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Community Community The Institution Canadian of Engineers university P7India – Qatar P16 representative Chapter conducts a talks about the technical seminar on involvement of parents ‘Power Grid Energy & in choosing the right Trenchless Technology’. courses for students. Monday, November 4, 2019 Rabia I 7, 1441 AH Doha today: 260 - 330 COVER STORY Nature rights Cities, tribes try a new environmental approach. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD SRK at 54: Where Do we have to to head from here? pay for HBO max? Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Monday, November 4, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.24am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.45am Zuhr (noon) 11.19am Asr (afternoon) 2.29pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.53pm Isha (night) 6.23pm USEFUL NUMBERS Ujda Chaman bachelor Chaman Kohli, a Hindi lecturer with premature DIRECTION: Abhishek Pathak, Danish Singh balding and in quest of a beautiful wife. CAST: Gagan Arora, Abhilash Chaudhary, Maanvi Gagroo SYNOPSIS: The fi lm revolves around a 30-year-old THEATRES: Royal Plaza, 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, Terminator: Dark Fate her. Dani’s survival depends on her joining forces with two 40253369 DIRECTION: Tim Miller warriors: Grace (Mackenzie Davis), an enhanced super-soldier Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 CAST: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, from the future, and a battle-hardened Sarah Connor (Linda Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Mackenzie Davis Hamilton). As the Rev-9 ruthlessly destroys everything and Qatar Airways 40253374 SYNOPSIS: Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) is living a simple everyone in its path on the hunt for Dani, the three are led to life in Mexico City with her brother (Diego Boneta) and father a T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from Sarah’s past that may when a highly advanced and deadly new Terminator – a Rev-9 be their last best hope (Gabriel Luna) – travels back through time to hunt and kill THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall te Unqu uo ot Q “We still e do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” — Albert Einstein 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 Monday, November 4, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY TIME: 10am - 10pm Ballet Lessons The festival off ers other benefi ts to WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier participants, including the promotion of WHEN: Ongoing their work, interaction with print, electronic, TIME: 4pm – 8pm digital, and social media, interaction with For more info e-mail at registration@ selected art collectors, art investors, and atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. potential buyers. QIAF, one of the largest art festivals in Qatar, is organised every year. For further details, [email protected], [email protected] Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre After School Activities WHEN: Saturday – Friday WHERE: Atelier Mamangam is an art and performance WHEN: Ongoing centre started with a vision of spreading Music and arts activities for students our knowledge, interests and experience in Gems and Jewels Exhibition hierarchies and health systems of the local taking place after they fi nish their day in various disciplines in arts across diff erent WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art Tanzanian communities. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- countries for children and adults. WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 A collection of photographs of the wildlife, hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Mamangam has become the favourite TIME: 9am onwards landscapes and people of Tanzania taken by Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 centre for learning. We off er regular classes The exhibition comes in celebration of WCM-Q professor Dr Dietrich Büsselberg years old after school hours. in the following disciplines like traditional the 2019 Year of Culture Qatar-India and will be exhibited. classical and folk dance forms, art and presents a look at magnifi cent gems and craft, drawing and painting, personality jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and development and public speaking, Bollywood Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music more than 100 pieces from across Qatar both vocals and instrumentals. To develop Museums’ (QM) collections, including many health consciousness, we train them karate, masterpieces that have never been displayed yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. before. Mamangam has also come up with chess and robotics in regular batches in an attempt to give a better learning experience, as they sharpen their minds and brains too. For those who wish to register for more details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm The olympic sport using horizontal bar, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the children from age 4 till 16. Career Guidance Photo Exhibition: ‘Experience WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Tanzania’ Sadd Shape your Leadership WHERE: Multaqa (Student Center) Art WHEN: Sunday – Thursday WHERE: HEC Paris, Doha Campus Gallery at Education City TIME: 6pm – 8pm WHEN: November 10-11 WHEN: Ongoing until December 1 Career guidance for course, country, TIME: 9am onwards TIME: 4pm college and entrance for students of Grade HEC Paris In Qatar off ers ‘Shape your ‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments Leadership’ Executive Short Programme supported by Student Aff airs Division of administered for stream preference, career with HEC Paris Associate Professor ‘Valérie Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar that allows test, branch preference, personality, Gauthier’. students and faculty to explore and immerse multiple intelligence and learning styles This two-day programme is designed themselves in Tanzanian urban and rural and productivity. For more information, to help participants grow self-awareness cultures. During their trip, WCM-Q’s 55448835. and self-confi dence and to learn to build aspiring physicians off er basic healthcare trust as a team leader. It will also enable services to the locals as a way of giving Qatar International Art Festival 2019 participants to have a positive infl uence over back to the community and learn about WHERE: Katara Cultural Village their surroundings and to develop strong the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic WHEN: Ongoing till tomorrow leadership. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, November 4, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Rights of nature There is increasing acceptance of the idea that Mother Nature has legal rights — setting the stage for court battles that could shake governments, businesses and the environmental movement, writes Alex Brown hen members of the Recognising “rights of nature,” as White Earth band of the concept is known, also would shape Ojibwe in Minnesota city and state permitting and planning take out their canoes decisions. And it might become a to harvest wild powerful tool in fi ghting climate change Wrice, they’re gathering a source of and habitat loss. nourishment and following a tradition But it’s still uncertain if any of that has connected them to the land for the forms the movement has taken generations. — protecting specifi c watersheds, But to the White Earth people, habitats and species — will prove most manoomin isn’t just a resource to be eff ective as a legal tactic. And critics used — it’s an independent entity with in business and government contend the right “to exist, fl ourish, regenerate that overly broad declarations could and evolve.” paralyse important development and Other tribes and even some cities infrastructure if entire habitats are also are embracing the idea that Mother rendered untouchable. Nature has legal rights — setting the “Our legal system gives corporations stage for court battles that could shake rights, but treats nature as property governments, businesses and the that can be exploited,” said Tish O’Dell, environmental movement. Ohio organiser with the Community Earlier this year, voters in Toledo, Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Ohio, passed the Lake Erie Bill of which helped back the ballot measure. Rights, which declared “irrevocable “If we don’t have the right to clean air rights for the Lake Erie Ecosystem to and clean water in the Constitution, exist, fl ourish and naturally evolve.” that was because our Founding Fathers The measure would give the ecosystem couldn’t even fathom that would be legal standing, which means that something you’d need to write in.” the lake — with help from a human But the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, one guardian — could enter the court of a handful of such measures enacted system as a plaintiff and sue polluters. across the country, is being challenged Our legal system gives corporations rights, but treats nature as property that can be exploited — Tish O’Dell, Ohio organiser with the Community Environmental Legal ‘ Defense Fund ’ Monday, November 4, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY in court. Drewes Farm Partnership, — prove those regulations don’t go an Ohio business, asserts the far enough. measure is unconstitutional “It’s not that the law isn’t and would harm agriculture and being followed, it’s that the law other interests in the region. That isn’t written to protect you or the challenge is currently awaiting a environment,” said Markie Miller ruling from the US District Court of Toledoans for Safe Water, which for the Northern District of Ohio.