Muscat National Day, Oman, 1993

Boys dressed in traditional robes and turbans hold lanterns as part of Oman's National Day (November 18) celebrations. This Muslim country has enjoyed riches from frankincense and now oil, but is struggling to reinvent itself as its oil wells are expected to soon run dry.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Oman," May 1995, National Geographic magazine)