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Oman: Storybook Enchantment

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey Where Stretched along the southern coast of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, Oman covers an area of 120,000 square miles (309,500 sq km), with a coastline of 1,000 miles (1,700 km) reaching from the Arabian Gulf past the Gulf of Oman to the Strait of Hormuz. Oman has…

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A Celebration in Luxor: A Little Humor Goes a Long Way

A Luxorian Celebration By Jason Gaskell “Your name is Oh-ma?” I asked, not quite catching the pronunciation. “No, Omar, you know, like Omar Sharif?” “Ah, Omar! You were great in Doctor Zhivago” I had been told that humour goes a long way in Egypt. The horse and cart driver seemed…

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