Community Community Best Buddies Regus Qatar organises an P6organises a P16 interactive seminar in session with an co-operation expert from HMC with Qatar as part of breast University. cancer awareness. Wednesday, October 31, 2018 Safar 22, 1440 AH Doha today: 220 - 300 COVER Blood tales STORY Donor and author Rose George on the magic liquid that keeps us alive. P4-5 GLITZ & GLAM SHOWBIZ Remake gone all wrong? Homecoming was a challenge: Roberts. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 31, 2018 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.23am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.41am Zuhr (noon) 11.17am Asr (afternoon) 2.30pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.56pm Isha (night) 6.26pm USEFUL NUMBERS Hell Fest carnival that features a labyrinth of rides, games and mazes. DIRECTION: Gregory Plotki They soon face a bloody night of terror when a masked serial CAST: Reign Edwards, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Tony Todd killer turns the horror theme park into his own personal Emergency 999 SYNOPSIS: On Halloween night, three young women playground. Worldwide Emergency Number 112 along with their friends head to Hell Fest-a ghoulish travelling THEATRE: The Mall 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 Jarugandi and humour. Jai plays a middle-class guy who aspires to make DIRECTION: Pitchumani it big. How he gets out of a web of situation is what the fi lm is CAST: Jai, Reba Monica John, Amit Kumar Tiwari about. SYNOPSIS: This is an action fi lm laced with sentiments THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall ote Unquo u te Q The Mall Cinema (1): Landmark Cinema (3): “Adopting the right Mandharam (Malayalam) Baazaar (Hindi) 3pm; Badhaai attitude can convert a 2:30pm; The Princess And The Ho (Hindi) 5:30pm; Badhaai Ho Dragon (2D) 5pm; Badhaai Ho Kayamkulam Kochunni (Hindi) 8pm; Baazaar (Hindi) negative stress into (Hindi) 6:30pm; Badhaai Ho (Malayalam) 10:45pm. 10:30pm. a positive one.” (Hindi) 9pm; Baazaar (Hindi) Landmark Cinema (1): Royal Plaza Cinema Palace — Hans Selye 11:30pm. Sandakozhi 2 (Tamil) 2:30pm; (1): The Princess And The The Mall Cinema (2): The Jarugandi (Tamil) 5:15pm; Dragon (2D) 3pm; The Princess And The Dragon (2D) Chalakkudikkaran Changathi Princess And The Dragon (2D) 3pm; Goosebumps 2: Haunted (Malayalam) 8pm; Badhaai Ho 5pm; Hunter Killer (2D) 7pm; Halloween (2D) 5:15pm; (Hindi) 11pm. First Love (Tagalog) 9:15pm; First Love (Tagalog) 7:15pm; Landmark Cinema (2): Ana Halloween (2D) 11:30pm. Community Editor Halloween (2D) 9:30pm; Hell And Bruno (2D) 3pm; The Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Fest (2D) 11:30pm. (2): Ana And Bruno (2D) Kamran Rehmat Princess And The Dragon (2D) The Mall Cinema (3): 4:45pm; The Princess And The 2:30pm; Badhaai Ho (Hindi) e-mail: [email protected] Jarugandi (Tamil) 3pm; Dragon (2D) 6:15pm; Hunter 4:30pm; The King Of Thieves Telephone: 44466405 Baazaar (Hindi) 6pm; Killer (2D) 8pm; Halloween (2D) 7pm; Badhaai Ho (Hindi) Fax: 44350474 Hunter Killer (2D) 8:30pm; (2D) 10:15pm. 9pm; Baazaar (Hindi) 11:15pm. Wednesday, October 31, 2018 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY EVENTS on highlighting the importance of early Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club detection. Try the pink afternoon tea, the WHERE: Losail Circuit Squash Tournament extravagant pink Bar Squared Brunch at WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Khalifa International Tennis The Square and pink-themed nights at TIME: 5pm and Squash Complex Strata Restaurant and Lounge. Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association with Qatar Sports For All Federation, invites all WHEN: Ongoing till November 2 cyclists, runners and walkers to train under the floodlights of Losail International Circuit The Qatar Classic 2018 Squash Katara Beach - School Students every Wednesdays. Tournament will see top players from WHERE: Katara around the world gather in Doha to compete WHEN: Ongoing for a championship prize of $177,000, the TIME: 9am – 12pm largest award in the tournament’s history. By participating in the programme of Players battling it out in this year’s event ‘Our culture is a school’, Katara Beach include rising Qatari champion Abdulla emphasises the Qatari marine tradition al-Tamimi, rated 28th in the Professional and introduces to students the meaning of Squash Association (PSA) World Ranking; Dasha, Al Qafal and various type of pearls. Germany’s leading squash player, Simon The students will discover all details of the Rösner, rated fifth in the PSA world Fath El-Kheir journey. ranking; South America’s first top ten player, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, rated sixth Qatar International Art festival-2018 in the PSA world ranking, as well as many Where: Doha Fire Station more top-ranked global players. When: Ongoing till November 4 Time: 10am – 6pm MAPS International WLL, in co- operation with Doha Fire Station-Qatar Museums and in collaboration with Unesco Club of Piraeus and Islands, organises international mega art festival. The art festival is planned for more than 200 artists from around the World. QIAF 2018 is the very first art event in the region that connects the artist worldwide with live painting, group painting exhibition, qatar cultural tour, panel art show, master classes, award ceremony evening and many more for 6 days under 1 roof. For query, e-mail at [email protected] Aspire Torch Staircase Run 2018 hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Choir Concert WHERE: The Torch Doha Hotel Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and WHERE: Swiss International School WHEN: November 10 10 years old after school hours. WHEN: November 3 TIME: 1pm – 6pm TIME: 7pm Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) announces Don Diri Don, Polish Youth Choir, along opening registration for the seventh annual with Qatar Youth and Junior Choir, will be ‘Aspire Torch Staircase Run’ scheduled performing in Doha. The choir will also to take place on November 10. The 2018 spend a week in Doha touring the best edition of the Aspire Torch Staircase Run Qatar has to offer, and sharing their talent (ATSR 2018), will offer sports enthusiasts with the larger community through school the ultimate challenge of endurance, as workshops. For further details, e-mail at runners will have to make their way to the [email protected] top of the 300m tower to the 51st floor, climbing more than 1,300 steps. Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Qatar Finance and Installment WHEN: Ongoing Exhibition TIME: 4pm – 8pm WHERE: DECC For more info e-mail at registration@ WHEN: November 3 – November15 atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. TIME: 7pm – 10pm The QFI Exhibition is a 3-day event that brings together the best of Qatar’s finance community, and local and international visitors who are keen to access Qatar’s robust market. We are pleased to present this opportunity to local and international Hobby Classes investors, banking, finance and government WHERE: Mystic Arts Centre behind Al institutions, along with leading firms in Hilal Focus Medical Centre the real estate, investment and fin-tech WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Breast Cancer Awareness sectors. Mystic Art Centre, is a holistic WHERE: InterContinental Doha performing artsinstitution and a one stop WHEN: Ongoing Startup Weekend Competition solution for adults as well as children InterContinental Doha – The City is WHERE: Tawar Mall looking to explore their talents in various organising several activities (especially WHEN: November 15 – November 17 art forms. We offer classes in Carnatic at its various dining venues) that focus TIME: 6pm – 10pm Music, Hindustani Music, Karate, Yoga, In just 54 hours, you will experience the Zumba, Classical Dance, Salsa, Hip Hop, highs, lows, fun, and pressure that make contemporary and Bollywood dance forms. up life at a startup. As you learn how to For details, call 33897609. Gymnastics World Championships create a real company, you’ll meet the very WHERE: Aspire Dome best mentors, investors, cofounders, and Dance and instrument classes WHEN: Ongoing till November 3 sponsors who are ready to help you get WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Over 700 male and female gymnasts from started. Times Building over 80 countries, including three Team WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Qatar gymnasts, will compete across 10 After School Activities Learn the movements of dance styles days of competition in Doha’s ionic Aspire WHERE: Atelier in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the Dome. Experience the drama, emotions and WHEN: Ongoing musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, excitement of gymnastics’ pinnacle event Music and arts Activities for students Keyboard for adults as well kids and move as global superstars go head to head in a bid taking place after they finish their day in in the world of music. For details, contact to be crowned the best in the world. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- 66523871/ 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, October 31, 2018 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “I love my blood. How could I not?” It travels 60,000 miles around our body providing energy and healing powers — so why is blood such a taboo, asks Rose George Despite millions of dollars and decades of research, nobody has yet figured out how to make artificial blood as good as the ‘ real thing go running around a lake see the blood? A man I talk to at a of veins, arteries and capillaries be witches: many men have believed for the feminine hygiene industry to and brambles scratch me.