About Tony Tony writes about Arabia and leads tours through the region

Oman Books by Tony Walsh, author about Oman and Arabia.

For over 30 years, I worked in Arabia. Initially, I worked in retailing - including managing stores for the British franchised BHS department store group in Saudi Arabia. Subsequently, I ran my own import, wholesale & retail business in Oman.

After some years that business developed an inbound tourism operation in Oman. Shortly after closing my shops, tourism in the region was disrupted by the attacks of 11 September 2001. Serendipity then played its part and, fortunately, I found new sources of income. These included from the USAF, during their operations in Afghanistan and then Iraq. I successfully tendered for a number of construction projects, initially at Oman's Masirah's air-base and later also at Seeb North (Muscat).  My finances thankfully remained positive.