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Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes with intriguingly familiar things, and yet there is something distinct about it. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has...

Communication is all about understanding your audience, says Rashmi Keshwani, author of The Communication Cookie. Her debut book takes you by surprise,...

I was watching two little girls stare at each other. One of them grabbed a toy and whacked it on the face of the other girl. She let out a scream. Her...

For decades, Oman has built a distinctive diplomatic role in the region through something that does not appear on an energy balance sheet: its ability to...

Oman’s Personal Status Law, issued under Royal Decree 32/97, establishes a legal framework for child custody, governing custodianship conditions, order of...

Omanis love their language, and rightly so. Arabic is the language of our holy book, the Quran; it lives in our poetry, our songs, and our everyday lives,...

Every day, someone promises to make you rich. Open YouTube, scroll through social media, attend a seminar, or browse a bookstore, and you will quickly find...

My late grandfather would often repeat a sharp, evocative phrase before sending me off to accomplish a task: “Khallik dheeb”, be a wolf, or in our...

Stand in a vegetable plot in the Omani interior at midday and you feel the problem before anyone explains it. The sun that makes this country a solar...

School days are a good reference to look back to. They don’t only bring back memories but they are an important source of information. The funny thing is...