HH Theyazin presides over SQU’s 40th anniversary celebration
Muscat: NOV 9 2026, His Highness Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitham al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, today presided over the celebration marking the 40th anniversary of the opening of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) under the theme "An Enduring Impact," held in the Grand Hall of the Sultan Qaboos University Cultural Centre. His Highness Sayyid Dr. Fahd bin Al-Julanda al Said, SQU Vice Chancellor, delivered an address on the occasion. He said the celebration honours a purely...
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“We are proud of this university; and more than that, we are proud of you in Oman and elsewhere.” Those were the words of the late Sultan Qaboos bin Said. They were not a ceremonial compliment. They were a charge: a university is measured not by its buildings, but by its graduates, and by what they carry into the life of their nation. This week, as Sultan Qaboos University marks 40 years since its founding, those words return with renewed force. When SQU opened in Muscat in 1986, it began...
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,...
