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By Ray Petersen — It’s a long way from the small village of less than a thousand people in the mountainous Pau region of France, to the 1980’s Franco/Omani inspired architecture of the Embassy...

By Ray Petersen — Well, here we are again, only a week to go in 2016, and it seems like only yesterday we celebrated New Year’s Eve for this year. It’s been asked before, and will be again, but...

By Ray Petersen — Literature is a culture, it encourages thought, and debate, and the development of knowledge on a million different levels among people from all walks of life, of all ages, and all...

By Ray Petersen — MUSCAT: I love statistics. I can see why Mark Twain uttered his famous quotation of “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” He was a cynic with a sense of humour, but it...