On Saturday, June 6th, 2015, I was able to take part in school day trip to Nizwa fort, in Oman’s old capital city of Nizwa, and Misfat Al Abreyyin–a 4,000 year old continuously inhabited village. It was about a two-hour drive away from Muscat. Our driver, Munthir Al Nomani, was dressed very casually. It made […]
At the end of spring semester 2015 I was blessed with the opportunity to study Arabic in Oman, a Gulf Arab country on the Arabian peninsula bordered by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea. I applied for and won two awards, the Benjamin A. […]
A – M – E – R – I – C – A Don’t you feel as though you should start singing West-Side Story’s “America” – “I want to live in America,” or is that just me? “Okay by me in America . . . Everything free in America . . .” Sing with me […]
