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[gallery type="thumbnails" columns="6" link="file" ids="603673,603672,603650,603648,603649,603647"] The undeniable fact is that the Al Mouj Muscat Marathon continues to demonstrate greater appeal...

The organisers of the Muscat Marathon have taken a different approach to taking the event to a younger audience this year, by inviting a number of key current social media ‘influencers’ to take...

Fahad al Abri is a fitness instructor who is associated with many successful Omani athletes and who speaks from an expert’s perspective. Here we look at the Al Mouj Muscat Marathon, on the 21st and...

Teaching is something I absolutely love doing, but one of the least rewarding things about teaching and institutional rules, is homework. Teachers hate setting homework because it is ‘learning,’...

BY RAY PETERSEN - With the ‘Brexit’ decision now ‘done and dusted,’ as they say, it is the finer details and the mechanics of the thing, not the ‘yay or nay’ that will preoccupy the...

The Ministry of Heritage and Culture has announced the sympathetic restoration of the remarkable edifice overlooking the South Al Sharqiyah coastline at Qalhat. The work is expected to take 4-6...

University of Nizwa has indicated to its students, and the local community, that it is taking seriously the latest member of the Coronavirus family that has its origins in the city of Wuhan, in China,...

Saint Augustine of Hippo was Algerian, a Christian, and a renowned theologian and philosopher who wrote that men admire high mountains, stormy seas, long rivers, vast oceans and the stars in the...

[gallery type="thumbnails" columns="4" link="file" ids="600326,600325,600324,600322"] PHOTOS BY LENA PETERSEN The Dakhiliyah oasis of Izki can cast its origins back as far as 2,660 years, to the...

Hordes of locusts descended upon the Sharqiyah Coast Road, Highway 17, late on Thursday afternoon, momentarily disrupting southbound traffic. Riding with the aid of the strong coastal breeze from the...

Idid a really stupid thing last week that I’m sharing with you so that you don’t make the same mistake that I did. You may not be so lucky! Returning from Dubai last week, where it had rained for...

Growing up in a large family compound in Thrissur, Kerala, young Laji was intrigued by the designs on the tiles her father would make, and set about creating her own artistry, first with tiles, and...

As a nation mourns a leader lost to the inexorable touch of time, it should understand that on the darkest nights, the stars shine brightest, and reflect in that light upon the wisdom and achievements...

I left my office, and walked briskly across the car park, up the steps, and along the covered walkway, and all the way, I’m thinking about how I will implement my plan for the day’s first lesson....

The Muscat Marathon of 2020 is coming, and one person you cannot miss is the race announcer, the tall, lean bearded Eoin Flynn, the man with the golden voice, whose impeccable Irish lilt is just...

THE seaside location of Ras Al Ruways, near Mahout has never seen so much activity, or so many people as ‘eclipse chasers’ from all over the world converged on the idyllic sand dunes for a glimpse...

I am usually in a good frame of mind around this time of year, after all it’s the Christmas season, ‘time to be jolly,’ ‘goodwill to all men,’ and so on, but this year it’s difficult to...

Plagiarism is the current curse of higher education. For those stuck in the dark ages, it is “the act of taking another person’s ideas, words, or writing, and presenting them as your own.” Those...

Who would ever be a teacher? I often wonder, when I see the manner in which they are often taken for granted. Why even the great philosopher and statesman Mahatma Ghandi said, “Those who know how to...

Sons of Oman, don’t be passive and settle for okay. I challenge you to go out there and do things that are not only within your realm of possibility, but greater than that, within your culture,...