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The famous Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta once noted Nizwa as “a city enveloped by orchards and streams, with fine bazaars and splendid clean mosques.” Inder Raj Ahluwalia Ascenic drive from Muscat through stark, barren mountains, brings one to a little town that shoulders a long history. Sprawled across a water–fed …

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