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Schoolchildren piled up excitedly at a special stall for dates at the recent Omani date festival in Nizwa. The enthusiastic kids lapped up the date jams, cakes and confectionaries on dates. Hamida...

Nadiya Hasan Abdullah loves cakes. Baking and decorating customised cakes is something this young girl is passionate about. “I always liked the idea of drawing, painting, and wanted to excel at it....

Liju Cherian - Muscat-born Bassam Hany Rady is a musician from Cairo who makes a living in Oman as a music teacher. Bassam teaches a variety of instruments including piano, oud and guitar, but kanun...

WHEN young shutterbugs meet they experiment wiht new ideas. ‘Cultivate kindness,’ ‘Use less plastic’, ‘Appreciate the tiniest form of life’ were the messages the photographers tried to...

WHERE will your GPS take you this weekend? ‘Shoof’ Oman (meaning Look, See!) screams a picture postcard of a beautiful country. These postcards series are from the vast collection of Marina Bruce,...

The ancient theater of Dionysus in Athens is also the most ancient dance theater in the world. There is historical evidence that dance rites as well as dramas including dance were enacted there 2,500...

[gallery columns="6" link="file" ids="363819,363817,363816,363815,363814,363810"] Liju Cherian - Muscat, April 21 - Indian food especially its street food is taxing to a non-Indian stomach due...

Liju Cherian - Muscat, April 7 - [gallery columns="5" link="file" ids="360491,360489,360488,360487,360486"] [caption id="attachment_360482" align="alignright" width="300"] BEST SHOT:Dinesh...

Liju Cherian - Muscat, March 31 - [gallery columns="5" link="file" ids="358803,358808,358807,358798,358810"] Six photographers from Greece and Oman travelled for six days covering over 600 km...

Many home makers who took part for the first time felt ‘PAINT OUT’ was unique since they were not bound by hard and fast rule   [gallery columns="6" link="file"...

[gallery columns="5" link="file" ids="355513,355512,355507,355518,355501"] Liju Cherian - Muscat, MArch 17 - Omani dishes and desserts namely, Amar Al Din, Kabsa and Mohlabia, found favour with...

[gallery columns="6" link="file" ids="353990,353989,353986,353985,353984,353983"] Liju Cherian - MUSCAT, MARCH 10 - Tremendous grit and determination saw them through. Cycling 1,438 kms from...

Liju Cherian - MUSCAT, mar 3 - [gallery columns="5" link="file" ids="352369,352368,352366,352371,352376"] Escaping the worst Greek economic debt crisis in a way helped him to pursue his dreams....