Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
by
Mandana Limbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people...