five percent of their profits to highlighted causes. They have special tubes that are released once a year in solidarity with a highlighted issue. This year they are introducing a low glycemic index mix that will raise diabetes awareness. In the future customers can choose which cause to donate to. “We live and love our product and we believe people will too because passion is honest,” said Al Duwaila. “A product can never fake the passion behind it.” Visit www.5stripes.com to order your mix. Keep up to date and follow them on Instagram @the5stripes and Facebook: 5stripes. 95
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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With the whole interest in social media we felt we needed to be there too. We show pictures of our menu and plates and occasional offers and greetings, but we have very weak following. What can we do to increase the numbers?
It’s quite common to see “Follow us” slapped at the bottom of adverts, websites, delivery vehicles and business cards, but what many businesses seem to overlook is to give people a reason to follow. Just because customers like what you serve, it doesn’t mean they should blindly follow you online. You will have much better engagements, likes, retweets and results in general if you start a sentence with an exciting activity that promises something delightful or beneficial and then ends with the request to follow. For example, if your restaurant announces a chance to interact with the chef live and ask him/her for any cooking tips on the first Sunday of every month exclusively on your Facebook account, then those who are interested will follow you on that platform. A blue box with the letter ‘f’ on its own is not an exciting invitation. Yet, giving a reason for customers to follow you online is just half the battle. You need to have a clear and distinctive content strategy for each channel. Don’t copy the same content on all platforms as it is and bombard your audience with different app notifications. Instead, you might want to use Twitter, for example, to chase comments and answer inquiries, while keeping Facebook for foodies insights, and Instagram for 15 second recipes and competitions. You could always promote the content of any platform on the others, but don’t duplicate. For example, you could show every now and then an Instagram video to your Facebook followers to inform them about your 15-second recipes and invite them to join. Common social media channels are all free but they are not the same...and that’s just my two cents.
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Recently, we stopped one of our products because it’s not that profitable. We received a backlash from current customers demanding we bring it back. How could we when we need to make room for newer products?
Many readers might remember the disastrous story of Coca Cola decades ago when they ‘improved’ their product and customers were outraged. It was only when they brought it back that they started to see an increase in sales again. If your product is cherished by a certain segment of customers and they’re buying it, look at why it’s not that profitable. Is the cost too high? Are you not selling enough of it? If you exhaust all options to lower cost, then look at increasing profit. Consider coming clean with customers and tell them that you just couldn’t afford to keep it at the same price and that the only way to bring it back is at a new higher price. To soften the blow, think about adding value to the customers. If they accept the new price, great. If they don’t, they’ll be less mad at you because now they 96
know why you stopped it. When it comes to developing new products though, avoid hallucinations of the genius syndrome: “If I like it then others will too.” Without validation from potential buyers your view might be skewed. Having said that, don’t develop new products that only aim to solve existing needs. Invent and check with customers to tweak the final version. If what you do takes time for competition to mimic, then reveal it to gather feedback and to announce that the official release is coming soon. If your product can be counterattacked quickly, then maybe it wasn’t that special in the first place. Of course, you can always follow Richard Branson’s motto, “Screw it, let’s do it” but you’d better also have the same money he has, in case things go south and you need to stop because the product is not that profitable...and that’s just my two cents.
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We’re tight on office space. Some employees want privacy. Others want open space for collaborations. We can’t please everyone. What can we do? In traditional schools, each student has his or her own desk. They’re stuck to it like glue almost all day and teachers hop from one class to another. At universities everyone is roaming according to needs. Students and teaching staff meet at certain classrooms, then they spread out again. If a student needs some quiet time to study, they go to the library. If they want to do some group study, they sit outside or in an empty classroom. Design your workplace almost like a mini university campus. You go to the area you need that fits your purpose for a short period. An employee may book a private room with a desk in advance – or you keep it first come first serve depending on the employees to rooms ratio. What about their hand bags and personal belongings? Like many universities, fire stations and factories, you could offer lockers. If you’re wondering about papers and files, go virtual, lean, clean and better for the environment. Employees can then carry their office documents on their tablets and laptops. Using this approach allows almost everyone to have the open individual workspace and the closed office space when working on special projects that need extra security or undivided attention. This is an unconventional approach but when a traditional solution is not a viable option for you at the moment, why not?...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 adviser and strategic expert. To learn more about Loaay and his consulting service, strategic business therapy, visit www.knightscapital.com.
FANTASY WORLD
تبرع بالدم by Strawberry girl
نشرت الصحف مؤخرا خبرا مفاده أن بنك الدم الكويتي يواجه نقصا في مخزون الدم .وقد تفاعل الجمهور والعديد من الجهات والمؤسسات العامة والخاصة مع هذا الخبر وقاموا بحمالت للتبرع بالدم في مقار مؤسساتهم .و قد استجاب العشرات وربما المئات من الموظفين واألفراد لهذا النداء وقاموا بالتبرع بالدم والذي نقل لبنك الدم. البعض ربما لم يلتفت للخبر أو لم يعره اهتماما كبيرا حيث إنه ال يواجه متاعب صحية أو أحد من أفراد عائلته. لكن ربما لو علموا بأهمية ذلك التبرع وفوائده لتبرعوا حيث أن التبرع بالدم يزيد مخزون احتياطي الدم في بنك الدم الذي يوفر الدم لكافة المستشفيات الموجودة في الكويت. التبرع بالدم ليس فقط عمال إنسانيا يؤجر اإلنسان عليه ،بل إن للتبرع بالدم فوائد صحية للمتبرع كذلك. يساعد التبرع بالدم على تنشيط نخاع العظم في إنتاج خاليا دم جديدة تستطيع حمل كمية أكبر من األوكسجين إلى أعضاء الجسم الرئيسية مثل الدماغ ،وذلك يساعد على زيادة التركيز والنشاط وعدم الخمول. أيضا هناك شروط صحية تخص المتبرع ليكون صالحا
للتبرع .فالتبرع بالدم يدل على سالمة المتبرع حيث أن كل متبرع يخضع لفحص طبي للجسم وفحص مخبري على دمه عن مرض إلتهاب الكبد الوبائي بنوعيه (ب ،ج) المالريا -اإليدز -الزهري ،وفي حالة وجود أي مشكلةفأن بنك الدم يقوم بتوفير اإلستشارة الالزمة من قبل استشاريين متخصصين ،والتوجيه إلى الجهة المناسبة لمتابعة الحالة .كما يسأل أسئلة معينة حول تاريخه الطبي للتأكد من أن عملية التبرع ع بالدم لن تشكل أي خطر على صحة المتبرع .وأحيان ًا يتم رفض المتبرعين المسنين لمخاوف صحية. يمكن معاودة التبرع بالدم بعد مرور 6أشهر من أخر تبرع بالدم ،ويمكن التبرع بالدم قبل ذلك في الفترة من 4-3أشهر ،ولكن يجب أن يكون المتبرع في وضع صحي الئق .يجب أن يبقى المتبرع على سرير التبرع لمدة 5 دقائق تحت المالحظة الطبية ويسمح له بالجلوس بعد التأكد من حالته الطبية .وتتم عملية التبرع بالدم في فترة زمنية مدتها بين 5إلى 10دقائق في هذه الفترة يكون المتبرع تحت الرعاية الطبية المباشرة .يتم أخذ من 400 إلى 450مليلترا ،وهو ما يمثل حوالي 12/1من حجم الدم
الموجود داخل جسم كل إنسان ،والذي يتراوح بين 5إلى 6لترات. ال توجد مضاعفات للتبرع بالدم طالما قام الطبيب بتوقيع الكشف الطبي على المتبرع ،وأقر مالئمته للتبرع. ولكن قد يحدث لدى بعض المانحين بعض الكدمات أو التورم في مكان إدخال اإلبرة ،أو الشعور بالدوخة واإلغماء. و يعوض الجسم كمية الدم التي فقدت خالل ساعات، وأغلب الناس يزاولون أنشطتهم العادية بعد التبرع .نادرًا ما تحدث بعض األعراض؛ مثل الدوخة أو القيء ،وتزول تلقائيا بعد فترة وجيزة. بعد إجراء عملية التبرع ينصح باإلكثار من شرب السوائل خالل الساعات التالية للتبرع واإلمتناع عن التدخين لمدة ساعتين .أيضا ينصح بعدم نزع الالصق الضاغط على مكان اإلبرة قبل ساعتين .يجب رفع اليدين إلى أعلى والضغط على مكان اإلبرة إذا كان هناك نزيف .إذا شعر المتبرع بالغثيان أو الدوران يجب أن يستلقي على السرير ويكون مستوى الرأس منخفض عن الجسم أو الجلوس مع وضع الرأس بين الركبتين لمدة 5دقائق عدم القيام بأعمال شاقة أو تمرينات رياضية مجهدة لمدة 24ساعة. 98
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INTRODUCING INSPIRE 2.0 AT SAHARA by Mike Campbell
This month, Inspire Pure Fitness will be delivering a new facility. To help introduce Sahara’s new venue is the man behind the scenes, Operations and Development Manager of Inspire 2.0 at Sahara, Grant Hughes (also known as ‘Welshie’). Grant Hughes is a health and fitness professional with over 10 years experience in the industry ranging from Gym Instructor, Group Fitness Instructor/CrossFit Coach, to Personal Trainer/ Personal Training Manager, and most recently, Business Owner. Grant was the Owner/Director of CrossFit Dunedin and CrossFit North Dunedin, New Zealand. First and foremost though, Grant Hughes is honest, reliable, and hard-working. He lives his life by a self-directed set of morals and values. At the forefront of those values is respect, and the belief that you should treat everyone in the way you’d like to be treated yourself. This month I got to speak to Grant about his new career jump, the amazing offerings at Inspire 2.0 at Sahara, and which health and fitness advice he would like you all to take on board. Why did you choose to come to work in Kuwait? Having worked in the health and fitness industry in New Zealand for over 10 years and as an owner of two CrossFit Boxes for three and a half, I’d reached a point where I felt my ‘personal development’ had stagnated and I was no longer challenged to perform at a higher level. I was contacted in December 2013 by Inspire regarding the vision to open Inspire 2.0 at Sahara. As the weeks and months ticked by, the vision became a reality and development of Inspire 2.0 at Sahara was well underway. At the time my interest in pursuing this new opportunity grew. Especially once I began to gather more information regarding the project and it became clear that this was going to be a world class facility. The opportunity to help set up and manage the facility was too good a chance to turn down. Inspire 2.0 at Sahara promises to be the premier club in Kuwait. Located next to Kuwait’s premier golf course, it boasts many facilities: a fully equipped strength and conditioning facility for males and females; a stand-alone CrossFit Box named CrossFit 965 including CrossFit Kids classes, Group Fitness class area; a 25m swimming pool; a juice/coffee bar and café; physical therapy facilities; a tennis courts, a threeon-three basketball court, a volleyball court, an outdoor training area and running track; an indoor strength-training climbing wall, and an MMA Cage and Boxing arena. And that is just in 2014! 100
How will you make Inspire 2.0 at Sahara a different experience for members? First ‘you cannot buy experience, you have to earn it.’ My experience in the industry has helped me develop the skills to listen and understand members’ wants and needs. I will effectively communicate with them to ensure they achieve their goals. I set extremely high standards for myself. I always aim to provide the best possible service to my members and clients, and I expect my ‘Inspire family’ to set the same high standards and provide the best service. Members of Sahara will not only have access to world class facilities, they will become part of a community where they are able to work out and socialise amongst friends and family. What are your top five health and fitness take home points? 1) Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can start today. Too often I hear people say I’m going to be ‘good’ tomorrow. Or ‘I’m not fit enough to go to the gym.’ Trust me, if you wait until you are fit enough to go to the gym, you’ll never get there. 2) My life long motto – ‘the foundation of achievement is intense desire.’ This simply translates as ‘you’ve got to want to do it.’ No one else is going to do it for you. 3) Set your ‘fighting date.’ Set yourself regular goals with an end date and you are more likely to achieve them. Even better, share your goal with someone else, maybe a friend or family member and then that person can help hold you accountable.
4) Ask for help – employ a professional personal trainer to help you achieve your goals or to ensure you stay on track. I often employ a personal trainer or attend Group Fitness classes myself. Why? Simple. If I have a PT Session or I attend a class I know that I have to stick to the time schedule during my busy life. By investing the time I know I will give maximum effort which will give me the results that I desire. 5) Balance. In the fast-paced action-packed life we all live it’s important to have ‘balance.’ I am a huge believer in the fact that you have to understand nutrition. You need to know what fuel works well for your body so that you can reap the benefit of the work you’ve done in the gym. However, if you’re at a social event it is OK to go a little ‘off’ diet. Don’t stress, re-focus and start again. Remember that working out and living a healthy life is all about ‘having fun.’ So please, get out there and enjoy it! Inspire 2.0 at Sahara will be opening at the beginning of this month. For further information about facilities and memberships you can follow Grant @brynmawrman or email, info@inspirekw.com or nooriya@inspirekw.com, or you can visit them on www.inspirekw.com.
Mike Campbell is the GM and Co Founder of Inspire Pure Fitness and Inspire 2.0 at Sahara.
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CHEF ADOOLA’S DROP OFF Gastronomy delivered by bazaar staff
Chef Adlah ‘Adoola’ Alsharhan’s innovation and energy are awe inspiring, and just when we thought we said all there is to be said, she delivers us a fabulous concept that’s all her. Drop Off, her latest project, is fine dining meets the comfort of your own home. Offering flavors invoking your childhood, with a twist, your next gathering will be elevated with this culinary experience. So naturally, we at bazaar decided to try it out, and as usual we over ate. The food was exquisite to say the least. The Chicken Machboos was fragrant and flavorful with all the elements in perfect harmony. The Andalusian Seafood Paella transported us straight to Spain. The freshest of seafood seasoned to perfection cooked with beautifully tangy saffron treated rice. And finally the Braised Spicy Lamb Shanks with a side of Parmesan mashed potatoes was the star. The lamb was cooked to perfection and the potatoes were a cheesy mashed excellence. Nothing was overpowering or overwhelming; yet 102
the components and flavors of each dish were in superb unity with their respective dishes. We ate to our heart’s content, and then some, but it was all worth it. Chef Adoola’s Drop Off will be our go-to destination whenever we’re hosting a party of sorts. Kind enough to give us a few minutes in her very busy schedule, we managed to sit with Chef Adoola to find out more about this incredible concept. I have to ask, but what exactly is Drop Off? Drop Off is a unique way to experience my creations in the comfort of your own home. I have hand picked my team of young innovative chefs, and we took on the challenge of creating the perfect meal to be shared between family and friends. We use only the freshest ingredients to try to create those flavors that bring you back to childhood memories. How did you come up with the idea of creating a “drop off” service? Why not a full catering experience? I am glad you asked because sometimes there are some misconceptions when translating the Drop
Off experience. Drop Off is one of the products from my catering line, which allows me to extend myself over a wider audience and reach to all those who care to experience my unique creations. What inspires your dishes? Inspiration mostly comes from my traveling. I love Asia and Asian cuisine. Some ingredients you find over there speak for themselves and you would notice them as beacons of flavor in some of my creations. How many people does each dish serve? What’s the difference between the “Regular” and “Large” dish size? We cater two different portions, the regular size serves up to 6 guests and the large size serves up to 10 guests. The idea behind these portions involves the synergy of mixing and matching that is most common in the Kuwaiti palate. Our culture brings particular attention to our social gatherings, and Drop Off allows hosts and hostesses to present a vast choice to their guests.
Your dish options are vast, how did you decide to go for an array of dishes as opposed to sticking to a cuisine? I believe that my experience allows me to explore and create in an array of “cuisine” types.With Drop Off being a reflection of my experiences in cooking, it made sense to be diverse and at the same time have an academic approach to the menu. This will be evident for the ones that appreciate my style of creation and take inspiration from it to try at home. Now I really have to know, what pushed you to create Braised Beef Short Rib Lasagna? Why not use the more conventional Bolognese? Is the meat pulled? Simply because, once in a while in the kitchen you just have to let creativity take over. If I did the common bolognaise sauce, I would not enjoy making it any longer and would lose interest in cooking. The difference is that I try embracing all of those flavors that you and I have come to love and combine it into one balanced dish with a twist.
This results in the creation of that all-time comfort food that brings you complete satisfaction. As per your particular question regarding the meat, by properly braising it, the meat literally just falls apart. By allowing it to soak in the sauce for a certain time, a new edge is brought to a long loved dish. What was the inspiration for a Far East-MeetsMiddle East fusion ala Korean Kimchi Roast Lamb? Also, to be honest, I didn’t even know one could braise a barbeque chicken, how did that come along? I think that’s an easy one. When it comes to the palate we are no longer divided into countries with their own unique cuisines, but rather a cosmopolitan nation of flavor seekers searching for mouth-watering moments no matter the origins. It is a fact that the more flavors we allow our taste buds to come in contact with, the more they evolve and start to demand their own exotic variety. And so the challenge begins
for chefs to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for new innovative flavors, exploratory techniques and new culinary experiences. Are there any plans to move toward desserts too? We took a very brave approach to tackling the sweet tooth side of the Drop Off menu. We challenged ourselves to see how extreme we could go in the pursuit of that perfect overload of sinful decadence, and have come up with 4 creations. It won’t be long before they will be available to order and try for yourself, but for now let’s just say that Drop Off has something exciting lined up for its flavor followers and culinary explorers. Whether hosting the next family gathering or a blowout party for your friends, make sure to log onto www.chefsdropoff.com and pick your favorites. Then send an SMS or Whatsapp to 9001 1544 to place your order and you’re done! Just make sure to make the order 24 hours in advance. Happy dining! 103
CLIFF JUMPING IN SCOTLAND by Kathy Kieliszewski
We sat among strangers, stuffed into wet suits and squeezed into a van headed toward a beach. No one was quite sure what to expect when we arrived. The website had used words like “climb,” “scramble,” “swim” and “jump.” It added: “A hairraising and spine-tingling journey of exploration.” We were going coasteering. Never heard of coasteering? Neither had we until I started digging around the Internet as I planned our family’s summer vacation to Scotland. My husband, two boys and I would tour castles, visit tiny villages and eat haggis, but most of all we wanted to experience Scotland’s nature and geography to its fullest extent – the cloud-kissed mountains, sheep-dotted glens, legendary lochs and rugged coastline. We were headed to the western highlands near Oban, a coastal town filled with bed-and-breakfasts and seafood. Think Charlevoix, but instead of whitefish, there was haddock, and where we have Petoskey stones, they have rocky cliffs. Coasteering originated in the United Kingdom and combines sea swimming, rock climbing and cliff jumping. Yes, cliff jumping. On the travel site TripAdvisor, I had stumbled on Stramash, an outdoor adventure company on the outskirts of Oban. They offer a series of what they call Adventure Days that include things like sea kayaking, sailing, archery, mountaineering and coasteering. When we arrived at Stramash’s office, we met Rob, our guide for the day. He was young, tall, muscular and built for jumping off cliffs. I am over 40, mildly athletic and afraid of heights. And yet here I was in a wet suit, life jacket and helmet so I 104
could jump off a cliff. Tucked northwest of Oban is Ganavan Bay and a crescent-shaped patch of beach abutted by steep cliffs. This is where we headed in that musty-smelling van. It wasn’t until I plodded into the cold ocean water that I wondered, “What was I thinking?” Thankfully, the wet suit did its job – it kept me warm from the icy ocean water. We started swimming toward the cliffs. I don’t know if it was the weight of the wet suit or the buoyancy of the life jacket, but swimming was difficult. I was last to reach the cliffs and completely out of breath. Again, “What was I thinking?” My younger son stayed close to his dad, just to be safe. This was, after all, an ocean, filled with lots of unknowns, not a Michigan lake. My confident older son, a teenager, didn’t even look back to see how the rest of us were doing. One by one, we leapt. Rob explained the proper way to climb. And fall. Grab hold of the black rocks, not the greenish ones, those are covered in razor sharp barnacles, and when you start to fall, push away from the rocks. As we began to climb, I said, “I’m not going to be able to do this.” Yet, I did it. I’d find my footing and hoist myself up, around and over the rocky crags. Now it was time to jump off the cliffs. There would be multiple jumps, each one higher and harder – than the last one. You aren’t supposed to jump as much as you are to leap. Rob demonstrated first by striking a runner-like pose; 1 foot in front, 1 foot in back, and like a gazelle he leapt off the first jump. Not practiced in the art of leaping, I couldn’t decide what felt natural, left foot in front and right
in back or vice versa. Frankly, nothing felt natural as I stared over the cliff, 10 feet above the waves. One by one, we leapt, some of us more gazellelike than others. The next jump was about 15 feet. Boosted by the success of the last jump, I didn’t hesitate. However, the final jump was 25 feet, almost as tall as a three-story building. My older son was the first to go. He had been pretty brave the whole afternoon, but even he hesitated before jumping. After he emerged from the dark green water, he let out a yell and waved up at us. The other mother in the group stood just to the side of me looking down and said, “We’d regret it if we didn’t do it, right?” “Right,” I said, with zero confidence in my voice. I’d rather have a little regret than a broken neck. After one more internal pep talk, I was leaping, holding my nose, off the cliff. The water comes sooner than you’d expect and the impact is harder than you’d imagine. The rush of water and sound is amazing and scary. Thanks to my life vest, I popped out of the water like a fishing bobber that just lost the catch of the day. Later in the evening we drove back to the beach as the sun was setting behind the islands out past Ganavan Bay and we walked the dry path above the ocean and cliffs to where we had jumped. We took a family photo and compared battle wounds – I had scraped my face with my nails while holding my nose and the boys counted barnacle scratches. Those little scratches quickly disappeared. The sensation of hurtling seaward from a Scottish cliff will last forever.
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HYPERLAPSE
HUMIN
Ever see those awesome time-lapse videos of someone flying across the world, traveling through a foreign country, or just walking around the local music festival? Now you can make your own polished time lapse videos that were previously impossible without bulky tripods and expensive equipment, using Hyperlapse. This new app from Instagram lets you shoot time lapse videos that are instantly stabilized to smooth out bumps and other jarring motions, and are played back at up to 12 times the speed you shot it, allowing you to show a day’s worth of action in just 30 seconds or less. Capture an entire sunrise in 10 seconds – even from the back of a moving motorcycle. Walk through the crowds at an all-day music festival, then distill it into a 30 second spot. Or capture your bumpy trail run and share your 5k in 5 seconds. Currently only available for iPhones.
How often do you run into someone and can’t remember when, why, or how you met them? This app may be able to help you. When the iPhone first launched, it gave us a whole new way to make phone calls and connect with people. But in the years since its launch, the Phone and Contact apps haven’t changed a whole lot. Humin is out to fix this. By acting as a replacement for both apps, it gives you the ability to search your contacts on more natural terms – say, where you met them, where they live/work, or what they do, all by leaning on information from Facebook, LinkedIn, and even Gmail. It also gives you reminders on who you’re scheduled to meet with, connects you with friends when you’re traveling, and lets you know when friends are visiting nearby. Put simply, it’s a smarter phone. Voted as one of “10 startups that will soon change your life” – Complex.com.
ARMY SURVIVAL
SKYSCANNER HOTEL SEARCH
When it comes to holding your own in the wild, few groups know their stuff like the U.S. Army. Now you can tap into their wealth of knowledge with Army Survival. This handy app is based on the U.S. Army Field Manual 21-76, titled “Survival”, and offers information on survival psychology, edible and medicinal plants, poisonous plants, dangerous animals, insects, and other natural threats, shelters, way finding, and general survival tips for the desert, tropics, arctic, and sea, as well as a host of high-resolution images to make the standard manual even more useful. The only downside? The app can’t keep your phone charged up if you’re in the wilderness and actually need the info it contains. Available on Android and iPhone devices.
Skyscanner has long since cemented its position as one of the world’s largest flight search engines, but wherever it is people are flying, they’ll more than likely require somewhere to sleep too. The company has offered hotel search for a while through its website, but has now rolled out a brand new mobile app for hotels. Available for iOS only initially, Skyscanner Hotel Search is slickly designed with basic search parameters such as destination, dates and number of guests. You can elect to view your search results in a list format, or even plotted on a map, and you can bookmark your favorite hotels. Photos play a central role too and you can further filter your results by price using a little slider. Available for Android and iPhone devices.
WAKIE
ASK ME ANYTHING
Waking up can be one the hardest part of the day. But a new alarm clock app is designed to make that process easier, or at least more interesting. Wakie matches up users around the world to wake each other up with anonymous phone calls from the app’s community. Users are divided into two groups: Wakies and Sleepyheads, with the Wakies making calls to the Sleepyheads. Sign in with your phone number and choose whether you want to be woken up or be the one making a wake-up call. Should you choose to do the waking, the app sends you a push notification when someone needs to be woken up. All users are kept anonymous and calls cut off at exactly one minute. Wakie is free for users in the U.S., UK, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong but users in Kuwait and elsewhere can sign up as wakies but won’t be able to set their own alarms. An iOS version is “coming soon.”
Assuming you use the Internet, you’ve no doubt heard of Reddit’s legendary AMA series, where well-informed or just all-around interesting people log on and answer questions from the (likely) unwashed masses. Now there’s an official Ask Me Anything app, which lets you browse these interviews in a clean, well-designed, dedicated interface. Features include the ability to explore interviews by topic, vote questions and answers up or down, see every question answered in an easy-to-read format, get notified when popular AMAs are trending, and even ask questions when someone is marked as Active. It’s just like reading them on the website, only better.
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LEMON WITH A SUNNY DISPOSITION And healthy to boot! by Reshmi Revi
There’s the ever proverbial saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” I prefer Maya Angelou’s quip of “You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen meringue pies?” In the case of Yellow Lemon Breakfast & Bakery, this brightly colored eatery would be suited to the latter, as not only does this place have pies, cakes, parfaits, truffles and nut slices, but they also serve up yummy healthy dine-in dishes too! When my fellow bazaarite first told me about Yellow Lemon, my initial thought was that this would be a typical Ktown breakfast/brunch setup that serves the usual suspects – something rich, something sickeningly sweet and something red-velvety. I was however, pleasantly and refreshingly surprised! Owners Nour Al-Fulaij and Latifa Al-Mulaifi said, “Initially the concept was to do just a bakery, selling yummy baked goods. And then we thought, why not add in the dine-in factor? For that particular menu, we wanted something that was out of the norm, fresh and nutritious.” I have to commend team Al-Fulaij/Al-Mulaifi on a job well done! This dynamic duo have certainly churned out a number of healthy dishes that will definitely please athletes and weekend-warriors alike in our current local health-conscious community. Among their dazzling array of healthy posh noshes, my personal favorites were: The Protein Omelet Want to build some lean muscle tissue? This 108
3 egg white masterpiece is loaded with protein goodness as it’s stuffed with ricotta cheese (awesome with its high calcium, phosphorous and vitamin A), along with mushrooms, bell peppers, spinach and served with a side of steamed French beans. If you’re wary about the fat content in the cheese, you can tell them to half the portion or switch it to avocados for a healthier fat option. Pumpkin Pancakes When this mouthwatering fluffy warm pile landed on our table, I was trying my damnedest not to attack it with such gusto. Pumpkin is rich in fiber (hence if you want to lose weight, load up on pumpkin, as it can fill you up for longer and at fewer calories – 49kcals to be exact per 245g serve), vitamin A and potassium and I was informed that these pancakes are made with the real deal. It comes served with a cream cheese dressing, however if you are being health-conscious, I would ask for that on the side. Bear in mind that the pumpkin in these pancakes makes them sweet enough to eat on their own. Watermelon and Feta Salad In this heat, I welcomed this lush little number! Chockful of antioxidants, the watermelon salad was served in crisp cool cubes along with a generous sprinkling of pine nuts, pieces of feta cheese and mint leaves playing peek-a-boo amongst the fruit. Did you know that this low maintenance fruit has a host of health benefits including asthma prevention,
reducing blood pressure and stopping the formation of free radicals known to cause cancer? I was also looking forward to trying their Turkey Muffin (baked eggs wrapped in smoked turkey filled with tomatoes and feta) and Carrot Pancakes, but alas, as luck would have had it, they were sold out by the time we got there. Got to get in quick! All in all I enjoyed my brunch experience at Yellow Lemon, probably because it was one of the few occasions where I didn’t really have to modify my meals very much. Their seating parlor is homey and cozy, what with its splashes of beehive yellow contrasting nicely with shades of charcoal gray, and yet it’s spacious enough to not rub elbows. Then again, if you did rub elbows I personally think no one would mind as their dishes, salads, desserts and other tasty nibbles are worth it and take center-stage. Yellow Lemon Breakfast & Bakery is located in Salmiya, Block 11, Street 1, Rawasea Building (same block as Shaab Park). Opening hours are 7:30 a.m. – 10 p.m., closed on Mondays. For more information phone 2565 0502 or follow them on Instagram @yellowlemonkwt. Reshmi Revi is the Deputy General Manager for MultiWorks Personal Training. She is also an IFBB Bikini Competitor and an avid foodie! Follow her on Instagram @Q8MissFit.
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CONSCIOUS
DENIM A T H & M by bazaar staff
GO GREEN,
We’ve fallen in love with every single H&M Conscious Collection release since this division’s inception at the renowned high-street retailer. With the introduction of Conscious Denim, a collection with clean styling and contemporary fits, we not only see a greater commitment toward more sustainable materials, but also a more conscious process. For the first time ever for H&M, the washes used on its denim have been graded to assess their environmental impact, including energy and water use. The collection includes pieces for women, men and children, and will be available worldwide in around 1,000 stores for women and 700 stores for men, as well as online. The result is a full collection with modern cuts in deep indigo tones. For women, Conscious Denim has the essential styles of the season, from low-waisted or high-waisted skinny jeans to boyfriend cut and tapered ankle. Alongside these denim essentials, there are also pieces made from conscious materials that wear just like denim, to create the full look.
W E A R B LU E #HMConsciousDenim
Jogger jeans in knitted indigo have the softness of sweatpants, while an indigo boiler suit in Tencel has a sharp, slim fit. For men, classic 5-pocket styles in raw denim are joined by jeans in different cuts and washes. As well as a deep indigo denim jacket, there’s a twill worker’s jacket while an indigo wool coat is the perfect outer layer for the season. Meanwhile for kids there are different styles, including jeans and dungarees, all in Conscious materials. When creating Conscious Denim, H&M used criteria from Spanish denim consultants Jeanologia to test its denim washing processes, including water consumption and energy consumption. To meet the Conscious Denim standards at H&M, the materials have to be sustainable, and the washes have to achieve the highest status according to Jeanologia’s criteria. Each garment in the Conscious Denim range will feature the Clever Care label, with details on sustainable wear and care, while in store hang tags will describe the Conscious qualities of each piece. It’s all part of H&M’s long-term commitment to more sustainable fashion, details of which can be found at hm.com/conscious. bazaar speaks exclusively to Erik Karlsson (Environmental Sustainability Coordinator, H&M) and
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John Loman (Product designer Men’s wear & Denim, H&M) about the H&M Conscious Denim Collection. Tell us about how the ‘Conscious Denim’ collection was born? We at H&M and more specifically, the denim team, have been working for a while on the next step for sustainable denim. At H&M we normally speak about fabric but with denim there’s a need to also focus on the finishing of our jeans. We needed a new tool to evaluate our different treatments and washes and have decided to work with a tool developed by a company called Jeanologia. After seeing the results of what we could achieve with this tool, in terms of saving water and energy as well as nice looking denim washes, we felt inspired to make a complete collection and to tell our customers about it. Tell us more about CleverCare, will it prompt wearers to follow more green practices? How will you encourage that? Research shows that a large portion of the environmental impact in a garment’s lifetime comes from the consumer’s use, i.e. washing, drying and caring for your clothes. With the CleverCare symbol
we hope to encourage customers to follow some common sense steps to reduce their at-home footprint, for example washing at lower temperatures and line drying instead of tumble drying. Does denim made from recycled clothing still retain the same luxe feel as other types of denim? There are limits to making fabrics out of postconsumer recycled cotton but we have made sure that it does not affect the quality of our garments in a negative way. In some cases it can even give the fabric unique characteristics that are really nice and not possible in “conventional” fabrics. How did you ensure that sustainable would still be fashionable? Our mindset, for a long time, has been that there’s no reason that sustainable fashion cannot be as fashionable as conventional fashion. Of course, working with conscious denim has had its limitation and obstacles but we’ve always been confident that we could create a strong look. Being sustainable is simply not enough; it has to be a desirable product and at the same time have a nice look. From within H&M, more people have been involved in this project than usual when it came to designing
the collection. With the involvement of more people in the process, we became more confident in the look of the entire collection. We have received a lot of positive feedback so far for this collection, both from within the organization and more importantly from outside sources, such as the media. In the end though, it is the customer that will decide if it’s fashionable and if they like it. We feel confident that a lot of us are looking forward to the collection’s international release on October 2nd! What are the most harmful ‘green’ sins fashion lovers commit? We think they probably wash and dry their clothes too often. Denim is meant to be worn for a long time between washes to get the right look, which will also reduce the environmental impact significantly. Also, tumble drying your clothes will not only wear them out more quickly but uses a lot of energy, which leads to large emissions of greenhouse gases. The H&M Conscious Denim Collection will be launched in Kuwait on October 2nd 2014, in Marina Mall & Grand Avenue – The Avenues. For more information, log on to www.hm.com/kw.
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SOCIAL (NOT) WORK بقلم :عبدالعزيز الحشاش
أريد أن أواجه الشخص الذي قال :العالم اآلن أصبح قريبا منك.. أو ذاك الذي قال :العالم أصبح اليوم قرية واحدة.. أو اآلخر الذي قال :اإلنترنت قربنا من بعض.. أريد أن أواجهه ..وأفتح عينيه على واقعنا اليوم.. ألجعله يرى مقولته الشهيرة ماذا صنعت بنا؟.. أرجوكم أجيبوني ..هل تشعرون مثلي بالعزلة التي أشعر بها اليوم؟ ..هل تشعرون بأن األصدقاء بدءوا يتالشون ..ويسقطون من شجرة عالقاتنا؟ أم أنني الوحيد الذي يتوهم هذا؟ في البداية كانت مواقع الشات ..والمنتديات ..ثم المسنجر.. ثم دخلنا في عهد جديد مع الفيسبوك ..ثم التويتر.. و اآلن اإلنستغرام ..و حسب ما عرفت هناك السناب شات.. واهلل أعلم ماذا يوجد هناك أيضا في انتظارنا؟ إعذروني لتشاؤمي ..وسامحوني لتذمري ..و لكن هذا ما يحصل اآلن ،ثورة اإلنترنت وبرامج التواصل اإلجتماعي فرقتنا ..أبعدتنا و لم تقربنا. اليوم أشعر بأنني لم أرى أصدقائي منذ زمن بعيد،
هاتفي أصبح مهجورا نادرا ما يتصل بي أحد من األصدقاء. آه نعم نسيت أن أذكر لكم ذاك البرنامج العظيم الذي ألغى أصوات أصدقاءنا الدافئة ..وأنسانا متعة سماع أصوات من نحب والشعور بهم من نبرة صوتهم ..إنه برنامج الواتساب. اليوم يا أعزائي أصبحنا ال نتحدث إال في الواتساب ..مع األهل واألصدقاء والغرباء العابرون ..إلخ و نتابع أخبار العالم في تويتر ..نقرأ جمل لسنا مضطرون لقراءتها ..نتابع مشاحنات لسنا ملزمون أن نعيشها فتعكر صفو يومنا.. اما إذا اشتقت لصديق أو أحد أفراد العائلة فأنصحك بدخول اإلنستغرام و متابعة يومياته بالصور.. ال أعلم ما موقفكم مما يحدث ..لكنني مؤخرا بدأت أبتعد عن كل هذه الوسائل التي بسببها جعلتنا في عزلة.. وكل شخص منا متقوقع في عالمه ..يحاول أن يشرك اآلخرون معه في هذا العالم الوهمي ..والنتيجة كانت أن كل منا يعيش في عزلة هو اختارها.. و لكن ال ..ال أعتقد أنني سأستمر في هذا ..لألسف مواقع التواصل اإلجتماعي أكذوبة ..فال تواصل وال اجتماع
بيننا.. في أمريكا مثال هناك جلسات عالج جماعية لما يسمى بحالة إدمان التكنولوجيا Internet addiction disorder لما لهذه الظاهرة من تأثير على المجتمع والفرد، وانعزال الفرد عن المجتمع بسبب التكنولوجيا وتطورها، وبالتحديد تطور برامج اإلنترنت التي شكلت ظاهرة بتزايد أولئك المنعزلون. نحن بحاجة ماسةإلىالتوقفلنراجعأنفسنا..إلىأينوصلنا؟ حسنا سوف أعطيك كم سؤال واسأل نفسك لتعرف إذا كنت من هؤالء المنعزلون أم ال: كم مرة تمسك بهاتفك في اليوم الواحد؟ كم مرة تمسك بهاتفك حتى لو لم تكن بحاجة لتجري اتصاال أو لترسل رسالة مهمه؟ كم مرة رن هاتفك اليوم؟ كم مرة تحدثت في برنامج الواتساب؟ أو أرسلت رسالة في تويتر؟ أو نشرت صورة لك في اإلنستغرام اليوم؟ إسأل نفسك هذه األسئلة ..إذا كانت اإلجابة( :مرات كثيرة) ،فأنت بالتأكيد في عزلة اجتماعية.. 112
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DESI COUTURE by Heena Parkar
At eNVy Designer Studio, the brilliant mix of elegance and embroidery is perfected to create unique and fashionable luxury wear. The boutique displays an array of striking, stylish Indian attires, ranging from sarees, salwar suits, to kurtis, anarkalis. Its fresh and contemporary perspective materializes with designer Nida Vanoo’s funky and formal fits. With her inspiring passion and fantastic taste in textiles, Nida has introduced a new fashion startup that expands her creativity beyond any particular community and culture. These new styles invite customers with design aspirations to create their own clothing or outfit, with her professional guidance and experience. Venturing into the market with this idea was not easy for Nida, who faced the classic challenge of altering customer mind-sets and providing a contemporary touch to traditional Indian wear. “When I started five years ago, a pattern appeared where people preferred importing ethnic wear. A change in perspective was required. Getting these customers to trust us with the material and design suitable to their taste was both an opportunity as well as a challenge. I always knew that I wanted to 114
do something on the same lines. So eNVy started as one of the first designer boutiques in Kuwait catering exclusively to Indian ethnic wear,” explains Nida. “We now deal with more than 2500 clients.” Though blending exotic and local designs has always been her sense of style, Nida confesses inclination towards traditional Indian wear. “I am more into Indian designing, though I work on both lines. Even our local darras and dresses have an Indian touch to them. That is what the customers like about us.” Following increased demand, eNVy plans to expand its outlet while catering to menswear, childrenswear and abayas for women. Nida says, “The extravagant Indian outfit attracts everyone. Many like Indian fabrics and the look of the dress, but they do not want the same style. I have to vary my designs accordingly. Basically, I am trying to reach out to other nationals who would enjoy my designs. We have yet to experience the results.” The outfits vary in fashion, from a wide choice of hand-work, embroideries, Zari work, laces, ribbons, frills, etc. The store displays a range of stunning pastels for its summer collection. Long
georgette anarkalis with gold stonework, or white thread and pearl handwork along the neckline. “Trends change all the time and we are required to understand what the customer is looking for. We try to keep innovating new patterns every now and then, so that they always get something new,” says Nida. In addition to vibrant, graceful and modish dresses, eNVy also stores traditional Indian jewelry, scarves, dupattas, clutches and hand embroidered wallets to help complete the entire look. Available in all sizes are kurtas with floral design and varying borders. Brocade patiala salwars in various colors, digital printed georgette tunics and velvet bordered sarees are perfected to serve all occasions. Multitiered cotton dresses in different block prints and anarkali with Zari borders in the hem, neck and sleeves. This refreshing collection of tunics, kaftans, lehengas, sarees present a large range of choices from eNVy and can be picked up ready-towear or customized to suit any taste. For more details about the fashion wear at eNVy Designer Studio visit Facebook: eNVykuwait.
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DON’T EMPOWER HER… by Mohammad El Soukkary
It’s 2014, smack dab in the middle of the digital age and, if the futuristic movies of the last few decades were to be believed, we should have been discussing space travel, flying cars, hover boards (and in one disturbing case Pre-Crime Technology). They included dystopic futures where the entire world seems to have become an abandoned warehouse rife with zombies and assorted crazies, to utopias where every whim is fulfilled through the miracles of technology. What none of them included was the fact that we would still be discussing the question of equality between men and women. The fact that this debate rages on, and that there are still those who are actively opposed to the notion, boggles the mind. If it were to be presented as a fictional premise it would be less believable than ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ disguising himself successfully for 20 years as ‘Ben Kenobi’ two blocks away from Luke Skywalker. And yet here we are. Typing away on devices that would have been incomprehensible to the mind only a few decades ago, zipping information in seconds across the globe where it would have taken days, and letting the world know precisely what we think of our lunch in real time on a selection of handheld gadgets, while this infuriating debate persists. The uphill battle that rages on to secure the right of women to contribute and participate in equal measure persists. Sisyphus himself would 116
stare in astonishment, wondering what sins had been committed to require a punishment so severe. Women are literally fighting for the right to make society better, and many parts of society are fighting back. The proverbial ‘they’ put innumerable hurdles along the path of women’s progress in an attempt to trip them up, and then point to the slow progress of women’s advancement as evidence of their righteousness. Despite the hurdles and the burdens thrown at the independent woman and the cultural biases against her, she has broken through the job market and managed to reach the pinnacles of many careers, all the while fencing with discrimination and an assortment of negative preconceptions. The fact that a woman can succeed despite all the disadvantages along her path makes it seem that one of the primary motivations for opposing equal treatment might be a fear akin to that borne of watching someone catch up in a race while wearing a weight vest, making you wonder just how far and fast they would go without it. Instead of capitalizing on this unintended effect of throwing hurdles at women for decades (even centuries) that has resulted in a more resilient, persistent and dedicated female, many societies seem intent on adding more weight to make a determined woman’s run more difficult – almost as if her success would belie deeply held convictions on the roles that women should play. The resilient woman is therefore forced to
devote time and energy to constantly win these inane and senseless battles. A must, not only to ensure progression, but to also prevent a regression into molds created for her by those who seek to chain her. She must wield the machete of justice to cut away the vines of backwardness (that metaphor might have run away from me for a moment there, but you get the idea). An independent woman is not asking for favors, she is not asking to be placed on a pedestal and receive charity. She is letting society know that she will work for what she wants, and she is demanding an equal opportunity to run the race. She demands to be allowed to succeed (and fail) on her own terms. She is roaring her indignation at having to waste energy that could be devoted to dragging reluctant societies into the future. She is tired of having the same rehashed excuses thrown at her in the name of tradition or custom. She is tired of having to hold back her potential because society is not ready to deal with it. I am tired of having to watch as half of our potential is held back by chains of ignorance rooted in jealousy, forged out of fear, and backed by regurgitated anachronistic logical fallacies based on nothing more than some vague notions of alleged traditions and fabricated words spouted by generations that lived centuries ago. So please don’t do her any favors. Don’t empower her… just stay out of her way.
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THE GREAT BUTTER CHICKEN HUNT by bazaar staff
Here at bazaar, we are all about flavor. The more the merrier, and the better the meal. So, there was no question that our Great Hunt series had to include a day of delicious treats from the land of spice, India. The question was, which dish would we highlight? Of course biryani and curries were considered, mixed grills and tandooris were at the top of the list. The one that took the naan though, was the Murg Makhani, simply known as butter chicken. Whether you have it with delicious basmati rice or warm bread, it is an amazing balance of sweet and spicy. We took a trip through the history of butter chicken, from its inception to all the variations that have emerged since, making our hunt about more than just experiencing delicious treats.
MOTI MAHAL DELUX
We start where it all began. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, Kharam Chandji began to cook meats on the open-hearth oven, generally reserved for bread baking. The tender pieces were marinated overnight in a yoghurt and spice mix, and became an instant staple all over India. The healthier alternative to meat had one problem; it could not be eaten the next day. Enter the 1950s, when cooks at the Moti Mahal restaurant in Old Delhi began to add butter and tomato to the leftover chicken marinade, then toss it with tandoor-cooked chicken, and butter chicken was born! Rich with a tangy, tomato base, we relished the flavors of our first encounter. Moti Mahal Delux is located in Shaab on the Arabian Gulf Road, Exit 5 (next to Johnny Carino’s). For reservations call 2266 7050. Follow them on Facebook: Moti Mahal Delux Kuwait.
MUGHUL MAHAL
Our trip down butter chicken lane took us next to one of the most popular chains of Indian cuisine in Kuwait established in 1985. A staple for all of Kuwait’s residents, Mughul Mahal marinates their chicken in a yogurt based tandoori marinade, with ginger, garlic, coriander powder, cayenne pepper (adjusted to your spice levels), and garam masala — a combination of roasted and ground cardamom, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and black pepper. Never one to disappoint, their butter chicken is filled with flavor, and so light that you forget you’re eating a butter based dish. Mughal Mahal has 10 locations in Kuwait, and one location in Sharm El-Sheikh. For more information, please call 2242 5131 or visit www.mughalmahal.com to find a location near you.
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The original tandoor was created for a member of royalty who was tired of the fried method of cooking meat, and in Jamawar you can feel as if you are in that moment. Royalty pours from the rich hued tablecloths, grandiose curtains and copper tin serving platters. Their butter chicken, coupled with delicious naan bread, is just as regal. Here, they have kept to tradition with perfectly seasoned tandoor chicken, and an incredible balance between tomato and cream where you can taste a memorable medley of spices. Jamawar restaurant is located at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Farwaniya and the Holiday Inn Salmiya. Call 184 8111 for reservations. Follow them on Instagram @Jamawar or on Facebook: jamawarkuwait.
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COPPER CHIMNEY
In 1972, Jagdish Kapur, a Bollywood filmmaker and food connoisseur, opened the first Copper Chimney in Worli, Mumbai, delivering diners with the robust flavors of North Indian cuisine. Today the chain is hailed in India for some of the best butter chicken in the country. Their contribution: a focus on health. While you can’t take the butter out of butter chicken, you can definitely put the benefits in. You’ll get plenty of Vitamin C from the Kashmiri chillies liberally used in this restaurant’s rendition, and the peppercorns help aid digestion. With distinct hints of rich cream to make it a tad sweet, we took comfort in the benefits, and great tastes. Copper Chimney is located in the Bida’a Strip and The Souk – The Avenues. For more information visit www.copperchimneykuwait.com or call 2226 3114 for reservations. Follow them on Facebook: CopperChimneyKuwait and Instagram @copperchimney_kw.
ZAFRAN
At Zafran we took a step into the contemporary, which you can immediately sense, as the décor of clean cut designs is accented with bright reds and yellows. Here, you can enjoy a butter chicken that allows the sweetness of the tomatoes and cream to really shine through. With just the right amount of spices, the butter dish comes into the 21st century with a bit of a turn, and we are loving the detour. At Zafran you can also expect your naan to come with imaginative twists such as the addition of mushrooms and truffle oil. Zafran is located inside the Centrepoint Building, Salem Al Mubarak Street, Salmiya and is open from 11am to 12am. For more information, please call 2575 0647 or follow them on Facebook: Zafran-Kuwait and Instagram @zafrankuwait.
TAAL
The owners of Taal spared no expense when developing their menu. The team, with a little help from Indian celebrity Chef Kunal Kapoor, have created enticing dishes that take you beyond what you know about Indian food, and butter chicken is no exception. The creamy sauce was velvety with delicious chicken cooked to perfection in the tandoor, with gravy made of the traditional Indian seed fenugreek and silky tomato sauce. There is perfection in this dish that we could taste with every bite. Taal is located in the Al Bida’a restaurant strip and is open daily from 12pm – 11:30pm. For more information or reservations, call 2225 3142, connect with them on Facebook: TaalQ8, on Instagram @taalq8 or Twitter @taalq8 or visit www.taalq8.com.
ASHA’S
At Asha’s, we arrived at the end of our hunt only to find that butter chicken has no intention of stopping at any point in history. The concept founded by legendary Indian singer Asha Bhosle, was her tribute to the multitude of Indian dishes she saw served to her father’s theater company of 200 employees each night. Determined to preserve the culinary treats she was amazed by as a child, Bhosle created Asha’s. Butter chicken at Asha’s is grilled, but deliciously juicy. We opted for a spicier rendition, and we weren’t disappointed. Just make sure you have plenty of their delicious naan bread! Asha’s is located in Marina Crescent (2224 4502), 1st Avenue – The Avenues (2228 3503), Spoons, Mahboula (2225 4097). For more information you can visit their website www.ashasrestaurants.com. Follow them on Facebook: AshasMiddleEast.
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THE GIFT OF ACCEPTANCE by Ayman Nassar
How many of us can honestly say that we wouldn’t change a single thing about our lives? That every aspect of it is perfect? I would say close to none. The truth is; it’s a fundamental part of the human condition to want what you do not have. If you are overweight, you spend a fortune on gym memberships, exercise equipment and weight loss medications to slim down. If you are too skinny, you spend the same fortune on weight gaining products. If you are poor, you want to be rich. When you are rich, you long for the days when all you had to worry about was when your next paycheck was coming, as opposed to following up on several assets, returns, security and the like. The fact is that we as a species are never content with what we have and are always in contempt of it. We always want more. In fact, it’s not just that we want more, we demand what we do not have, simple. You just bought the latest mobile phone. It is wonderful and amazing! You cannot imagine how you ever functioned for a single day without it and how you ever held 120
another phone before. Then the company goes and releases the next model, with only minor adjustments. Suddenly, you cannot stand your phone and you want to change it as soon as possible. Even though, practically speaking, you do not really need the finger print scanner, and the extra 0.2 inches of screen size didn’t really make that big of a difference. But, it’s a part of who we are: we always want what we do not have. The first principle of business school is having the ability to discern between needs, the necessities in life, and wants, the desires in life. Unfortunately however, the line between both blurs drastically from person to person. To demonstrate just how much a part of our identities this issue is, let us trace it back through our history. Specifically, to the first human beings: Adam and Eve. We all know that story. They had it all; no war, famine, hunger, over population. How did they lose it all? By simple submission to their most basic of human traits – the need for what they did not have. Even though their every desire was met, Satan tricked them into tasting the only
apple forbidden to them. The fact that they couldn’t taste it would have been enticing enough for them to disobey God, but to make it a sealed deal, Satan offered them something they didn’t have as well: Immortality. And thus came the fall from grace. So you see, the need to have what we don’t is as old as humanity itself. But something else is clear: it always ends in trouble with a capital T. So, now that we know the problem and know its consequences, can we do anything about it? Yes, we can, and it’s very simple: acceptance. Teach yourself to accept what you have, and what you do not. When you feel that you can no longer live with that old mobile phone, remind yourself that other people still do not even have landlines in their homes. When you cannot stand your home and feel as if it’s too small, remind yourself that there are people in this world that live in cardboard boxes. Teach yourself to look at the half of the glass that is full, not empty. That way, you will learn to thank God for what you have, and ask Him for the things you don’t, without dwelling on them for too long!
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bazaar explores DESIGN & DECORATE WITH POTTERY BARN KIDS Autumn is here, bringing with it fresh style and creative solutions for every room. Get inspired by Pottery Barn Kids’ easy updates and big ideas, from golden accents to layered linen bedding and heirloom furniture that’s crafted with care. This season, they are all about decorating with gold. Warm up the room with golden accents – their new favorite neutral – and make the room glow. PBK are also the ultimate destination for the best basics with the promise of quality and versatility. For example, their Cozy Comforter is an easy match for any type of bed. Layer it with our cotton sheeting for a beautiful look that keeps kids warm and cozy and even personalize it. Pottery Barn Kids ensures the best bath time experience for your kids with the finest bath basics for kids. You can start with a solid color, then layer in fun patterns and personalization — an especially helpful touch in a shared bath. Whether you’re setting up a bedroom or a nursery, their in-house Design Studio Specialists can help you achieve great style and create the ultimate dream nursery or kid’s room. They offer free design tips and ideas in your home or in their stores. Visit one of their stores, or let them visit you for customized, complimentary ideas that tailor to your unique style and individuality. PUMA COLLABORATE WITH LONDON’S HOUSE OF HACKNEY FOR AW’14 Last month, AW’14 saw PUMA and House of Hackney collaborate on an exclusive footwear and apparel partnership that showcased both parties’ unique DNA to dramatic effect. Fashion and interiors brand House of Hackney was founded in London in 2010 by husband and wife team Javvy M. Royle and Frieda Gormley. The duo are on a quest to ‘make something modern’ through clashing and juxtaposition and this noble aim extends to their collaboration with iconic sportswear brand PUMA. Keeping in line with the traditional approach of House of Hackney, the collaborative duo integrate prints such as ‘Hackney Empire’, ‘Dalston Rose’ and ‘Palmeral’ into the AW’14 collection. To fuse both brands’ roots, these prints are applied to footwear and apparel, as classic PUMA silhouettes like the Basket and R698 receive a heel-to-toe makeover. Throughout the collection unique patterns and prints are combined with elegant material choices such as soft velvet, jacquard and leathers bringing this collaboration to life. The AW’14 collection sees a whole host of PUMA’s cult classics given a striking House of Hackney makeover. The HOH team’s eponymous prints are applied across some of PUMA’s most iconic signature styles to create a collection that draws on the classics to create something thrilling and new. STARBUCKS INTRODUCES THE LONG AWAITED PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE ACROSS THE MENA REGION Starbucks, the world’s premier coffee roaster and retailer, is introducing the long awaited Pumpkin Spice Latte to its customers across the Middle East and North Africa region. The exquisite Pumpkin Spice Latte features the signature Espresso with steamed milk, blended with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove, topped with deliciously sweetened whipped cream and pumpkin pie spices. The Pumpkin Spice Latte is the perfect beverage for those looking for something new and exciting to try, as the sensational blend is guaranteed to spice up your day. Commenting on the launch of this beverage, Regional Communications and CSR Manager for Starbucks MENA, Rana Shaheen, said: “We are very excited to introduce the Pumpkin Spice Latte to our customers across the region for the first time. Every beverage presented by Starbucks is meticulously created to deliver an all new and captivating experience, especially because our beverages are not just another product, but a lifestyle.” This warm treat will certainly captivate the senses of Starbucks’ customers with its seasonal spices that draw in an early sense of the autumn season. The leading coffee house takes pride in its coffee and service standards, and is delighted to continuously share beverages with exceptional blends that can only be found at Starbucks. THE ONE PRESENTS: GLAMORAMA Unleash your animal instincts and indulge in lavish creature comforts with Glamorama, one of four lust-have home fashion styles in THE One’s newly launched Autumn/Winter 2014 Collection. Capture this richly dramatic, extravagantly luxurious look by blending a color palette of black, beige, brown and a hint of red with a mix of metallics, mirrors, velvet, animal prints and furs. The keys to creating this exclusive, über glamorous boudoir look is using clean lines with rich accessorizing and finding the right balance between materials, prints and textures. Start by fashioning a spectacular backdrop with embossed gold croco pattern wallpaper and set a sleek, raven black leather bed against it, flanked by mirrored nightstands, clear glass lamps and graphic wall art. When dressing the bed, think ‘wild beauty fit for an urban jungle’; go for sumptuous big cat print cushions and layers of lush throws in fabulously faux fur – one of this season’s biggest trends. While you’re at it, rediscover the most tactile of fabrics this fall: sensual velvet, featured here in the glorious gold curtains and audacious red stool at the foot of the bed. So roar into the new season with Glamorama: ever decadent, ever stylish and super luxurious… We wouldn’t expect anything less from THE One! 122
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I don’t know about you, but around these parts we get mighty skeptical about folks who want to get in our brain and poke around. That is why Lumosity scares us. That said, they have made a compelling case as a force to be reckoned with in the world of online games that can help the player becomes better by increasing brain activity. I guess if you want to make me smarter while I play a game – I’m good with that. Launched in 2007 in San Francisco, California, they now have over 60 million registered users from 180 countries worldwide. A leading brain training and neuroscience research company whose games are designed to challenge core cognitive abilities, they may be on to something. Based on common neuropsychological and cognitive tasks, they’ve created challenging, adaptive games that are accessible to people of all ages. Apparently brains need exercise just as much as bodies. I didn’t know that. But, now there’s a new way to meet the challenge, with entertaining online exercises that take just 10 minutes a day. They are a scientifically developed online brain fitness program demonstrated to improve memory and attention with fun and effective brain workouts. The 30-session program, developed by Lumos Labs, offers a daily mix of games, exercises, progress reports and brain health tips. Designed for adults of all ages, their program was developed in collaboration with experts in neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Significant improvements in cognitive functions such as 124
memory and attention were noticeable within a few weeks of training. In the NIH-funded ACTIVE study, researchers observed that gains made from cognitive training were maintained five years later. Lumosity users have reported clearer and quicker thinking, improved memory for information such as names and numbers, increased alertness, elevated mood, and better concentration at work or while driving. A survey revealed that over 95% of the users considered the program to be fun. Each cognitive training task has been structured as a game. A visual attention exercise simultaneously displays a bird and a letter for a fraction of a second, requiring users to identify both at the same time using peripheral vision. One of the working memory activities asks users to navigate a maze by remembering the location of hazards. “Working memory is fundamental to higher cognitive functions, including reasoning and reading comprehension, and improvements here will impact performance on many cognitive tasks,” said Dr. Moriah Thomason Caires, a neuroscience researcher at Stanford. The difficulty level of each exercise adjusts to the ability of the user. As s/he progresses, the birds appear faster and there are more hazards in the maze. Each activity includes useful information such as what part of the brain is being exercised, and a progress report provided after every session makes it easy to track improvement. All of this sounds great, but does it work? As one of the leading companies in brain training they certainly have a lot to live up to. At this point, it
is a multimillion-dollar business with companies such as Jungle Memory, Nintendo and CogniFit all developing a wide range of user-friendly neuroscientific puzzles for the average person. Lumosity itself has grown by 150% year-on-year since its launch in 2005 and now reaches more than 35 million people worldwide. In January alone, the company’s mobile app was downloaded nearly 50,000 times a day and its revenue hit $24m A recent article in The Guardian cited some of the findings that have come so far. They cite a 2008 study by the psychologist Susanne Jaeggi, in which she found that memory training increased intelligence and also implied that a person could boost their IQ by a full point per hour of training. However, when a group of psychologists working at Georgia Tech set out to replicate her findings there was no evidence for a rise in intelligence. It seems that measuring the effectiveness of tests like these are fraught with difficulty, leaving little in the way of peer reviewed studies. Meanwhile, other tests have shown that even an average video game can increase short term memory and reasoning ability – a result that is a far cry from the ruined future people predicted from the increase of gaming. All in all it seems like there is still work to be done here to determine the full scope of any benefits. But the games are intriguing and also seem to be entertaining. Perhaps for now, that is enough to at least warrant a try. Lumosity is available at lumosity.com
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bazaar a la mode PRINT PARADISE AT AL OSTOURA This season is all about mixing patterns. Florals, animal prints, illustrations abstract prints – there’s something for everyone! If you’re bold enough, then go for head-to-toe prints, but keep the silhouettes simple and clean to highlight the design. When it comes to accessories, pick a fresh and bold color in a minimal design. Oversized totes and chunky shoes are especially hip this Fall. For all these and more Fall/Winter trends, visit Al Ostoura boutiques at Thuraya Mall, The Avenues Mall, The Gate Mall Sahab Tower (Salhiya Complex); or log on to www.alostoura.com to shop from the comfort of your home. KENZO HOSTS AN EVENING OF ‘MYSTERIOSO’ IN CELEBRATION OF ITS FALL/WINTER 2014 COLLECTION Kenzo rolled out its Fall/Winter collection in an evening of glamour and style attended by Kuwait’s trendsetting fashionistas, celebrities, icons, and VIPs at Kenzo’s store at The Avenues. Kenzo’s Fall/Winter collection allows us to take a glance into the heads of its creative directors, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, discovering the various beautiful, idiosyncratic and elliptical characters that Kenzo portrays. A collection inspired by a theme of love, revenge, the strange and the ‘Mysterioso’ (mysterious) in equal candor, Kenzo introduced fox fur coats with detachable paneling, lacquered twill jackets in flame, sweaters in metallic foiling and tryptic embroidery, layered organza conveying a 3D effect onto skirts and tops. The event, #KrazyforKENZO, was hosted by one of Kuwait’s leading style gurus and trendsetters, Joumana Soufi. The atmosphere embodied various elements of the Fall/Winter collection that allowed guests to experience the bold, fiery and mysterious Fall/Winter collection spirit. Guests were able to get personalized nail designs based on the collection by NailStation and experience a “Mystery Photocall” where a photo booth was developed into a sloping floor, incorporating elements of the Fall/Winter collection campaign. The Kenzo boutique is located at the 2nd Avenue – The Avenues. Please call 2259 7500 for more information.
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA WOMEN’S ‘DÉFILÉ’ COLLECTION With an enlivened look upon the past, a dialogue between generations sets in. The look is metropolitan. Energy and movement breathe life into classic and timeless fabrics, utilised for their technical savoirfaire. Traditional British patterns take on futuristic formats: a jacket in Prince of Wales check, a houndstooth coat, printed dresses, fair isle and Aran sweaters. Shoulders are structured, sleeves aerodynamic. Original labels remain intact, affixed to garments’ backs, revealing their identity. A blithe femininity cascades over masculine suits. 1930s nightdresses reinvent, amass and layer over atypical garments. The apron becomes a skirt or evening dress. Ribbons and belts knot and cinch one’s waist. Men’s shoes are cut to create bib like necklaces. Biological jewellery turns into precious knucklebones. The ‘pop-up’ bags in patent python, plain or grain-embossed leather are worn two and three-dimensionally, becoming aerodynamic ‘Tabi’ sneakers with rubber and neoprene treatments grow into stilettos, ankle and thigh-high boots. Maison Martin Margiela is located in Al Hamra Luxury Center – Ground Floor. Please call 2227 0294 for more information.
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للسيدات لخريف وشتاء عامTommy Hilfiger مجموعة مالبس 2014 تبدأ.2014 مجموعة تومي هيلفيغر من مالبس السيدات لخريف وشتاء برحلة بحرية من ساحل آلخر لتجول بين الوالياتNew England مجموعة تحتفي المجموعة بالمزيج الجمالي الذي تشتهر.المتحدة والمملكة المتحدة به عالمة تومي هيلفيغر مع لمسات من السحر اإلنجليزي العريق والنقشات ً وقدراً كبيرا.الكالسيكية البريطانية التي تلتقي باألناقة والحياكة المتقنة ًمن الروح األمريكية التي تندمج بالتقاليد البريطانية لتكون النتيجة قطعا .أنيقة تحاكي أجواء الساحل الشرقي وتالئم إنجلترا الجديدة بكل جوانبها ، إلهامها من األسلوب الجماعي المرحBoston تستوحي مجموعة األزياء كاألحمر التفاحي واألبيض،من ألوان تحمل الطابع األمريكي الخالص الثلجي والكحلي التي تتناغم مع درجات عصرية من اللون الجملي والرمادي ، إلى الجانب الجمالي في األناقة البسيطة والخطوط الواضحة.والعنابي بينما تحمل األقمشة إطاللة مثالية أليام األسبوع في بوسطن ونهاية .األسبوع في نانتاكيت تلهمنا تالل فيرمونت المكسوة بالغابات بتشكيلة،Middlebury مجموعة ألوان ترابية رائعة كلون الشوكوال واألخضر الداكن والبني والبنفسجي وجميعهاتتناغممعلمساتمنألوانالمحيطواألصفر،والجمليالكالسيكي من رياضة السير في المساحات الخارجية الشاسعة إلى.الفاقع والفوشيا تتمازج تلك األساليب مع ًا لتحمل معها أفضل،حفالت الكوكتيل األنيقة ، قماش التويد التقليدي والتارتان المميز لعالمة تومي هيلفيغر.المزايا يحمالن لمسات من النايلون والفرو بينما يبرز استخدام الكوردروي والجلد .الفاخر والجاكار المنقوش ونقش البيزلي في المجموعة فيوحي ساحل ماين بلحظات رائعة ودرجات اللون،Portland أما مجموعة . مع لمحات من األحمر الفاقع في مختلف القطع،األزرق واألخضر والرمادي درجات ناعمة من القماش المموّه تتمازج مع قماش دونيغال والخطوط كنزات الصيادين والمعاطف القصيرة واألزرار المعدنية والحياكة.الهندسية بينما نرى، وجميعها تحتفي بالتأثيرات البحرية التقليدية في الشتاء،البارزة ، ولليالي الخريف الباردة.الحرير والخيوط الالمعة في إضافات أنثوية جميلة أجمل،تعتبر كنزات الصوف الواسعة وألوان الشامبراي بدرجات األزرق .القطع التي ستترك أثراً ال ينسى AL YASRA FASHION…DELIVERING LUXURY WITH 10:10 STORE Al Yasra Fashion, a regional fashion retailer with over 200 stores in Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Iraq and Lebanon, recently launched its luxurious 10:10 store in Phase 3 of The Avenues Mall - the premium destination for fashion-savvy shoppers in Kuwait. Established more than 20 years ago, Al Yasra has become the trend setter for men and women seeking stylish and contemporary products that always make a statement. And 10:10 is no exception to that rule. Conveniently located on the ground floor of The Avenues – Phase 3, next to Starbucks, 10:10 caters to the style-conscious professional who appreciates refinement and is selective about the brands he or she wears. Offering premium watches and accessories from top-name brands like Burberry, Emporio Armani, Jaguar, Just Cavalli, Michael Kors & Ferre Milano, 10:10 defines the cosmopolitan and urban lifestyle its customers seek. Once inside, customers will experience a contemporary atmosphere containing an immense variety of unique fashion watches to choose from. Clients are greeted by knowledgeable customer agents that guarantee service excellence by ensuring each customer finds the right watch to suit their style. Overall, 10:10 delivers a contemporary, understated, premium and gracious experience every time. Make sure to stop by the 10:10 Store on the ground floor of The Avenues – Phase 3.
AL OSTOURA BOUTIQUE OPENS AT SALHIA COMPLEX Last month the prestigious Salhia Complex witnessed the opening of Al Ostoura’s newest luxury brand boutique. Al Ostoura is well-known for bringing the best of glamour and style to Kuwait since 1985 and continues to do so with its latest launch. The stylish new boutique hosts luxury designer labels like Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Dries Van Noten, Giles, Issey Miyake, Lanvin, Marc Jacobs, Mary Katrantzou, Reem Acra many more. The boutique also has dedicated corners for the acclaimed brands Chloé and Stella McCartney. Along with a posh space to browse the latest runway trends, the boutique also provides Al Ostoura’s trusted customer service. For the convenience of customers, the store is open from 10am to 10pm on weekdays from 5pm to 10pm on Fridays. The Al Ostoura Salhia boutique is the latest addition to Al Ostoura brand boutiques located at Thuraya Mall, The Avenues Mall, The Gate Mall Sahab Tower. Al Ostoura Boutique is located at Salhiya Complex, Mezzanine 1, Fahad Al Salem Street Kuwait City. Phone 2208 9279.
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GARGANTUAN NEW DINOSAUR UNCOVERED by Tom Avril
It weighed as much as eight school buses. Its 37-foot neck looked like a section of oil pipeline. Its thigh bone alone was as big as a grown man. Say hello to “Dreadnoughtus schrani.” Drexel University scientists announced last month that they had unearthed the heaviest known dinosaur for which a weight can be accurately calculated. Someone call Jenny Craig. It’s more than 65 tons.“Astoundingly huge,” said Kenneth Lacovara, an associate professor of paleontology and geology at Drexel. He and his colleagues, who started digging up the animal’s bones in 2005 in Argentina, determined its weight using an accepted formula that relies on the circumferences of a thigh bone and upper arm bone. One other dinosaur in the scientific literature – also discovered in Argentina, in 1987, dubbed “Argentinosaurus” – has been estimated at well over 70 tons, but no upper arm bone (humerus) was found for that one. Still another contender in the same range was announced in May, again from Argentina (was there something in the water?), but that one has yet to be formally vetted by the scientific community. So for now “Dreadnoughtus,” described in the journal Scientific Reports, holds a special place. And it was not done growing, as evidenced by shoulder bones that had yet to fuse together, said one of Lacovara’s co-authors, Matthew C. Lamanna, assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Kingpin or no, scientists are not necessarily concerned with superlatives, but with what such fossils can tell us about how the big animals moved and lived. This one is likely to reveal a lot, said David C. Evans, curator of vertebrate paleontology 130
at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Many of the biggest known dinosaurs are represented by just a few bones. This specimen was unusually well-preserved, with the Drexel-led team able to recover close to half of its 250-odd bones. “This is a special look into a part of the dinosaur family tree that typically doesn’t get preserved,” said Evans, who was not involved with the discovery. “This is not the last you’ll hear about this dinosaur.” Lacovara named the animal after the dreadnought class of battleships from the early 20th century, so nicknamed because they feared nothing – dreaded naught. “Dreadnoughtus schrani” was so big that few predators would have dared to attack it, Lacovara said. But if one of them did, the dinosaur could have responded with a smack of its muscular, 29-foot tail. “It essentially had a weaponized tail,” Lacovara said. The “schrani” portion of the name is a tribute to Philadelphia tech entrepreneur Adam Schran, who helped fund the work. The research paper lists an international team of 17 authors, more than half with current or former ties to Drexel. They probably were able to find so many of the bones because the animal was buried rapidly in sediment during a flood nearly 80 million years ago, and thus scavengers had little chance to pick it apart, Lacovara said. He imagines that the big dino sustained itself by parking its large body in the forest for hours at a time, gorging on tens of thousands of calories’ worth of leaves and plant matter. Among modern animals, blue whales are even bigger, at up to 200 tons. But nothing on land today approaches “Dreadnoughtus” and others in the same dinosaur group, known as titanosaurs.
Scientists are not sure why. One possibility is that after most dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, their remaining cousins, the birds, found themselves increasingly in competition with rising numbers of mammals, said P. Martin Sander, professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bonn in Germany. In any era, being big poses special challenges. Among other issues, larger living things have a higher volume relative to their amount of surface area. This is why ice melts more rapidly when you break it into little chunks: More surface area is exposed to the warm, surrounding air. So a giant animal burning all those calories would need a way to dissipate the extra heat. Scientists think the titanosaurs did so in part with long necks and tails. Lacovara found the first few bones in Argentina’s southern Patagonia region in February 2005. He and colleagues came back year after year, a total of four expeditions, digging up the bones and encasing them in plaster “jackets.” They came to Philadelphia in 2009 via shipping container; the fossil preparation and cleaning work was then split among Drexel, the Carnegie Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences, which later became part of Drexel. The bones are owned by Santa Cruz province in Argentina and are headed to a museum there next year. But their likenesses will remain here, as Lacovara’s team has made 3-D laser scans of all the bones. Engineers already are using the scans to model the animal’s muscles and cartilage, and plan to calculate such characteristics as its stride length and speed. Meanwhile, Lacovara plans a return early next year to Argentina, where, he hopes, more big bones await.
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THE BONE CLOCKS by David Mitchell
THE TERRORIST’S SON: A STORY OF CHOICE
THE INNOVATORS by Walter Isaacson
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THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED by Jonas Jonasson
In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. In his harrowing follow-up, Doctored, he observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist. Hoping for stability, Jauhar accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the outskirts of Queens. With a decade’s worth of elite medical training behind him, he is eager to settle down and reap the rewards of countless sleepless nights. Instead, he is confronted with sobering truths. Blatant cronyism determines patient referrals, corporate ties distort medical decisions, and unnecessary tests are routinely performed in order to generate income. Meanwhile, a single patient in Jauhar’s hospital might see 15 specialists in one stay and still fail to receive a full picture of his actual condition. Provoked by his unsettling experiences, Jauhar has written an introspective memoir that is also an impassioned plea for reform. With American medicine at a crossroads, Doctored is the vital work of a writer unafraid to challenge the establishment and incite controversy. 132
Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves – even the ones who are not yet born. An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell, bestselling author of Cloud Atlas, has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure – it is fiction at its most spellbinding.
An extraordinary story, never before told: The intimate, behind-the-scenes life of an American boy raised by his terrorist father – the man who planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only 7 when, in 1990, his father El-Sayyid Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. For Zak Ebrahim, a childhood amongst terrorism was all he knew. In this book, Ebrahim dispels the myth that terrorism is a foregone conclusion for people trained to hate. Based on his own remarkable journey, he shows that hate is always a choice – but so is tolerance. Though Ebrahim was subjected to a violent, intolerant ideology throughout his childhood, he did not become radicalized. Ebrahim argues that everyone, regardless of their upbringing or circumstances, can learn to tap into their inherent empathy and embrace tolerance over hatred. His original, urgent message is fresh, groundbreaking, and essential to the current discussion about terrorism.
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks created the Digital Revolution is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart,, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn’t interested. So he decides to escape and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, and an elephant (not to mention a death by elephant). It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the 20th century, but he has actually played a key role in them. Starting out in munitions as a boy, he somehow finds himself involved in many of the key explosions of the 20th century and travels the world, sharing meals and more with everyone from Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to Mao, Franco, and de Gaulle. Quirky and utterly unique, this book has charmed readers across the world and has already been made into a movie. source: www.amazon.com
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Meet artist Martin Creed, the king of minimalism. In his quest for art, he has crossed boundaries, has employed layered metaphors in his questioning works and has made a rich contribution to the international art scene. Creed is one artist to look out for at the upcoming Frieze Art Fair. bazaar reflects on the Turner Prizewinning artist’s thought-provoking works. Arguably the most unconventional contemporary British artist of the decade, Martin Creed set the ball rolling literally with his less is more Work No. 88,
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a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball. His other unconventional Work No. 79, some BluTack kneaded, rolled into a ball, sent the art critics into hot debates on what constitutes avant-garde art. Defying his many high brow critics, Creed went on to win Britain’s most coveted honor, the Turner Prize, in 2001 with Work No. 227: The lights going on and off which consisted of the lights in an empty gallery switching on and off every five seconds, resulting in a powerful impact on the spectators. Not all were happy with the Turner verdict.
London artist Jacqueline Crofton pelted eggs at his winning installation, saying, “I have nothing against Creed, although I do not think his work can be considered as art.” After the incident, Crofton was escorted from the gallery and subsequently banned from entering all Tate galleries. However, the jury was quick to defend its choice and praised the deftness and breadth of Creed’s recent work, as seen in neon pieces such as Work No. 203: Everything is going to be and Work No. 232: The whole world + the work = the whole world, as
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always see the work.” This unpretentious artist is well-known for incorporating everyday mundane objects in his work, like planks, nails, cardboard and whimsical sculptures created by stacking chairs. Rejecting overly simplistic norms and practices, Creed brings a fresh and somewhat eccentric approach to his art and goes on to plot new narratives of artistic alchemy, devoid of all superfluous visual splendors and grand narratives, whether it is by his uncomplicated pen drawings, prints or his signature
neon texts. On the other hand, in an impactful live performance Work No. 850 from 2008, Creed set runners sprinting through the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain; and in his enriching Ballet Work No. 1020 Creed gives basic ballet positions a fresh perspective by choreographing a piece for classically trained dancers. It is this versatility of his oeuvre, that makes Creed a true icon. To understand the dynamics of his work, one has to look at it without being judgmental. [continued...]
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[...continued} From Creed, we absorb a great lesson: art is everywhere. His work encourages the viewer to forge critical links between them and the surroundings and establish connections between the diverse works. His latest works involve making paintings with his eyes closed. “Because I am sick of looking at things. It seems to come out better sometimes when you’ve got your eyes closed,” he says in an interview given to The Guardian. Creed is also a musician and composer and also dabbles in video and photography. His recent release is an album titled Mind Trap. Creed was born in Wakefield and raised in Scotland and graduated from the Slade School of Art in London. He currently lives and works in London and Alicudi, Italy. Creed has been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Tate Britain, the Cleveland Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others. Fans of Creed will be treated to an extravaganza of his highly unusual mix of works spanning neon texts, pen drawing, self portrait will be showcased by Galerie Rudiger Schottle as well as screening of his Work No. 732 at the Sculpture Park presented by Hauser and Wirth at Frieze London 2014. Frieze London is one of the world’s leading contemporary art fairs and brings an international art audience to the UK capital every October. The event has been slightly revamped for this year, with one new attraction being the Live spaces, where performance based installations are being showcased. If you need an art fix, revel in the upcoming Frieze. Frieze London takes place from the 15 – 18 October 2014 and will present over 160 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries. For more information check out http://friezelondon.com/. (Images Courtesy: Frieze London/ Hauser and Wirth and Galerie Rudiger Schottle). Martin Creed Work No. 732 (video still) 2007 35 mm film, colour, silent 2 min 23 seconds © Martin Creed Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
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Somewhere on this planet, old-fashioned board games are apparently popular enough to warrant the creation of things like this: solid wood tables that transform from finely-crafted furniture to gaming tables featuring special drawers, flip-down desks and player stations designed specifically for playing Scrabble, D&D, Parcheesi or whatever. Grand enough to sate the appetite for fantasy and adventure, grand enough to field the dreams of visionaries, grand enough for the stories, the battles, the heroes and empires that live and die on its surface. It’s not for your room, it’s not for your friends, it’s for your games.
In case you didn’t know it, there’s a direct correlation between the visibility of a motorcyclist’s helmet and their safety. Now you can give yourself a boost in both safety and aesthetics with Lightmode Motorcycle Helmets. Available as either a permanent modification kit for your current helmet or a new helmet in fully modified form, Lightmode adds glowing EL components onto the outside of the helmet using a combination of super-strong glue and chemical accelerator. You control things via a box that clamps onto the helmet between the shell and padding, runs on 2 AA batteries, and gives you three modes: a Tron-like constant glow, a blink setting, and off. It’s far cooler than riding around in a reflective orange vest.
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GoPro has finally answered the prayers of millions of proud pet parents. Now, they can find out what the world looks like from the perspective of their dog. The company has released the Fetch, a camera harness for man’s best friend. The Fetch harness provides a means of attaching a GoPro to either a dog’s back or chest and is adjustable to fit dogs from 15 lb to 120 lb (7 - 54 kg). The camera mounts built into the harness are compatible with GoPro Hero cameras and hardware for mounting is supplied with the harness. GoPro says the Fetch can be used in mud, snow, water and wooded conditions and that the mount is designed for durability.
RocketSkates are retro, “back to the future” style, motorized roller skates that you strap over your shoes and ride at speeds up to 12mph! The smart electric skates are remote-free, simply lean forward to accelerate and tilt back on your heel to slow down. Three models are available to choose from, with different battery packs and range distances. The included app lets you check the RocketSkates status such as battery life, distance traveled, route tracking, skate diagnosis, and lets you keep in touch with other RocketSkaters. The makers also say that a Software Developer Kit (SDK) will be also be available for developers interested in creating games and app features for the RocketSkates.
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NEVER FORGET SOMEONE’S NAME AGAIN With this memory trick by Vivian Giang
Sometimes one of the important aspects to career success can be something intangible like how likeable you are. That vague feeling of goodwill is often determined by how genuine you seem when interacting with others. One of the first steps to showing someone you sincerely care about what they’re saying is remembering what they say – especially their name. According to a Dale Carnegie training course I took last year, the sweetest sound to anyone’s ear – no matter what language it’s in – is their name. Without nailing down this first step, it can be difficult to move forward in building a genuine professional or personal relationship. Unfortunately, this can be a difficult task since someone else’s name often doesn’t mean anything to us (it’s just another word) so it’s difficult for our brains to remember it. The solution to our forgetfulness? According to the course, our memory works best when we remember scenes and images. Our minds are “associate machines” so in order for you to remember something – like a name – you need to form your own association to it. This is called the memory-linking technique. 140
It works like this: When you meet someone, pay close attention to what they’re saying so that you can use the details to associate them to your images. Associating a name with a personality trait, an occupation, a visual cue, or where someone’s from is an effective tactic. Carnegie says: Paint a mind picture of the person whose name you wish to remember doing something that reminds you of the person’s name. Have the face and body of the person you wish to remember in the picture so that, when the picture comes to mind, you get both the face and the name. Using those details, make up some kind of clear, vivid mental impression exaggerated in color and motion. The more ridiculous and outlandish the details are, the better your chances of remembering. For example, if you meet Jill Hamlette who’s a professional basketball player, imagine her fighting with Jack over an enormous piece of meat in her basketball uniform. If you meet Bill Turner who’s a musician, imagine him DJing at a turntable with a bunch of dollar bills in his hands. If you meet Gus White, imagine a gust of wind so strong whipping
by that it turns Gus’s face, hair, and clothes into a powdery white. How about Ashley from China? Imagine her running on the Great Wall of China throwing ash over the sides. Remember that the images should be so ridiculous that they could never happen in real life because we tend to only remember things if they stand out from the surrounding environment. If an association based on the details you’re given doesn’t work, you can also associate the person with someone else you know based on their appearances or the sound of their name. However, before you can form any association to anyone’s name, you must first truly listen to what they’re saying. Remember that forgetting someone’s name is less about having a “bad memory” and more because you didn’t really try to listen or commit to remembering their name with a technique. If you didn’t hear the person say their name, always ask again. You can use Carnegie’s memory linking technique to remember just about anything – even facts and figures. The secret is making an association with all of these things in your mind.
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bazaar around town C. WONDER - A REVOLUTIONARY LIFESTYLE BRAND AND RETAIL CONCEPT FOR CHIC, CHARMING, AND CHARISMATIC WOMEN ANNOUNCES ITS FIRST LOCATION AT 360 MALL IN KUWAIT C. Wonder, the revolutionary lifestyle brand that exploded onto the retail scene with the debut of its New York City store in October 2011, opened its first store in Kuwait on Wednesday, 23 July, 2014. The brainchild of visionary entrepreneur J. Christopher Burch, founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital, C. Wonder offers women’s clothing, footwear, jewelry and accessories; housewares and home decor, great gifts, and delightful surprises at every turn. Their design teams create a wide-ranging assortment of beautiful, versatile and spirited products for all areas of their customer’s lifestyle. With the belief that luxury should be a feeling rather than a price tag, perhaps the best part is the price. The brand’s incredible value is matched by the fine materials and thoughtful details that reward shoppers with wellappointed purchases. C. Wonder provides women with an entirely new retail experience, a shopping destination that transports customers into a world of luxury and surprises. The first C. Wonder store in the Middle East opened in Spring of 2014 at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. The new Fall collection will have Kuwaitis showing off their wild side with C. Wonders’ safari themed new arrivals that mix tribal themed prints with rich earth tones, airy fabrics and textured knits. Classic apparel styles have an exciting new take this season, such as, the intarsia sweaters featuring safari animals like giraffes and elephants. What is a safari collection without jewelry accompanying the outfit; the animal motif jewelry is sure to add whimsy to any look. This season the trend is mixed metals in silver and gold, which is great for layering. For a minimalistic look there is an assortment of delicate jewelry or you can simply choose our line of edgy spiked and pearl pieces. And for romance seekers, the heart print calf hair loafer is a ‘must-have’, which comes with a matching zip wallet and cross body pouch. Refresh your home with rich color palettes and safari themes with items such as: glamorous, gold chevron animal parade glassware, chic metallic leopard appetizer print plates, colorful safari animal coasters, porcelain animal parade trays and a vibrant cotton zebra pillow cover. C. Wonder offers unique, customizable amenities and services for an easy, feel-good shopping experience. Personalization has never been easier; at C. Wonder, monogramming and other personalized products are all available. After all, the C in C. Wonder represents the customer.
BATH & BODY WORKS MAKES AN EXCITING DEBUT WITH ITS NEW SIGNATURE DARK KISS EAU DE PARFUM! The Middle East’s favorite fragrance now lasts even longer with the exciting debut of Dark Kiss Eau de Parfum. The inimitable exotic blend of Blackberry, plum and smoky dark vanilla is one of the most unique fragrances to grace the region. The Daily Trio brings you the ultimate experience! After a lathering, sumptuous Shower Gel cleansing, layer on the moisturizing, pampering Lotion and add the finishing fragrance touches with the incredible Fine Fragrance Mist! Want the electric aroma to dazzle through the day or night? Add that extra touch of elegance and sophistication with a few sprays of the NEW Dark Kiss Eau de Parfum. Top Notes: Bergamot, Incense, Mirabelle Plum, Black Raspberry; Mid Notes: Amber, Burgundy Rose, Geranium, Peony; and Dry Notes: Dark Vanilla Bean, Labdanum, Vetiver, Sensual Balsam, Musks. It’s time to experience the most daring fragrance at Bath & Body Works! CHILDHOOD REDISCOVERED – PLAY TOGETHER, DREAM TOGETHER AT FANTASY WORLD With our busy and hectic lives, we never seem to have any quality time with our children. The quality time parents spend with their children positively affects their development in many ways as the meaningful interaction helps them develop strong language skills and motor skills, increases independence and promotes communication and nourishes their creative minds. And if the quality time is combined with toy-playing, you can make the learning phase in your child’s life an engaging and fun-filled one. For kids, toys aren’t just toys; they can be a friend, an adventure, a teacher and so much more. It helps build and strengthen family bonds and establishes memories in the making. And with the mention of toys, who understands the world of play better than Fantasy World? Children’s favorite toy store and Kuwait’s ultimate destination for kids, Fantasy World is known to import some of the most unique, innovative and the largest selection of toys, to delight children of all ages. The list includes classic and new games, low-tech and high, gear for indoors and outdoors. The store offers various departments which appeal to all boys, girls, early years, amazing minds, tweens lifestyle, outdoor and sports including new items for newborn’s nursery such as the Middleton dolls, Adora dolls and Lil’ Cutesies and the newly introduced range targeted at adults called, The Edge, inspired by modern art and design. 142
ICING MAKES ITS MIDDLE EASTERN DEBUT IN KUWAIT Leading retailer of fashionable jewelry and accessories expands into Middle East Icing, a popular US retailer of fashionable jewelry and accessories, made its much-anticipated debut in Kuwait recently. Opening at the prestigious Grand Avenue – The Avenues, the new store, which will be operated by M.H. Alshaya Co., represents the brand’s first expansion outside the Americas. Curated for stylish women in their twenties and thirties, Icing offers jewelry, accessories and cosmetics suitable for all occasions. Icing’s wide selection includes statement necklaces, earrings, handbags and a range of cosmetics that are all fashion forward and affordably priced. Joel Herman, EVP for Icing stated, “We are extremely pleased to partner with Alshaya and open our first Middle Eastern store in Kuwait. We aim to help our guest express the many dimensions of her personal style and are excited to share our trendsetting jewelry and accessories.” Mohammed Alshaya, Executive Chairman of M.H. Alshaya Co. added: “The addition of Icing to our portfolio is a further demonstration of our commitment to bring our customers the world’s best international brands. We are delighted to debut the brand here in Kuwait.”
NEW TEAM AT THE REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE – IVF DEPARTMENT IN ROYALE HAYAT HOSPITAL Under the leadership of Dr. Osama Salha, who has a sub-specialist degree in Reproductive Medicine and a PHD from the UK, and in collaboration with the world-renowned IVF Unit in the University of Brussels, Belgium, the Royale Hayat IVF Unit has achieved excellent success rates in last few months. This was possible by using the latest technologies in micro-injection of the sperm into the egg and providing the best culture conditions for the embryos to grow in the lab. The Team was strengthened by the arrival of our Senior Embryologist, Mr. Jamal Al-Sherif, who has a BSc in Molecular Genetics from Jordan and more than 10 years experience in the two biggest IVF centers in the Middle East. The medical, nursing and scientific members of the team will strive to provide individualized care for every couple offering comprehensive treatment for both husband and wife before, during and after their IVF/ICSI cycle. For more information visit: www.royalehayat.com or follow them on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram @royalehayat.
MERCEDES-BENZ KUWAIT SURFS SOCIAL MEDIA WAVE WITH ALMOST 1 MILLION CLICKS IN THREE MONTHS Mercedes-Benz Kuwait is experiencing double digit growth across its active social media channels, with Facebook and Instagram seeing increases in total followers of 51% and 30% respectively, since the month of June this year. Abdul Rahman Albisher & Zaid Alkazemi Co, the authorised General Distributor of Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait, follows a wellestablished digital strategy and believes the social networking tools are responsible for helping reach customers. With numbers climbing to 59,000 Facebook followers and 37,800 Instagram followers since joining in 2012, Mercedes-Benz has fast become one of the most followed automotive brands in Kuwait – a fact that is heavily influencing the shift of social media from a ‘buzzword’ to common practice within the organisation. During the period of 1st June – 31st August 2014, Mercedes-Benz Kuwait had almost one million counts of engagement with their followers on Facebook and Instagram. This number continues to grow daily and outlines the importance of social media through Kuwait as a way to achieve marketing goals, increase customer interaction and strive to provide customer service via this medium, as messages are shared, re-shared and viewed in a matter of moments by potentially hundreds of thousands of people around the world. For information on Mercedes-Benz products and services in Kuwait, visit www.kuwait.mercedesbenzme.com or follow them on Facebook: MercedesBenzKuwait, Twitter or Instagram @MercedesBenzKWT.
للنساء2014 شتاء/ تشكيلة ديون خريف مع التركيز على خطوط نظيفة وقوام،يرى هذا الموسم مجموعة جديدة مرة أخرى من ديون لندن والجلود، واأللوان المتناقضة، يجلب الشعور المعاصر و الجديد. مناسبة للحياة اليومية،جديد ً راسمة معا ، فالصور الظلية تقود هذه التشكيلة،المنقوشة الفخامة الكالسيكية لهذا الشتاء تنبع بساطة التشكيلة من خالل استخدام.لمحات أنيقة وخطوط ًا هندسية بسيطة وعصرية و. ما يجعلها مثالية لهذا اليوم، والالمعة والدانتيل والجلود الالمعة،مواد غنية من األلوان الزيتية يأخذ مفهوم هذه التشكيلة على عاتقه نظرة شرسة وجديدة فيما يتعلق بأحذية الكعب الضيقة تهيمن طباعات الزواحف على اإلكسسوارات في منصات عروض األزياء هذا الموسم و.المقدمة من الرسمي إلى الرياضي بأشكال مختلفة2014 شتاء/ تلعب دوراً أساسياً في مجموعة خريف loafers واللوفرbrogues تتجلى اللمسات الرجالية في أحذية البورغ.الملمس وبألوان غامقة وتعطي النعال الثقيلة والتفاصيل المشبكة شعوراً معاصرا و متنوع ًا.وأحذية البوتس نغمة غريبة . كما تجلب نغمات الشوكوالته الغنية شعوراً من التساهل إلى األشكال الكالسيكية،في كل يوم فالقطع الجميلة، التي تناسب قيمتها وتتفق مع وظيفتها،إن البساطة هي أساس هذه المجموعة .والنظيفة والبسيطة تدوم طوال الوقت 143
MAD ABOUT MADRID
A 24-hour guide to Spain’s capital in a land of fiestas and siestas by Rocio Labrador
The clink of a cafe con leche against a china saucer, the clatter of horse hooves on cobblestones, the laughter of tartan-clad children sent to retrieve a baguette from the ambulant baker: These are the telltale sounds of Madrid rising to greet another blazing Spanish day. Travelers seeking to fit as many destinations as possible into a two-week Euro trip often trade the Spanish capital for the art-deco streets of Barcelona or the Moorish provinces of the Costa del Sol. Yet to deny Madrid is to deny the unique feel of Castilian Spain, palpable in the ancient stone blocks of its palaces, cathedrals and monuments that defy the march of modernity. As I stand on the edge of the Plaza Mayor this morning, the improbable sight of gypsies selling rosemary sprigs against a backdrop of colorful neoclassical architecture tells me that Madrid, against all odds, abides. I step into the bustle determined to make the most of my short 24 hours in the capital. The emblematic main square – one of the largest in Europe – plays host to daily fiestas, markets, religious ceremonies and other performances, attracting locals and tourists alike. Today is no different, as street artists prepare to sell caricatures of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and musicians brandish their tambourines. I grab a complimentary city map at the tourist center before slipping through an archway onto the Calle Mayor. Like most streets in Madrid, the narrow confines of Calle Mayor are packed with peddlers of tweed berets, wooden canes and brightly painted hand fans. Vendors pushing overflowing food carts yell their fares across the crowd: horchata for one euro. Coconut slices for two. The prices change even as I step out of the alley into the Puerta del Sol. All roads lead to Sol, goes the old Spanish proverb. The semi-circular square is the national 144
ground zero and a must-see for any Madrid visitor. In an ironic twist that is both characteristically and endearingly Spanish, the “sun” square is cast in shadow by the City Hall clock tower, providing a welcome shield from the heat that has by now become nearly unbearable. Not wanting to test my luck against a temperature of 120 degrees, I walk down to the Paseo del Prado – a grand Victorian boulevard flanked by world-renowned museums that include the Caixa, the Thyssen-Bornemisa and El Prado. I purchase a general admission ticket for 14 euros and wander the air-conditioned galleries of Velazquezes, Goyas, Rubens and Tintorettos until lunchtime. Madrid meals are one of the uncontested delights of any visit to the capital. Casa Labra – tucked into a side street near Sol – has been a popular culinary destination since 1860. The family-owned tavern offers a survey of traditional local dishes. From stewed entrails to platters of cured meats to 2 euro pitchers of tart sangria, there is something here for both the adventurous and conservative traveler. After hoisting myself up from my dining chair, I decide to take part in the time-honored siesta that marks the rhythm of Spanish life. I stroll down to the Oriente theater where Wagner debuted his timeless opera “Rienzi,” past the Baroque-style royal palace adorned with the weathered marble statues of five centuries of Spanish kings and into the West Park. The pine grove is peppered with tan youths and entwined couples basking in the summer sun. I find the perfect napping spot under a fig tree at the foot of the Debod Temple. Gifted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 to Madrid engineers for their help in controlling the flooding waters of the Nile, the fourth-century B.C. temple stands in exquisite contrast to the steel skyscrapers just
visible beyond the trees. My eyelids flutter shut to the sound of nearby castanets. As the siesta hour draws to a close at 5 p.m. and the city stirs back to life, I let my thoughts wander to the coming evening. Between April and September, Las Ventas bullring features corridas where matadors armed with sparkling red capes and 18th-century swords dance out of death’s way and into the hides of 1,000-pound bulls. Ole! For those who prefer a less ill-fated performance, dexterous guitarists and fierce flamenco dancers draped in flowing shawls and dresses gather each night at the Corral de la Moreria – a simple venue with a wooden stage and a bar in the cobbled district of El Casco Viejo. I eventually settle on the most popular evening tradition of all: watching a football game at the local bar. As I seat myself on a wooden stool in the Marca Sports Bar, my eyes sweep over the crowd, gathered to root for the Real Madrid team. A football match provides the perfect opportunity to observe a cross section of Spanish society – businessmen in tailored suits enjoying a cana, weathered viejos toying with silver pocket watches, women balancing babies dressed only in diapers. Even at dusk, the sweet summer heat will allow for nothing else. At 9 p.m., the bells of Almudena Cathedral – the wedding venue of the newly crowned King Felipe and Queen Letizia – chime throughout the city, signaling dinner time. Like their Portuguese neighbors, Spaniards dine as late as midnight, typically requiring the evening hours to digest a large lunch. With a now growling stomach, I return to the Casco Viejo and the Mercado de San Miguel, an indoor market featuring a wide array of Spanish tapas. The market offers samplers of vegetable paella, fried bechamel croquettes, potato tortilla and boiled snails. San Miguel is conveniently situated near the city’s most lively nightclubs. Rivaled only by Amsterdam, Madrid proudly stands as the capital of European nightlife, inviting all to dance the night away. For an entrance fee of 10 euros, the clubs of Pacha, Kapital, Joy and Gabana open their doors from midnight until morning. At 6 a.m., partygoers leave the dance floors, savor a traditional breakfast of churros dipped in hot chocolate at the Chocolateria San Gines, and head – exhausted – to bed. Sitting outside San Gines with an empty cup of coffee and saucer, I feel the sandman weigh on my own body. As I sink into the Metro seat that will carry me back to the airport, I hear the distant clatter of horse hooves and the laughter of children, signaling the dawn of a new day in the Spanish capital – and the end of my 24 hours in paradise. Madrid beats on.
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bazaar checks it out “EDO” LAUNCHES ITS SECOND BRANCH AT THE KUWAIT SAHARA GOLF CLUB Edo Club, the new outlet of Edo Restaurant owned by Yohji Trading Co., officially launched on September 16, 2014 at Sahara Golf Club Kuwait. The launching ceremony was attended by the Ambassador of Japan H.E. Toshihiro TSUJIHARA, the founder of Edo concept Mr. Chris Boustany along with numerous guests and Edo fans, in an atmosphere of live jazz music. The first EDO Restaurant, was opened in Kuwait in November 2002, in the Shaab al Bahri area of Kuwait. It was a concept by Chris Boustany, who along with his Japanese food-loving partners aimed at creating a high class Japanese restaurant in the country. When opened in 2002, EDO was just the 3rd Japanese restaurant in Kuwait and the only one outside a hotel. It is not a franchise, but an original creation. Since its inception, EDO restaurant has tried to maintain a high quality of food and service to cater for those who really appreciate Japanese cuisine and wish to avoid poor imitations. To be able to ensure this commitment, EDO always had a Japanese Executive Chef. Mr. Shiro Aiba joined EDO 12 years ago and Mr. Kohji Kubota has joined this year as the Head Chef at EDO CLUB. EDO Club’s menu differs partly from the one at the EDO outlet in Shaab, to allow patrons to have a different experience in each of the two restaurants. KERASTRAIGT LAUNCHES THE ULTIMATE IN KERATIN CARE... Multi-award winning KeraStraight’s latest protein packed treatment replenishes your hair’s keratin protein to repair and rejuvenate damaged strands while also smoothing out kinks and straightening unruly tresses. Whether your hair lacks that special something or has lost its radiance over time; whether it’s bleached, wavy or frizzy, you can still experience the transformation with just one treatment. KeraStraight’s Ultimate formula is much faster and easier to apply which is a plus for both the hairdresser and client. So end the battle with unmanageable locks – save time and frustration as hair is left smooth and luxuriously soft to touch for up to four months. KeraStraight Ultimate is now available in Kuwait and is exclusively distributed by beau-tique cosmetics intl. Call them on 2225 1285 or for more information visit www.beau-tiqueonline.com.
LANDMARK GROUP ORGANIZES HEALTH AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR ITS EMPLOYEES In line with its year-round corporate responsibility strategy Landmark Group, the largest value retail shopping chain in Kuwait recently conducted a campaign to promote health awareness among its employees. The campaign held in association with Indians Doctor’s Forum (IDF) provided free counseling on hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol and stress management for their employees. Employees were alerted about the importance of healthy living and weight management and encouraged to make positive changes in their lifestyle. They were made aware of the ailments by providing them with all the necessary health information related to cholesterol and blood tests as well as weight analysis. Mr. Saibal Basu, Chief Operating Officer, Landmark Group Kuwait, expressed his delight towards this activity saying: “We thank the doctors of IDF for taking the time and conducting this campaign for our employees. Many times due to busy schedules, employees often neglect their health. With this campaign we hope that they make a change in their lifestyle. The response by our employees has been great so far, helping them take easy first steps toward getting healthy.”
MADIBA SUMMER COLLECTION 2014 Spanish brand Luxenter launches its Madiba Summer collection 2014 and it finally arrived in Kuwait This collection include many different styles of jewelry which include: Zeila with its rounded silhouette and the combination of amethyst and pink gold, provide the pieces with a tonality which looks like a group of jellyfish moving together on the beat of the sea currents, Ayiza the strength given by the black onyx, the blue turquoise and the red coral, make up a composition which move us to a shoal of butterfly fishes crossing the Indian Ocean, Ayat the warmth, the calm and the color of the Caribbean Sea are represented in these gold plated pieces thanks to the light blue quartz, the white zircons and the green agate, Shida the variety of color, shapes and textures characterize the Great Barrier Reef, situated in the north of Australia. This diversity inspires pieces made from Turquoise, Mother-ofpearl and Crystal rock triplets, with colored zircons, Agate and Wood, Chioke the shells of the mollusks inspire the irregular shapes of these pieces in rose gold plated with pink Agate triplet, Mother-of-pearl and Crystal rock, Daura dawn breaks in the Mediterranean Sea and the sun reflects in the water coloring it gold. Yacob Behbehani Sons Company is the official distributors of Luxenter items in Kuwait. You can find the full collection at Luxenter Boutique located in Al Fanar Mall.
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CORNICHE CATS by Craig Loomis
When Hamid stops to look out to the Gulf, unstrapping his camera to click the skyline and assorted blue and white cargo ships crawling by, there is something in his stopping that brings them out of the rocks. As he clicks a photo of the Kuwait Towers and admires the watery rooster-tail of a yellow speedboat, he hears them before he sees them, more a whining than a meowing. In his non-camera hand he carries a newspaper, and as he looks down at them they look up at him and seem to believe that his newspaper is the stuff of papery food. Hearing his camera click, they look at one another, ears back, as if to say, What was that? Hear that? What’s that? As a rule Hamid likes cats, always has, and so as he backs up to the take their photo, they follow, stop, follow, stop, not sure what sort of food he is holding against his face. Although Hamid is not against cats, the world of cats is not a serious consideration, a topic that sparks conversation; of course if he were to think of bigger cats, lions, tigers and leopards, that is something else, something closer to seriousness, the wide savannah of Africa. But whiney Corniche cats? At the rear, a thin gray cat hesitates, and while the others move forward, it thinks nothing of leaning against a rock, reluctant, watchful, and Hamid snaps its picture. Meanwhile, and not too far away, Khalid is jogging. This is what he does in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, but always some jogging for sure. In fact, if he doesn’t jog he feels all wrong. At first, it was something he didn’t want to do, doctor’s orders – ‘If you want to live longer, exercise, . . .’ – but did anyway. Now, three months, one week, five days later, he no longer has a choice; he must jog every day. And so Khalid, in full jogging attire – an array of colorful sweat bands, earphones, kneecaps tightly wrapped, jogging shoes that glow in the dark – is minding his own business, when, just like the movies, out of nowhere a dirty calico tomcat steps out from between the breakwater rocks. Thinking that it is his territory, his rocks, does not bother to turn his catty head to see Khalid, a jog step away. The calico is sent somersaulting back into its rocky home, Khalid goes sprawling. His immediate reaction is to see who saw, lifting his head to see a batch of children that-away, an empty walkway the other. Reassured, he turns to grimace, to inspect his scraped palms and bloodied knee. Khalid has nothing against cats; they are contently quiet creatures that when posed just right: eyes closed, secretly humming to 148
themselves, it reminds him of warm butterscotch. But that was before this, his calico collision. Jena is not a jogger or a photographer, although she does have an expensive camera somewhere in her closet and two or three jogging outfits in that same cluttered square space. But unlike Hamid and Khalid, she thinks cats are important, and to prove it she has two of them at home, sometimes in her room, sometimes not, but two cats for sure with a promise of more to come if she passes her exams with ‘flying colors.’ Cats like Jena too, rubbing against her whenever they can, and she will be quick to reward their friendship with scraps of lunch or dinner. Her two cats see nothing wrong with fighting over these scraps under the table. Jena has decided this is a kind of love, a furry affection. And so, her job on the Corniche among the rock homes of cats is to lure them out with food so they will like her, and maybe even come to need her. When they see her approaching – by now her profile famous in the breakwater feline community – immediately a catty herd forms, a worm-squirm of cats around her ankles. Although psychologists have a word for people like Jena, she feels loved, and cares nothing for psychology. This fourth and last one, with clipboard in hand, wraparound sunglasses, a gray uniform, works as a consultant for the Center for Animal Control. He is here on official business. A complaint has been made and in this case that is all it takes: the right person complaining to another right person. He moves closer: cats sunning themselves along the walkway, sprawled owner-like atop boulders, minding their own serene business. Jena feeds them because if she didn’t, who would, and they would starve, go cat crazy, attack people flesh. But now it doesn’t matter because a complaint has been filed and he takes notes of what he sees, outlining his plan. What all this means is that someday soon – not on a Friday or Saturday, when kids are out and families are picnicking – but soon, he will drive up in his white van and open the back door take out one of his nets along with an armful of other cat-catching tools, and slowly, methodically, do this duty. After two or three back and forth visits from his van to their breakwater rocks, the cat population along the Corniche will, once again, be under control. Still, a part of the Animal Control directive on his clipboard states that he leave some cats to roam that part of the sea front, because, after all, everybody likes a cat, now and again.
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GIVENCHY’S DAHLIA DIVIN - A GOLDEN THREAD BETWEEN COUTURE AND FRAGRANCE Couture and fragrance share the same luxury, the same force of attraction, the same dream. This pure alchemy emanates from the most beautiful Givenchy gowns and from the House’s brand new fragrance. The golden thread. Givenchy has created the new fragrance for modern goddesses. A fragrance woven in gold. It is a fragrance of light, like one of Givenchy’s Couture gowns. A radiant Eau de Parfum to be worn on bare skin, for a feeling of being adorned in sensuality. Created by François Demachy, composer of olfactory creations, Dahlia Divin reveals an aura with lush floral woody accents. “To embody the Dahlia Divin woman, I created a delicate and delightful scent, balancing coloured and juicy notes, slightly reminiscent of childhood,” explains the perfumer. The Dahlia Divin woman makes her entrance with notes of a golden fruit, mirabelle plum, which mingle with the exhilarating aromas of a bouquet of white flowers, dominated by jasmine. Lastly, asserted woody tones – vetiver, sandalwood, patchouli – leave their precious and sensual imprint on the memory. Dahlia Divin: radiance captured in a bottle.
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THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER ASK YOUR MENTOR by Travis Steffen
Successful entrepreneurs who had a mentor during their rise to success will always stress the important part this person played in their development and growth as a founder. However, many new or failing entrepreneurs are unsuccessful in their efforts to land a good mentor – not because their resume isn’t good enough to be impressive, but because of how they approach the person. When you’re approaching a prospective mentor – and even after you land a great one who agrees to take you under their wing – there are a few things you want to make sure you never ask: 1. To take a leap of faith Successful people may take calculated risks from time to time, but they don’t flat-out gamble with their time or effort. This means you can’t approach them starting from absolute scratch. If you want one of these people to give you the time of day, you need to show them you have chops by building something on your own and generating at least a little traction first. 2. For a step-by-step roadmap No successful person wants to hold your hand and walk you through every single thing you have to do. This would likely take even more time than it would for them to start a new, successful venture of their own. This is way too big of a commitment to ask for at your stage. 152
3. For a handout Successful people don’t become successful by just giving things away. Your mentor is giving you their time and their battle-tested advice already, so don’t push it. If you’re looking for funding, connections, referrals, or anything else, make sure these are voluntarily offered rather than asked for, or you risk putting an unnecessary strain on a critical relationship. 4. For seed capital While this is briefly touched on above, it’s worth emphasizing in particular. You may end up getting mentorship from investors, but you should not look for investment from a mentor – especially early on. This person has already taken a huge chance on you, and it’s likely been a relationship where they’ve given a lot without much gain. Instead, try offering this person advisory equity in what you’re building for free in exchange for their continued time or effort. You’ll probably get even more value from this than you will from their money. 5. To become a paying client or customer Don’t try to sell your mentor anything. Keep in mind that tons of people are trying to do this to them every day, and if you want an ongoing relationship with them, you must not be one of these people. If you build something incredible and they organically sign up or buy from you, great. But
it’s only okay if it happens without you asking. 6. For trade secrets Your mentor has likely built their business over the course of many years using a considerable amount of blood, sweat, and tears. Any advice or guidance they give you should be voluntary. Don’t ask them to give away the farm – especially early on. This kind of access should be earned. They’ll only provide it to somebody they both deeply trust and believe in, which takes a pretty significant amount of time and effort to establish. The key thing to remember is that in any relationship, it’s worth taking a step back to examine how your actions could be received by the other person, and if those results are the ones you want. This becomes much more important when this relationship could be the one person that could get you your dream job, land you your lead investor, or help you fix problems costing you millions of dollars. Travis Steffen is a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits and is currently the founder of UP (upshare.co). Travis is one of numerous founders and VCs sharing their insight and advice with other entrepreneurs at MentorMojo – an entrepreneurial e-learning platform. Follow him on Twitter @TravisSteffen.
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How the data is the real magic by John Paul Titlow
What Spotify and Echo Nest know about listener behavior is about to change the music industry. Music’s shift to an all-you-can-stream model is convenient for listeners, tough for many artists, and potentially lucrative for the tech companies involved. It also has a hidden perk that could benefit all of them: Data. Lots of it. As more and more people listen to music on digital platforms, our collective understanding of music and the culture that surrounds it is exploding. Spotify, the streaming music market leader, was already sitting on an incredible amount of data before it acquired music intelligence firm The Echo Nest in March. Now the company is armed with a trove of insights about music and listener behavior. To help corral it all, the company just launched a data storytelling blog called Spotify Insights. “We’ve kind of been doing this already,” says Eliot Van Buskirk, Spotify’s in-house Data Storyteller. “We just didn’t have a place to put it all.” If his name sounds familiar, it’s because Van Buskirk has been writing about digital music since the 154
late ‘90s for CNet, Wired, and most recently for The Echo Nest’s Evolver.fm music tech blog. Since Spotify acquired his employer, Van Buskirk has transitioned into this new role. “What excites me about this is that I have access to data that I wouldn’t be able to see if I were still at Wired or CNet,” says Van Buskirk. “I can work with software engineers to be like, ‘What is going on with music in Australia right now? Why are so many of my favorite bands coming out of Melbourne?’” This kind of geographic music data is exactly the kind of thing that The Echo Nest is great at digging up. Since its founding in 2005, the company has mastered the art of combining machine listening with cultural insights scraped from the Internet and mashing it all into one complex algorithm that learns how and why music is consumed around the world. Spotify, which is available in over 60 countries, has meanwhile been amassing listening data from its millions of users, which packs its own insights, geographic, and otherwise. In fact, before it acquired The Echo Nest, Spotify’s
internal music data was starting to get so good that the company opted to build its own recommendation technology into the “Discover” tab, rather than rely on its longtime partner The Echo Nest, which powers the Pandora-eqsue “Radio” feature. To kick things off, the Insights blog launched with a post examining how different genres of music have migrated from their countries of origin to other places around the world. Fascinating material for music geeks and data visualization nerds alike, but it’s just the beginning. The marriage of big data and music is expected to have a major impact on the industry as a whole, a process you can already see beginning to unfold. The rise of Lorde, for instance, was fueled in large part by Spotify, whose data team noticed the pop star was trending on the service long before she became an international star. Internally, the company has a team of people dedicated to spotting these types of trends and cultivating the artists behind them. They’re also working with traditional radio stations to help spot regional surges in popularity previously invisible to deejays.
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HORRORscopes In celebration of Halloween, our second annual monstrous mashup from both sides of the grave. See what the ghastly ghosts have in store for you this month.
HORRORscopes by bazaar staff
LIBRA (CADABRA)
SEPT 23 – OCT 22
You can put a stop to a bad situation by simply speaking up. You can’t expect loved ones to read your mind. They need to know how you feel. A trial situation will work out better than you had anticipated. Now’s the time to implement “the change.” Go the extra mile when working on an important (but deadly) project.
SCORPIO (N)
(SC)ARIES
MARCH 21 – APRIL 19
A frightening family member may need a fiscal favor. RUN while you still can! Or give to the last drop…your generosity will go a long way. An unexpected turn of events could force you to cancel weekend plans. You may have to undo something you did mid-month. Procrastination may be the key. Keep a positive outlook.
(MONS)TAURUS
OCT 23 – NOV 21
APRIL 20 – MAY 20
A loved one who’s down in the dumps needs some encouragement from you. Be kind and diplomatic with your words – especially if you’re trying to cheer up an Aries. A change at work could be just the beginning of a new stage. You may want to reassess your career goals in light of your ghosts.
Keep eerie emotions in check at work, or you could soil your professional image. Think twice before being totally honest with a loved one or you may dig your own grave. A little white lie isn’t so bad if it spares someone’s feelings. A difficult choice comes later in the month. Libra plays a significant role.
SAGITTARIUS
GEMINI (CRICKET)
NOV 22 – DEC 21
MAY 21 – JUNE 21
A loved one who’s down in the dumps needs some encouragement from you. Be kind and diplomatic with your words – especially if you’re trying to cheer up an Aries. A change at work could be just the beginning of a new stage. You may want to reassess your career goals in light of your ghosts.
Something you’ve wondered about for some time will become crystal clear with your crystal ball. You’ll realize that some spirits are more subtle than others. Plans for an upcoming trip need your attention. Try not to leave everything until the last minute. A strange coincidence on a Friday proves meaningful.
CAPRI (CANDY)CORN
CANCER (OUS)
DEC 22 – JAN 19
JUNE 22 – JULY 22
At work, don’t assume you’ll get the help and support you need. You must speak up if you want to be heard from beyond. Happiness comes with a high price tag in love this month. You’ll find that nothing good comes easily. Steer clear of black cats. Long-awaited news will finally come with a surprising outcome.
In a rut lately, Cancer? Don’t be afraid to explore new social options. When’s the last time you acted like a tourist in your own town? Try something new. If you’re looking for a new job, this could be a lucky time. Travel plans look promising. Unexpected cash comes your way from beyond the grave.
AQUARIUS
LEO
JAN 20 – FEB 18
JULY 23 – AUG 22
Get extra rest early in the month, or you could find yourself tapped out later when you need your energy and walking around like a zombie. A work associate may try to drag you down with them into the grave of negativity. Don’t let it happen. Keep your usual positive spirits and attitude. An upcoming change gives you a lot to think about.
Has love led you into a difficult bind? If so, there’s only one way out – honesty. Look deep inside yourself to figure out what it is you really want – not just now, but in the future. You may be surprised. Virgo plays a role. A last-minute invitation sets the tone for the month.
PISCES
VIRGO (Muerto-son)
FEB 19 – MAR 20
A family member shows you a mysterious dark side you never knew existed. You’ll wonder what else there is that you don’t know about, lurking around the corner. A love relationship may need some nurturing. Loving words and a tender touch go a long way. Meditation lifts stress from the daily grind and will conjure up a world of spirits.
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AUG 23 – SEPT 22
A scary situation that seemed horrible a few months back is actually bearable now. You’ll realize that time heals all ghostly wounds. If resentment is tearing a friendship apart, it may be time to talk things out. Keep flexible weekend plans. Something unusual happens later in the month.
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