Sunday, March 15, 2020 Rajab 20, 1441 AH Doha today 200 - 270 COVER STORY SCRIPTING STORIES: Ibrar Ahmed prepares to get down to work. Room with a view Doha-based Pakistani biomedical engineer Ibrar Ahmed has a keen eye for city scrapers and is bringing out a book on Qatar’s skyscrapers. P4-6 QUIZ SHOWBIZ The rivalry Emmy FYC 2020 events halted due of cars. to new coronavirus guidelines. Page 10 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Sunday, March 15, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.26am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.44am Zuhr (noon) 11.44am Asr (afternoon) 3.09pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.44pm Isha (night) 7.14pm USEFUL NUMBERS Angrezi Medium in London. However, certain misadventures lead him and his CAST: Irrfan Khan, Radhika Madan, Kareena Kapoor family on a new quest, one which renews their relationships Emergency 999 DIRECTION: Homi Adajania and bonds. Worldwide Emergency Number 112 SYNOPSIS: Champak, an unassuming mithai shop owner Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 and single father is set to fulfi l his daughter’s dream to study THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall 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 Kappella Jessi and her friend Lakshmi (Nilja) decide to quit studies after CAST: Karen Gillan, Harrison Ford, Cara Gee they fail in Grade-XII. All they want is to lead a carefree and DIRECTION: Chris Sanders easy-going life. SYNOPSIS: Living in the high range area of Poovarmala, THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza ote Unquo Qu te “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle 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 Sunday, March 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Ballet Lessons information, 66053485, 33232490 or visit WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier www.SmedleyToastmasters.org WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. 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. 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For more Qatar National Robotics Challenge WHERE: Qatar National Library WHEN: March 31 TIME: 8am — 4pm The Qatar National Robotics Challenge is an advanced robotics competition in which students of Grade VIII-XI design, build, programme and operate robots to compete in a head-to-head challenge. The programme is designed to encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Metro Street Food WHERE: DECC Metro Station WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 12:30pm Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, March 15, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “It is very easy to take a photo but as an artist you have to create an image” — Ibrar Ahmed, Pakistani biomedical engineer and keen photographer SUNDAY CONVERSATION The learning process goes on every day. I think if one wants to do something seriously, one needs to do it with knowledge and learning ‘ — Ibrar Ahmed ’ Sunday, March 15, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY PANORAMA : A panoramic view of skyscrapers in the distance. and covered some 60 percent of Ibrar is preparing to bring out the first ever photo By Mudassir Raja Pakistan. Since I am in Qatar, I have been going to diff erent book on Qatar’s skyscrapers. “I have completed the places and shooting images of my hotography is one of interest. required content. I think this is going to be the first the best ways to tell a “I started taking photos when story and save a memory I was in school carrying a reel book on the subject. People need to have a book of forever. It is an art that camera. I used to capture portraits the skyline” requires unrelenting and landscapes. I also used point- Ppassion to master it. With and-shoot cameras. However, I “I started selling my photos for organisations here. There are I use photography to have some sophisticated technologies, interest started taking my photography charity after I collaborated with an many community photography sort of distraction from my routine in photography has increased but interest seriously some three to four organisation for an exhibition that organisations that hold various life. When you are on the rooftop people often do not follow proper years ago. It is very easy to take a was meant for charity purposes. workshops on the art free of cost. In of a building, you concentrate on guidelines for better images. photo but as an artist you have to I along with other photographers the last fi ve years, I have improved a diff erent views and angles that Good photographers tend to create an image. Camera works as paid for the prints and easels for the lot as a photographer.” help you get relaxed mentally. You master one particular genre of a device only. We have to use the photos.” The city scrape photographer simply focus on the view and the photography. As artists, they are device to grab the best picture.” Ibrar appreciates Qatar for takes photography as an art. He photos. You think of nothing other convinced that they need to pursue Ibrar is a self-taught photographer. the kind of support he received pursues the art to have mental than the photo. You may say it is a one genre and excel at it with Though he has attended here to excel in the art. “I got satisfaction as well. “Though I take kind of mental therapy.” endless learning and hard work. workshops arranged by some adept tremendous support from diff erent it as a skill that I want to master, Continued to Page 6 City scrape photography is a kind of photographers, he has mainly art that needs to be learnt, practised improved his skill while watching and mastered. It is diff erent and YouTube tutorials. “I have attended time-consuming. workshops done by Atif Saeed, a Ibrar Ahmed, a Pakistani celebrated photographer in Pakistan. expatriate, is a keen and searching Also in Qatar, I have taken part in city scrape photographer. He aims diff erent photography workshops to at capturing the skylines of the improve as a photo artist. cities he lives in or visits. His desire “Although the community of is to show people how tall buildings serious photographers is not very look when seen standing on the large yet if you approach any of top of a high rise. The shutterbug them, they respond to your request. has profound admiration for the They support you. I used to share Doha skyline and is in the process my photos with big names even of bringing out a photobook to outside Qatar to improve. The highlight the skyscrapers. learning process however, goes on “By profession, I am a biomedical every day. I think if one wants to do engineer. I work on genetics. I have something seriously, one needs to engineering experience of 11 years, do it with knowledge and learning.” and been working in Qatar for fi ve The biochemical engineer has also years. I have obtained engineering been selling his photos to support degree from Mehran University diff erent charity causes. “After I of Engineering & Technology, improved as a photographer, I started Jamshoro,” said Ibrar, who hails having prints of my photos. I sell the from Umerkot district of Sindh, by images to generate funds for charity.