Letters

The GulfWeekly team would like to congratulate singer Banah Anabtawi for the launch of her first official song Shou Helou Nihna. We are delighted for the Bahraini songstress that goes by the stage name Banah for living out her dream especially as she had informed us in an exclusive interview that she hopes her success will inspire other young girls to pursue their passion the way she did.

Her new love song is composed by Khaled and Rayan Habre and incorporates a mix of oriental instruments such as Qanoon within her song along with the saxophone and the trumpet. The music arrangement was compiled by Rayan while the audio was mixed and mastered by Jean Madani of Audio Addicts. It is already proving popular and has been acquired by Tunes Arabia. The song was composed in Lebanon and the video clip was filmed in Bahrain at Gallery 21 by Omega Film.

Banah is expecting to release a new song in late November and will also be performing in an exclusive concert on December 16th, 2018, which will be held under the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities.

We can’t wait!

The Gulf Weekly team

I’d like to thank Mai Al-Khatib-Camille for her write-up on my cooking class. It was well compiled.

Shobha Ravishankar, the founder and instructor of the Cook to Impress courses for teenagers

I’d like to thank Stan Szecowka and Mai Al Khatib-Camille on the Cutting Carbs is Key story in the newspaper. It really looks terrific and we are all very happy with it. Thank you very much Mai for all your efforts and we are very pleased that our work was highlighted.

Esther van Zuuren, a dermatologist at the Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands who was a member of the team involved in conducting the systematic review.