MUSCAT: The Omani writer and diplomat, Sadiq Jawad Suleiman, passed away in India at the age of 90.
One of the founders of the Omani Society for Writers and Literates in 2006, he also chaired the board of directors of the association between 2010 and 2012.
Irrespective of the lectures that he gave on various cultural occasions inside and outside the Sultanate, no book has been published that includes his research works.
Sadiq Jawad Suleiman studied in one of Muttrah schools at the end of the 1930s and early 1940s. At the end of the 1950s, he worked in the Kuwaiti press before returning to the Sultanate in the early 1970s to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Before his retirement in the late 1980s, he severed as Oman's ambassador to Iran and the United States.
After retirement, Sadiq Jawad Suleiman joined Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in the United States, where he obtained a master's degree in international public policy.
The former diplomat used to have many discussions with the local press, including interviews with writer Badr al Abri who had interactions with him on several occasions. Some of these interactions will be published as a book soon.
Sadiq Jawad Suleiman was known to highlight topics of intellectual, political, and religious issues.
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