W H AT ’ S ONTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2016

It truly is the season to be jolly with Costa Coffee's beautifullyhandcrafted festive drinks and food that are carefully and hap-pily prepared by the stores' expert baristas. Costa Coffee

extends a warm welcome to everyone in Kuwait to share in CostaCoffee's special events that will take place in Costa Coffee's selectstores every Tuesday and Saturday throughout the months ofNovember and December. Whether you want to enjoy yourfavorite coffee in a specially wrapped jumper themed cup or aseasonal snack, you can make yourself at home at any CostaCoffee store that will bring in the right amount of spice and funto your day.

To celebrate this festive season, Costa Coffee launched intro-duced its festive drinks & treats through an exclusive sneak pre-view event for its loyal customers, social media influencers andmedia executives. The drinks that were enjoyed by all include theGingerbread & Cream Latte, Hot Chocolate Caramel Fudge and

the Almond Crunch Caramel Fudge Sundae Frostino for thosewho prefer to indulge in something cool in the cooler months.The festive food tray contained diverse options including theTurkey & Cranberry Sauce sandwich on brown baguette for thehealth conscious, Brie & Cranberry Sauce sandwich on whitebaguette for those who prefer to eat creatively and finally, theDate Lamington Cake as the most mouthwatering dessert youcan enjoy this winter. The festive events that will be taking placein Costa Coffee stores will feature a joyful host of entertainingand interactive activities suitable for the whole family. Theseevents include gingerbread decoration, child development work-shop, interactive children reading, music night and life coaching.

To find our more about the events, visit any of Costa Coffee's33 stores in Kuwait or Costa Coffee's social media accounts onInstagram, Facebook, Snapchat or Twitter. May you have a won-derful winter season with Costa Coffee.

Last Monday, Dr. Samir Mahmoud presented an aca-demic lecture in the Yarmouk Cultural Center as partof Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah's cultural season. The

presentation was entitled "New Perspectives on Islamic Art:How and Why Does Non-figurative Art Move Us and Evokean Emotion?" During the lecture, he drew on some

medieval Islamic textual sources in addition to contempo-rary neurosciences, phenomenology, art history, and psy-chology to form a dialogue across the centuries that cen-ters on the perceptual qualities of non-figurative art(geometry, vegetal motifs, and to a certain extent calligra-phy). He will then explore the question of an Islamic prohi-

bition on creating images of living things from this angle.Dr. Samir Mahmoud is an Assistant Professor at the

Department of Architecture at the American University ofBeirut. In 2013-2014 he was Andrew Mellon PostdoctoralFellow at the Arts & Humanities Initiative at the AmericanUniversity of Beirut; in 2012-2013 he was Barakat

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Khalili Center for Research in Art& Material Culture, University of Oxford and Agha KhanPostdoctoral Fellow at MIT in the Fall of 2011-2012. He isthe author of several publications on Islamic aesthetics,Islamic philosophy, and is currently working on two newbooks.

Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah presents

Dr. Samir Mahmoud's academic lecture

Festive season lights up

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Kuwait Cricket, an Associate member of InternationalCricket Council (ICC), Full member of Asian CricketCounci (ACC) and affiliated with Kuwait Olympic

Committee is proud to announce the free induction level(Level-0) Umpiring Course for new aspirants in CricketUmpiring from 3rd of December to 8th December, 2016.

The consolidated course will comprise of 6 days of train-ing (both Theory & Practicals) which will be conducted fromSaturday to Thursday between 1900 to 2130 hours (7:00pmto 9:30pm) at the Sulabiyia Cricket Pavilion.

English will be the medium of instruction of the course.A practical competency and written/practical test will be

held at the conclusion of the training sessions on 11th and12th December, 2016. Successful participants will be award-ed Accreditation Certificates by Kuwait Cricket on behalf ofICC/ACC. This training course will be conducted and super-vised by Farid Dalwai, Tareq Beidas and Irfan Adil, the KuwaitCricket's seniormost umpires and ICC/ACC AccreditedUmpire's Educators.

Last date for registration is 28th November, 2016. Allthose interested are requested to contact Imran Mustafa forregistration. Email: karpak2002@gmail.com

Come and join the elite Kuwait Cricket Umpiring Panel(KCUP) and be a part of the Kuwait's cricket fraternity.

Kerala Art Lovers Association (KALA Kuwait) has announcedthe winners of the drawing and painting competitionRainbow 2016 conducted for the Indian students in Kuwait

in connection with the Children's Day celebrations on November11 at Carmel School, Khaitan. Bagging the highest points, CarmelSchool, Khaitan won the ‘Rainbow 2016’  trophy.

Catherine Vismaya Biju (Bhavans School) in the senior catego-ry, Swachanda Roy Mathew  (Gulf Indian School) in the Junior cat-egory , Noel Alex Cyril (Learners Academy) in the Sub Junior cate-gory and Mohit Sai (Don Bosco School) in the Kindergarten cate-gory won the individual gold medals.

In the senior category, the second place goes toMadhukrishnan Mukundan (Bhavans School) and  third place to

Apoorva ramachandran (Bhavans School). In the Junior categoryHarigovind Sajith (Carmel school) got the second place and JishaMaria Joseph (United Indian school) got the third place.Harisankar Sajith (Carmel school) and Merin Anna Jaise (BhavansSchool) got the second and third places respectively in the Subjunior category. In the Kindergarten category Sreesivani Sreejith(Jabriya Indian school) got the second place and  Ruhi SashaOzario (Carmel school) got the third.

A number of conciliation prizes have also been announcedunder each category. More details are available in the website ofKala ‘(www.kalakuwait.com).’ The prizes will be distributed to thewinners on Saturday, November 26, at 5.30 pm in a function to beheld at the Poppins Auditorium , Abbassiya.

KALA Kuwait 'Mazhavillu-2016':

Results declared

Free level '0' umpiring course

Birthday Greetings

Happy Birthday Berry Ahmed Afaf…may Allah blessher with good health, wealth, love and happinesswith her lovely parents.

Happy Birthday Mennah Mostafa Sleem…May Allahshower his blessings on you and wish you all the suc-cess in future. Wishes from Ahmed Afaf and family.