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So you think you know Salalah? While you may assume that the glossy pictures shared on magazines or newspapers or even the viral ones rounding the social media speak for what can be found there, they...

Weekends make Salalah a definite tourist spot. If you are like us who arrived here on a Friday afternoon, you’d see perhaps one of the longest traffic experienced in Oman while entering the city...

Hassan always looks forward to the weekend. His room which is filled with adventure gears like ropes, safety helmets, life jackets and hiking boots usually needed tidying up but because of his busy...

In one of the treks organised by the people behind Oman Outdoor Adventure which I joined recently, I got into an interesting discussion with one of the participants about the availability of jobs in...

With 2.3 million followers on Instagram and another 116k on Twitter, Kuwait’s Sondos Alqattan is your typical successful social media influencer — beautiful, entitled and possessed an air that she...

If you’d been to Muscat Grand Mall on July 17 and 18, chances are, you came face to face with rocks enclosed in glass cases with different labels attached to them. You might be one of the hundreds...

I grew up in a society where life has a timeline. I think we all do. But from my culture, these are the expectations: At 22, you should already have graduated from university and few months after,...

The idea came to him not in a flash but rather as a result of a collective of experiences. Having worked in the country’s defense sector for almost two decades allowed him to travel the world and...

It’s that time of the year. All over the country, students in their final year in the university are sent out to different organisations for their internship or on-the-job training. Just like the...

Unesco has officially declared the ancient City of Qalhat as a World Heritage Site. The announcement was made on the organisation’s Twitter account on Friday. Qalhat has been on the tentative list...

Aligned with their goal of protecting and conserving Oman’s natural heritage, the Environment Society of Oman (ESO) concluded an education programme sponsored by Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)...

Long time ago, Qalhat would have been buzzing with different activities. One of history’s successful harbour cities, it once welcomed ships from India, Yemen and Dhofar and it hosted thousands of...

A trip to Jabal Akhdhar will not be complete without passing through the now abandoned old village of Wadi Bani Habib. Here, crumbling houses that hang on the side of the cliff makes for a...

There’s something very familiar about Anglo-Portuguese Joana Mollet’s artwork currently gracing the walls of the Centre Franco Omanais at Al Inshirah St, Muscat. Launched on the evening of June 11...

The Weekend Warrior -  One of the many things that surprised me last week is the discovery that many companies in Oman, regardless of how established they are, do not have a proper marketing and...

Yeru Ebuen - weekendwarrior.now@gmail.com - Monday evening was the official launch of one of my colleagues’ book. A permanent fixture in the media scene in the Sultanate, it’s seldom that you...

    When one hears of Wadi al Hoqeen, a picture of a flowing man-made dam surrounded by lush vegetation always comes to mind. Even a quick search on Google yields different versions of this image...

YERU EBUEN & TITASH CHAKRABORTY - The history of ramen is quite contentious but one thing is clear, the Japanese has improved on it and truly claimed it to be their own. When you can’t decide if...

YERU EBUEN & TITASH CHAKRABORTYV - Qantab is barely an hour away from Muttrah but despite being so near, there’s not much that has been said about it. In the Sultanate today, it is known for its...

Yeru Ebuen - weekendwarrior.now@gmail.com - On Thursday of last week, a colleague told me that he was planning to leave early from work because he made a commitment to his mother and sister to...