For the past few years, my cousin Taggy — the classics-lover — and I have developed a birthday tradition where we gift each other books that we’d always wanted to read but were too lazy to tackle alone, since massive books and tiny fonts always put us both off. On my last birthday, one of the books that Taggy gifted me was the first part of Dante’s 'Divine Comedy: Inferno'. I have to say that I wasn’t expecting this book as she was more into French and Russian literature....
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,...
Muscat: The Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM) is welcoming audiences to the opening month of its fifteenth anniversary season this October, with an exciting programme that brings together great opera, world-renowned artists, Arabic musical heritage and the golden age of jazz. The season opens in spectacular fashion with Giuseppe Verdi’s...