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Yogi Berra said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” But I’ll be the seer, and say that for the Sultanate, this has been a great week, as the oil price has soared...

My old rugby coach would probably be turning in his grave if he heard about what’s going on up on Jabal Akdhar. For him, a three-mile run every day, and 20 press-ups was all it took to get fit....

Summer vacations are looming, and with it the annual ‘outflux’ of expatriates on their annual leaves, not just to escape the heat, but to check on homes, families and pets. I noted a couple of...

Have you ever tried to imagine life after High School? Do you think getting out of High School is the end of your troubles? Let me tell you of the purgatory that awaits. School and university are so...

Someone asked me the other day, “Did you know that the X chromosome that determines males from females is reducing every year, and that in one and a half million years there will be no males...

Into thinking that the stunning Gold medal Award to young Omani students and inventors, Salim al Habsi, Ashhar al Malki and Amira al Abri, at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva last...

A trio of French Language authors met recently with an appreciative audience, at the Lycee Francaise de Mascate, under the patronage of the French Ambassador to Oman, Renaud Salins. The University of...

Ray Petersen - petersen_ray@hotmail.com - The long awaited and eagerly anticipated opening of the new Muscat International Airport will surely be a boon to Oman, and the region, with just a few...

A new initiative was launched at the University of Nizwa Department of Foreign Languages last week, as 24 participant students in the Current Events Course, took the opportunity to offer their...

Ray Petersen - petersen_ray@hotmail.com - It was the renowned fairy tale author, Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote, “Where words fail, music speaks,” and that thought came to my mind often...

NIZWA, April 1  - Dr Khalifa bin Hamad al Saadi, the Governor of the Al Dakhiliyah Governorate, led a prominent delegation in Nizwa on Sunday, as he put it, “To give regional people and...

Ray Petersen - petersen_ray@hotmail.com - Empowerment is a word that’s bandied about too freely today, but it’s certainly my intention every time I step into a classroom, and would be true of...

Biosphere Expeditions, is a multi-national group that acts as guardians for some of the world’s most beautiful marine environments, surveying and conducting habitat and health checks on some of the...

Nizwa, March 26 - In what has now become a traditionally colourful, yet dignified ceremony, at the Amphitheatre of their Birkat Al Mouz Initial Campus, staff, faculty and families celebrated the...

Ray Petersen - petersen_ray@hotmail.com - I saw a man driving, with a child, probably his son, standing on the front passenger seat of his car. I asked the man, “Why are you driving with that...

His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tareq al Said led the Sultanate’s delegation opening the Abu Al Rayhan al Biruni Library in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, last Thursday. It marked the...

Ray Petersen - petersen_ray@hotmail.com - Many of us have had good employers, and not so good, good leaders and not so good, good managers and not so good, and we’ve probably too, been good...

Appointed only a few months ago, the French Ambassador to Oman, Renaud Salins has demonstrated his enthusiasm for his new post with the exciting initiative of a French Week in Oman, to be held at the...

Ray Petersen - petersen_ray@hotmail.com - Universities and colleges all over Oman process hundreds of students who have sought higher education via the Higher Education Admissions Centre (HEAC)...

I can’t wait to get on the road again,” wrote and sang the late Willie Nelson, and most of us do like to get out, and are enthusiastic about, “Goin places that I’ve never been. Seein’ things...