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4 unusual facts about Muscat, Oman


Annamalai University

Other overseas centres include the Al Mihad Institute, Dubai and the Al Hilal Education Centre, Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates as well as the Al Noor Education Centre in Muscat, Oman.

Denton Wilde Sapte

Denton Wilde Sapte was one of the largest law firms in the Middle East, the biggest international firm in Central Asia, and one of very few international law firms in Cairo, Istanbul, Kuwait and Muscat.

MyAnna Buring

She attended secondary school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman, with her childhood friend Stegath Dorr, who is a character actor and a prolific horror filmmaker.

Rambha Urvasi Menaka

In February 2013, the lead cast of the film flew out to Muscat, Oman and then to Dubai, UAE to film schedules.


Ahmad Al Harthy

On 21 February 2012 at a press conference in Muscat, Oman, Al Harthy announced his continued participation in Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain for a third successive year.

In 2011 Al Harthy returned to the Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain Championship but prior to the start of the season he made headlines and history on the streets of his home city of Muscat by conducting passenger rides in a Porsche 911 GT3 race car.

Ali Manikfan

The ship, named after the city of Sohar in Oman, was completely hand-made, using traditional boat-building techniques, and no metal was used in its construction.

Ali Safina

Ali Safina was born in Multan, Pakistan then he moved to Oman with his parents where he completed his schooling; for higher education he went to Scotland and got a degree in mechanical engineering.

ASELSAN

After exportation of such a system to Oman in 2008 for the Qurayyat-Sur motorway, Aselsan won in 2010 a tender worth 5.4 million to develop an electronic toll collection system and implement at 51 toll booths in Poland.

Bashar Bani Yaseen

Bashar Mustafa Bani Yaseen (born 1 June 1977) is a Jordanian footballer who plays as a defender for Sur Club of Oman.

Beden

Its shipyards predominantly lie in the northeastern Hafun region of Somalia (notably Bayla), as well as Muscat.

British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia

Muscat issues were introduced to Qatar in May 1950 when the Doha post office opened under British administration.

Christopher Andronicos

He has recently begun work on the Oman Ophiolite complex which provides access to rocks which once made up the Oceanic crust and upper mantle.

Crypto AG

The company has about 230 employees, has offices in Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Muscat, Selsdon and Steinhausen, and does business throughout the world.

Deira City Centre

Deira City Centre is owned by the Majid Al Futtaim group, and is one of six City Centre malls — the others are located in Ajman, Alexandria, Cairo, Muscat and Sharjah.

Eryx jayakari

Its range includes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, and southern Iran, where a small number of specimens have been found in Khuzestan Province, Bushahr Province and Kerman Province.

Europa Philharmonie

This tour also took the orchestra to Abu-Dhabi, Ajman and Oman, where the orchestra performed traditional New Year's concerts.

Flight 422

Kuwait Airways Flight 422, a flight hijacked over the Gulf of Oman in 1988, leading to one of the longest skyjackings on record

Foris Vineyards Winery

Foris is one of Oregon's most consistent producers specializing in Pinot Noir, and Alsace varietal white wines- Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Gewurztraminer, Riesling, and Muscat.

Gudea

Materials for his buildings and statues were brought from all parts of western Asia: cedar wood from the Amanus mountains, quarried stones from Lebanon, copper from northern Arabia, gold and precious stones from the desert between Canaan and Egypt, diorite from Magan (Oman), and timber from Dilmun (Bahrain).

Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi

Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi, along with other minor writers like Ludovik Mifsud Tommasi, Richard Taylor, Anton Muscat Fenech, Dwardu Cachia and Manwel Dimech, inherited the poetic testament of Ġan Anton Vassallo that built his poetry on three principal cornerstones: sentimentality, satire and nationalism.

Hamad Al-Azani

After the sudden firing of Coach Julio César Ribas due to Oman's performance for World Cup qualification, Hamad Al-Azani was shortly given the position as a transitional coach.

Indian Ocean trade

They were supported in this endeavor by the chiefs of several local principalities and port towns such as Muscat, Gwadar, and Pasni.

Jackie Spinner

She is currently teaching digital journalism at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, where she founded Al Mir’ah, the university’s first independent student newspaper.

Ján Husár

Planned updates are February in Malaysia, March in Oman, April in Kornati and June in South Africa.

Lizard complex

The rocks found in The Lizard area are analogous to those found in such famous areas as the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus and the Semail Complex, Oman.

Mafia Island

Germany paid Sultan Sayyid Ali bin Said al-Said of Oman M 4 million for both the island and part of the mainland coast.

Matty Holmes

In 2004, Holmes was awarded £250,000 by the English High court for damages resulting from the tackle by Kevin Muscat.

Mohamed Ali Al-Shaaban

Al-Shaaban’s ambitions pushed him to be nominated as the stations correspondent at the GCC Summit in 2008 and 2009, in the Sultanate of Oman and State of Kuwait respectively.

Mohammed Mahfoodh Al Ardhi

As of May 2013, Sundus has invested $60 million in hotels so far and plans four more hotels in Oman including an "eco hotel" on Jebel Akhdar in the Al Jahar Mountains, a resort in Dhofar, and another resort in Sohar.

MV Pacific Pearl

Ocean Village sailed on her final farewell voyage on October 21, a 23 day cruise stopping at Cairo-Egypt (from Port Said), visiting the Suez Canal, Safaga, Egypt, Muscat, Oman, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Cochin, India, Langkawi, Malyasia, Kuala Lumpur (from Port Kelang, Malaysia) and finally stopping at Singapore where she entered dry dock to become Pacific Pearl, also marking the end of Ocean Village Cruise Line.

Oman Air

Whilst 4 of these aircraft will operate on Oman Air's domestic and Middle East network, the fifth will be used by the Royal Oman Police.

Oman Botanic Garden

Although the country is mostly arid, the seasonal rainforest of Dhofar, in the south of Oman, is lush during the summer monsoon or Khareef (July – September) and is home to most of the country’s endemic flora.

Oman Children's Museum

The museum was established by the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture and opened on November 17, 1990 by Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said on the 20th National Day celebration in Oman.

Oman–Yemen relations

On January 2011 in a preparatory meeting for the second Arab Summit of Economic and Social Development which took place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Foreign Minister Abu-Bakr al-Qirbi and Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Abdullah have discussed the bilateral relations between Yemen and Oman and means of boosting them.

Pencran

Paul Le Guen, former football player and current manager of the Oman national team.

Persian Gulf campaign of 1809

In February 1806, the young Sultan of Oman, Sa'id II ibn Sultan, signed a treaty at Bandar Abbas promising to bring an end to piracy originating from his territory, but by 1807 the French had installed consulates in Tehran and Muscat and piracy continued unabated with their encouragement.

The expeditionary force, led by Captain John Wainwright in the Navy frigate HMS Chiffone, was despatched to the region, following an escalation in pirate attacks on British shipping in the Persian Gulf after the French established diplomatic missions in Muscat and Tehran in 1807, and encouraged pirate activity.

Ridda wars

He had to deal with widespread apostasy on the eastern and southern coasts of Arabia: in Bahrain, in Oman, in Mahra, in Hadhramaut and in Yemen.

Royal Guard of Oman Technical College

Royal Guard Of Oman Technical College and commonly known as RGOTC and it's a public and military college in al Seeb on the governorate of Muscat at the Sultanate of Oman, owned by the Royal Guard of Oman and founded by Sultan Qaboos Al Saeed in order to improve technical and vocational education in the country.

Royal Oman Police

The Ambulance Unit, which has a fleet of modern ambulances with modern high – tech medical equipment, covers the Governorate of Muscat up to Batinah Region, as well as the main road from the wilayat of Barka to Khatmat Malahah on the UAE border.

Saif al-Rahbi

Eventually, he returned to Oman and established Nizwa, Oman's leading quarterly cultural magazine.

Shatti Al-Qurum School

The Shatti Al-Qurum Secondary School (SQS), located in Shatti Al Qurum Muscat, Oman, is one of the most famous public high schools in the Sultanate.

Sohar

Sohar was an ancient capital of Oman and many believe it to be the birthplace of Sinbad the Sailor.

South Arabia

South Arabia as a general refers to several regions as currently recognized, in chief the Republic of Yemen; yet it has historically also included Najran, Jizan, and 'Asir which are presently in Saudi Arabia, and Dhofar presently in Oman.

Tahr

While the Arabian Tahr of Oman and the Nilgiri Tahr of South India both have small ranges and are considered endangered, the Himalayan Tahr remains relatively widespread in the Himalayas, and has been introduced to the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

Task Force K-Bar

Originally operating out of Oman's Masirah Air Base before deploying themselves directly in southeastern Afghanistan, K-Bar was under the command of then-Captain Robert Harward, a US Navy SEAL.

Tent pegging at the 2010 Asian Beach Games

Tent pegging at the 2010 Asian Beach Games was held from 9 December to 13 December 2010 in Barkah Equestrian Grounds, Muscat, Oman.

Theweek

Free copies of Theweek, published every Wednesday, are available from outlets spread across the main urban areas in Oman, including Muscat, Sohar, Sur, Nizwa and Salalah.

Tom Abrams

Abrams has sold numerous feature film screenplays in varied genres including western Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros., historic adventures The Captain's Wife for Fox 2000, and The American Princess for New Line Cinema, The Battle of Ono for John Woo & Terence Cheng, horror film Cave for Working Title, sci-fi action Metal Machine for producer James Jacks at Universal, and kids action comedy Gameboy Charlie for Bruckheimer producer, Chad Oman.

Vacuum sewer

Good examples and references can be found in France, such as the village of Flavigny, in Oman at the township of Khasab and Al Seeb.

Yahel Chirinian

Monsoon Heritage creations are present in Paris, Rome, Milan, Monte Carlo, Saint Bart, Porto Cervo, Capri, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Oman, Qatar, Dabi, New Delhi, Bombay and Goa.


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