Lately, I have met many people with ideas that impress me using beautifully written proposals and presentations. The language is excellent, the structure is perfect, and the recommendations sound like they come from someone with 20 years of professional experience. Yet when I ask a few simple questions, such as why they recommended an idea or whether it would work in the Omani market, I suddenly see their confidence drop. Why? The document was impressive! Then I realise they lacked context i.e....
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,...
How sailors navigated open seas and how physicians explained the human body come into focus in the handwritten pages on display at Oman’s Guest of Honour pavilion at the 45th Sharjah International Book Fair. From drawings of sailing vessels to anatomical illustrations accompanied by verse, the manuscripts reveal how knowledge was recorded,...