the Phlog » Oman http://pinaki.info/blog www.pinaki.info | because the best stories are our own Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:32:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Moving to Eau http://pinaki.info/blog/2012/04/12/moving-to-eau/ http://pinaki.info/blog/2012/04/12/moving-to-eau/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:29:58 +0000 Pinaki http://pinaki.info/blog/?p=1786 This blog has moved to Eau

 

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Around the corner from Wariposht, we sip on kahwa with Shamsa’s mother.

 

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I lean in and switch to the 50. I can manage f1.8/200 and his eyes, watery blue around the irises, pop into focus. Everything else — the shadow on the speckled wall, the heavy fake gold watch, the starched edges of his clothes, the fixer in the corner — is a blur.

The story is here.

 

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Hilal bin Ali al Amri has been burnt almost black after a lifetime in the glare of the sea, loading wood and dates onto dhows bound for Zanzibar.

 

The story is up here now.

 

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Even the walls seem a sickly jaundiced yellow in the last house of Mateira. It is here, crammed between the rock and the sea, that the medicine woman cures people of busfar, an art that her family has passed down for generations.

 

The story is up here now.

 

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The muallim of Luluah, up here

 

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From Mid Coast

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