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Byline
Hassan.
[contributor]
Hassan Al Maqbali
Content Creator & Website Manager at Omanspire
Hassan Al Maqbali is a dedicated content creator and the website manager at Omanspire, where he writes passionately about Oman’s culture, history, and the timeless stories that shape the nation’s identity. His work reflects a deep love for the Sultanate and a commitment to sharing its beauty with the world.
Driven by a desire to widen global understanding of Oman, Hassan creates narratives that present the country through diverse perspectives—capturing its people, heritage, landscapes, and evolving cultural heartbeat. Through Omanspire, he hopes to bring readers closer to the spirit of Oman, one story at a time.
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The Keys of Mutrah: How an American Doctor Found a Home in the Omani Soul
The Hidden Architecture of History History textbooks are often predictable when recording the early 1900s. They paint a rigid landscape of foreign…
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Habta in Oman: The Market Where Eid Begins Before Eid
Before Eid arrives in Oman, something familiar begins to move through towns and villages. Markets become busier. Families start preparing. Children look…
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When the Indian Ocean Connected Oman and Zanzibar
Wooden ships moved with the monsoon winds between Muscat, Sur, Zanzibar, and ports scattered across the Indian Ocean. Along those routes traveled…
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Omani Students Earn Global Recognition at ISEF 2026
Omanspire | Education, Science & Young Innovation in Oman Some ideas begin quietly. A school lab. A classroom discussion. A question that…
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Harat Al Raml’s Restoration Has a Budget. The Hard Part Comes Later
A quiet item from Ibri in yesterday’s paper deserves more attention than it got. Walid Al Ghafri at the Department of Heritage…
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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…