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Community Community Members of Spanish Best Buddies artists in Doha P7Qatar of P16 exhibition Rehabilitation and in Katara showcases Vocational Programme colourful display of participates in ‘Farm cultures and amazes Your Country’ project. art admirers. Wednesday, January 22, 2020 Jumada I 27, 1441 AH Doha today: 180 - 230 ALL IN THE FAMILY: Son-in-law Jared Kushner, left, daughter Ivanka Trump, centre, and President Donald Trump. COVER New dynasty? STORY Epic family tales a compelling way to understand the myriad deals and ambitions that define the Kushners, Trumps. P4-5 BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD Saif Ali’s ‘concept of India’ Dwayne Johnson shares cause draws social media ire. of father’s sudden death. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 22, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 5am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.22am Zuhr (noon) 11.47am Asr (afternoon) 2.51pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.12pm Isha (night) 6.42pm USEFUL NUMBERS Dolittle that he speaks to on a daily basis. But when young Queen DIRECTION: Stephen Gaghan Victoria becomes gravely ill, the eccentric doctor and his CAST: Robert Downey Jr, Tom Holland, Emma Thompson furry friends embark on an epic adventure to a mythical SYNOPSIS: Dr. John Dolittle lives in solitude behind the island to fi nd the cure. high walls of his lush manor in 19th-century England. His Emergency 999 only companionship comes from an array of exotic animals THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza 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 Tanhaji SYNOPSIS: Based on the life of Tanhaji Malusare, a 17th- DIRECTION: Om Raut century Maharashtrian Marathi military leader. CAST: Saif Ali Khan, Ajay Devgn, Kajol THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall te Unqu uo ot Q “Open e your eyes, look within. Are you satisfi ed with the life you’re living.” – Bob Marley 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 Wednesday, January 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY WHEN:Ongoing till July 1 school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- TIME: 6:30pm – 9pm hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Get trained by experts to be a good speaker. Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 Smedley Toastmasters is conducting a years old after school hours six-month speech-craft programme that teaches new members to speak confi dently and develop leadership skills. For more information, 66053485, 33232490 or visit www.SmedleyToastmasters.org Shop Qatar 2020 WHERE: Malls in Qatar WHEN: Ongoing till January 31 TIME: Entire day Shop Qatar has something for everyone, including beauty masterclasses, fashion shows, shopping off ers, mall activities and shows, raffl e draws, and Chinese New Year celebrations. The Colour Run 2020 water sports, Winter Dragon Boat Festival WHERE: QNCC is back to show us their fast rowing skills. WHEN: January 25 Dragon boating is a canoe-sport and was TIME: 7am – 10pm originally a traditional festival game dating Your Health First is a fi ve-kilometre, back 2,000 years throughout Southern untimed event. At each kilometre mark, China. It has now become a popular sport Colour Runners are doused from head to toe with competitions held around the world. in a diff erent coloured powder. Participants wear white at the starting line and fi nish the race plastered in colour. Once the 5k is over, the fun continues at the Finish Festival, a larger-than-life party equipped with music, dancing, photo ops, activity booths, vendors, and more massive colour throws, which create millions of vivid colour combinations. Children’s Fashion Show WHERE: Al Miqab Mall WHEN: January 24 TIME: 2pm – 4pm After School Activities Open Evening Find the coolest looks from your favourite WHERE: Atelier WHERE: Cafeteria Stenden University brands for your younger ones at a fun WHEN: Ongoing Qatar children’s fashion show. The action is Music and arts activities for students WHEN: Today happening at Mirqab Mall in the Atrium on taking place after they fi nish their day in TIME: 3pm – 6pm January 24. Metro Street Food WHERE: DECC Metro Station Sonu Nigam Live in Qatar WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Asian Town Amphitheatre TIME: 12:30pm WHEN: TomorrowTIME: 7:30pm onwards Street Food is the ideal venue for a leisure Back by popular demand, Sonu Nigam, returns to wow his fans once again in a one-night only experience for the whole family off ering over concert. Presented by Q-Tickets the event is part of Shop Qatar Festival and under the aegis of 20 dine-in options and 18-hole World Mini- Qatar National Tourism Council. Sonu Nigam has sung over 10,000 songs in diff erent languages Golf setup. and has received over 40 mainstream awards. Winter Dragon Boat Festival 2020 WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: January 24 Public Speaking Classes for Adults Row, paddle, hurry up! Qatar’s largest WHERE: Sharq Capital, C-Ring Road Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 22, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY The unlikely rise of Trumps, Kushners By building American Oligarchs around the Kushner and Trump family narratives, public radio reporter Andrea Bernstein off ers readers a fresh perspective on how that attitude evolved — and its implications for American democracy, writes David Kocieniewski SPOTLIGHT: President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Jared Kushner and Ivanka at a White House ceremony. mericans have always been House adviser. In American Oligarchs (W.W. confl icted about political Norton, $30), public radio reporter Andrea Once Donald Trump entered the dynasties. Bernstein traces the histories of both the presidential race in 2015, Jared Kushner The US was born as a rebellion Trumps and the Kushners, seeking to explain against monarchy and developed how the off spring of two immigrant families emerged as one of his most trusted advisers. Aa vibrant mythology of rugged individualism joined together to reach the pinnacle of power and self-made success. Yet voters have often despite their troubled pasts. Kushner managed the campaign’s digital handed power to leaders famous for their So much has been written about (and lineage and family wealth — from the Adamses tweeted by) Trump since he’s taken offi ce operations, and attended the infamous and Kennedys to the Rockefellers, Daleys and that his administration’s fl ippant approach Trump Tower meeting where Russians Bushes. to ethical norms is by now widely known. The rise of President Donald Trump has By building American Oligarchs around offered to provide damaging information vaulted two unlikely surnames into that the Kushner and Trump family narratives, rarefi ed realm, his own and that of Jared Bernstein off ers readers a fresh perspective about Hillary Clinton Kushner, his son-in-law and senior White on how that attitude evolved — and its Wednesday, January 22, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY implications for American democracy. The Trumps and the Kushners may have taken advantage of the system, Bernstein argues, but it was American society and its political leaders who failed to defend it. To those of us who have spent years following and covering the intrigues of the Kushners and Trumps, it off ers a reminder that a relatively recent assortment of federal policy changes allowed the families to fl ourish: repeated tax cuts for the wealthy, especially in the real estate business; a retreat from campaign fi nance reform; and the de facto decriminalisation of many white-collar crimes. Readers who follow the news more casually will also fi nd the epic family tales a compelling way to understand the myriad deals and ambitions that defi ne the Kushners and Trumps. Despite the two families’ contrasting backgrounds — Trump’s grandfather came from Germany in the 1880s because he felt constrained by its inheritance laws, while Kushner’s grandparents led a daring escape from the Nazis in Belarus during the Holocaust — both made their way to the real estate business in metropolitan New York. They prospered in part from federal housing subsidies. They also learned the unwritten rules of the American political information about Hillary Clinton. game, at a time when loosening That blurring of the boundaries between public policy During the transition, he met with campaign fi nance laws made it Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak easier to buy infl uence with big and private business has made Trump’s administration as well as Sergei Gorkov, head of money. uniquely polarising and Kushner among its most Russia’s state-controlled VEB Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, Bank. gave so much to Democrats in disparaged figures. Yet here, too, public sentiment is Trump rewarded Kushner’s 2000-2001 that New Jersey’s loyalty by giving him expansive then-Governor Jim McGreevey deeply divided. And just this month, a poll of Republican power in the White House: from nominated him for chairman of the Middle East peace to digital Port Authority of New York and voters was released indicating the party’s preferences innovation to the border wall. New Jersey, an infrastructure and in the 2024 presidential race.

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