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THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY REVIEW 2020 Project Associates’ Business Is to Build, Manage and Protect Our Clients’ Reputations REVIEW 2020 THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY REVIEW 2020 Project Associates’ business is to build, manage and protect our clients’ reputations. Founded over 20 years ago, we advise corporations, individuals and governments on complex communication issues - issues which are usually at the nexus of the political, business, and media worlds. Our reach, and our experience, is global. We often work on complex issues where traditional models have failed. Whether advising corporates, individuals, or governments, our goal is to achieve maximum targeted impact for our clients. In the midst of a media or political crisis, or when seeking to build a profile to better dominate a new market or subject-area, our role is to devise communication strategies that meet these goals. We leverage our experience in politics, diplomacy and media to provide our clients with insightful counsel, delivering effective results. We are purposefully discerning about the projects we work on, and only pursue those where we can have a real impact. Through our global footprint, with offices in Europe’s major capitals, and in the United States, we are here to help you target the opinions which need to be better informed, and design strategies so as to bring about powerful change. Corporate Practice Private Client Practice Government & Political Project Associates’ Corporate Practice Project Associates’ Private Client Project Associates’ Government helps companies build and enhance Practice provides profile building & Political Practice provides strategic their reputations, in order to ensure and issues and crisis management advisory and public diplomacy their continued licence to operate. for individuals and families. We assist services for politicians, governments, Our clients range from large, listed our clients to communicate effectively political parties, embassies, high multinational companies to privately- with the audiences who matter commissions and consulates owned family businesses. to them. across the globe. LONDON BERLIN PARIS NEW YORK WASHINGTON BRUSSELS COVER PHOTO: REVIEW 2020 HM Sultan Haitham bin Tarik THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY CONTENTS 6 HIS MAJESTY SULTAN HAITHAM BIN TARIK 61 THE WALK OF OMAN – WOUNDED VETERANS’ ARDUOUS TREK 8 CHAIRMAN’S OVERVIEW 62 AHMAD AL-HARTHY’S NEW RACING CAR 63 THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST RACE ULTRA-RUNNING IN OMAN 66 ANOTHER YEAR OF GROWTH FOR OUTWARD BOUND OMAN 69 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND DIVERSITY IN OMAN 72 OMANI WOMEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY 12 SOCIETY TRUSTEES: AVE ATQUE VALE 75 THE LAND OF FRANKINCENSE 14 COVID-19: CRISIS OR OPPORTUNITY? 76 THE MARIA THERESA DOLLAR 15 INSIGHT: THE OMAN COUNCIL 79 OMANI-YEMENI RELATIONS IN THE 19 INSIGHT: MUSIC IN OMAN: A BRIEF HISTORY PAST CENTURY OF THE PRACTICES 82 THE DIVERSITY OF OMANI GENES 22 INSIGHT: THE PACE OF CHANGE 84 BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS CONTRACT 24 SOCIETY ANNUAL LUNCHEON 2019 SIGNING IN LONDON 26 ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY EVENT IN SALALAH 85 THE SALUKI’S UNIQUE ROLE IN MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURE 28 OMANI STUDENTS’ EXHIBITION IN GLASGOW 30 SENIOR OMANI JOURNALISTS PRESS FORUM AT THE SOCIETY 31 AOS LECTURE PROGRAMME 32 THE SOCIETY’S GRANT SCHEME 33 THE GAP YEAR SCHEME 38 THRIVING ARABIC LANGUAGE SCHEME 43 THE NEW GENERATION GROUP: WHAT’S NEXT? 45 OMAN’S NATURAL HERITAGE LECTURE 2019 THE FLORA OF THE SULTANATE OF OMAN 50 OBBC TECHNOLOGY FOCUS 90 GLIMPSES OF OMAN: EDINBURGH EXHIBITION 51 SPOTLIGHT: CANOPY: FROM DEATH THREATS 92 THE CULTURAL RENAISSANCE OF OMAN TO TOMATOES 94 GASTRONOMY OF OMAN – 53 SPOTLIGHT: TAMNET: ‘THAT OUTLET ISN’T OMAN’S BEST KEPT SECRET! WORKING!’ 98 THE ROYAL CAMEL CORPS AND 55 SPOTLIGHT: WAKAN TECH: DRONES AND AI; AL ARDHAH RUNNING SMART TECHNOLOGY TO AUTOMATE 100 THE RISE OF DUQM SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE FARMING JOBS 104 BOOK REVIEWS 57 NEW WEBSITE: WWW.AO-SOC.ORG 109 DR NOEL GUCKIAN OBITUARY 58 WILD OMAN – AN ART EXHIBITION CELEBRATING OMAN’S UNIQUE WILDLIFE 111 SULT AN QABOOS BIN SAID AL SAID OBITUARY 3 REVIEW 2020 THE ANGLO-OMANI SOCIETY Society Address 34, Sackville Street, London W1S 3ED +44 (0)203 141 1763 www.ao-soc.org Advertising Mr Nicholas Smith Society Manager E-mail: [email protected] Printed by Brunton Business Publications 1 Salisbury Office Park, London Road, Salisbury, Wilts. SP1 3HP Telephone: 01722 337038 www.thepackagingportal.com HM Sultan Haitham bin Tarik FROM THE EDITOR President This has been a strange year! The major event of course HE Abdulaziz Al Hinai – The Omani Ambassador was the death of our Patron, Sultan Qaboos, and the accession of Sultan Haitham. We mourn the one and Vice Presidents celebrate the other, and include articles about both. Hussain bin Mohammed bin Ali COVID-19 is the other major factor. The Society Review is Sir Terence Clark KBE, CMG, CVO a magazine of record about our year – the lectures, reports Mr Richard Muir CMG on activities for which we awarded grants, our members Mr Robert Alston CMG, QSO, DL and our organisation – all of which have been severely affected. This year’s Review shows how admirably our Col Nigel Knocker OBE, WO, WKhM staff and board have coped, working from home, to Board of Trustees substitute for the lack of physical activity – lectures not given, activities postponed, grants not spent. We trust you Chairman: Mr Stuart Laing will enjoy reading it all. The Chairman’s Overview provides Vice Chairman: Brig John McKeown CBE the scene-setter, and reminds us of the odd AGM which Vice Chairman OBBC: Mr Oliver Blake had the Trust Secretary and his wife as the physically Hon Treasurer: Mr Martyn Bishop FCA present duo, the Chairman in his study, a panel of Trustees Company Secretary: Mr Alan Milne FCIS and Vice-Presidents on Zoom and 30 members somewhere in the ether. Thank you for attending – we Mr Scott Dickson hope to see you next July in Sackville Street for the AGM! Dr Elisabeth Kendall Mrs Jane Kinninmont Miss Debbie Martin PROTECTIVE NOTICE Sheikh Ma’an Al Rawahi Unless stated to the contrary, the copyright of all articles in this Review is the property of the Anglo-Omani Society. No part of this Review may be Ms Elisabeth Simpson 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 John McKeown [email protected] not necessarily reflect the Society’s opinion or thought. 4 Since we began in 1945, Charles Kendall has • GLOBAL FREIGHT grown into a complete, end to end supply chain • PROCUREMENT CONSULTING management group. We work to remove risks and • EXPORT PACKING costs at every stage to keep you compliant, on • EVENT LOGISTICS time, on budget and ahead of the competition. • PRODUCT LOGISTICS So, whether you’re moving by air, sea, rail or road, make sure you partner with the experts. • CUSTOMS & COMPLIANCE CContact: [email protected] • E-E-COMMERCE (FBA) www.charleskendall.com 5 HIS MAJESTY SULTAN HAITHAM BIN TARIK AL SAID KCVO ARTICLE BY RICHARD MUIR His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik Al Said succeeded his late Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said in January. The succession was in accordance with the Basic Law. On the death of Sultan Qaboos the Royal Family Council met and decided to ask the Defence Council to open his will. This happened immediately and in front of the television cameras. Sultan Qaboos’ letter recommending His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tarik Al Said as successor was read out and shown to the public – the letter is now on display in the National Museum in Muscat. Later the same morning, after the funeral of the late Sultan, His Majesty Sultan Haitham took the oath of office at the Oman Council in front of the Royal Family Council, the Defence Council, the Cabinet and members of both parliamentary houses. In his inaugural speech, after praising his predecessor’s charismatic leadership and many achievements Sultan Haitham committed himself to preserve the many gains Sultan Qaboos had made and to build upon them both domestically and in foreign policy, the fundamentals of which he reaffirmed: peaceful co-existence with other nations, 6 HIS MAJESTY SULTAN HAITHAM BIN TARIK AL SAID good neighbourliness, non-interference in Sayyid Haitham with the internal affairs of others, respect for four Ambassadors. countries’ sovereignty and for international cooperation. Over the three days of condolences for Sultan Qaboos Sultan Haitham received delegations from Oman’s friends and allies around the world including, on the first day in a demonstration of the particularly close British ties, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister, the Defence Secretary and the Chief of Defence Staff; the Foreign Secretary later visited in March. Sultan Haitham was born in 1954, the son of Sayyid Tarik bin Taimur Al Said, the first cousin of Sultan Qaboos and Prime Minister between 1970 and 1972. Sayyid Haitham studied at Pembroke College, Oxford under Sir Geoffrey Arthur (who His Majesty is well known to many members before retirement from the Diplomatic Service had served as the last Political of the Society for his close and informed Resident in the Gulf) and graduated from interest in the bilateral relationship. the Oxford Foreign Service Programme in 1979. Sayyid Haitham was Undersecretary for Sayyid Haitham was active on many Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign other fronts. In the early 1980s he became Affairs from 1986 to 1994 before being the first head of the Oman Football appointed Secretary General of the Association and subsequently maintained Ministry with ministerial rank.
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