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My Year in Oman: An American Experience in Arabia During the War On Terror

A month after the September 11th attacks, the somewhat skeptical author, ex-paratrooper, teacher and smart-aleck, decides to take a job teaching English in the Sultanate of Oman to, “…show at least some of the people in the Middle East that not all Americans are war-mongers.” In spite of the warnings of friends, family and the U.S. State Department, the author arrives in Oman to find the country is nothing that he (nor anyone) had imagined. He finds himself teaching students in a small town who are completely different than any students he has ever taught before. He also finds himself alone as an American and quickly he becomes immersed in a culture whose people are the friendliest he has ever seen. He soon meets and falls in love with an Indian girl who lives two hundred miles away in Muscat. Her parents are rich and extremely conservative Hindus who will never accept their daughter being married to a “ghora” (white American). In spite of the odds against them, he drives two hundred miles every weekend, just to be with her. Together, they visit the many exotic locations Oman has to offer, from beautiful white sand beaches, to towering mountains. His unawareness of the vast differences between his own culture and the cultures he finds himself within gives him an insight to the world that most Americans (and Europeans) don’t ever have. His sense of humor and his writing style make this and Another Year in Oman two of the best books you will ever read.

List Price: $ 19.99

Price: $ 19.99

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