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[gallery type="rectangular" columns="5" ids="662278,662277,662281,662279,662280"] Adjacent to every major camel racing event or training centre, you can find a camel souq, where all manner of goods...

The Sultanate is navigating its way through a tumultuous 2021 with all the uncertainty of a small boat on a tempestuous, storm-tossed sea, and while survival is the immediate objective, the...

Having interacted with significant numbers of teachers and learners across the entire educational sector, all I am seeing is frustration and disappointment. Teachers have been forced to go, to...

[caption id="attachment_659451" align="alignleft" width="300"] HH Sayyid Asaad bin Tarik al Said[/caption] Muscat, Feb 20 - The Royal Camel Corps owned Mizna turned in a quality performance in the...

Muscat, Feb 19 - The inaugural Himam Trail Run, with the local Golden Tulip Hotel as its Gold Sponsors, over 50km of Al Dakhiliyah tracks and trails, took place yesterday. PR spokesman for the...

The Al Bashayer Camel Racing Complex was abuzz with the news that popular Mudhaibi camel trainer Mahmood bin Ali al Jabri had sold his day two winner, Al Afia (by Ibn Sarab, out of Khawr) to an...

A Royal victory, and locally trained camels performing well were the features of day three of the Al Bashayer Camel Racing Festival on Wednesday. None was more popular than that prepared by the Al...

High class, high quality camel racing, such as that seen at the Al Bashayer Camel Racing Festival this week is an engrossing experience, so for those of you who have never encountered the sport, here...

MUSCAT, FEB 16 The Annual Al Bashayer Camel Racing Festival’s second day featured 13 rounds, each with big fields of three-year-old camels during the morning and afternoon rounds. There was drama...

Muscat, Feb 15 - The Annual Al Bashayer Camel Racing Festival kicked off in excellent conditions, with big fields of Juvenile, Two-Year-Old camels featuring across 20 rounds split between morning and...

The 4th Annual Edition of the Al Bashayer Arabian Camel Racing Festival kicks-off tomorrow (Monday) at 7 am with the first event, a Two-Year-Old race over 4 kms, a taster, an entrée, for almost sixty...

The Multi-faceted Baida al Zadjali The brilliant jeweller Marcel Tolkowsky set the gold standard a century ago, identifying the perfect cut to have 58 facets or faces. Omani Engineering and Project...

Muscat: The fourth Annual Edition of the Al Bashayer Arabian Camel Racing Festival kicks off tomorrow (Monday) at 7 am with the first event, a Two-Year-Old race over 4kms, a taster, an entrée, for...

I’m going to share this young woman’s experience, as a reminder that so much of life is about perspective. Let’s call our young woman Jenny. That’s not her real name, but it will do....

The global pandemic, Covid-19, with its depressing statistics, anti-social distancing requirements, interminable face masks, countless extra handwashing, working from home, working on the Internet,...

[gallery type="slideshow" columns="6" ids="655628,655623,655625,655624,655626,655622"] Iris Apfel, is an American businesswoman, designer, and fashion icon who wrote, “Dress to please yourself....

The announcement that teaching in the Sultanate is to come under Omanisation policies is a bold and progressive move, and one that rightly confirms the need for Omanis to become the architects of...

The Omani Lesser Flamingo their larger, less common, Greater Flamingo, and hundreds of other waders make their temporary homes in as places as diverse as Al Mughsail, Bar Al Hikman, Khor Rori, Masirah...

I am not sure if I would have been a happy or frustrated student, as this unsettled educational year takes yet another turn with the phased reopening of schools and classrooms, but if I think back on...

[gallery type="slideshow" ids="652964,652962,652961"] Myself, the son of a fisherman, I am intrigued by the why? The great American essayist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau pondered, “Many men...