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People of Persia Mobinah Ahmad
After the successful conclusion of the portrait series “People of China” in the previous issues of AMUST, a second portrait series “People of Persia” is starting with the current issue exploring all the different types of people in Iran, across gender, age, socio-economic status and geographical location. Two enthralling ways to enjoy a new culture and country is through it’s people and their food. Iranian cuisine is quite unique to Iran, with beef and chicken hidden underneath mountains of rice, to flavoursome meat stews, to saffron filled sweets. This photo series will get you hungry to try something new! Historically, Persian culture had a dominating effect from as far as South East Asia to India, Central Asia and West Asia. Farsi language was the official court language of the two most powerful and rich empires, Mughal and Ottoman. Kashmiri and Mughal Indian cuisines are basically derived from the Persian cuisine. Turn the pages to peer through the wonders of Iranian cuisine (page 12) and People of Persia (page 20) photo essays.
Australian Team wins Innovation Challenge Zia Ahmad
Shihaab Azam and Hamza Khan at the Kennedy Space Centre, NASA, Florida, United States of America. Proudly Printed in Australia by Spotpress Pty Ltd
Hamza Khan, Shihaab Azam, Olivia Hutley and Kelsey Matushcka, are the first Australians ever to win one of the four divisions at the Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge held on 20-24 April 2016 at NASA in Florida, USA. They are members of Team Enlighten, Year 11 students at Brisbane’s St John’s Anglican College. St John’s is the only school in Australia to make the semi-finals two years in a row. The competition included four divisions; Aerospace and Aviation, Energy and the Environment, Cyber Technologies and Security, and Health and Nutrition. The spark for this idea originated when Hamza and his mates were using their phones late at night and realised that their smartphones were having a detrimental effect on their sleep. The team decided to design a viable solution in the Health and Nutrition category of the Innovation Challenge. The winning team proposed the idea to develop a mobile application to control the colours of mobile devices to eliminate anxiety, poor sleeping patterns and stress. Their ‘Lumos App’ idea is based on studies that show extensive amounts of exposure... continued on page 2
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