Opinion

Saturday 28/May/2016 22:10 PM

Why is Oman a haven of cultural integration?

Recent research indicates that Oman has always been receptive to different cultures and this is the reason why the Sultanate has attracted a variety of...

Saturday 28/May/2016 15:24 PM

How the West was lost

Recent political discourse on both sides of the Atlantic has raised a disturbing question that is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss: Are the United...

Saturday 28/May/2016 09:35 AM

The farce that is Libya

If you were to write Libya’s current events as a novel, a publisher would throw it out, on the grounds that it was too improbable even as a work of...

Friday 27/May/2016 23:45 PM

Rethinking retirement ratios

It has been clear for some time that a pension crunch is coming, and that it will be bad news for government spending everywhere. The proportion of old...

Friday 27/May/2016 23:35 PM

Poland's Europe problem has deep roots

On a sunny day in Warsaw, it’s difficult to understand why the city’s well-kept streets simmer with anger and discontent over the European vision. The...

Friday 27/May/2016 23:30 PM

How a Sanders-Clinton thaw could play out

The acrimony between Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, inflamed in recent weeks, is likely to be resolved with a series of compromises that will...

Friday 27/May/2016 22:18 PM

Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...