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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‘Whispers’ connect…
Two women – Amira Naseeb born in 1976 and living in Dhofar in the south of the Sultanate of Oman nearby the border with Yemen and Anaïd Ferté born in 1981 in France and living nearby La Roche-en-Ardenne in the province of Luxembourg, in the French part of Belgium – are connected with their profession. … Continue reading
Festival (s) full of discoveries….Expression of the inner self…
Beginning of this month, ‘Salalah Tourism Festival’ in Salalah-Dhofar, in the south of the Sultanate of Oman closed his doors. Forty days long ‘Art, Culture and Music’ attracted visitors from all over the GCC and the rest of the world. The colourful and vibrant festival coincided with the Omani Renaissance Day. On 23 of July … Continue reading
Khareef Festival: Music Alikes (part 6)
During the annual Salalah Tourism Festival in Dhofar in the southern part of Oman, traditional dance and music is always in the air. Every year, in ‘La Roche en Ardenne,’ in the province of Luxembourg, in the French part of Belgium – my native country – there is the annual ‘Medieval Festival,’ with traditionally, medieval … Continue reading
Khareef: Festival highlights (part 5)
Two photo exhibitions are highlights at the ‘Salalah Tourism Festival,’ in Salalah-Dhofar. The annual Festival started on the 23th of July and will take place till the end of August. First there is the annual ‘Al Khareef Exhibition’ who hosts 45 works from 28 photographers and for the second time there is the ‘Photography Society Dhofar … Continue reading