Qatari Designer Leila Issam Draws on Exporting a Brand, Not Just Jewellery, for Business Sense

Qatari Designer Leila Issam Draws on Exporting a Brand, Not Just Jewellery, for Business Sense

YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! There’s probably a photographer hidden in each of us, looking out for a platform. Community invites you to take a chance and send your contributions with your contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected] — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Sunday, April 28, 2019 Sha’baan 23, 1440 AH Doha today 230 - 310 COVER Beyond the glitz STORY Qatari designer Leila Issam draws on exporting a brand, not just jewellery, for business sense. P4-5 SHOWBIZ BACK PAGE Movie academy backs off fi ght South Africans mark silver with Netfl ix. jubilee of Freedom Day. Page 15 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Sunday, April 28, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.28am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.02am Zuhr (noon) 11.33am Asr (afternoon) 3.02pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.04pm Isha (night) 7.34pm USEFUL NUMBERS Avengers: Endgame starts to dwindle. Meanwhile, the remaining Avengers, Thor, DIRECTION: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Black Widow, Captain America and Bruce Banner, must fi gure CAST: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruff alo out a way to bring back their vanquished allies for an epic SYNOPSIS: Adrift in space with no food or water, Tony showdown with Thanos. Emergency 999 Stark sends a message to Pepper Potts as his oxygen supply THEATRE: The Mall, Landmark, 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 Kanchana 3 Raghava, who is afreaid of ghosts and spirits. Things take a DIRECTION: Lawrence Raghavendra sharp turn, when he gets possesed by a spirit, who is seeking CAST: Lawrence Raghavendra, Oviya, Vedika revenge against someone. SYNOPSIS: The plot surrounds a youngster named THEATRE: Landmark ote Unquo u te Q The Mall Cinema (1): Avengers: Athiran (Malayalam) 11:30pm. “Be brave. Endgame (2D) 2pm; Avengers: Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Take risks. Nothing can Endgame (2D) 5pm; Avengers: (1): Strike (2D) 2:15pm; Avengers: substitute experience.” Endgame (2D) 8pm; Avengers: Endgame (3D) 4:15pm; Avengers: Endgame (2D) 11:15pm. Athiran (Malayalam) 2:15pm; Endgame (2D) 7:30pm; Avengers: — Paulo Coelho The Mall Cinema (2): Athiran Strike (2D) 4:45pm; Layl Khariji Endgame (2D) 11pm. (Malayalam) 2pm; Avengers: (Arabic) 6:30pm; Oru Yamandan Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Endgame (2D) 4:15pm; Avengers: Premakadha (Malayalam) 8:15pm; (2): Kanchana 3 (Tamil) 2pm; Endgame (2D) 7:30pm; Avengers: Kanchana 3 (Tamil) 11:15pm. Avengers: Endgame (2D) 5pm; Endgame (2D) 10:45pm. Landmark Cinema (2): Strike Avengers: Endgame (2D) 8:15pm; The Mall Cinema (3): Strike (2D) 2:30pm; Madhura Raja Athiran (Malayalam) 11:30pm. (2D) 2pm; Missing Link (2D) (Malayalam) 4:30pm; Avengers: Royal Plaza Cinema Palace Community Editor 3:45pm; Strike (2D) 5:30pm; Layl Endgame (2D) 7:30pm; Avengers: (3): Athiran (Malayalam) Kamran Rehmat Khariji (Arabic) 7:15pm; Athiran Endgame (2D) 11pm. 2:15pm; Strike (2D) 4:45pm; (Malayalam) 9pm; Oru Yamandan Landmark Cinema (3): Oru Yamandan Premakadha e-mail: [email protected] Premakadha (Malayalam) (Malayalam) 6:30pm; Layl Khariji Telephone: Kanchana 3 (Tamil) 2pm; 44466405 11:30pm. Avengers: Endgame (2D) 5pm; - Arabic (2D) 9:30pm; Boar (2D) Fax: 44350474 Landmark Cinema (1): Avengers: Endgame (2D) 8:15pm; 11:30pm. Sunday, April 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Artistic Gymnastic Classes After School Activities WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb WHERE: Atelier WHEN: Ongoing WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm Music and arts activities for students The olympic sport using horizontal bar, taking place after they fi nish their day in rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- children from age 4 till 16. hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 Syria Matters Exhibition years old after school hours. WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art WHEN: Ongoing till April 30 Arabic Calligraphy Workshop TIME: 9am – 7pm WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Doha TIME: 6pm presents a major exhibition, co-curated by Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. MIA Director Dr Julia Gonnella and Rania Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic Abdellatif, as part of the MIA ten-year handwriting and calligraphy at Music and anniversary celebrations. Arts Atelier. The lessons will take place every Saturday, Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For more information, contact registration@ atelierqatar.com EVENTS TIME: 8am – 10pm Athletics fans in Qatar, Asia and all over Baraka: Blessing of the Garden the world can now secure their tickets for WHERE: Oxygen Park the 23rd Asian Athletics Championships Ballet Lessons WHEN: Ongoing till May 2 after the competition’s Local Organizing WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier TIME: 5pm Committee put the tickets for online sale on WHEN: Ongoing If you’re interested in plants and their the competition’s offi cial website. TIME: 4pm – 8pm medicinal and benefi ts gardening, botany For more info e-mail at registration@ Hobby Classes and history, be sure to check out the ‘Baraka: Career Guidance atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Blessing of the Garden’ exhibition in WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al Centre Education City. The exhibition highlights Sadd WHEN:Wednesday – Monday the use plants mentioned in the Qur’an and WHEN: Sunday – Thursday Mamangam Performing Art Centre, is a Hadith, and their signifi cance to society. The TIME: 6pm – 8pm holistic performing arts institution and a one narrative of the exhibition aims to inform Career guidance for course, country, stop solution for adults as well as children and engage visitors, and, encouraging them college and entrance for students of Grade looking to explore their talents in various to think about how our everyday life involves IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments art forms. We off er classes in contemporary, and depends on plants, is divided into four administered for stream preference, career Bollywood, hip hop, indian classical dance, categories: cosmetic-medicinal; edible; test, branch preference, personality, music (Hindustani and Carnatic), arts and lifestyle; and fragrance. multiple intelligence and learning styles craft, karate, yoga, percussion( Chenda, and productivity. For more information, Thimila, Elathalam and Madhalam), violin, Sunset Desert Safari 55448835. harmonium, public speaking. WHERE: InLand Sea Off Rd, Qatar Additional services include dance WHEN: May 3 education, choreograph music videos and TIME: 2pm – 7pm dance cover albums, choreograph dance Enjoy a day out in the relaxing singing sand musical projects, corporate workshops and dunes of Mesaieed along with a thrilling dune events, choreograph events for schools, bashing experience. This 5-hour getaway Cycling: Losail Circuit Sports Club colleges, alumni meets and corporate takes you all the way to the breath-taking WHERE: Losail Circuit and choreography events. For details, call inland sea beach a.k.a Khor Al Adaid to watch WHEN: Ongoing 33897609. the Sunset. Only for QR170 per person. TIME: 5pm Losail Circuit Sports Club, in association with Qatar Sports For All Federation, invites all cyclists, runners and walkers to train under the fl oodlights of Losail International Circuit every Wednesdays. Dance and Instrument Classes WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Building WHEN: Wednesday – Monday Learn the movements of dance styles in Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard Aian Athletics Championships Doha for adults as well kids and move in the world WHERE: Khalifa International Stadium of music. For details, contact 66523871/ WHEN: Ongoing till April 24 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, April 28, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “You can’t design one thing for all women” — Leila Issam, Qatari jewellery designer SUNDAY CONVERSATION Studying designs is important, but following your vision and heart is very important. That feeling is probably lacking in ‘ the market By Mudassir Raja eila Issam has held “Anything Art” dear to her heart as a motto from a very young age. During a time when children exhibit signs of whether they will grow into afi cionados of art or its architects, Leila clearly had the qualities of the latter.’ A Qatari jewellery designer, she fi rst obtained her LBaccalaureate in French Literature and Philosophy — a combination she felt she needed fi rst in order to understand the discipline that continues today in her thinking process of creating luxury products. She then moved to Paris to study art and design where she experimented with diff erent fi ne art techniques, as well as design in all its forms; be it conceptual or interior. But it was after she moved to Florence that jewellery fascinated her DOUBLE CLAW RING: For your inner wild side, a double WILDERNESS RING: A pave set diamond ring set it in from every angle, and thus began a quest for an art form she would take claw ring, pave set with G-VS1 diamonds on 18k gold. 18k yellow gold. on as her own. Sunday, April 28, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Diamond Loops with Chain and Diamond Amalfi Yellow Stud Earrings Wilderness Necklace Jacket Earrings An approximate 1.33ct of pear and oval shaped An approximate 7.2ct of G-VS1 brilliant white Dismantle-able set of diamond earrings that white and yellow diamonds set in 18k yellow diamonds set in 138g of 18k yellow gold.

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