The start of a new academic year is typically framed as a time for administrative and instructional transition: students return to classrooms, collect textbooks, learn schedules, and are gradually oriented to rules, routines, and academic expectations. However, this familiar sequence prompts a deeper question: Are students simply returning to school, or are they genuinely returning to learning? In effect, shifting from “returning to school” to “returning to learning” requires...
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...