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It is funny how people suddenly go back to their roots when they are in deep trouble. It is usually after many years have elapsed when the gap is too wide...

MANY OMANI students in the past were granted scholarships in Japan and still continue to get higher education opportunities in an effort to build a cultural...

I stopped half way to my car to watch and old man shuffling along with uncertain steps. He was very familiar and I walked away from my car to get a closer...

Last week, one of my uncles made a perfect exist from this world. He died peacefully six hours after the conclusion of the wedding of his daughter.It was...

IT IS HEARTENING to recognise the progress made in disability rights in Oman and appreciation for people with special needs since the beginning of our...

While I was browsing at one of the ‘traditional’ markets, I overheard two Europeans saying that they were looking for something authentic and Omani....

Not everything we remember with great fondness about our past. Many people painfully shut out their history as they struggle to come to terms with their...

Omanis with foreign partners welcome the new law to allow them to marry non-nationals after a three decade ban was lifted earlier this month.  The...

WE ARE in the last week of Ramadan and all of us are looking forward for the Eid holidays that are ahead of us but we may have missed a point or two in this...

In an open courtyard of a mosque in the eastern town of Ashkhara, there is a sense of solidarity for everybody where creed, nationality or the content of...