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THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY REVIEW 2019 W&S Anglo-Omani-2019-Issue.Indd 1 REVIEW 2019 THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY REVIEW 2019 WWW.WILLIAMANDSON.COM THE PERFECT DESTINATION FOR TOWN & COUNTRY LIVING W&S_Anglo-Omani-2019-Issue.indd 1 19/08/2019 11:51 COVER PHOTO: REVIEW 2019 Jokha Alharthi, winner of the Man Booker International Prize WWW.WILLIAMANDSON.COM THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY CONTENTS 6 CHAIRMAN’S OVERVIEW 62 CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE 9 NEW WEBSITE FOR THE SOCIETY 64 OMAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST INFRASTRUCTURE BOOM 10 JOKHA ALHARTHI AWARDED THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 66 THE GULF RESEARCH MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE 13 OLLIE BLAKE’S WEDDING IN CANADA 68 OMAN AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 14 HIGH-LEVEL PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGES 69 5G NATIONAL WORKING GROUP VISIT TO UK 16 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OMANI- 70 OBBC AND OMAN’S VISION 2040 BRITISH RELATIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY 72 GHAZEER – KHAZZAN PHASE 2 18 ARAB WOMEN AWARD FOR OMANI FORMER MINISTER 74 OLD MUSCAT 20 JOHN CARBIS – OMAN EXPERIENCE 76 OMANI BRITISH LAWYERS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL LONDON RECEPTION 23 THE WORLD’S OLDEST MARINER’S ASTROLABE 77 LONDON ORGAN RECITAL 26 OMAN’S NATURAL HERITAGE LECTURE 2018 79 OUTWARD BOUND OMAN 30 BATS, RODENTS AND SHREWS OF DHOFAR 82 ANGLO-OMANI LUNCHEON 2018 84 WOMEN’S VOICES – THE SOCIETY’S PROGRAMME FOR NEXT YEAR 86 ARABIC LANGUAGE SCHEME 90 GAP YEAR SCHEME REPORT 93 THE SOCIETY’S GRANT SCHEME 94 YOUNG OMANI TEACHERS VISIT BRITISH SCHOOLS 34 ISLANDS IN THE DESERT 96 UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF OMAN’S YOUTH 40 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EARLY ISLAM IN OMAN 98 NGG DELEGATION – THE NUDGE FACTOR 44 MILITANT JIHADIST POETRY AND THE BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS 100 LIYSF 2019 47 ARABS FROM OMAN AND THEIR EAST 103 YOUNG OMANIS IN INTER-PARLIAMENTARY AFRICAN COLONIES UNION WORKSHOP 50 TRADITIONAL STAR KNOWLEDGE IN RUSTAQ 104 STUDENT SOCIETIES: THE CORE OF CHANGE 52 LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY – A KEY 106 QUBBAH – AN EXHIBITION BY OMANI TECHNIQUE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PAST STUDENTS IN THE UK 55 PHOTOGRAPHIC SUCCESS FOR SUE O’CONNELL 108 THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE OMAN PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM 58 TRADITIONS AND TRAJECTORIES: THE FEMALE SILVERSMITHS OF DHOFAR 111 THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY THE PERFECT DESTINATION FOR TOWN & COUNTRY LIVING 61 ATELIER ZUHRA AT LONDON FASHION WEEK 113 OBITUARIES 3 W&S_Anglo-Omani-2019-Issue.indd 1 19/08/2019 11:51 REVIEW 2019 THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY Society Address 34, Sackville Street, London W1S 3ED +44 (0)20 7851 7439 www.angloomanisociety.com Advertising Christine Heslop 71 East Street, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3DT Telephone: +44 (0)7968 293972 E-mail: [email protected] Printed by Brunton Business Publications 1 Salisbury Office Park, London Road, Salisbury, Wilts. 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No part of this Review may be Sheikh Ma’an Al Rawahi reproduced in any way whatsoever without the permission in writing of the Society. The Board of Trustees also has representatives of the Oman Embassy and the Every effort has been made to trace and acknowledge ownership of copyright Foreign and Commonwealth Office on a rotating basis. material; the publishers will be glad to make suitable arrangements with any copyright owner it has not been possible to contact. Editor Views expressed in contributions from outside writers are their own, and do Brig John McKeown CBE [email protected] not necessarily reflect the Society’s opinion or thought. 4 Since we began in 1945, Charles Kendall has grown into a complete, end-to-end supply chain management group. Procurement Consulting Freight Packing Event Logistics +44 (0)20 7589 1256 www.charleskendall.com THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY ANNUAL LUNCHEON The Anglo-Omani Society Annual Luncheon will be held on FRIDAY, 4th OCTOBER, 2019 12.30 for 1pm at the Royal Air Force Club £50 including drinks Advance booking necessary. Maximum attendance 120. THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE COST OF PUBLICATION OF THIS REVIEW FROM ALIDADE LIMITED 5 The Anglo-Omani Society in 2019 CHAIRMAN’S OVERVIEW REPORT GIVEN BY SOCIETY CHAIRMAN, STUART LAING, AT THE AGM ON 10 JULY 2019 I am delighted and This time last year my predecessor opened who puts together the lecture programme, his report with the words, “The Society and has some true delights in store for us honoured to be giving thrives”; and I’m glad that I can say the same in the coming year. This year’s programme now. Our membership remains strong, also included a most interesting Panel you this my fi rst report as there are plenty of stimulating activities, Discussion on Oman and its Neighbours, a and the few changes that the Board has format we have used before and which I the Society’s Chairman. made during the year will I am sure lead to hope we shall be able to repeat. And we Thank you for giving me continued success in the future. also had a novel addition in the form of an These activities show a healthy variety, Organ Recital, at St Andrew’s Church, the opportunity to serve“ providing events of interest to a cross- Holborn, given by Ian Hockley, organist at section of our membership. A signifi cant the Sultani Diwan. a Society which I proportion of you will be familiar with our Our formal set piece of the year is our lecture series, probably the clearest and Annual Lunch, held again last October at warmly admire. most obvious use of these lovely premises the RAF Club. Our guests of honour and that we are lucky enough to enjoy. Our speakers were HE Dr. Abdulmunam thanks go to all our lecturers – I don’t often Mansoor Al Hasani, Omani Minister of have a chance to thank myself publicly in Information, and the Rt Hon Alistair Burt, this way, but this year I was fortunate Minister of State in the British Foreign and enough to be on the lecture programme – Commonwealth Offi ce. It was a very and our sincere appreciation to Louise pleasant and successful occasion, with over Hosking, member of the Board of Trustees, 100 members of the Society present. 6 CHAIRMAN’S REVIEW The Society has been privileged to (discussing the future of tourism) and 2019 goes to the annual Royal Geographical support a programme of exchange visits (on investment in Oman and the Vision Society Oman National Heritage lecture – between the British House of Lords and 2040), each time with top-level business this year members had an opportunity to Oman’s Majlis al-Dawla, the State Council. representation on both sides. This year the hear three scientists from the Oman A delegation of peers visited Oman in Society hosted a reception attended by Botanic Gardens speaking about the fl ora February, and HE Yahya al-Mantheri led a HRH The Duke of York and HH Sayyid of Oman. Our particular thanks go to group of Majlis al-Dawla members to Haitham. Richard Owens, the Trustee who chairs the London and Cambridge in June. I was Our grants programme continues to be a Grants Sub-Committee handling this area delighted to be able to host the group for huge success. Our grants go to a wide of the Society’s work. lunch in my College, and to show them variety of projects, many in scientifi c Other schemes benefi t a cross-section of some of our manuscript treasures. research in Oman. Perhaps our most students, such as the Gap Year Scheme The Society continues to stress the striking success this year, in terms of and the programme for Arabic learning at importance of building the foundations of a picking winners, was our decision to pay the al-Manah summer school. And of continuing relationship between our two for Prof Marilyn Booth’s translation of course I should mention our beautiful countries. This is why the activities of the Jokha Alharthi’s book Celestial Bodies, Review, which all Society members enjoy, New Generation Group (NGG) are so which went on to win the Man Booker and which is so ably managed by our Vice- important. I thank our two Trustees, Ollie International Prize. Another regular grant Chairman, John McKeown. Blake and Ma’an al-Rawahi, and the new member of the team, Lissie Simpson, for their continuing efforts with the NGG. Hamish Cowell, the British Ambassador in Muscat, kindly hosted a reception in his residence for the NGG last October, and other events continue. A group of young Omanis came to Oxford in August under NGG auspices. We are taking steps to merge the NGG into the mainstream of the Building Materials Division Society, for example in our membership arrangements, and in the presentation of activities on the revamped website. Wilhelmsen Towell Co. LLC Modernising the web-site: for some time the Trustees and the staff have been working to improve both the data (mainly on the membership) held by the Society, and the Society’s website.
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