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Community Community The Gipsy Kings Department enthrals P6of Social P16 audience Sciences at Ideal at Al Mayassa Indian School Theatre at organises an event Qatar National to mark UN Day. Convention Centre. Monday, October 28, 2019 Safar 29, 1441 AH Doha today: 280 - 350 PPerceptionerception COVER By age 6, kids tend to see white men as STORY more ‘brilliant’ than white women. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD I don’t take Danson, ‘Jane Fonda’s pressure: Priyanka. new trainee,’ arrested. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Monday, October 28, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.21am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.40am Zuhr (noon) 11.19am Asr (afternoon) 2.33pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.57pm Isha (night) 6.27pm USEFUL NUMBERS Saand Ki Aankh and Prakashi Tomar inspire other women in India when they DIRECTION: Tushar Hiranandani demonstrate their expert sharpshooting skills. CAST: Pawan Chopra, Raunakk Bhnder, Prakash Jha SYNOPSIS: Both over the age of 60, Chandro Tomar THEATRES: Landmark, Royal Plaza, The Mall Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 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 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 Vikrithi SYNOPSIS: Vikrithi tells the story of Sameer, an DIRECTION: Emcy Joseph immigrant, and Eldho, a school peon. Both of their lives take CAST: Soubin Shahir, Vincy Aloshious, Suraaj an intriguing turn because of the misuse of social media. Venjarammoodu THEATRES: The Mall, Royal Plaza, Landmark te Unqu uo ot Q “Learn e from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein 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 Monday, October 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY TIME: 10am - 10pm Ballet Lessons The festival off ers other benefi ts to WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier participants, including the promotion of WHEN: Ongoing their work, interaction with print, electronic, TIME: 4pm – 8pm digital, and social media, interaction with For more info e-mail at registration@ selected art collectors, art investors, and atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. potential buyers. QIAF, one of the largest art festivals in Qatar, is organised every year. For further details, [email protected], [email protected] Hobby Classes After School Activities WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art WHERE: Atelier Centre WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Saturday – Friday Music and arts activities for students Mamangam is an art and performance Gems and Jewels Exhibition hierarchies and health systems of the local taking place after they fi nish their day in centre started with a vision of spreading WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art Tanzanian communities. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- our knowledge, interests and experience in WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 A collection of photographs of the wildlife, hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama various disciplines in arts across diff erent TIME: 9am onwards landscapes and people of Tanzania taken by Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 countries for children and adults. The exhibition comes in celebration of WCM-Q professor Dr Dietrich Büsselberg years old after school hours. Mamangam has become the favourite the 2019 Year of Culture Qatar-India and will be exhibited. centre for learning. We off er regular classes presents a look at magnifi cent gems and in the following disciplines like traditional jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and classical and folk dance forms, art and Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases craft, drawing and painting, personality more than 100 pieces from across Qatar development and public speaking, Bollywood Museums’ (QM) collections, including many dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music masterpieces that have never been displayed both vocals and instrumentals. To develop before. health consciousness, we train them karate, yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. Mamangam has also come up with chess and robotics in regular batches in an attempt to give a better learning experience, as they sharpen their minds and brains too. For those who wish to register for more details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm The olympic sport using horizontal bar, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the children from age 4 till 16. Career Guidance Photo Exhibition: ‘Experience WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Tanzania’ Sadd WHERE: Multaqa (Student Center) Art WHEN: Sunday – Thursday Gallery at Education City TIME: 6pm – 8pm WHEN: Ongoing until December 1 Career guidance for course, country, ISC Yoga Championship 2019 TIME: 4pm college and entrance for students of Grade WHERE: MES Indian School, Abu ‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments Hamour supported by Student Aff airs Division of administered for stream preference, career WHEN: November 1 Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar that allows test, branch preference, personality, TIME: 1pm onwards students and faculty to explore and immerse multiple intelligence and learning styles ISC Inter-School Team and Individual themselves in Tanzanian urban and rural and productivity. For more information, championship is open to all schools in Qatar cultures. During their trip, WCM-Q’s 55448835. in U-12 & U-19 Boys and Girls categories. aspiring physicians off er basic healthcare Yoga Championship is also open for Men services to the locals as a way of giving Qatar International Art Festival 2019 and Women category separately. back to the community and learn about WHERE: Katara Cultural Village Entry is free. For further details, 55956008, the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic WHEN: 30 October - 5 November 77353255, 55005964 Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, October 28, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Stereotyping superiority The notion helps lay the groundwork for a pervasive stereotype that privileges white boys over other children, writes Amina Khan FINDINGS: One study reported that even when black students had test scores comparable to those of white students, they were far less likely to be assigned to gifted me unless their teacher was black. lbert Einstein. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas This white-male- Edison. Steve Jobs. Picture a brilliant person in your mind’s eye genius stereotype and you’re likely to conjure a white male. That that we have idea gets into kids’ heads as early as the age of A6, a new study fi nds. culturally in our Researchers who polled more than 200 New York kindergartners and fi rst-graders found that they had society really affects already begun to believe that white men are more “brilliant” than white women. That notion helps lay the groundwork kids and their for a pervasive stereotype that privileges white boys over other children, and may have implications for their future beliefs about who careers and the course of their lives, scientists said. is brilliant and who “This white-male-genius stereotype that we have culturally in our society really aff ects kids and their beliefs can become brilliant about who is brilliant and who can become brilliant,” said Mary Murphy, a social psychologist at Indiana University who was not involved in the new study. — Mary Murphy, In the United States, women earn more than half of the ‘ college and graduate school degrees. They also outperform social psychologist boys at school, including in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects. But that hasn’t stopped people like former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers from saying things like the reason there are fewer women in top-level science jobs is a “diff erent availability of aptitude at the high end.” Experts say the idea that “brilliance” is necessary for ’ certain disciplines and jobs is widely shared, and there’s Monday, October 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY a growing body of evidence that down the line,” he said. people associate such brilliance How can boys be seen as better with white men. in science and math when girls get Andrei Cimpian, a psychologist the better grades? Cimpian off ered at New York University, has been a possible explanation: Girls who exploring these biases and their succeed are seen as hard-working implications for years. For instance, rather than as really smart — and he and colleagues found that in there’s evidence that teachers fi elds that prize “brilliance” and endorse some of these subtle “genius,” there were far fewer biases, he added. women and African Americans The results involving white with PhDs. adults were in line with his previous That discrepancy can be found work, but there was a twist when in elementary school classrooms. it came to judging pictures of men One study reported that even when and women who were black. In black students had test scores these cases, white children overall comparable to those of white were slightly more likely to see the students, they were far less likely woman as more brilliant than the to be assigned to gifted me unless man. Boys and girls of colour, on their teacher was black. the other hand, still favoured their Stereotypes about intelligence own gender at age 6. and gender take root at a young “This suggests that these age.