Today, Oman Daily Observer celebrates 45 years of publishing. It is an opportunity to pause, reflect, and pay tribute to a team of journalists who have not only reported the news but also made a significant contribution to raising public awareness of mental health. As a psychiatrist and a loyal reader of the Observer, I am pleased to see mental health covered throughout the year, not just on international awareness days. Quite often, I receive a text message from a journalist covering a mental...
There are moments in a researcher’s life that quietly reshape the way history is understood. They arrive without ceremony, revealing themselves only through experience. One such moment came when I entered the Bristol Archives expecting to consult only a handful of documents relating to the history of the Sultanate of Oman. Several minutes later,...
Personalised recommendations may help readers discover subjects they enjoy, but relying on them too heavily can narrow the range of ideas they encounter, speakers at the 45th Sharjah International Book Fair cautioned. Dr Rania Shaheen and Abrar Salem explored this tension during a conversation titled “Who Shapes the Way You Think? You or the...