Community Community Al Jazeera Embassy Academy of France P6achieves P16 organises accreditation by the ‘Women and Diversity team of Western Lunch Talk’ to mark Association of International Schools and Colleges. Women’s Day. Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Jumada II 28, 1440 AH Doha today: 160 - 260 COVER Notes of wisdom STORY Nobel laureate Toni Morrison turns blazing intellect on current issues in The Source of Self-Regard. P4-5 POP SPOT SHOWBIZ Self-titled debut album I’ve become greedier and brings fame for AJ Tracey. selective in fi lms: Divya. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, March 5, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.38am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.54am Zuhr (noon) 11.45am Asr (afternoon) 3.07pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.40pm Isha (night) 7.10pm Take Point Forces Minister in an underground bunker below the DIRECTION: Byung-woo Kim Korean demilitarised zone. However, they get caught in the USEFUL NUMBERS CAST: Jung-woo Ha, Sun-kyun Lee, Jennifer Ehle crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of SYNOPSIS: On the day of the US presidential election World War III. in 2024, Ahab and his team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea’s Armed THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark 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 Boo warning of an innocent prank left upon them which causes an DIRECTION: Luke Jaden unknown supernatural force to wreak havoc. CAST: Aurora Perrineau, Jaden Piner, Jill Marie Jones SYNOPSIS: A torn suburban family refuses to heed the THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall ote Unquo Qu te “Don’t The Mall Cinema (1): (Tamil) 3pm; Gully Boy (Hindi) grieve. Anything Lonappante Mammod1sa 6pm; Escape Room (2D) 9pm; (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Total Take Point (2D) 11pm. you lose comes round Dhamaal (Hindi) 5pm; Escape Royal Plaza Cinema Palace in another form.” Room (2D) 7:15pm; Luka Chuppi 11:30pm. (1): Total Dhamaal (Hindi) 3pm; (Hindi) 9:15pm; Gully Boy (Hindi) Landmark Cinema (1): Luka Chuppi (Hindi) 5:30pm; 11:30pm. Lonappante Mammod1sa Alone/Together (Tagalog) 8pm; — Rumi The Mall Cinema (2): Toys (2D) (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Toys (2D) Sonchiriya (Hindi) 11pm. 2pm; Toys (2D) 3:45pm; Alone/ 5pm; June (Malayalam) 6:45pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Together (Tagalog) 5:30pm; Alone/Together (Tagalog) (2): L.K.G. (Tamil) 3pm; Alone/Together (Tagalog) 9:15pm; Kodathi Samaksham Lonappante Mammod1sa 7:30pm; A Madea Family Funeral Balan Vakkeel (Malayalam) (Malayalam) 6pm; Escape (2D) 9:30pm; Total Dhamaal 11:15pm. Room (2D) 9pm; Lonappante Community Editor (Hindi) 11:30pm. Landmark Cinema (2): Mammod1sa (Malayalam) 11pm. Kamran Rehmat The Mall Cinema (3): Luka Sonchiriya (Hindi) 3pm; Luka Royal Plaza Cinema Palace e-mail: [email protected] Chuppi (Hindi) 2:15pm; Thadam Chuppi (Hindi) 6pm; Lonappante (3): Toys (2D) 2:30pm; Gully Boy Telephone: 44466405 (Tamil) 4:30pm; Alita: The Battle Mammod1sa (Malayalam) (Hindi) 4:30pm; Boo! (2D) 7:15pm; Angel (2D) 7pm; Take Point 8:30pm; Thadam (Tamil) 11pm. Total Dhamaal (Hindi) 9pm; Fax: 44350474 (2D) 9:15pm; Escape Room (2D) Landmark Cinema (3): Thadam Thadam (Tamil) 11:15pm. Tuesday, March 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY New Media + New Museum Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club WHERE: Education City WHERE: Losail Circuit WHEN: March 12 WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 7pm – 9pm TIME: 5pm Storytelling in exhibitions has become Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association increasingly important, and melded with with Qatar Sports For All Federation, technology can create immersive, active invites all cyclists, runners and walkers spaces for visitors, a far cry from the to train under the floodlights of Losail passive viewing of objects often thought of International Circuit every Wednesdays. as a typical museum experience. Syria Matters Exhibition WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: Ongoing till April 30 TIME: 9am – 7pm Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha presents a major exhibition, co-curated by MIA Director Dr Julia Gonnella and Rania Abdellatif, as part of the MIA ten-year anniversary celebrations. Arabic Calligraphy Workshop WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday TIME: 6pm Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Arts Atelier. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at EVENTS March. It is a perfect market to get amazing 6pm. For more information, contact local fresh produce. [email protected] Artistic Gymnastic Classes Ballet Lessons WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Today WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm TIME: 4pm – 8pm The olympic sport using horizontal bar, For more info e-mail at registration@ rings and floor exercises on mats for the atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. children from age 4 till 16. MIA Park Bazaar 2019 WHERE: Museum Of Islamic Art WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 12pm – 8pm MIA Bazaar will be having a vibrant mix of 350 stalls. MIA Park Bazaar is a modern version of the old souq tradition. After School Activities The stalls are going to offer a wide range Grand Prix of Qatar 2019 WHERE: Atelier of gastronomies from all over the world. WHERE: Losail International Circuit WHEN: Ongoing You can also browse and grab handcrafted WHEN: March 8 – 10 Music and arts activities for students artefacts, accessories, canvases, fashion TIME: 1pm – 9pm taking place after they finish their day in wears, designer ornaments. The opening race will be held under the school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- floodlights. Tickets can be purchased on- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama line. Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a holistic performing arts institution and a one stop solution for adults as well as children looking to explore their talents in various art forms. We offer classes in contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop and Indian classical dance forms, along with Mehaseel Festival classes for music, art and crafts, karate and WHERE: Katara Cultural Village yoga. Additional services include dance WHEN: Ongoing till March 31 education and choreography. For details, Mehaseel Souq will be open every call 33897609. Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 31st of Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Learn the movements of dance styles in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the A R Rahman Concert Music maestro A R Rahman is going to be musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, WHERE: Khalifa Stadium performing on the 22nd of March at the Khalifa Keyboard for adults as well kids and move WHEN: March 22 Stadium for the fi rst time as part of the Qatar- in the world of music. For details, contact TIME: 6pm – 11pm India Year of Culture 2019. 66523871/ 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, March 5, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Noble thoughts from a Nobel laureate Toni Morrison lets us know why she feels this book is necessary: Writing is powerful and therefore, in times like ours, threatened. By Colette Bancroft ne of America’s four decades, from 1976 to 2013, greatest writers had a and include commencement birthday last month, addresses, eulogies, essays on and she gave us all a other artists and her own work, gift. and her Nobel lecture on the OToni Morrison turned 88 on power of language. February 18. If anyone has earned The introduction is titled the right to rest on her laurels, it Peril, and in it Morrison lets us would be Morrison. She has had know why she feels this book is not one but several distinguished necessary: Writing is powerful careers, as an editor at Random and therefore, in times like ours, House where she worked to threatened. bring black literature into the That’s inevitable, she writes, mainstream, and as a professor “because truth is trouble. It is of writing at Cornell, Bard and trouble for the warmonger, the Princeton. She is a writer in many torturer, the corporate thief, genres, from children’s books to the political hack, the corrupt criticism. justice system, and for a comatose What she is internationally public. Unpersecuted, unjailed, famous for, of course, is her unharassed writers are trouble for fi ction, 11 novels of extraordinary the ignorant bully, the sly racist, Truth is trouble for the warmonger, power and beauty, the crown jewel and the predators feeding off the among them her masterpiece, world’s resources. … Therefore the torturer, the corporate thief, the Beloved. Published in 1987, it the historical suppression of earned the Pulitzer Prize and a writers is the earliest harbinger political hack, the corrupt justice tower of other awards. In 1993, of the steady peeling away of system, and for a comatose public she received the Nobel Prize for additional rights and liberties that Literature. will follow.” On February 12, Morrison One striking thing about these published The Source of Self- essays is how utterly timely many — Toni Morrison, writer Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, of them remain. The subjects that and Meditations. The pieces in Morrison has focused her mighty ‘ ’ this collection range over almost intellect upon for more than half Tuesday, March 5, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY a century continue to be essential issues.