Community Community Qatar Embassy University of Greece P6organises P12 organises an closing ceremony event to mark of 6th High School 198th National Wooden Bridge Day with Competition. fervour. Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Rajab 20, 1440 AH Doha today: 230 - 290 Seen there, been there! COVER STORY The UFO community still believes — and science is starting to listen. P4-5 GLITZ & GLAM SHOWBIZ It’s lawn season. Responsiblity of a writer is beyond gender: Kausar. Page 10 Page 11 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, March 27, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.15am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.31am Zuhr (noon) 11.39am Asr (afternoon) 3.07pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.50pm Isha (night) 7.20pm USEFUL NUMBERS Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota rare condition of Congenital Insensitivity to pain meaning he DIRECTION: Vasan Bala cannot feel pain, and he sets out to learn martial arts and hunt CAST: Abhimanyu Dasani, Gulshan Devaiah, Radhika down muggers. Madan SYNOPSIS: It is a story of a young boy Surya who has a THEATRES: Landmark, 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 Mirai which enables him to travel through time and meet his DIRECTION: Mamoru Hosoda relatives from diff erent eras, with guidance by his younger CAST: Rebecca Hall, Daniel Dae Kim, John Cho sister from the future. SYNOPSIS: A young boy encounters a magical garden THEATRES: Royal Plaza ote Unquo Qu te “No act of The Mall Cinema (1): Captain Hotel Mumbai (2D) 9:15pm; Badla Marvel (2D) 2:30pm; Captain (Hindi) 11:30pm. kindness, no matter Marvel (2D) 5pm; Ulan (Tagalog) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace how small, is ever wasted.” 7:15pm; Hotel Mumbai (2D) Landmark Cinema (1): (1): Manou The Swift (2D) 3pm; — Aesop 9:15pm; Badla (Hindi) 11:30pm. June (Malayalam) 3pm; June Mirai (2D) 5pm; Captain Marvel The Mall Cinema (2): Manou (Malayalam) 5:45pm; June (2D) 7pm; Us (2D) 9:15pm; Captain The Swift (2D) 2pm; Wonder Park (Malayalam) 8:30pm; June Marvel (2D) 11:30pm. (2D) 3:45pm; Manou The Swift (Malayalam) 11:15pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2D) 5:15pm; Five Feet Apart (2D) Landmark Cinema (2): Wonder (2): Badla (Hindi) 2:30pm; Badla 7pm; Us (2D) 9:15pm; Mard Ko Park (2D) 3pm; Manou The Swift (Hindi) 4:45pm; Hotel Mumbai Dard Nahin Hota (Hindi) 11:30pm. (2D) 5pm; Captain Marvel (2D) (2D) 7pm; Hotel Mumbai (2D) Community Editor The Mall Cinema (3): Badla 7pm; Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota 9:15pm; Badla (Hindi) 11:30pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Kamran Rehmat (Hindi) 2:30pm; The Brand New (Hindi) 9:15pm; Captain Marvel e-mail: [email protected] Adventures of Aladdin (2D) 5pm; (2D) 11:30pm. Captain Marvel (2D) 2:30pm; June Landmark Cinema (3): Telephone: 44466405 Captain Marvel (2D) 7pm; Captain Badla (Malayalam) 4:45pm; Five Feet Fax: 44350474 Marvel (2D) 9:15pm; Tolet (Tamil) (Hindi) 2:30pm; Tolet (Tamil) Apart (2D) 7:15pm; Ulan (Tagalog) 11:30pm. 5pm; Hotel Mumbai (2D) 7pm; 9:30pm; Tolet (Tamil) 11:30pm. Wednesday, March 27, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY 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. Ages between 5 and 10 years old after school hours. 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. EVENTS City is a fun and educational experience for Hobby Classes children to help them overcome their fear of WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art doctors and health checkups, by simulating Centre Open Evening the process of visiting a hospital or a medical WHEN:Wednesday – Monday WHERE: Stenden Qatar, Cafeteria centre. Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a WHEN: Today holistic performing arts institution and a one TIME: 3pm – 6pm stop solution for adults as well as children looking to explore their talents in various art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and craft, karate, yoga, percussion( Chenda, Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, harmonium, public speaking. Ballet Lessons Additional services include dance WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier education, choreograph music videos and WHEN: Ongoing dance cover albums, choreograph dance TIME: 4pm – 8pm musical projects, corporate workshops and For more info e-mail at registration@ events, choreograph events for schools, atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. colleges, alumni meets and corporate Mehaseel Festival and choreography events. For details, call WHERE: Katara Cultural Village 33897609. Qatar International Food Festival WHEN: Ongoing till March 31 WHERE: Oxygen Park Qatar Foundation Mehaseel Souq will be open every WHEN: Ongoing till March 30 Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 31st of TIME: 3pm – 12am March. It is a perfect market to get amazing This edition marks 10 successful years of local fresh produce. paving the way for opportunities in Qatar’s F&B sector while welcoming visitors and residents to enjoy the diverse fl avours of the world at the forefront of Qatar’s picturesque venues. Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club WHERE: Losail Circuit WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 5pm Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association with Qatar Sports For All Federation, invites Dance and Instrument Classes all cyclists, runners and walkers to train under WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times the fl oodlights of Losail International Circuit Building every Wednesdays. WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Learn the movements of dance styles in Artistic Gymnastic Classes Arabic Calligraphy Workshop Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard MIA Park Bazaar 2019 WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 6pm for adults as well kids and move in the world WHERE: Museum Of Islamic Art TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. of music. For details, contact 66523871/ WHEN: Ongoing The olympic sport using horizontal bar, Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic 31326749. TIME: 12pm – 8pm rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the handwriting and calligraphy at Music and MIA Bazaar will be having a vibrant children from age 4 till 16. Arts Atelier. mix of 350 stalls. MIA Park Bazaar is a The lessons will take place every Saturday, modern version of the old souq tradition. Bangladesh Festival Qatar Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For The stalls are going to off er a wide range of WHERE: Katara more information, contact registration@ gastronomies from all over the world. You can WHEN: Today atelierqatar.com also browse and grab handcrafted artefacts, TIME: 4pm onwards accessories, canvases, fashion wears, A 6-day long festival showcasing designer ornaments. Bangladeshi movie, kids art competition, adult art workshop, food festival, paginating Teddy Bear Mini Hospital as well as photography exhibition at Katara WHERE: Doha Festival City Cultural Village. This impressive festival will WHEN: Until March 30 provide a great opportunity for Bangladeshi TIME: 10am – 8pm people to get a taste and feel their country’s The Teddy Bear Mini Hospital at Festival unique culture. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, March 27, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY UFOs: Beyond imagination In the past two years, scientists, politicians and professionals have increasingly been willing to touch the taboo subject and perhaps lend a little credence to those who still believe, writes Chabeli Herrera RECALL: Trish Bishop shows the spot in the backyard of her Kissimmee, Florida, home on February 1, 2019, where she claims to have witnessed an alien and UFO hovering 10-feet above the ground in March 2013. e appeared as if a hologram at his, we would be a Chihuahua to a pit bull,” fi rst — then solid — suddenly Bishop said. there and clear as you or I, at Paralysed with fear, she watched as We still think of ourselves, the edge of the forest behind what she believed to be an alien appeared Trish Bishop’s home in to climb invisible steps, stopping often to as a species, as the centre of HKissimmee. snatch glances at her from where she sat on It was a Thursday in March 2013, the her back porch, fumbling with her phone everything. Once you … at least glow of the afternoon tucking in for the to appear as though she couldn’t see him. day behind the trees. He stood tall, at Her fi nger was pressed on the number start to discuss interstellar least 6-foot-3, perhaps 220 pounds and “9” to dial for help. travel, you have to admit that, certainly muscular, wearing a formfi tting When he was about 10 feet off the tan coloured uniform, boots and gloves. ground, he turned his back to her and if there is intelligent life out He lingered by the crape myrtle tree in the pulled himself up — “into a UFO?” she middle of the backyard. thought — and was gone.