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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 2, 2019 Shawwal 29 1440 AH Doha today: 320 - 430 SITE: Since it was built by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service in 1998, 90,000 emergency responders have come to Disaster City to climb over mangled steel and through derailed chemical trains. COVER On the edge STORY Disaster City in the US sees storm warnings every day. P4-5 POP SPOT BACK PAGE People should be judged on ability, NBA player to coach basketball not how they look: Lizzo. enthusiasts in Qatar for 3 days. Page 14 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.16am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.49am Zuhr (noon) 11.39am Asr (afternoon) 3.03pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.30pm Isha (night) 8pm Hanna’s Homecoming men into the marsh, where they died. Since no-one wants USEFUL NUMBERS DIRECTION: Esther Bialas to befriend the daughter of a witch, Hanna is glad when she CAST: Valerie Stoll, Milena Tscharntke, Godehard Giese meets the city girl Eva. She seems to have found a friend but SYNOPSIS: After three years at boarding school, Hanna something isn’t right. Strange accidents occur and there is no returns to her childhood village during the holidays. The explanation. villagers believe her mother was a witch, who lured three THEATRE: Royal Plaza 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 Toy Story 4 reunion as Woody’s slight detour leads him to his long-lost DIRECTION: Josh Cooley friend Bo Peep. As Woody and Bo discuss the old days, they CAST: Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hanks soon start to realise that they’re worlds apart when it comes to SYNOPSIS: Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the what they want from life as a toy. gang embark on a road trip with Bonnie and a new toy named Forky. The adventurous journey turns into an unexpected THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “It is one The Mall Cinema (1): Thamasha (1): Toy Story 4 (2D) 2:30pm; Toy of the blessings of old (Malayalam) 2pm; Baaji (Urdu) Story 4 (2D) 4:15pm; Article 15 4:30pm; Anna (2D) 7pm; Article (Hindi) 6pm; Kabir Singh (Hindi) friends that you can aff ord to 15 (Hindi) 9pm; Thottappan 8:30pm; Annabelle Comes Home be stupid with them.” (Malayalam) 11:30pm. (2D) 4:45pm; Aladdin (2D) 7pm; (2D) 11:30pm. The Mall Cinema (2): Unda (Malayalam) 9:15pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace — Ralph Waldo Emerson Sindhubaadh (Tamil) 2:30pm; Sindhubaadh (Tamil) 11:30pm. (2): Sindhubaadh (Tamil) Aladdin (2D) 5pm; Annabelle Landmark Cinema (2): Toy 3pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) 5:30pm; Comes Home (2D) 7:15pm; Story 4 (2D) 3pm; Toy Story Annabelle Comes Home Annabelle Comes Home (2D) 4 (2D) 5pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) (2D) 7:30pm; Men In Black 9:30pm; Sindhubaadh (Tamil) 6:45pm; Kabir Singh (Hindi) International (2D) 9:30pm; 11:30pm. 8:30pm; Article 15 (Hindi) Article 15 (Hindi) 11:30pm. The Mall Cinema (3): Toy Story 11:30pm. Royal Plaza Cinema Palace 4 (2D) 2:30pm; Toy Story 4 (2D) Landmark Cinema (3): Kabir (3): Thamasha (Malayalam) Community Editor 4:30pm; Yesterday (2D) 6:30pm; Singh (Hindi) 2pm; Men In Black 2:15pm; Kabir Singh (Hindi) Kamran Rehmat Kabir Singh (Hindi) 8:30pm; International (2D) 5pm; Men In 4:30pm; Men In Black e-mail: [email protected] Annabelle Comes Home (2D) Black International (2D) 7pm; International (2D) 7:30pm; Telephone: 44466405 11:30pm. Article 15 (Hindi) 9pm; Annabelle Hanna’s Homecoming (2D) Landmark Cinema (1): Unda Comes Home (2D) 11:30pm. 9:30pm; Unda (Malayalam) Fax: 44350474 (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Aladdin Royal Plaza Cinema Palace 11:15pm. Tuesday, July 2, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Ballet Lessons After School Activities WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm Music and arts activities for students For more info e-mail at registration@ taking place after they fi nish their day in atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. 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: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 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. Additional services include dance education, choreograph music videos and dance cover albums, choreograph dance musical projects, corporate workshops and events, choreograph events for schools, colleges, alumni meets and corporate and choreography events. For details, call 33897609. EVENTS TIME: 9am – 7pm The exhibition presents Husain’s pluralist Film Club approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of WHERE: Qatar National Library being, articulated through the myths, symbols Summer Camp for Special Needs WHEN: July 4 and narratives of the world’s religions and WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special TIME: 5:30pm onwards philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun Needs Ever wondered how movies look from bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a WHEN: Ongoing till August 1 the other side of the camera? Join our Film personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm Club and learn how to watch fi lms with a During this time, all therapists and fi lmmaker’s perspective. Summer Entertainment City teachers will be working together, running WHERE: DECC individual, peer and group sessions within WHEN: Ongoing till July 13 classes. The children will continue learning TIME: 1pm – 11pm age-appropriate concepts, work on social The biggest indoor VR and Gaming skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, zone,over 50+ new activities and 45 food music, and fun activities such as water play. options along with 114 retail shops, for the whole family under one roof. Entry fee QR15 Career Guidance per head. 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Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Learn the movements of dance styles in MF Husain: The Horses Of The Sun Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical Exhibition instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern for adults as well kids and move in the world Art of music. For details, contact 66523871/ WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, July 2, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Breathless in Disaster City More than a thousand tornadoes have roared across the Midwest, South and Southwest in a year that also has seen costly hailstorms, extreme winds and catastrophic flooding, writes David Montgomery DISASTER: A concrete beam sits atop a school bus in Disaster City, College Station, Texas. The more than 1,200 tornadoes recorded as of June 23 aren’t the most ever (there were 1,817 in 2004), but this year’s total has easily surpassed the average range of 979 for a season. winds and catastrophic fl ooding. t’s a scene of utter devastation.