British Council in Oman (http://www.britishcouncil.org/oman/)
The British Council is active in Oman and its site provides a great deal of information on educational and cultural programs in Oman.
Calligraphy Qalam: An Introduction to Arabic, Ottoman and Persian Calligraphy (http://calligraphyqalam.com/index.html)
This website contains information on the history, various styles, techniques, classes, as well as a gallery of various types of calligraphy in the Arabic script
Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=OM)
Searching this comprehensive English language ethnological site by country name will yield lists and articles of the languages and linguistic groups spoken and read in it.
Princeton University Library's Digital Islamic Manuscript Collection (http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=islamic)
Princeton University Library holds approximately 9,500 Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world written in Arabic script. The manuscripts date from the 9th to the 19th centuries. 200 of these manuscripts are being digitized for their digital library.
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