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Photos by Yelena Glukhovtseva/University of Liverpool -Misfat Al Abriyeen is named after the ancestral inhabitants of the Al Abri family, and the perpetual running water from the falaj. What an...

The Sultanate needs a strong, effective health research environment. The global Covid-19 pandemic’s one positive outcome has been the recognition by smaller nations and economies, that medical...

Cargo transport, shipping, and freight costs for returning home expatriates that have gone ballistic, thus adding to the pain of the departure. Significant numbers of freight forwarders, shipping, and...

Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock, in Brownsville Tennessee, she is simply five foot nothing of ‘viva voce,’ of “life, given voice.” Born into a violent, loveless marriage, from which her...

Photos by Lena PetersenNo... It’s not mis-spelt, our Turkish Angora cat’s name is Persy. He is completely white, like the washing powder ‘Persil,’ and branded “whiter than white.”We...

I love... no, I like fridge magnets! No... not the ones with Dutch windmills, the UK’s Big Ben, the Statue of Liberty from the States, or the Egyptian pyramids, but those that have homespun...

Singer/songwriter Jason Mraz has written that in his experience, “anger and frustration are the result of not being authentic in your life, or with someone in your life,” contending further that...

I am reminded that not all expatriates in the Sultanate have been here for an extended period, so I was prompted to explain Eid, the celebration, and the observance, simply for all the ‘newbies’...

Pupil and student learning needs change, and what I now see as practical, would have been unthinkable to me ten, five, or even less, years ago, but the altered circumstances of the Sultanate, and my...

Alifa bint Dawood Khan is like a breath of fresh air, articulate, animated, and effervescent, yet socially responsible, modest, compassionate, as demonstrated in her recently created ‘Families in...

It has been said that the great thing about getting old, is that you do not lose all the other ages you have been, the trials and tribulations of those ages, the experiences and experience shared, and...

NIZWA: “Seeing patients struggle to breathe, isolated from their loved ones, and seeing the fear of the unknown in their eyes, is so debilitating,” said Dr Amin Paracha, an ER Physician at KIMS...

Albert Einstein was a genius. A theoretical physicist whose contributions towards mankind’s intellectual understanding of relativity, and quantum theory, led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in...

The wonderful Jonathan Swift wrote, “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived it is too late, the jest is over and the tale has had its...

Recently appointed as Head of the Faculty of Business Management at Majan University College, the youthful and impressive Dr Ammar bin Abdulrahman al Balushi, as one academic put it, “represents the...

Nizwa: Salim al Sueili of UTAS-Nizwa confirmed that in a continuation of the ongoing UTAS-Nizwa SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WEBINARS 2021, The Department of Information Technology conducted a Virtual Research...

The Omani ‘treeline’ is far from common, but the staunch Acacia, vancellia tortillis, or the Umbrella Thorn Acacia, adorns almost every sunrise, sunset, and landscape portrait, taken or painted,...

Always looking at Oman and Omanis from an expatriate perspective, I must say I was surprised last week to read that more than 57,000 citizens had updated their personal data pertaining to residential...

“I wants... never get!” That is something my grandfather said to me when I was a kid, looking through shop windows at toys, sweets, and whatever else appeared out of reach, and he suggested I...

Recent displays of raw emotion are understandable in times of stress and frustration. These are difficult times, but times during which genuine compassion and understanding are needed. We may not...