Oman

There are two sides to new city building: what is to become and what was there before. Straddling the divide between the two is what I do for a living.

I awoke in the desert.

How to get what you want.

I travel out to Oman’s new city in the desert.

Duqm — say it, repeat it, and listen to how it sounds as you may be hearing a lot about this place in the near future.

On conferences.

Country number 85.

New cities in the desert.

I’ve never been asked this before.