Community Community Georgetown Katara professor exhibition explores off ers P7 Islamism and P16 a unique nationalism interpretation of in the Middle Arabic calligraphy East. using Chinese fonts. Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Sha’baan 20, 1438 AH DOHA 31°C—41°C TODAY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE 11 PUZZLES 12 & 13 COVER STORY Game for change The breadth and diversity of Dr Sania Nishtar’s experiences make her the ideal candidate to next lead the WHO. P4-6 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, May 16, 2017 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT King Arthur: Legend of the Sword DIRECTION: Guy Ritchie WRITTEN BY: Joby Harold, Guy Ritchie CAST: Charlie Hunnam, Djimon Hounsou, Aidan Gillen, Jude Law, Eric Bana SYNOPSIS: When young Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern PRAYER TIME (Jude Law), Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Fajr 3.24am Robbed of his birthright Shorooq (sunrise) 4.49am and with no idea who he Zuhr (noon) 11.30am truly is, Arthur (Charlie Asr (afternoon) 2.57pm Hunnam) comes up Maghreb (sunset) 6.14pm the hard way in the Isha (night) 7.44pm back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, USEFUL NUMBERS his life is turned upside down, and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy whether he likes it or not. THEATRES: Emergency 999 Landmark, The Mall, Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Royal Plaza Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Kalb Balady his childhood, which led to the acquisition of some of the Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 DIRECTION: Moataz Eltouni ingredients for dogs. A comedy about a thief who steals street Qatar Airways 40253374 WRITTEN BY: Ahmed Fahmy, Sherif Nagib dogs and sells them, but ironically he learned this profession CAST: Ahmad Fahmy, Akram Hosni, Nada Moussa, Dina from a female dog, who breastfed him as a baby, which led him Mohsen, Ahmed Fathy to acquire supernatural powers. SYNOPSIS: After he was abandoned by his mother with a dog called Fresca and suckle from it ... Rocky grew up in THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te The Mall Cinema (1): Meri Pyaari Boss Baby (2D) 4:30pm; Spark: A Q The beauty of Bindu (Hindi) 2pm; Radha (Telugu) Space Tail (2D) 6:30pm; Sarkar 3 a woman must be seen 4:15pm; Sarkar 3 (Hindi) 6pm; King (Hindi) 8:30pm; Radha (Telugu) Arthur: Legend Of The Sword (2D) Tail (2D) 4pm; Sarkar 3 (Hindi) 11pm. from in her eyes, because that 8:30pm; King Arthur: Legend Of 5:45pm; Sarkar 3 (Hindi) 8:15pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): is the doorway to her heart, the The Sword (2D) 11pm. Gerogettan (2D) 10:45pm. Spark: A Space Tail (2D) 2:30pm; The Mall Cinema (2): Spark: A Landmark Cinema (2): Spark: A Radha (Telugu) 4:30pm; King place where love resides. Space Tail (2D) 2pm; Spark: A Space Tail (2D) 2:15pm; Bashtery Arthur: Legend Of The Sword (2D) – Audrey Hepburn Space Tail (2D) 3:45pm; The Bossy Ragel (Arabic) 4:15pm; The Dinner 7pm; King Arthur: Legend Of The Baby (2D) 5:30pm; King Arthur: (2D) 6:15pm; King Arthur: Legend Sword (2D) 9:15pm; Kalb Balady Legend Of The Sword (2D) 7:15pm; Of The Sword (2D) 8:45pm; (Arabic) 11:30pm. Kalb Balady (Arabic) 9:30pm; Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Sarkar 3 (Hindi) 11:15pm. (Tamil) 11pm. Sarkar 3 (Hindi) 2:15pm; Sarkar 3 The Mall Cinema (3): Saravanan Landmark Cinema (3): Meri (Hindi) 4:45pm; The Dinner (2D) Irukka Bayamaen (Tamil) Pyaari Bindu (Hindi) 2:15pm; Sarkar 7:15pm; Bashtery Ragel (Arabic) Community Editor 2:30pm; The Dinner (2D) 4:45 3 (Hindi) 4:30pm; King Arthur: 9:30pm; The Rezort (2D) 11:30pm. Kamran Rehmat Bashtery Ragel (Arabic) 7pm; The Legend Of The Sword (2D) 7pm; Asian Townc Cinema: Georgettan e-mail: [email protected] Rezort (2D) 9:15pm; Georgettan Kalb Balady (Arabic) 9:15pm; The (Malayalam) 5:45, 8:30 & 11:15pm; Telephone: 44466405 (Malayalam) 11pm. Rezort (2D) 11:30pm. Bahubali 2: The Conclusion Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): The Boss Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): (Hindi) 6:30pm; Saravanan Irukka Baby (2D) 2:15pm; Spark: A Space The Boss Baby (2D) 2:30pm; The Bayamean (Tamil) 3:30, 6 & 11pm. Tuesday, May 16, 2017 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY of Tulunaadu. These awards are not only a celebrate the best leisure facilities, retail mix recognition, but also an inspiration for all to and dining options, all with exceptional service. strive to support others around in need of help. Aqua Park 2017 season Art Exhibition WHEN: Until August WHERE: Doha Fire Station WHERE: Aqua Park WHEN: Until May 22 The Aqua Park 2017 season is fi nally here and TIME: 10am-10pm is happening with a big bang and splash. Qatar Museums (QM) is proud to open an exhibition by Qatari contemporary artist Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans Ebtisam al-Saff ar at the Doha Fire Station WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art Artist in Residence space. Open from 10am – WHEN: Until November 4 10pm until 22nd May in the Annex Building, This exhibition focuses on the exchange EVENTS the exhibition celebrates the accomplishments Art 29 Emergeast’s ‘Currents’ Exhibition of artistic and material cultures between of al-Saff ar during her three-month Qatari Art WHEN: Until May 20 the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires. ‘Flute Butto’: India’s popular bamboo Residency Program in Paris. WHERE: W Doha Hotel & Residences, Qatar Highlighting MIA’s masterpiece carpets, among fl autist TIME: 9am-7pm other artworks, from Turkey, Iran and India, WHERE: IAID Beauty of Islamic Calligraphy Who run the world? Girls! Check out the these objects will be contextualised within the WHEN: May 19 WHERE: QM Gallery Al Riwaq all-female artist exhibition, ‘Currents’ by historical circumstances of politics and artistic TIME: 6pm WHEN: Until June 17 Emergeast, which makes its debut in Doha for production of their time, primarily from the Annada Prasanna Pattanaik (popularly A new exhibition – Contemporary the very fi rst time. The collection will highlight 16th to the 18th centuries. known as Flute Butto), one of India’s foremost Calligraphy – Mehmet Cebi Collection will the fl ow of a cross-cultural dialogue with fl autist of North Indian style, is coming to open at the QM Gallery Al Riwaq, and will bring concrete parallels. Picasso-Giacometti perform exclusively at IAID. The performance together a notable selection of intricate and WHEN: Until May 21 will last for an hour, which will start with some beautiful calligraphic artworks dating from the Childhood Cultural Center WHERE: Fire Station Artist In Residence classical Raag Alap, followed by some rhythmic 1960s to the present day. WHEN: May 31 This exhibition brings together more than phrases (called Jod). Lastly, he will also be WHERE: Childhood Cultural Center 120 works by Picasso and Giacometti, drawn performing few selected Bollywood songs, Singing contest for Sri Lankans TIME: 9am-11am from the collections of the Musée national which has some good arrangements work that A large number of expatriate Sri Lankans Childhood Cultural Center participation Picasso-Paris and the Fondation Giacometti in everyone will appreciate. For reservations, call have registered for season 2 of the popular in ‘Schools enrich our Culture’ programme Paris, as well as exceptional loans from French 44320974, 44411234, 55860644. singing contest Qatar Gee Tharu Dahana. The includes a variety of educational and and other international collections, covering auditions will continue on May 19 and 26. The artistic workshops. In addition to personal paintings, sculptures, sketches, photographs Traditional Storytelling programme is being organised by Sri Lanka development skills with a focus on “problem and interviews with the artists. The exhibition WHEN: May 25-27 Co-ordinating Committee Qatar, Sri Lanka solving skills”, “rectifying inappropriate refl ects two years of research undertaken by WHERE: Doha Festival City – Centre Court Community Benevolent Fund Qatar and Sri discipline”, “planning principles” and the Fondation Giacometti and the Musée TIME: 7:30pm – 9:30pm Lanka Business Council Qatar. Registration “voluntary work”, it targets all school academic national Picasso-Paris, which reveals for the Are you listening carefully? Then we will of candidates closed during the Sinhala and levels within an interactive entertaining fi rst time the previously unknown relationship begin. For an entire weekend, kids will have the Tamil New Year celebration which was held framework. between these two artists, who, despite an opportunity to listen to beautiful tales shared on April 7. Community members who had age gap of 20 years, shared many moments, by a traditional storyteller at Doha Festival City. registered themselves for the contest lauded Community Education Programme both personal and professional. It has been Families can sit together under the magical the organising committee for giving them the WHEN: Until May 25 organised in six sections, evoking diff erent Centre Court atrium to enjoy and learn more opportunity to showcase their talent in the fi eld WHERE: VCUQatar aspects of each artist’s production, including about the month of Ramadan. of music and showed much enthusiasm when TIME: 8am-5pm the development of their work as young artists informed of the auditions. Learn new skills and deepen your through to their modernist creations, showing Garangao Celebration A panel of experienced judges will be at understanding of arts and culture at VCUQatar.