The SME Digital Transformation of the Year Award for Gulf Times Community at QDBA 2019 Is an Honour
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Community Community The finalists The five-day- of Stars of long Qatar P6Science P16 International Season 11 urge people Art Festival concludes on to vote for them with a high note with award hopes of winning ceremony held for the title. participating artists. Thursday, November 7, 2019 Rabia I 10, 1441 AH Doha today: 250 - 330 A new verve The SME Digital Transformation of the Year award for Gulf Times Community at QDBA 2019 is an honour. P4-5 COVER STORY REVIEW SHOWBIZ An adaptation that misses Nigerian Oscar entry Lionheart promised mystical potential. disqualifi ed for too much English. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, November 7, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.26am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.47am Zuhr (noon) 11.19am Asr (afternoon) 2.28pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.51pm Isha (night) 6.21pm USEFUL NUMBERS Playing with fi re could prepare them for their most challenging job yet – DIRECTION: Andy Fickman babysitting. 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CAST: Gagan Arora, Abhilash Chaudhary, Maanvi Gagroo SYNOPSIS: The fi lm revolves around a 30-year-old THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall te Unqu uo ot Q “Your e positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.” — Shiv Khera Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Thursday, November 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY TIME: 4pm — 9pm A one stop place for school leavers. All prospective students who are planning to study in Malaysia are welcome to the exhibition. Come and be a part of the truly Asian culture in Doha. After School Activities WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing Music and arts activities for students taking place after they fi nish their day in school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. 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Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, November 7, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Recognition to cherish COVETED PRIZE: Digital Marketing Manager Jossy Abraham receiving the SME Digital Transformation of the Year award for Gulf Times Community at the Qatar Digital Business Awards (QDBA) 2019. ast week Gulf Times Organisation and over the years, redesigned its Community Now, by integrating digital sharing news and entertainment Community won the SME it has made a mark for itself in supplement on November, 14, to the print news operations, stories on Instagram. Be it fashion, Digital Transformation the print and media market. The 2013. The 16-page Community Community is able to produce celebrity news, activities in and of the Year award fi rst edition of the Gulf Times was tabloid was launched to serve in-depth multimedia stories. This around Qatar, or the photo essays at the Qatar Digital published on December 10, 1978, as and build inter-community focus on experimentation and submitted by the readers, the LBusiness Awards (QDBA) 2019. a black-and-white tabloid and later bridges, seek expanded coverage interdisciplinary collaboration has vibrant content aims to keep HE the Minister of Transport the sister Arabic-language paper and highlight all activities and transformed Community newsroom readers engaged and with new plans and Communications Jassim Arrayah was launched. steps taken by — and for — and created a new model for news in place, the quality of content will Seif Ahmed al-Sulati and Today, the company produces communities living in Qatar coverage and other informative only get better. MoTC’s Digital Society assistant two of the leading print that serve to promote greater articles. The mission is to provide fresh, undersecretary Reem al-Mansoori publications in the English and understanding and harmony. It Keeping in line with its bold vibrant and quality content across presented the award. Arabic language market in Qatar, opened new doors for its readers vision, the company launched each platform in the form of The award is given to an SME and has also established itself as a to share their stories and connect www.gulftimescommunity. articles, pictures and videos so as that has successfully deployed leading media brand with strong with one another — be they com — a dynamic website as a to enhance the social interaction innovative digital tools to enhance presence in the country. The key decision-makers, community brand extension of Community among the ever expanding their operations and services. to the success of the company has leaders, expatriates or citizens. print edition. It off ers an ideal readership of the digital Now in its fi fth year, the annual always been its ability to adapt to Gulf