Though shocked and confused by the attacks on the twin towers, 10-year-old Danya Ghaith decided to do her own research into the terror outrage. Today Danya, 20, is living in Brooklyn and studying political science at university in New York.
Though shocked and confused by the attacks on the twin towers, 10-year-old Danya Ghaith decided to do her own research into the terror outrage. Today Danya, 20, is living in Brooklyn and studying political science at university in New York.
Though shocked and confused by the attacks on the twin towers, 10-year-old Danya Ghaith decided to do her own research into the terror outrage. Today Danya, 20, is living in Brooklyn and studying political science at university in New York.
Though shocked and confused by the attacks on the twin towers, 10-year-old Danya Ghaith decided to do her own research into the terror outrage. Today Danya, 20, is living in Brooklyn and studying poli

Lives forged in the flames of 9/11


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  • Arabic

WASHINGTON // Danya Ghaith is 20 years old. A decade ago, she was on her way to her fifth-grade maths class on the second floor of her Islamic school in Brooklyn when the first of two planes crashed into the World Trade Center.

On the same day, two hours behind and thousands of miles to the west, Ashley Bright was making her way to school in a small rural community in northern Arizona. Fifteen at the time, she was looking forward to playing a volleyball match that night.

Though separated by time and distance that day, they will be tied together in at least one way for the rest of their lives.

Both young women are part of a generation that grew up in the shadow of 9/11. For most of their lives, they have only known their country at war, and in different ways, they are still grappling with the implications of events that day that were too large for them to comprehend at the time.

"I kept asking my father, 'What's going on? What's going on?'" said Ms Ghaith, recalling the events of the day. Her Islamic school closed early and students were sent home. She went to her father's travel agency.

"I felt like he didn't know how to explain it to a 10-year old. So he told me a bad Muslim guy did it, but we're not all like him."

She had plenty of time to consider his answer over the next week. For security reasons, her school remained closed.

On the other side of the country, Ms Bright was picking up a friend on her way to school.

"We didn't really know what the World Trade Center was. I just thought, 'Okay, it's probably an accident'."

The enormity of the events did not dawn on her and her friends until much later.

"Once we saw our teacher's reactions, that's when we realised, 'Oh wow, we need to pay more attention to this'.

"So we spent most of the morning watching it on TV, and kind of talking about it and then our volleyball game was cancelled. Everything was cancelled."

And everything changed. Both Ms Ghaith and Ms Bright began taking an intense interest in politics and global affairs. Ms Ghaith was not satisfied with her father's fumbling explanations.

She began instead, she said, "doing my own research", and that transformed her life. Ms Ghaith is now majoring in political science at the State University of New York's Empire State College.

"I'm always reading the news on my iPhone, always doing all that kind of stuff. I'm always on the news apps. I just want to know everything about news and politics. It's my thing."

Ms Bright also began questioning events, especially when she noticed how older generations seemed stuck for answers.

"After 9/11, I saw a lot of ignorance and hatred. There were a lot of hateful things said, especially by older people that I felt just didn't understand or were maybe ignorant about what happened.

"I think it strengthened my resolve to educate myself about what's going on, and maybe in a way that's why I decided to go into journalism."

As part of her degree, Ms Bright and fellow students at the School of Communications at the American University in Washington, conducted a survey on their generation and attitudes to 9/11.

Perhaps least surprising among the findings is that two-thirds of the so-called Millennials - respondents were all between 18 and 29 - consider themselves more likely to follow news and global affairs as a result of the 9/11 attacks.

A majority of the 1,021 respondents to the questionnaire developed by Ms Bright and her fellow students also said they were interested in learning foreign languages.

But while 71 per cent said 9/11 had impacted their lives in several ways, 70 per cent said they did not live in fear of becoming victims of terrorism and a similar number said they did not worry about more terrorism in the US.

That finding stood out for Amy Eisman, the course instructor and a former editor at USA Today.

"I thought that was a big deal, that it should be the top of the article," said Professor Eisman. "And they didn't see that. To them, that's just how they grew up, it wasn't a surprise".

It was just one of several differences between the generations that Professor Eisman noted.

On an issue like privacy, for instance, Ms Bright said that while she thought it important, she was "more concerned" about safety.

"The question of privacy means a whole lot more to me than it might mean to someone who has grown up with their visual identity on the internet," Professor Eisman said.

The class, "Growing up in the shadow of 9/11", started because Professor Eisman had concluded that the older generations had failed to properly understand the effect of 9/11 on a generation whose childhoods were cut short when 9/11 "brought the world into their lives".

"That was life changing, suddenly there was a planet beyond the end of the drive way and beyond school." On 9/11, Randa Serhan, director of Arab Studies at American University in Washington, had just arrived in New York from Lebanon to work on her doctorate, an ethnographic study of the Palestinian community in New York and New Jersey.

By the time she finished in 2009, she had observed significant changes among three generations of Palestinian immigrants.

Most notable, she said, was the idea of a Muslim identity being foisted on a community that had previously thought of itself primarily and without contradiction as both Palestinian and American.

"The first generation actually worried about that, because they were afraid that the Muslim identity would trump or sidetrack the Palestinian identity.

"That is really what the first generation wants to hold on to."

But the youngest generation, said Professor Serhan, had no choice: it "has to think about being Muslim". Before 9/11, fasting and praying was a communal event, she said, it was part of being Palestinian American from the West Bank. It was "mundane".

"It's no longer mundane and that's the problem, because where the older generation is very comfortable in America, the younger ones are not."

Ms Ghaith does not consider it a problem.

A devout Muslim, she began covering her hair three years after 9/11, when she was 13. She considers herself a "Muslim Palestinian", and said her faith only strengthened as a result of 9/11.

"Every time I go to Palestine and leave, it feels like I am leaving my home, and I don't consider New York my home at all."

And yet, "I love living in Brooklyn. I wouldn't want it any other way."

For Ms Bright, a long journey that began on 9/11 continues. Her class project ended on April 29, two days before Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in Pakistan.

The news brought some closure, she said, and some hope that maybe these endless wars could have an end.

But if 9/11 had been an opportunity for the US to "take a closer look at what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong", she said, that process was hardly over.

"I don't think we're anywhere near sort of the end of that test."

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Wicked
Director: Jon M Chu
Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey
Rating: 4/5
MOUNTAINHEAD REVIEW

Starring: Ramy Youssef, Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman

Director: Jesse Armstrong

Rating: 3.5/5

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Brief scores:

Toss: Northern Warriors, elected to field first

Bengal Tigers 130-1 (10 ov)

Roy 60 not out, Rutherford 47 not out

Northern Warriors 94-7 (10 ov)

Simmons 44; Yamin 4-4

PREMIER LEAGUE RESULTS

Bournemouth 1 Manchester City 2
Watford 0 Brighton and Hove Albion 0
Newcastle United 3 West Ham United 0
Huddersfield Town 0 Southampton 0
Crystal Palace 0 Swansea City 2
Manchester United 2 Leicester City 0
West Bromwich Albion 1 Stoke City 1
Chelsea 2 Everton 0
Tottenham Hotspur 1 Burnley 1
Liverpool 4 Arsenal 0

Dubai Bling season three

Cast: Loujain Adada, Zeina Khoury, Farhana Bodi, Ebraheem Al Samadi, Mona Kattan, and couples Safa & Fahad Siddiqui and DJ Bliss & Danya Mohammed 

Rating: 1/5

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Dust and sand storms compared

Sand storm

  • Particle size: Larger, heavier sand grains
  • Visibility: Often dramatic with thick "walls" of sand
  • Duration: Short-lived, typically localised
  • Travel distance: Limited 
  • Source: Open desert areas with strong winds

Dust storm

  • Particle size: Much finer, lightweight particles
  • Visibility: Hazy skies but less intense
  • Duration: Can linger for days
  • Travel distance: Long-range, up to thousands of kilometres
  • Source: Can be carried from distant regions
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Director: Matty Brown

Stars: Nadine Labaki, Ziad Bakri, Zain Al Rafeea, Riman Al Rafeea

Rating: 2.5/5

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Infiniti QX80 specs

Engine: twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6

Power: 450hp

Torque: 700Nm

Price: From Dh450,000, Autograph model from Dh510,000

Available: Now

Business Insights
  • Canada and Mexico are significant energy suppliers to the US, providing the majority of oil and natural gas imports
  • The introduction of tariffs could hinder the US's clean energy initiatives by raising input costs for materials like nickel
  • US domestic suppliers might benefit from higher prices, but overall oil consumption is expected to decrease due to elevated costs
Real estate tokenisation project

Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.

The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.

Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.

'Laal Kaptaan'

Director: Navdeep Singh

Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Manav Vij, Deepak Dobriyal, Zoya Hussain

Rating: 2/5

Padmaavat

Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Starring: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor, Jim Sarbh

3.5/5

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Breast cancer in men: the facts

1) Breast cancer is men is rare but can develop rapidly. It usually occurs in those over the ages of 60, but can occasionally affect younger men.

2) Symptoms can include a lump, discharge, swollen glands or a rash. 

3) People with a history of cancer in the family can be more susceptible. 

4) Treatments include surgery and chemotherapy but early diagnosis is the key. 

5) Anyone concerned is urged to contact their doctor

 

What should do investors do now?

What does the S&P 500's new all-time high mean for the average investor? 

Should I be euphoric?

No. It's fine to be pleased about hearty returns on your investments. But it's not a good idea to tie your emotions closely to the ups and downs of the stock market. You'll get tired fast. This market moment comes on the heels of last year's nosedive. And it's not the first or last time the stock market will make a dramatic move.

So what happened?

It's more about what happened last year. Many of the concerns that triggered that plunge towards the end of last have largely been quelled. The US and China are slowly moving toward a trade agreement. The Federal Reserve has indicated it likely will not raise rates at all in 2019 after seven recent increases. And those changes, along with some strong earnings reports and broader healthy economic indicators, have fueled some optimism in stock markets.

"The panic in the fourth quarter was based mostly on fears," says Brent Schutte, chief investment strategist for Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company. "The fundamentals have mostly held up, while the fears have gone away and the fears were based mostly on emotion."

Should I buy? Should I sell?

Maybe. It depends on what your long-term investment plan is. The best advice is usually the same no matter the day — determine your financial goals, make a plan to reach them and stick to it.

"I would encourage (investors) not to overreact to highs, just as I would encourage them not to overreact to the lows of December," Mr Schutte says.

All the same, there are some situations in which you should consider taking action. If you think you can't live through another low like last year, the time to get out is now. If the balance of assets in your portfolio is out of whack thanks to the rise of the stock market, make adjustments. And if you need your money in the next five to 10 years, it shouldn't be in stocks anyhow. But for most people, it's also a good time to just leave things be.

Resist the urge to abandon the diversification of your portfolio, Mr Schutte cautions. It may be tempting to shed other investments that aren't performing as well, such as some international stocks, but diversification is designed to help steady your performance over time.

Will the rally last?

No one knows for sure. But David Bailin, chief investment officer at Citi Private Bank, expects the US market could move up 5 per cent to 7 per cent more over the next nine to 12 months, provided the Fed doesn't raise rates and earnings growth exceeds current expectations. We are in a late cycle market, a period when US equities have historically done very well, but volatility also rises, he says.

"This phase can last six months to several years, but it's important clients remain invested and not try to prematurely position for a contraction of the market," Mr Bailin says. "Doing so would risk missing out on important portfolio returns."

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Engine: 2.0-litre 4-cylinder turbo

Power: 258hp from 5,000-6,500rpm

Torque: 400Nm from 1,550-4,000rpm

Transmission: Eight-speed auto

Fuel consumption: 6.1L/100km

Price: from Dh362,500

On sale: now

The specs

Engine: four-litre V6 and 3.5-litre V6 twin-turbo

Transmission: six-speed and 10-speed

Power: 271 and 409 horsepower

Torque: 385 and 650Nm

Price: from Dh229,900 to Dh355,000

Korean Film Festival 2019 line-up

Innocent Witness, June 26 at 7pm

On Your Wedding Day, June 27 at 7pm

The Great Battle, June 27 at 9pm

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, June 28 at 4pm

Romang, June 28 at 6pm

Mal Mo E: The Secret Mission, June 28 at 8pm

Underdog, June 29 at 2pm

Nearby Sky, June 29 at 4pm

A Resistance, June 29 at 6pm 

 

Results

United States beat UAE by three wickets

United States beat Scotland by 35 runs

UAE v Scotland – no result

United States beat UAE by 98 runs

Scotland beat United States by four wickets

Fixtures

Sunday, 10am, ICC Academy, Dubai - UAE v Scotland

Admission is free

Key fixtures from January 5-7

Watford v Bristol City

Liverpool v Everton

Brighton v Crystal Palace

Bournemouth v AFC Fylde or Wigan

Coventry v Stoke City

Nottingham Forest v Arsenal

Manchester United v Derby

Forest Green or Exeter v West Brom

Tottenham v AFC Wimbledon

Fleetwood or Hereford v Leicester City

Manchester City v Burnley

Shrewsbury v West Ham United

Wolves v Swansea City

Newcastle United v Luton Town

Fulham v Southampton

Norwich City v Chelsea

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Profession: Senior sports presenter and producer

Marital status: Single

Favourite book: Al Nabi by Jibran Khalil Jibran

Favourite food: Italian and Lebanese food

Favourite football player: Cristiano Ronaldo

Languages: Arabic, French, English, Portuguese and some Spanish

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Ms Yang's top tips for parents new to the UAE
  1. Join parent networks
  2. Look beyond school fees
  3. Keep an open mind
Disposing of non-recycleable masks
    Use your ‘black bag’ bin at home Do not put them in a recycling bin Take them home with you if there is no litter bin
  • No need to bag the mask
It Was Just an Accident

Director: Jafar Panahi

Stars: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr

Rating: 4/5

A cryptocurrency primer for beginners

Cryptocurrency Investing  for Dummies – by Kiana Danial 

There are several primers for investing in cryptocurrencies available online, including e-books written by people whose credentials fall apart on the second page of your preferred search engine. 

Ms Danial is a finance coach and former currency analyst who writes for Nasdaq. Her broad-strokes primer (2019) breaks down investing in cryptocurrency into baby steps, while explaining the terms and technologies involved.

Although cryptocurrencies are a fast evolving world, this  book offers a good insight into the game as well as providing some basic tips, strategies and warning signs.

Begin your cryptocurrency journey here. 

Available at Magrudy’s , Dh104 

Labour dispute

The insured employee may still file an ILOE claim even if a labour dispute is ongoing post termination, but the insurer may suspend or reject payment, until the courts resolve the dispute, especially if the reason for termination is contested. The outcome of the labour court proceedings can directly affect eligibility.


- Abdullah Ishnaneh, Partner, BSA Law 

Profile of Bitex UAE

Date of launch: November 2018

Founder: Monark Modi

Based: Business Bay, Dubai

Sector: Financial services

Size: Eight employees

Investors: Self-funded to date with $1m of personal savings

Ovo's tips to find extra heat
  • Open your curtains when it’s sunny 
  • Keep your oven open after cooking  
  • Have a cuddle with pets and loved ones to help stay cosy 
  • Eat ginger but avoid chilli as it makes you sweat 
  • Put on extra layers  
  • Do a few star jumps  
  • Avoid alcohol   
The Cairo Statement

 1: Commit to countering all types of terrorism and extremism in all their manifestations

2: Denounce violence and the rhetoric of hatred

3: Adhere to the full compliance with the Riyadh accord of 2014 and the subsequent meeting and executive procedures approved in 2014 by the GCC  

4: Comply with all recommendations of the Summit between the US and Muslim countries held in May 2017 in Saudi Arabia.

5: Refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of countries and of supporting rogue entities.

6: Carry out the responsibility of all the countries with the international community to counter all manifestations of extremism and terrorism that threaten international peace and security

RESULT

Argentina 0 Croatia 3
Croatia: 
Rebic (53'), Modric (80'), Rakitic (90' 1)

Married Malala

Malala Yousafzai is enjoying married life, her father said.

The 24-year-old married Pakistan cricket executive Asser Malik last year in a small ceremony in the UK.

Ziauddin Yousafzai told The National his daughter was ‘very happy’ with her husband.

Soldier F

“I was in complete disgust at the fact that only one person was to be charged for Bloody Sunday.

“Somebody later said to me, 'you just watch - they'll drop the charge against him'. And sure enough, the charges against Soldier F would go on to be dropped.

“It's pretty hard to think that 50 years on, the State is still covering up for what happened on Bloody Sunday.”

Jimmy Duddy, nephew of John Johnson

Water waste

In the UAE’s arid climate, small shrubs, bushes and flower beds usually require about six litres of water per square metre, daily. That increases to 12 litres per square metre a day for small trees, and 300 litres for palm trees.

Horticulturists suggest the best time for watering is before 8am or after 6pm, when water won't be dried up by the sun.

A global report published by the Water Resources Institute in August, ranked the UAE 10th out of 164 nations where water supplies are most stretched.

The Emirates is the world’s third largest per capita water consumer after the US and Canada.

What can you do?

Document everything immediately; including dates, times, locations and witnesses

Seek professional advice from a legal expert

You can report an incident to HR or an immediate supervisor

You can use the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation’s dedicated hotline

In criminal cases, you can contact the police for additional support