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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Irecall reading many years ago that pets have a shorter life expectancy than humans because they give so much of themselves in those few short years, so much love, so much companionship, and so much...

With 6,094 competitors last year, across the different class and distance events, the Al Mouj Muscat Marathon aims even higher for the 2019 event, held over two days, Friday and Saturday, January...

Al Saqla is a relatively new, and certainly unspoiled tourist destination on the coastal road between Sur and Duqm, a leisurely forty-minute drive south of the seaside town of Al Ashqarah. Blink and...

The End is Nigh’ is a phrase usually applied to apocalyptic events, but somehow, well at least from my perspective, 2019 looks like being just another great year to be, as my Dad says, “on top of...

Not sure what to do with the kids on weekends Mum and Dad? Kids, are you bored with playing football and shopping? Well, an enterprising Omani businessman may just have the answer. Especially for all...

Maya al Mugheiri, as a student, was always thoughtful, enthusiastic and innovative. Now, Maya al Mugheiri the teacher and educator, has demonstrated all of those traits in a new English Language...

The United Kingdom and Oman have a long, well established defence relationship, based on shared objectives of peace and stability in the region, and the continuation of a relationship established with...

We really do have a lot to be thankful for here in the Sultanate, which, day after day lives up to its oft-given tag of ‘The Jewel of the Middle East.”For a start there is the weather which...

When I taught communication skills a few years back, one of the exercises that would get a new group of students interacting with each other was by choosing a very large building, and sending the...

The inaugural edition of a five-year franchise, the Oman leg of the UTMB race series took place in the Dakhiliyah Governorate on November 29, 2018. Race Director Glynn Broomberg, and the Head of the...

Nizwa, Dec 5 - A traditional recital greeting by Sultan al Hinai opened the inaugural German Festival at the University of Nizwa’s Birkat Al Mouz campus on Tuesday. Thomas Schneider, German...

A young Jawaher Salim Khalfan Al Shuaibi must have hit rock bottom, when, as an expectant young mother, she lost her first child. How does anyone even handle that, let alone use that loss to motivate...

The vast open spaces of Oman are what German cyclist Peter Hartelt didn’t expect at all, and while resting from his exertions in the Nizwa Souq, he explained yesterday that it actually makes him a...