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    "description": "Mia Dekeersmaeker\r\nThe DNA of Salalah, Dhofar. A Tourist Guide\u2019 \r\n.Wat is jouw DNA ?\r\n\r\nISBN 9789490243357\r\n'The DNA of Salalah, Dhofar. A Tourist Guide' is een feit. Met dit Engelstalig boek gaat bola-editions de internationale toer op. Het boek is in gedrukte versie en als E-book verkrijgbaar en ademt de sfeer, het leven, de historiek, de architectuur, de muziek van de region in het zuiden van het Sultanaat van Oman uit. Zo begint elk hoofdstuk met een Surah uit de Koran, een samenwerking met de adviser of the Mufti ( de Imans) in Oman. Kortom het boek is werkelijk een schat vol informatie voor reizigers, voor business, en voor individuen die van ontdekkingen houden. \r\nHow is your DNA? \r\nThe DNA of Salalah, Dhofar. A Tourist Guide is a fact.\r\nWhat has Pointillism, a neo-impressionist painting technique got to do with the Khareef? How many tiles were used in the Mihrab of the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Salalah?Which particular role do Dhofar women play in the traditional music of the region? why is the camel, the ship of the desert, everywhere in Dhofar? What are the crying stones? Why is the Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter also called the Valuable Quarter? \r\n\u2026\u2026all the answers and much, much more can be found in the \u2018DNA of Salalah, Dhofar. A Tourist Guide\u2019 written and printed in Salalah, in the southern region of the Sultanate of Oman. \r\n\r\nLike DNA is a blueprint of living beings, this book tells on 191pages, with 57 pictures and with particular maps,stories about the past, the present and the future of the southern part of the Sultanate. And as Islam is the blueprint for the daily actions in the Sultanate, every chapter opens with reflections on some important concepts of Islam followed by a S?rah of the Holy Qur\u2019an.As DNA influences most of the characteristics of living beings, every chapter in the guidebook contains a \u2018main theme,\u2019 a so-called cliffhanger. The particular information expressed in \u2018Essentials\u2019 can be interesting for new discoveries or for further explorations. The references to other publications and websites are the tools.\u201d \r\nWith this book \u2018The DNA of Salalah, Dhofar. A Tourist Guide\u2019 the Belgium author and journalist Maria Dekeersmaeker, based in Salalah, Dhofar, fulfilled again another dream come true. In 2008 she wrote the novel \u2018 De Aarde heeft koorts\u2019 translated in English \u2018The Earth has Fever\u2019 her debut and first dream. \r\n\r\n",
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