Worldwide festivals are in full swing. In Salalah-Dhofar, during the Khareef or the south-west monsoon, in the south of the Sultanate of Oman, on the 6th of August the number of visitors to the yearly Salalah Tourism Festival stood at 1,195,047. The Festival started at 15th of July and ….still runs till 31 of August. Continue reading
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The Scream
23 July 1970 the young Sultan Qaboos commenced with the modernization of the Sultanate of Oman. 25 years later ‘Hussain Ash’Shaikh Abu Bakr (1968-1997),’ the first artist in Salalah, in the south of the Sultanate of Oman, created his work ‘The Scream.’ In this self-portrait, the artist commemorates the changes in his country. The boat … Continue reading