Embedded in the centre of the mihrab, or prayer niche, of the 16th-century Masjid Al Ali is a Chinese porcelain dish.Other mosques in Oman have similar examples of Chinese porcelain, and broken ...

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Trump’s trade wars as a strategy to reassert America’s world hegemony remains the greatest barrier to collective efforts to ...