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'Muscat Sign' is switched on after maintenance
3+ hour ago (131+ words) Muscat: Muscat Municipality completed its routine maintenance work and turned on the Muscat Sign on Al Jabal Street (Bausher-Al Amerat Mountain Road). Muscat Municipality had as announced the temporary suspension of the 'Muscat Sign' lights on August 5 to carry out…...
Omani Crafts Forum highlights heritage, creativity in Salalah
16+ hour, 49+ min ago (629+ words) SALALAH: The Omani Crafts Forum, held under the theme ‘Identity and Extension’, concluded, bringing together around 40 craftsmen, craft projects and suppliers of traditional craft tools and materials. Organised by the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism and the Small and Medium…...
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' in Japan, perhaps for the last time
19+ hour, 28+ min ago (431+ words) 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' will go on show in Osaka this week, on a rare trip abroad for the 17th-century Johannes Vermeer masterpiece and potentially its last to Japan.The work will be displayed from Friday at the Nakanoshima…...
An eye that never puts itself down
19+ hour, 16+ min ago (297+ words) Oman Observer It is the line he ends on, and in many ways it explains everything that came before it Since he was a boy taking pictures with a simple phone at school, Saeedâs eye never quite looked at…...
International sculpture festival brings together 15 artists from 11 countries
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (950+ words) SALALAH: The inaugural Dhofar International Sculpture Festival is under way as part of Dhofar Municipalityâs programme for the Dhofar Khareef 2026.Running from August 15 to September 3, the festival brings together 15 artists and sculptors from Oman and 10 other Arab and international…...
From snow to Khareef, she paints her way home
1+ week, 2+ day ago (418+ words) Every winter, as the light fades early over Sweden, Lubica Ritzl packs her watercolours and flies south, to the green, flower-scented city on Dhofar coast she calls her second home. It began almost by accident. Over twenty years ago, Lubica…...
Sharifa al Malki: When Art Becomes a Way of Giving
1+ week, 4+ day ago (364+ words) Oman Observer Some stories begin with a career and end with a title Others keep changing shape, gathering new meaning with every chapter The story of Omani artist Sharifa al Malki belongs to the second kind.Her journey has moved…...
Istanbul’s centuries-old cymbal tradition
1+ week, 6+ day ago (454+ words) The rhythmic clang of hammers echoes through an Istanbul workshop as three craftsmen transform featureless bronze discs into prized handmade cymbals. First used by Ottoman military “mehter” bands to frighten and demoralise enemies, cymbals were later transformed by 17th-century Armenian…...
Omani team competes in US Adobe Global Graphic Design Championship
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (180+ words) CALIFORNIA: An Omani team participated in the Adobe Global Graphic Design Championship 2026, held in Anaheim, California, bringing together students and creative professionals in graphic design from around the world. The Omani team comprised three students who qualified through the National…...
Dhofar Museum???s???Oman Heritage??? expo concludes
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (235+ words) SALALAH: The ‘Oman Heritage’ exhibition, organised by the Dhofar Museum in cooperation with the Artaqaa art team, concluded as part of the museum programme accompanying the Khareef Dhofar Season 2026. The exhibition showcased the connection between fine art and Oman’s cultural…...