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Hassan.
[contributor]
Content Creator & Website Manager at OmanSpire
Hassan writes about Omani culture, heritage, and daily life at OmanSpire, bringing local stories to readers everywhere.
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Before Frankincense Forgets Itself: Inside Oman’s Genetic Library
A small team in Muscat is freezing the DNA of Arabian horses, the seeds of wild Boswellia, and the spores of fungi…
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Oman builds the legal scaffolding for an AI economy
Royal Decree 50/2026 quietly places an AI Special Economic Zone inside Muscat — and inside Oman’s existing free-zone architecture. The brevity is…
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How Oman Built One of the Region’s Quietest Neonatal Programmes
Oman Built One of the Region’s Quietest Neonatal Programmes Behind a near-invisible statistic — newborn survival — sits a forty-year story that…
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The Quiet Archaeology Superpower
The Quiet Archaeology Superpower Thirty-two active archaeological programmes. Eleven international partners. A Neolithic site older than the frankincense trade. Why Oman has…
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France and Oman: A Partnership Quietly Growing Deeper
On April 15, the foreign ministries of Oman and France sat down in Paris for what they called the first round of…
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What Is Happening at Hormuz Goes Beyond Energy to the Heart of Industry and Technology
Energy economist Dr. Anas Al-Hajji on why the 2026 Gulf crisis is the most severe supply disruption in modern history — and…
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Control the Gate. Rule the World
Nine centuries. One strait. Zero alternatives. For nine hundred years, a thirty-nine-kilometre passage between Iran and Oman has determined who controls global…
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The Answer is Muscat
There is something quietly striking buried in Monday’s edition of Oman’s national newspaper. On page fifteen, columnist Zaher bin Harith Al-Mahruqi publishes…
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A Year at Full Throttle: How Active Oman Became the Heartbeat of a Nation in Motion
When the Oman Automobile Association unveiled its bold new identity in April 2025, few anticipated the scale of what would follow. One…
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When Both Sides Call Muscat
Buried in Thursday’s news cycle, easy to miss amid casualty counts and ceasefire maps, was a detail that deserves longer consideration. France’s…