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The small coastal town of Al Jazir is barely visible on the map but if you are traversing the coastal road leading to Salalah, this is an important fork in the road that gets you there. Al Jazir is a...

Rustaq as a city maintained its old-world charm. Once a capital of Oman, it is full of historically significant structures that visiting it earns one a profound insight into the changes that had swept...

THE WEEKEND WARRIOR yeru.ebuen@gmail.com I recently receive a direct message on my LinkedIn account where a young man currently working as a content consultant wanted to shift or change job and...

Muscat, Aug 12 - What do you do if the traffic line is long? While traffic-abiding motorists wait for their turn, some try to cut through the line, endangering their lives as well as those around...

Salem al Hajri is more comfortable behind the camera than having the camera pointed at him. He made this very clear on the onset. He shared that he likes it best when he tells peoples story through...

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...