Guardians of the Musandam Coral Reefs
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...
1,412 students graduate from Nizwa University
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...
I saw a man driving, yesterday. He was...
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...
Al Biruni library: Monument to greatness of 3 men
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...
Leadership and management: No place for kids
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...
Pour Tout le Monde
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...
Schools must deliver quality learning experiences
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)...
Drivers, concentrate on road, not on mobile talk
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...
Dusk to darkness captured in Al Sharqiyah
Vincent Van Gogh said, “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” The Sharqiyah Governorate, the city of Sur, and particularly the Al Ayjah township always provide a visual feast...
Hospitality industry a genuine employment option
While I can understand the cultural reservations Omanis may have had, in the past, in terms of the hospitality industry as a legitimate employment option, I think wherever that reluctance has its...
ROP driving change, mothers via new laws
The Royal Oman Police, in the person of Brigadier Eng Mohammed bin Awadh al Rowas, Director-General of Traffic, made a significant contribution towards safer roads in the Sultanate, with their...
Let’s prevent more mobile mayhem, now
It’s a couple of years since I had a go at the standard of driving in Oman, so I guess I’m due for a rant. First, and I only found out about this last week, back in September, a well-known,...
Olive wood-handled Khanjars: “Because you’re worth it!”
The wood of the olive tree, known by its botanical name of Olea Europaea, has become the latest ‘must have’ men’s fashion accessory according to Nizwa silver craftsman, and businessman, Daoud Al...
‘I want’s, never get!’ words of wisdom
I fear for the youth of our current generations in many respects, but most of all because there is a phrase that has become significantly overused by the young people of today, which tends to grate...
A gentle man of nature in our midst
Dr Nigel Winser is an Oxfordshire, United Kingdom-based, conservation advocate, who has devoted much of his career to the conservation and environmental issues that face Oman, since his first venture...
Social media. What has it achieved?
I have a sense that all of us have opinions. We always have had them, however, our natural, innate reticence has generally required us, through the rules of our many different societies around the...
Oman’s warriors in red set nation afire
The outpouring of national pride and emotion must have been evident around the Sultanate as the fifth Omani penalty taker, Mohsin al Khaldi, slotted home the winning goal, the winning penalty, at the...
Another year over, a new one to come
Here we stand, on the cusp of another year, as 2018 beckons to us with its questions, and challenges yet to be seen, heard or met. Indeed, life is itself, according to Tennesee Williams, just one big,...
I heard the ringing of bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play, and mild and sweet their songs repeat, of peace on earth good will to men.” Thus, paraphrasing Luke 2:14, currently, as many expatriates celebrate Christmas in Oman...
Christmas Tradition Unveiled in Nizwa
Christmas carols are traditional in the West, and have been since their advent, 1500 years ago. Each civilisation since has added its own touch to the practice of carolling, and in the Dakhiliyah, for...