Bait al Hadith: A home beyond measure
Issa Nasser Said Al Saqri gestured with pride at the grand old house standing tall in the Harat Al Saybani area of Birkat Al Mouz, where many of the houses are around 400 years old. The Bait Al...
Compassion and empathy help the healing...
I don’t think I’ve ever been more proud to be a New Zealander than during this last week, and I can put that down to one person, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has continued to...
Symphonie de Parfum
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Qurum really does embrace its new face, its ‘nouveau visage,’ with pride, and so it should! General Manager for Crowne Plaza Muscat, Herve Corvest, (photo on right) can...
‘Le Soiree,’ cocktail party at French Embassy
The French Ambassador to Oman, HE Renaud Salins hosted a Cocktail Party for invited dignitaries from the Governmental, Business, Financial, Entrepreneurial, Education and Diplomatic sectors, at his...
The end of the innocence as Christchurch mourns
Aotearoa, the Land of the Long White Cloud, New Zealand again mourns, for the quintessential Garden City of Christchurch, which was just beginning to find its character again after the earthquakes of...
Your food is that of dreams. Well, mine anyway!
Did you know there is no single word in the French language for healthy? ‘En bonne santé’ doesn’t quite cut the mustard does it, in terms of reinforcing healthy eating? But who really cares...
BONJOUR, FRENCH WEEK
It was an ebullient French Ambassador to Oman who announced the program for the French Week, 2019 in Muscat yesterday. With the backing of an energetic and enthusiastic event management team, led by...
Poetry: The clear expression of mixed feelings...
Teaching literature, I’ve always felt that poetry was a bit like the red-headed child, a bit of an outsider in the literary family, which is somewhat strange because I genuinely love listening to...
Only the brave become teachers
Maya Al Mughairi is an enthusiastic, progressive young teacher in the Sharqiya region, who still recalls her earliest days in school with fondness, and being entranced by the ‘Bulldozer’...
Life is short: Look, learn, listen, love and regret little
Today, I’ll break the rule of many years, and go ‘personal,’ in this week’s column. Oman lost a valuable asset last week with the passing of Steven Orr, a much loved, admired and respected,...
If only our ancestors could see us now
What would some of our forefathers think if they could step into today’s world, or how we would see tomorrow’s world given the opportunity? It’s an interesting question, and within its many...
I dream of amazing learning experiences, and then...
Hasan al Basri wrote, “What is this world but a dream that a sleeper sees?” So today I want to share with you my dream. It’s of a way of educating our children that will draw upon their...
Memorisation is the thief of imagination
Rohan Quine has written a novel about a young, famous concert pianist, Jack, who also has the ability to absorb, read steal, the memories and imaginings, of others. The publicity blurb says, “It...
Shabab Oman: Taking the ‘Youth of Oman’ to sea, and to the world
RAY PETERSEN - The name Shabab Oman is synonymous with elegance and tradition, and has represented the Sultanate with incredible dignity for what, in April of this year, will be forty years. The...
Do the right thing, don’t disappoint younger generation
What is truly relevant to the youth of today? Where do they get adequate context upon which to base their future hopes and dreams? We of earlier generations, were not as vulnerable, I feel, as our...
A fun day for family, charity
As the gift that keeps on giving, the Al Mouj Muscat Marathon goes above and beyond, on almost every level. On Saturday, following on from a successful athletic experience with the Marathon itself on...
Al Mouj Marathon a Sure Winner
Ray Petersen - NIZWA, jan 18 - Who embodies the spirit of marathon running more than Paula Radcliffe? Nobody since Pheidippides, the Greek messenger, quite typifies the brutal nature of the...
Al Mouj Muscat Marathon kicks off today
Ray Petersen - This weekend from the Al Mouj Marina to the Markaz Al Bahja intersection, and the Al Mouj Golf Club to Wadi Al Bhaiyas in Seeb, thousands of runners and spectators will embrace the...
Reality, minus expectation creates happiness
Reality is a concept that is either deeply flawed, nothing like it was when we were growing up, or has lost its grace through the advent of reality TV shows. I like the concept of reality as it was...
British Army presents award to their destination of choice
Dakhiliyah tourism and hospitality destination, the Golden Tulip Nizwa, was the recipient of a unique award this week. General Manager of the hotel group, Sandeep Jaitly, prominent in the overseas...