Community Community The Annual Athletes from Nations across the P6Cup Cricket P20 region and concluded recently beyond are coming to with Tusker India Doha to be part of the SNS emerging as final edition and challenge champions. their Qatari counterparts. Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Rabia I 26, 1437 AH DOHA 14°C—23°C TODAY LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE 13 PUZZLES 14 & 15 COVER STORY Nifty Nasser Qatari engineer finds meaning in pursuing self-taught art. P4-5 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, January 6, 2016 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT The Good, the Bad, and the Dead GENRE: Action, Thriller CAST: Johnny Messner, Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo DIRECTION: Timothy Woodward Jr SYNOPSIS: Brian Barnes (Johnny Messner) wakes up in the desert wounded and with no memory and no idea why he’s surrounded by eight bodies, a van with $4mn in cash and a van full of cocaine. Brian is pursued PRAYER TIME by not only notorious drug lord Danny Perez (Danny Trejo) who Fajr 4.59am desperately want his money back, Shorooq (sunrise) 6.21am and DEA Agent Rooker (Dolph Zuhr (noon) 11.40am Lundgren), but also a by the Asr (afternoon) 2.39pm corrupt Sheriff Olson (Michael Maghreb (sunset) 5.01pm Pare) who will stop at nothing to Isha (night) 6.31pm get his hand on the new found fortune. USEFUL NUMBERS THEATRES: The Mall, Landmark, Royal Plaza Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Ooredoo Telephone Assistance 111 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Time 141, 140 Doha International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Medical Commission 44679111 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Weather Forecast 44656590 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 Qatar University 44033333 Snowtime snowball fi ght. Luke and Sophie, both 11 years old, become the GENRE: Animation, Comedy leaders of the opposing sides. Sophie and her cohort defend te Unqu CAST: Angela Galuppo, Mariloup Wolfe, Lucinda Davis an elaborate snow fort against the assault of Luke’s horde. uo ot DIRECTION: Jean-François Pouliot, François Brisson Whichever side occupies the fort at the end of the winter Q e SYNOPSIS: To amuse themselves during the winter school break, wins. No one saves us break, the kids in a small village decide to have a massive THEATRES: Landmark, The Mall, Royal Plaza but ourselves. No one can Mall Cinema (1): Santa Claws (2D) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (1): and no one may. We ourselves 2.30pm; The Big Short (2D) 4.30pm; Santa Claws (2D) 2pm; Snowtime (2D) Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force 3.45pm; Extraction (2D) 5.15pm; The must walk the path. Awakens (2D) 6.45pm; Extraction Big Short (2D) 7pm; Bone Tomahawk (2D) 9pm; Ho Mann Jahaan (Urdu) Force Awakens (2D) 4.45pm; The Big (2D) 9.15pm; The Big Short (2D) — Buddha 10.30pm. Short (2D) 7pm; Joy (2D) 9.15pm; 11.30pm. Mall Cinema (2): Snowtime (2D) The Good, The Bad, & The Dead (2D) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (2): 3pm; The Good Dinosaur (2D) 4.45pm; 11.30pm. Savva, Heart Of The Warrior (2D) Joy (2D) 6:30pm; The Big Short (2D) Cinema Land Mark (2): The Peanuts 2.30pm; The Good Dinosaur (2D) 8.45pm; Bone Tomahawk (2D) 11.15pm. Movie (2D) 3pm; Savva, Heart Of The 4.15pm; The Good, The Bad, & The Mall Cinema (3): The Peanuts Warrior (2D) 5pm; Extraction (2D) Dead (2D) 6pm; Joy (2D) 7.45pm; Movie (2D) 2.30pm; Savva, Heart Of 7pm; Bone Tomahawk (2D) 9pm; Extraction (2D) 10pm; Bleeding Heart Features Editor The Warrior (2D) 4.15pm; Bleeding Extraction (2D) 11.15pm. (2D) 11.30pm. Kamran Rehmat Heart (2D) 5.45pm; The Good, The Cinema Land Mark (3): The Good Asian Town Cinema: Dilwale (Hindi) e-mail: [email protected] Bad, & The Dead (2D) 7.15pm; Su Dinosaur (2D) 2.15pm; Snowtime (2D) 4pm; Pasanga 2 (Tamil) 5.45 & Sudhi Vatmeekam (Malayalam) 9pm; 3.45pm; Santa Claws (2D) 5.15pm; 10.45pm; Thanga Magan (Tamil) 8.15; Telephone: 44466405 Extraction (2D) 11.30pm. Bleeding Heart (2D) 7pm; Su Sudhi Bajirao Mastani (Hindi) 6.15; Su Su Fax: 44350474 Cinema Land Mark (1): Joy (2D) Vatmeekam (Malayalam) 8.45pm; The Sudhi Vatmeekam (Malayalam) 5.45, 7, 2.30pm; Star Wars: Episode VII – The Big Short (2D) 11.15pm. 8.15, 9.15 & 10.45pm. Wednesday, January 6, 2016 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY EVENTS bit.ly/1meKTSq or to fi nd out more please culture and fostering co-operation among Choose from a large selection of art, design and visit: http://www.acs-schools.com/open- community members. craft courses at VCUQatar in Education City Arabian Drag Racing League mornings-acs-doha. The offi cial inauguration of the meet will be or at IAID (Academy for Dance, Music & Arts). DATE: Jan 15 held on Qatar National Sport Day — February Register online now, visit www.qatar.vcu.edu/ TIME: 4pm Neuroscience Conference 9. The inaugural ceremony will be attended community. For more details you can call IAID VENUE: Qatar Racing Club DATE: Feb 18-20 by eminent sports personalities of India at 44320974 / 44411234 / 66710589 or e-mail Join us at Qatar Racing Club for all 5 rounds VENUE: Sheraton Hotel and Qatar, as well as the representatives of us at [email protected]. of the Arabian Drag Racing League. Food and The 1st Qatar Annual Neuroscience various government and non-government drinks are available. Children will enjoy the Conference, organised by the Neurological authorities. The competitions will be held in children’s play areas on each side of the track Institute at Hamad Medical Corporation, 8 individual items (100, 200 and 1500m Race, with giant infl atable slides and bounce houses off ers a comprehensive educational Long Jump, High Jump, Javelin Throw, Shot and eat cotton candy. Everyone will enjoy programme specifi cally designed for the Put and Arm Wrestling) and 03 group events seeing the world’s fastest cars zoom down Mena region that will have signifi cant (4 X 100 Relay, Shuttle Badminton and Tug- the track, from 0 to 360km per hour in just 4 emphasis on practical aspects of common of-War). The last date of registration will seconds! neurological and neurosurgical disorders. The be January 8 and will be limited to the fi rst scientifi c programme committee has invited registered 18 organisations. Workers Sports 2016 world leaders in their fi elds to share their For more details and registration, please DATE: Jan-Nov knowledge with the attendees. e-mail: [email protected] or TIME: Thursday- Friday contact 55091659/66612969/33549050/44 VENUE: QSports QBX EXPO 439319. QSports is pleased to announce that DATE: Jan 10-12 registrations are now open for the most Time: 10am-9pm Conference on Human Rights in Arab 2016 Ooredoo Marathon exciting sports programme for blue collar VENUE: Doha Exhibition Center Region DATE: Jan 8 workers of Qatar. It comprises outdoor This exhibition is the fi rst of its kind, as DATE: Jan 13-14 TIME: 10am football league, cricket (T-16), indoor it will gather every single business activity VENUE: The Ritz-Carlton Now in its fourth year, the Ooredoo volleyball, futsal and basketball. The event starting from start-ups to the most advanced The conference aims to highlight appropriate Marathon will take place on Friday. kicks off in late January and will continue business establishment. It is for everyone and necessary approaches of the United Nations throughout 2016. who wants to keep up with the latest and human rights system, particularly the role of Harem Al Sultan Exhibition most advanced support services and business OHCHR in protecting human rights in the DATE: Until Jan 10 QNHG TALK solution to improve productivity. Arab region in light of the current situation; VENUE: Katara Bldg 10 Bridging the Generation Gap to Protect how to improve States’ engagement with UN The Magnifi cent Century series has become Nature in Yemen: Conservation of Nature MIA Park Bazar treaty bodies’ mechanisms, and to follow-up a television legend, a historical soap opera through Culture DATE: January 9 eff ectively on the Universal Periodic Review’s on the life of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman Talk by Dr Mohammed al-Duais, Natural TIME: 12pm- 8pm recommendations. the Magnifi cent that has now been watched Sciences Programme Assistant, Unesco VENUE: MIA park by 300mn viewers in 54 countries. This Date: Today With a vibrant mix of around 150 stalls, Seeing Through my Paint Brush unique exhibition brings the costumes, sets Time: 7pm MIA Park Bazaar is a modern version of the DATE: Jan 7-9 and ambience of the series to Doha, revealing Light refreshments from 6:30pm - Q and old souq tradition. TIME: 10am-10pm the stories behind the life of the Turkish A afterwards You can browse and buy food, homemade VENUE: Katara Art studio conqueror and his love for the humble and Where: Doha English Speaking School and handmade products such as jewellery, The Cultural Village Foundation – Katara beautiful Harem Sultan. Exhibition visitors (DESS), Madinat Khalifa South arts, crafts and clothing as well as books and and Al-Noor Institute for the Blind invite you to will be transported back to the glorious world Synopsis: If the bee disappeared off the souvenirs. explore the talents of the institute’s students by of Suleiman the Magnifi cent and see the surface of the globe, then man would have So if you’re looking for interesting or visiting ‘Seeing Through my Paint Brush’. artistry and craftsmanship that went into only four years of life left.