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Community Community The DPS-Modern students of Indian P6Shantiniketan P16 School pays Indian School volunteer tribute to Mohandas to help the medical Karamchand Gandhi team in the 40th Free with its 19th Annual Day Medical Camp. celebrations. Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Rabia II 6, 1441 AH Doha today: 210 - 290 This ability! COVER STORY ‘True disability is mental — when you think you cannot achieve something,’ says Accessible Qatar ambassador Ahmed al-Shahrani. P4-5 POP SPOT SHOWBIZ Roxanne makes Arizona fi rst HowC redefi KB ned unsigned artiste to top Spotify chart. the Bachchan aura. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, December 3, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.42am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.05am Zuhr (noon) 11.25am Asr (afternoon) 2.25pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.45pm Isha (night) 6.15pm USEFUL NUMBERS Charlie’s Angels people use power. But when Calisto falls into the wrong DIRECTION: Elizabeth Banks hands,the Angels must retrieve it before it can be used as a CAST: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska weapon of mass destruction. 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When Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 DIRECTION: Brian Kirk the search intensifi es, authorities decide to take extreme Qatar Airways 40253374 CAST: Sienna Miller, Taylor Kitsch, J K Simmons measures by closing all of Manhattan’s 21 bridges to prevent SYNOPSIS: After uncovering a massive conspiracy, an the suspects from escaping. embattled NYPD detective joins a citywide manhunt for two young cop killers. As the night unfolds, he soon becomes THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza te Unqu uo ot Q “Life’s most e persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”— Martin Luther King Jr. 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 Tuesday, December 3, 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. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN: Saturday – Friday Mamangam is an art and performance centre started with a vision of spreading our knowledge, interests and experience in various disciplines in arts across diff erent Gems and Jewels Exhibition hierarchies and health systems of the local countries for children and adults. WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art Tanzanian communities. Sacred Sunset of Arabia Mamangam has become the favourite WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 A collection of photographs of the wildlife, WHERE: Pickup point: Hardees Old centre for learning. We off er regular classes TIME: 9am onwards landscapes and people of Tanzania taken by Airport in the following disciplines like traditional The exhibition comes in celebration of WCM-Q professor Dr Dietrich Büsselberg WHEN: December 6 classical and folk dance forms, art and the 2019 Year of Culture Qatar-India and will be exhibited. TIME: 2pm craft, drawing and painting, personality presents a look at magnifi cent gems and Watch the sun sets over the majestic development and public speaking, Bollywood jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and dunes. A truly remarkable view that will dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases take your breath away. Get to know what’s both vocals and instrumentals. To develop more than 100 pieces from across Qatar inside the desert with experienced off -road health consciousness, we train them karate, Museums’ (QM) collections, including many drivers and relax at the beachfront desert yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. masterpieces that have never been displayed camp. The package, includes 4x4 cars (6 Mamangam has also come up with chess and before. Pax Capacity per Car), Certifi ed Off -road robotics in regular batches in an attempt to driver, Stop at the camel area, Dune Bashing give a better learning experience, as they & Desert Safari, Stop at Inland Sea (Border sharpen their minds and brains too. of Qatar & Saudi Arabia), Desert Camp For those who wish to register for more layover, Beach swimming, BBQ Buff et dinner, details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Beverages, Toilet & shower facility and insurance. The package does not include camel ride fee, and pick up from other location. For further details, 3339 3323 or visit www.365adventures.me Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Short Executive Programme Photo Exhibition: ‘Experience WHERE: HEC Paris Doha Tanzania’ WHEN: December 10 – 11 WHERE: Multaqa (Student Center) Art HEC Paris In Qatar off ers ‘General Gallery at Education City Career Guidance Management – The Navigator Programme’ WHEN: Today WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Executive Short Programme with HEC Paris TIME: 4pm Sadd Affi liate Professor Wolfgang Amann. This ‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project WHEN: Sunday – Thursday two-day programme will give aspiring and supported by Student Aff airs Division of TIME: 6pm – 8pm current and future managers a solid, hands- Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar that allows Career guidance for course, country, on introduction to the challenges and key students and faculty to explore and immerse college and entrance for students of Grade tasks of general management. By the end of themselves in Tanzanian urban and rural IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments this session, participants will have gained cultures. During their trip, WCM-Q’s administered for stream preference, career a profound understanding of the roles and aspiring physicians off er basic healthcare test, branch preference, personality, tasks, the opportunities and challenges, and services to the locals as a way of giving multiple intelligence and learning styles the necessity to bridge as well as combine back to the community and learn about and productivity. For more information, insights from leadership, governance, and the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic 55448835. strategy. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, December 3, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES “True disability is not physical” — Ahmed al-Shahrani, Accessible Qatar ambassador with disabilities, through creating By Mudassir Raja special programmes that cater to their needs, protect their rights, and provide them with equal he human spirit is one opportunities, which goes in line of ability, perseverance with Qatar National Vision 2030. and courage that no Ahmed al-Shahrani, Accessible disability can steal. Qatar ambassador and a fi tness People with disabilities freak in wheelchair, personifi es Tall around the world continue to the country as a place where make extraordinary achievements the persons with disabilities are and Qatar is no exception. take care of. On the eve of the The world is observing the international day, Community International Day of Persons with caught up with the man in high Disabilities today. It was fi rst spirits — and extraordinary proclaimed in 1992 by United achievements. Nations General Assembly For Ahmed, who has been in Resolution 47/3. It aims to wheelchair for about 20 years promote the rights and wellbeing after he met an unfortunate car of persons with disabilities accident, leading to his spinal cord in all spheres of society and being fractured, this day is just like development, and to increase another day of the year. “The UN awareness of the situation of has estimated that 1.5 billion people persons with disabilities in have some kind of disability. I think every aspect of political, social, a disability is just a highlight of economic and cultural life. certain condition of an individual The theme of the day in 2019 that we need to pay attention to. is: ‘promoting the participation True disability is not physical. The of persons with disabilities and true disability is mental — when their leadership: taking action on you think you cannot achieve the 2030 Development Agenda’. something. This year’s day focuses on the “This is not a thing we pay empowerment of persons with attention to for one day. We need disabilities for inclusive, equitable to pay attention to the disabilities and sustainable development as during the rest of the 364 days,” anticipated in the 2030 Agenda he says a touch philosophically. for Sustainable Development, Ahmed, who has been taking which pledges to ‘leave no one part in different international behind’ and recognises disability athletic events, said: “It is as a cross-cutting issues, to be important to see how we improve considered in the implementation the quality of life for other people. of its 17 Sustainable Development Usually, we think that my problem Goals (SDGs). is my problem and other people’s António Guterres, UN problems are their problems. Secretary-General, in his message Well, other people need support on the occasion has said: “When and assistance.