YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! There’s probably a photographer hidden in each of us, looking out for a platform. Community invites you to grab your chance and send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected] — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Monday, May 20, 2019 Ramadan 15, 1440 AH Doha today 290 - 370 TheThe missingmissing linklink COVER STORY Black American author Dwight Watkins thinks children in impoverished neighbourhoods starved for books by and about people like them. P4-5 SHOWBIZ BACK PAGE Game of Thrones: 7 hopes How you can increase work for Sunday’s season fi nale. productivity in Ramadan. Page 11 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Monday, May 20, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.20am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.48am Zuhr (noon) 11.32am Asr (afternoon) 2.58pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.16pm Mr. Local CEO of a company, who is constantly at loggerheads with Isha (night) 7.46pm DIRECTION: M Rajesh Sivakartheyan. On the other hand he wants to make Keerthana CAST: Sivakarthikeyan, Nayanthara, Radhika Sarathkumar fall in love with him. SYNOPSIS: Sivakarthikeyan as ‘local’ boy seems to be USEFUL NUMBERS interested in sports. Nayanthara plays Keerthana, a snobbish THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall Emergency 999 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 Avengers: End Game Infi nity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of DIRECTION: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to CAST: Brie Larson, Winston Duke, Karen Gillan undo Thanos’ actions and restore order to the universe. SYNOPSIS: After the devastating events of Avengers: THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall ote Unquo u te Q “Learn The Mall Cinema (1): De De Royal Plaza Cinema from yesterday, live for Pyaar De (Hindi) 2:30pm; De Palace (1): Mr. Local (Tamil) today, hope for tomorrow. The De Pyaar De (Hindi) 9pm; Mr. 2:30pm; Mr. Local (Tamil) important thing is not to stop Local (Tamil) 11:15pm. Mr. Local (Tamil) 8:30pm; 8:30pm; De De Pyaar De questioning.” The Mall Cinema (2): Monster (Tamil) 11:15pm. (Hindi) 11:15pm. Mr. Local (Tamil) 2:15pm; Royal Plaza Cinema — Albert Einstein Landmark Cinema (2): De Mr. Local (Tamil) 8:30pm; De Pyaar De (Hindi) 2:30pm; Palace (2): Uyare Student of the Year 2 (Hindi) De De Pyaar De (Hindi) (Malayalam) 2:30pm; A 11:15pm. 8:30pm; Uyare (Malayalam) Dog’s Journey (2D) 9pm; The Mall Cinema (3): 11pm. Uyare (Malayalam) 11pm. Monster (Tamil) 2:30pm; Royal Plaza Cinema Community Editor Landmark Cinema (3): A Kamran Rehmat Avengers: Endgame (2D) Dog’s Journey (2D) 3pm; A Palace (3): Ugly Dolls (2D) e-mail: [email protected] 8:30pm; Uyare (Malayalam) Dog’s Journey (2D) 8:30pm; 3pm; The Convent (2D) 9pm; Telephone: 44466405 11:30pm. Avengers: Endgame (2D) Avengers: Endgame (2D) Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): 10:30pm. 11pm. Mr. Local (Tamil) 2:15pm; Monday, May 20, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Summer Camp for Special Needs Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 WHERE: Step by Step Centre for Special years old after school hours. Needs WHEN: June 30 – August 1 TIME: 8:00am – 12:30pm During this time, all therapists and teachers will be working together, running individual, peer and group sessions within classes. The children will continue learning age-appropriate concepts, work on social skills, life skills training, arts and crafts, music, and fun activities such as water play. 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. Hobby Classes WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Centre WHEN:Wednesday – Monday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a holistic performing arts institution and a one stop solution for adults as well as children EVENTS looking to explore their talents in various Ballet Lessons art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, MF Hussain: The Horses Of The Sun WHEN: Ongoing music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and WHERE: Mataf: Arab Museum of Modern TIME: 4pm – 8pm craft, karate, yoga, percussion( Chenda, Art For more info e-mail at registration@ Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. harmonium, public speaking. TIME: 9am – 7pm Additional services include dance The exhibition presents Hussain’s pluralist education, choreograph music videos and approach to the divine and cosmic aspects of dance cover albums, choreograph dance being, articulated through the myths, symbols Career Guidance musical projects, corporate workshops and and narratives of the world’s religions and WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al events, choreograph events for schools, philosophies. M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun Sadd colleges, alumni meets and corporate bears witness to a recurrent motif in his art, a WHEN: Sunday – Thursday and choreography events. For details, call personal symbol of self-renewal and vitality. TIME: 6pm – 8pm 33897609. Career guidance for course, country, Katara Drive Thru Festival college and entrance for students of Grade Arabic Calligraphy Workshop WHERE: Katara Cultural Village IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday WHEN: Ongoing till June 10 administered for stream preference, career TIME: 6pm TIME: 6pm – 4am test, branch preference, personality, Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Join us at Katara Village and enjoy the multiple intelligence and learning styles Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic diverse cuisines at your car step! From fi rst and productivity. For more information, handwriting and calligraphy at Music and day of Ramadan until Eid holidays starting 55448835. Arts Atelier. from 5pm till 2am. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For India to Qatar – Symbiosis of Cultures more information, contact registration@ WHERE: FBQ Museum atelierqatar.com WHEN: Ongoing till July 31 Sunset Desert Safari with Iftar Under the context of cultural exchange, WHERE: Sealine Beach FBQ Museum brings together the treasures WHEN: Ongoing of the museum owned collection in order to TIME: 2pm – 10pm promote mutual understanding, recognition Enjoy a day out in the relaxing singing sand and appreciation between Qatar and India. dunes of Mesaieed along with a thrilling dune Composed of fi ve main topics, including bashing experience. This 8-hour getaway community, trade, arts, food and incense, the takes you all the way to the breath-taking exhibition takes one on a journey to explore inland sea beach aka Khor Al Adaid to watch the rich and diverse Indian cultures, the long the Sunset. Break your fast with lavish Iftar at historic links between Qatar and India, and the resort. Only for QR280 per person. cultural similarities between Qatar and India. Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building After School Activities WHEN: Wednesday – Monday WHERE: Atelier Learn the movements of dance styles in WHEN: Ongoing Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical Music and arts activities for students instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard taking place after they fi nish their day in for adults as well kids and move in the world school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- of music. For details, contact 66523871/ hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Monday, May 20, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Reading every day only way you can guarantee success” — Dwight Watkins, author (Reading is) the only way you can grow as a critical thinker. When you learn how to think critically, you learn how to make good decisions. When you learn how to make good decisions, ‘you can do the right things with your life — Dwight Watkins’ author Dwight Watkins, the answer teens in Kerry Graham’s English attempt to rectify what he says is a falling-down rowhouses. By Mary Carole might include an HBO fi lm crew, class at Patterson High School. serious oversight by other authors Watkins said he’s not attempting presentations by a neighbourhood “It’s the only way you can grow who address those topics. to be the voice of his community, nachos czar and an internet radio as a critical thinker. When you Too often, he writes, intellectuals but he feels qualifi ed to be a voice. McCauley personality, a free lunch and boxes learn how to think critically, you take “a drone approach” when He grew up and still lives in East fi lled with 1,000 copies of the learn how to make good decisions. commenting about economically Baltimore. He has written about author’s newly released third book, When you learn how to make good disadvantaged communities. In his the murder of his older brother and ow do you inspire kids We Speak for Ourselves: A Word decisions, you can do the right view, these middle-class pundits — of the period of his life when he ran living in impoverished from Forgotten Black America. things with your life.” some black and some white — hover a successful drug operation.
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