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YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! There’s probably a photographer hidden in each of us, looking out for a platform. Community invites you to grab your chance and send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected] — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Dhul-Qa’da 13, 1440 AH Doha today: 340 - 430 WHEN ORANGE IS DEEP BLUE: Named Deep Blue, this seahorse is among those that former school teacher Rog Hanson is studying. SSecretecret worldworld COVER What a retired teacher did upon finding STORY some seahorses off Long Beach. P4-5 POP SPOT BACK PAGE Back in harness, The black keys’ ‘The Colours of Desert’ exhibition to Let’s Rock is hugely popular. bring colours of Qatar alive at Katara. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 16, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.24am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.54am Zuhr (noon) 11.41am Asr (afternoon) 3.06pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.28pm Isha (night) 7.58pm USEFUL NUMBERS Crawl basement of their family home in Coral Lake, the father and DIRECTION: Alexandre Aja daughter realise that something sinister lives in the town. CAST: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Ross Anderson With absolutely no rescue and impossible escape, Haley and SYNOPSIS: During a fi erce Category 5 hurricane that hits Dave have to escape rising waters and marauding alligators as a Florida town, Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) goes against they try to escape hurricane season. Emergency 999 the town’s orders of evacuation in order to fi nd her father Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Dave (Barry Pepper). Through fi nding him in a crawlspace THEATRES: Royal Plaza, The Mall, Landmark 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 Escape Plan: The Extractors captured. Now he and his team, must pull off a deadly rescue DIRECTION: John Herzfeld mission to confront their sadistic foe and save the hostages, CAST: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista hidden in the depths of the prison complex, before time runs SYNOPSIS: After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to out. rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin’s love interest is also THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza ote Unquo Qu te “Optimism The Mall Cinema (1): Gorilla 9:30pm; Gurkha (Tamil) 11:15pm. (Tamil) 2pm; Super 30 (Hindi) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): is the faith that leads 4:15pm; Escape Plan: The Extractors Shubha Rathri (Malayalam) 2:15pm; to achievement. Nothing (2D) 7pm; Super 30 (Hindi) 8:45pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) 4:30pm; Super Super 30 (Hindi) 11:30pm. 30 (Hindi) 6:15pm; Shubha Rathri can be done without hope and The Mall Cinema (2): Rustum Spider-Man: Far From Home (2D) (Malayalam) 9pm; Super 30 (Hindi) confi dence.” (Kannada) 2:30pm; Shubha Rathri 3:45pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) 6pm; 11:15pm. (Malayalam) 4:45pm; Spider- Escape Plan: The Extractors (2D) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): — Helen Keller Man: Far From Home (2D) 7pm; 7:45pm; Hamlet Faroun (Arabic) Super 30 (Hindi) 2:15pm; Spider- Spider-Man: Far From Home (2D) 9:30pm; Shubha Rathri (Malayalam) Man: Far From Home (2D) 5pm; 9:15pm; Shubha Rathri (Malayalam) 11:30pm. Hamlet Faroun (Arabic) 7:15pm; 11:30pm. Landmark Cinema (2): Gorilla Spider-Man: Far From Home (2D) The Mall Cinema (3): Coconut: (Tamil) 2pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) 9:15pm; Escape Plan: The Extractors The Little Dragon 2 (2D) 2:15pm; Toy 4:30pm; Shubha Rathri (Malayalam) (2D) 11:30pm. Community Editor Story 4 (2D) 3:45pm; Aladdin (2D) 6:15pm; Shubha Rathri (Malayalam) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Kamran Rehmat 5:30pm; Hamlet Faroun (Arabic) 8:30pm; Super 30 (Hindi) 11pm. Venilla Kabaddi Kuzhu 2 (Tamil) e-mail: [email protected] 7:45pm; Crawl (2D) 9:45pm; Venilla Landmark Cinema (3): Super 30 (2D) 2:30pm; Shubha Rathri Telephone: 44466405 Kabaddi Kuzhu 2 (Tamil) 11:30pm. (Hindi) 2pm; Spider-Man: Far From (Malayalam) 5pm; Escape Plan: The Landmark Cinema (1): Fax: Coconut: Home (2D) 5pm; Spider-Man: Far Extractors (2D) 7:30pm; Crawl (2D) 44350474 The Little Dragon 2 (2D) 2:15pm; From Home (2D) 7:15pm; Crawl 9:30pm; Gorilla (2D) 11:30pm. Tuesday, July 16, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Summer Camp for Special Needs Hobby Classes WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Needs Centre WHEN: Ongoing till August 1 WHEN:Wednesday – Monday TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a During this time, all therapists and holistic performing arts institution and a one teachers will be working together, running stop solution for adults as well as children individual, peer and group sessions within looking to explore their talents in various classes. The children will continue learning art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, age-appropriate concepts, work on social Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and craft, music, and fun activities such as water play. karate, yoga, percussion (Chenda, Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, harmonium, Career Guidance public speaking. WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Additional services include dance education, Sadd choreograph music videos and dance cover WHEN: Sunday – Thursday albums, choreograph dance musical projects, TIME: 6pm – 8pm corporate workshops and events, choreograph Career guidance for course, country, events for schools, colleges, alumni meets and college and entrance for students of Grade corporate and choreography events. For details, IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments call 33897609. administered for stream preference, career test, branch preference, personality, multiple intelligence and learning styles and productivity. For more information, 55448835. Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm The olympic sport using horizontal bar, EVENTS Under the context of cultural exchange, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the FBQ Museum brings together the treasures children from age 4 till 16. Animal Canvas Painting of the museum owned collection in WHERE: Qatar National Library order to promote mutual understanding, WHEN: Tomorrow recognition and appreciation between TIME: 10am – 11:30am Qatar and India. Composed of five main In this event, children will enjoy learning topics, including community, trade, arts, diff erent canvas painting techniques, such as food and incense, the exhibition takes Arabic Calligraphy Workshop dot painting and making silhouette shapes one on a journey to explore the rich and WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday from nature, as they create art featuring their diverse Indian cultures, the long historic TIME: 6pm favorite animals, birds or bugs. links between Qatar and India, and cultural Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. similarities between Qatar and India. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic MF Husain: The Horses Of The Sun handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Exhibition Arts Atelier. WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern The lessons will take place every Saturday, Art Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 more information, contact registration@ TIME: 9am – 7pm atelierqatar.com The exhibition presents Husain’s pluralist approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of being, articulated through the myths, symbols and narratives of the world’s religions and philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a After School Activities personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. 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. Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Ballet Lessons Learn the movements of dance styles in WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical India to Qatar – Symbiosis of WHEN: Ongoing instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard Cultures TIME: 4pm – 8pm for adults as well kids and move in the world WHERE: FBQ Museum For more info e-mail at registration@ of music. For details, contact 66523871/ WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 16, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Seahorse city If you get Rog Hanson talking about his seahorses, he’ll tell you exactly how many times he’s seen them (997), who is dating whom, and describe their personalities with intimate familiarity. Bathsheba is stoic, Daphne a runner. Deep Blue is chill. By Deborah Netburn I swear, (getting to know seahorses) has made me a better human being. On land I’m very C-minus, but underwater, I’m Mensa — Rog Hanson, seahorse keeper og Hanson emerges on Earth. from the coastal waters, “To my knowledge, he is the only ‘ pulls a diving regulator person tracking ingens directly,” out of his mouth and says Amanda Vincent, a professor pushes a scuba mask at the University of British Rdown around his neck. Columbia and director of the “Did you see her?” he says. “Did marine conservation group Project you see Bathsheba?” Seahorse.