The ‘Tutorial’ landscape requires regulation to protect the unwary
COVID-19 continues to exert relentless chaos in, and create havoc over the lives of all of us, and it is
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Author: Ray Petersen
Sas boost for start-ups in Oman
The Sas Accelerator’s second cohort, organized by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT), through Sas Center for
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Can camels swim?
Camels are almost mystical, almost prehistoric, almost creatures of fantasy and wonder, but they are big, heavy brutes of things,
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Let’s talk online, techie, and the olden days this week?
The Internet, new technologies and all that stuff can be quite bewildering, polarising and just occasionally, downright new, for all
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COVID-19 defiance, climate change extremism, and BLM. Really? Now?
It is 2020, and tens of thousands are dying all around the world, and yet we still have groups and
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From Botswana, an Eloquent Artist
Bokamoso Kumwenda, known to most around her as ‘BK’ is an artist with a rich African heritage who has merged
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Expats exit hits real estate rental market
Nizwa: The much-publicized contraction in the real estate rental market in Oman is just one consequence of the departure of
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Masirah Island, closer to God and to nature
Noted British actor Benedict Cumberbatch observed that, “You come into this world on your own, the same way that you
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Getting learners back in classrooms
Never has the global education sector faced challenges of the magnitude it does today! Even in times of war, conflict
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Harat al Yemen: Enchanting ruins opening doorway to another time
The Dakhiliyah oasis of Izki can cast its origins back as far as 2,660 years, to the Mesopotamian ruler King
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The Salt Flats of Shannah, Salar de Uyuni, and Bonneville
Sugar may sweeten your life, but salt will preserve it.” So said John Christian Bovee. Perfect sense in the time
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Not all effort is rewarded, and not all progress is earned
Bill wanted to be a carpenter, a woodworker who was known as a ‘chippy’ back in the day, because you
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I’m a bit claustrophobic today… !
I quite like COVID-19 now, because I understand that for the first time in history, I can do my bit
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COVID-19 frustrations fuel righteous indignation
Professor Guy Hall, Associate Professor and Academic Chair of Criminology at Murdoch University in Western Australia, writes that “Frustration Aggression
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The debris that makes up the beautiful sand
MUSCAT: It is just one little picture, yet… there is so much to see that tells whatever story you wish
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The Sultanate’s migratory mudflat habitats and inhabitants
They come in their thousands, the migrants, winging their way from North Africa mostly, to the estuaries and mudflats of
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“The human is a fickle baby… ”
Surely those of you who reside in the capital feel some pangs of conscience when you reflect upon the lot
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The aflaj of Oman: Smart human solution that made life in dry environment possible
NIZWA: Perpetual and ubiquitous, the Falaj system of the Sultanate has long sustained life in what could have otherwise become
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Helping Oman’s budding entrepreneurs navigate the tricky world of business
MUSCAT: Growing up in the state of Indiana, in the Mid-West region of the United States where its residents are
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Donkeys: Stalwarts of the Sultanate Scene
We look around us as we travel around Oman, and see the diversity of the wildlife, and whether we are
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Dates: They are all around us, but where have they come from?
MUSCAT: The date is the sweet fruit of the Phoenix Dactylifera, or Date Palm, which is believed to have its
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