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Bob Dylan has surpassed Walt Whitman as the defining American artist, celebrating the capacity for self-invention as the highest form of freedom. “He not...

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...

Oman has had a tough financial year in 2016, due to spending cuts and major projects being shelved, but the real challenge the government faces is to...

In both debates against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump went out of his way to bring up the name of a journalist and former White House official who has held...

The relationship between politics and economics is changing. Advanced-country politicians are locked in bizarre, often toxic, conflicts, instead of acting...

As I have travelled around the world in recent weeks, I am repeatedly asked two questions: Is it conceivable that Donald Trump could win the US presidency?...

Syria’s five year agony looks to the outsider like a war that can’t get any worse, but it may about to, with the looming possibility of superpower...

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...

At first sight, Baba Ramdev looks like the world’s oddest tycoon -- and with his infectious, lopsided grin and bright saffron robes, surely the most...

New technologies are emerging so rapidly that societies in the Middle East are now having trouble coping with their impact. By affecting everything from the...