Flying Higher

Despite last week’s news that Abu Dhabi was to pull out of Gulf Air, Oman remains positive about its involvement with the troubled airline. In partnership with Bahrain, the sultanate will now own 50% of the carrier and looks likely to use this to its advantage, with Transport and Communications Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah …

The Challenge

We’ve just come back from the opening ceremony of my father’s exhibition at Dar Al-Barih Art Gallery in Adliya with a renewed sense of awe. Although we have lived with his art throughout our lives, and have come to take his paintings as something rather normal, seeing 36 of his recent block-prints hung in the …