Date/Speaker

Title of Presentation

Tuesday, June 10, 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Dr. Thomas F. McDow
Assistant Professor,
History and Art History
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Oman in the Indian Ocean World

Thursday, June 12, 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Professor Linda Pappas Funsch
Professor, History and Political Science, Hood College
Frederick, Maryland

Overview of Oman

Dr. Edmund Ghareeb
Mustafa Barzani Scholar of Global
Kurdish Studies
Center for Global Peace
American University
Washington, DC

The Coming of the Europeans to the Gulf: Oil and the Rise of the New Nation States

Thursday, June 19, 5:30 pm - 7 pm

The Honorable David Mack
Former US Ambassador to the UAE

Gulf Cooperation Council Regional Relations and their Relations with the US

Tuesday, June 24, 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Professor Linda Pappas Funsch
Professor, History and Political Science, Hood College
Frederick, Maryland

Building a New Oman:The Hijab Factor

The Honorable Cran Montgomery
Baker, Donelson
Washington, DC
Former US Ambassador to Oman

Omani - US Relations

Tuesday, July 1, 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Dr. Edmund Ghareeb
Mustafa Barzani Scholar of Global
Kurdish Studies
Center for Global Peace
American University
Washington, DC

The New Media and the Information Revolution

Tuesday, July 8, 5:30 – 7 pm

Peter Ochs II
Geologist
Author of Maverick Guide to Oman

The Beauty of Oman

Thursday, July 10, 5:30 – 7 pm

Dr. Alasdair Drysdale
Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
Univeristy of New Hampshire
Durham, NH

Oman's Changing Demography

Thursday, July 17, 5:30 pm  - 7 pm

Dr. Hatem Al-Shanfari
Assistant Professor, College of
Commerce and Economics
Sultan Qaboos University
Muscat, Oman

Oman’s Economic Future:  Challenges and Opportunities

Friday, July 18, 12 noon – 1:30 pm

Dr. Dale Eickelman
Ralph and Richard Lazarus
Professor of Anthropology
and Human Relations
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

Light lunch will be made available

The Modern Face of Islam in Oman

Monday, July 21, 5:30 pm – 7 pm

Dr. Amer Al Rawas
Managing Director, OmanMobile
Muscat, Oman

Maintaining Traditional Values
in an Age of Globalization

 

Wednesday, July 23, 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Mubarak Al-Busaidi,
Deputy Director
Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
Washington, DC

David Bosch,
Director
Aramco Services Company
Washington, DC

Growing Up in Oman

Friday, July 25, 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Dr. Gregory Possehl
Director of Excavations, Bat, Oman and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
University of Pennsylvania

Emeritus Curator - in - Charge
Asia Section
University of Pennsylvania Museum

Excavations at Bat: A Bronze Age Town in the Sultanate of Oman

Monday. July 28, 5:30 - 7 pm

Dr. Herman Franssen

President, International Energy Associates

Oil in GCC Countries

Tuesday, July 29, 5:30-7 pm

Dr. Asya Mohammed Al-Lamky
Cultural Attache 
Embassy of the
Sultanate of Oman