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Sultan-سلطان: Omanis count cost of funds fraud
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Sunday, 8 November 2009. Omanis count cost of funds fraud. MUSCAT / When each of the 20 people were swindled out of 1,500 rials (Dh14,300) by a jomeea financing scheme, they had no option but to report the “crime” to the police. Even before they made the complaint, they knew they had little hope of getting their money back. Jomeeas are completely legal, though susceptible to dishonest members, and frowned upon by bankers here. Hundreds of people across the country have been swindled over the years, but t...
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Sultan-سلطان: November 2009
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Sunday, 22 November 2009. Widows of Oman call for end to prejudice. Last Updated: November 22. 2009 8:19PM UAE / November 22. 2009 4:19PM GMT. MUSCAT / Nasra al Mukhaini, 38, a widow for the past 18 months, has found that life without her husband of 16 years is even more difficult than she could have imagined. He left her with three young children and, with no formal education, Ms al Mukhaini cannot find a job to support her family. They survive from the financial support of her two brothers. 8220;They s...
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Sultan-سلطان: January 2010
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Thursday, 14 January 2010. THE OTHER FRONTIERS OF ARAB NATIONALISM: IBADIS, BERBERS, AND THE ARABIST-SALAFI PRESS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD. An article published by the wonderful Dr Amal Ghazal of Dalhousie University, Halifa, Canada will be of interest to Omani scholars and others interested in the history of Oman. Here is the abstract published in the International Journal of Middle Easter Studies (IJMES): International Journal of Middle East Studies (2010), 42:105-122 Cambridge University Press. In Oman&...
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Sultan-سلطان: Widows of Oman call for end to prejudice
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Sunday, 22 November 2009. Widows of Oman call for end to prejudice. Last Updated: November 22. 2009 8:19PM UAE / November 22. 2009 4:19PM GMT. MUSCAT / Nasra al Mukhaini, 38, a widow for the past 18 months, has found that life without her husband of 16 years is even more difficult than she could have imagined. He left her with three young children and, with no formal education, Ms al Mukhaini cannot find a job to support her family. They survive from the financial support of her two brothers. 8220;They s...
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Sultan-سلطان: Jewel sets sail on a tide of history
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Monday, 15 February 2010. Jewel sets sail on a tide of history. MUSCAT / When fishermen stumbled across the wreck of a ninth-century sailing dhow off the coast of an Indonesian island more than a decade ago, archaeologists found it laden with 60,000 pieces of rare Chinese porcelain. The spectacular discovery threw light on an era when the Arab world’s trade ships fanned out across the world, bringing goods from the far corners of Asia and Africa. 8220;We have to follow the local tradition in building the...
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Sultan-سلطان: September 2009
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Sunday, 27 September 2009. Female beggars on the rise in Muscat. MUSCAT / Women from Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan, many of them covered from head to toe in black abayas, approach cars and people at petrol stations, ATMs, shopping malls and even knock on the doors of private houses to beg for money. 8220;We are the victims of the American injustice who made our children fatherless and we have nowhere to go but come here,” begged one Afghan woman named Zulekha, standing outside a shopping mall. Some exp...
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Sultan-سلطان: February 2010
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Friday, 19 February 2010. The battle to save the Arabian leopard from extinction in the wild can be called many things: crucial, worthy, pivotal and righteous. Just don’t call it glamorous. The chance of actually seeing a leopard are about as close to zero as it’s possible to get, and whether or not our contribution will help avert permanent extinction in the wild is uncertain. Tessa then describes what we’ll be collecting from the wadis and mountains of the western Dhofar mountains through a serie...
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Sultan-سلطان: THE OTHER FRONTIERS OF ARAB NATIONALISM: IBADIS, BERBERS, AND THE ARABIST-SALAFI PRESS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
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Thursday, 14 January 2010. THE OTHER FRONTIERS OF ARAB NATIONALISM: IBADIS, BERBERS, AND THE ARABIST-SALAFI PRESS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD. An article published by the wonderful Dr Amal Ghazal of Dalhousie University, Halifa, Canada will be of interest to Omani scholars and others interested in the history of Oman. Here is the abstract published in the International Journal of Middle Easter Studies (IJMES): International Journal of Middle East Studies (2010), 42:105-122 Cambridge University Press.
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Sultan-سلطان: June 2009
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009. On the Road: Traditional Omani Food. It is fairly simple, but by using various marinades and impregnating meat with spices, the result is a mouth-watering concoction which stimulates the tastebuds. Chicken, fish and mutton are regularly used in dishes. A favourite drink is laban, a salty buttermilk. Yoghurt drinks, flavoured with cardamom and pistachio nuts are also very popular. Lunch on the first day of Eid is usually harees, which is made from wheat mixed with meat. Lunch on...
