Community Community DPS-Modern The fourth Indian School edition of Al P6organises P16 Adaid Desert annual day for Challenge brings bigger and the students the most exciting desert of preparatory cycle race that will take grade. place on Friday, March 1. Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Jumada II 21, 1440 AH Doha today: 190 - 260 WINNERS: From left, Rami Malek, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Mahershala Ali. COVER Oscars Verdict STORY The 91st Academy Awards ceremony had some surprises, some great speeches, a bit of controversy and some beautiful dresses. P4-5 POP SPOT SHOWBIZ Billie is proud of Bury Guneet Monga wants to use her a Friend’s popularity. Oscar win to educate masses. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, February 26, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.44am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.00am Zuhr (noon) 11.47am Asr (afternoon) 3.06pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.36pm Isha (night) 7.06pm USEFUL NUMBERS What They Had between her father’s stubborn insistence that his wife remains DIRECTION: Elizabeth Chomko at home and her equally determined brother’s eff orts to place Emergency 999 CAST: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster her in a ‘memory care’ facility, Bridget struggles to make sense Worldwide Emergency Number 112 SYNOPSIS: After her ailing mother wanders off during a of a lifetime of family confl ict. Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 blizzard, Bridget returns to her childhood home in Chicago, Local Directory 180 accompanied by her rebellious daughter. Forced to referee THEATRE: Royal Plaza 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 Kikoriki. Deja Vu birthday party. He contacts the DejaVu scatters the group across the ages. With DIRECTION: Denis Chernov Agency, which organises exciting help from his alter ego, Krash the rabbit CAST: Denis Chernov, Jeff rey Hylton time travel adventures. When the must race through time to fi nd and SYNOPSIS: Krash decides to throw Kikoriki crew fail to follow the rules, rescue his friends before it is too late. his best buddy Barry an unforgettable a cataclysmic accident happens and THEATRES: Landmark, Royal Plaza ote Unquo u te Q “Change The Mall Cinema (1): L.K.G. June (Malayalam) 11:30pm. your life today. Don’t (Tamil) 2pm; Kodathi Samaksham Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Balan Vakkeel (Malayalam) (1): L.K.G. (Tamil) 2:15pm; Total gamble on the future, 4:15pm; A Star Is Born (2D) 7pm; Dhamaal (Hindi) 4:45pm; Total act now, without delay.” Total Dhamaal (Hindi) 9:15pm; June (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Dhamaal (Hindi) 7pm; L.K.G. Gully Boy (Hindi) 11:30pm. Kodathi Samaksham Balan (Tamil) 9:15pm; Total Dhamaal The Mall Cinema (2): June Vakkeel (Malayalam) 5pm; (Hindi) 11:30pm. — Simone de Beauvoir (Malayalam) 2:15pm; Gully Boy Natasaarvabhowma (Kannada) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (Hindi) 4:45pm; Alita: The Battle 8pm; Natasaarvabhowma (2): Kikoriki Deja Vu (2D) 2:30pm; Angel (2D) 7:30pm; Fighting With (Kannada) 11pm. Gully Boy (Hindi) 4:15pm; A Star My Family (2D) 9:30pm; Total Landmark Cinema (2): L.K.G. Is Born (2D) 7pm; The Knight Dhamaal (Hindi) 11:30pm. (Tamil) 2:30pm; L.K.G. (Tamil) Of Shadows (2D) 9:30pm; L.K.G. The Mall Cinema (3): 4:45pm; Total Dhamaal (Hindi) (Tamil) 11:30pm. Natasaarvabhowma (Kannada) 7pm; Total Dhamaal (Hindi) 9:15pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Community Editor 2:15pm; Total Dhamaal (Hindi) Total Dhamaal (Hindi) 11:30pm. June (Malayalam) 2:15pm; Kodathi Kamran Rehmat 5pm; Upgrade (2D) 7:15pm; The Landmark Cinema (3): Samaksham Balan Vakkeel e-mail: [email protected] Knight Of Shadows (2D) 9pm; Kikoriki Deja Vu (2D) 2:30pm; (Malayalam) 4:45pm; What Telephone: 44466405 Natasaarvabhowma (Kannada) Natasaarvabhowma (Kannada) They Had (2D) 7:30pm; Upgrade 11pm. 4:15pm; The Knight Of Shadows (2D) 9:30pm; June (Malayalam) Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): (2D) 7:15pm; L.K.G. (Tamil) 9:15pm; 11:30pm. Tuesday, February 26, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Syria Matters Exhibition Where: Museum of Islamic Art When: Ongoing till April 30 Time: 9am – 7pm Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha presents a major exhibition, co-curated by MIA Director Dr Julia Gonnella and Rania Abdellatif, as part of the MIA ten-year anniversary celebrations. Arabic Calligraphy Workshop WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday TIME: 6pm Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Arts Atelier. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For more information, contact [email protected] Artistic Gymnastic Classes WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb After School Activities EVENTS Grand Prix of Qatar 2019 WHEN: Ongoing till February 28 WHERE: Atelier WHERE: Losail International Circuit TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm WHEN: Ongoing Baladna Cultural Festival WHEN: March 8 – 10 The olympic sport using horizontal bar, Music and arts activities for students WHERE: Baladna Park TIME: 1pm – 9pm rings and floor exercises on mats for the taking place after they finish their day in WHEN: Ongoing till March 1 The opening race will be held under the children from age 4 till 16. school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- Baladna Park will embark you on a floodlights. Tickets can be purchased on- hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama delicious and rich journey this time of year, line. Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and through the Baladna Culture Festival. The 10 years old after school hours. festivities will take place each Friday and Saturday of the month of February and will Hobby Classes include food, dance shows, entertainment WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art and cultural handicrafts from across the Centre world. For further information 44246000. WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is MIA Park Bazaar 2019 a holistic performing arts institution and WHERE: Museum Of Islamic Art a one stop solution for adults as well as WHEN: Ongoing children looking to explore their talents TIME: 12pm – 8pm in various art forms. We offer classes in MIA Bazaar will be having a vibrant contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop and mix of 350 stalls. MIA Park Bazaar is a Indian classical dance forms, along with modern version of the old souq tradition. Ballet Lessons classes for music, art and crafts, karate and The stalls are going to offer a wide range WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier yoga. Additional services include dance of gastronomies from all over the world. WHEN: Ongoing education and choreography. For details, You can also browse and grab handcrafted TIME: 4pm – 8pm call 33897609. artefacts, accessories, canvases, fashion For more info e-mail at registration@ wears, designer ornaments. atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Dance and Instrument Classes A R Rahman Concert WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf WHERE: Khalifa Stadium Times Building WHEN: March 22 WHEN: Wednesday – Monday TIME: 6pm – 11pm Learn the movements of dance styles Music maestro A R Rahman is going to in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the be performing on the 22nd of March at the musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Khalifa Stadium. Keyboard for adults as well kids and move in the world of music. For details, contact 66523871/ 31326749. Mehaseel Festival Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club WHERE: Katara Cultural Village WHERE: Losail Circuit WHEN: Ongoing till March 31 WHEN: Ongoing Mehaseel Souq will be open every TIME: 5pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 31st of Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association March. It is a perfect market to get amazing with Qatar Sports For All Federation, local fresh produce. invites all cyclists, runners and walkers to train under the floodlights of Losail International Circuit every Wednesdays. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, February 26, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY New Academy, new Oscars By Mary McNamara hange is hard. It never happens quite like you want it to and most of the time it is very, very messy. CThis year’s Oscars refl ected an institution in the midst of great change. Three years after #Oscarssowhite, the largest and most diverse Academy membership in history made history with fi rst-time wins for black female fi lmmakers and a record number of awards for black fi lmmakers. They gave an Oscar to the female creators of a short fi lm about menstruation, the fi rst Pixar fi lm directed solely by a woman and Spike Lee. Alfonso Cuaron won three awards for Roma, which is a black-and-white fi lm entirely in Spanish that is distributed by Netfl ix. The nearly 8,000 voters also continued to baffl e and irritate critics with their stubbornly retro fondness for Bohemian Rhapsody and their choice of the old-fashioned Green Book for best picture over Black Panther, Roma and BlacKkKlansman. And, like the smaller and more homogenous group before it, this academy stayed true to its inexplicable, and frankly unforgivable, “no Oscar for Glenn Close” rule. (Glenn, you should have brought the dog.) All of which occurred in a telecast that came as close to the three-hour mark as it’s probably ever going to get if we are going to continue to let people sing and honour the dead. Even the set looked way better on television than it did in photos.