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The Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center (SQCC) regularly cosponsors events with other institutions around Washington, D.C. and across the U.S. SQCC participates in festivals and workshops with other organizations in order to fulfill its mission of educating Americans about Omani culture and supporting cross cultural exchange between the US and Oman.

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  • Sigrid van Roode on Silver & Frankincense

    Zoom

    Join us on Zoom as we welcome Sigrid van Roode to discuss her new book Silver & Frankincense! When: Wednesday, 2 December from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Where: Online! Email [email protected] for a Zoom meeting link.

    Free

  • Silver & Frankincense: Personal Adornment and Scent in the Arab World

    Sigrid van Roode, a jewelry historian specializing in traditional jewelry from the Middle East and North Africa, gave an online presentation on 2 December, discussing her new book, Silver & Frankincense: Personal Adornment and Scent in the Arab World. Her research addresses jewelry as material culture of society and focuses in particular on the relation between…

  • SQCC Participated at the Annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) 2020

    On 4 - 6 December, SQCC participated in the Annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference Advancing Social Justice. This year marked the first-ever NCSS Virtual Conference because of COVID Pandemic. SQCC virtually promoted the Indian Ocean in World History (IOWH) website, an educational resource that explores 94,000 years of human history through seven interactive maps.…

  • SQCC Participates at the 9th Annual Winternational Embassy Showcase

    SQCC participated in the 9th Annual Winternational Embassy Showcase at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on 7 December. Winternational is an exciting celebration showcasing the cultural and culinary traditions of Washington’s diplomatic community. This year and due to the COVID pandemic Winternational continued its annual Embassy Showcase tradition in a new virtual year-long format. SQCC had…

  • Embassy Adoption Program 2020 – 2021 Third Session

    The Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center hosted a fifth-grade class from Seaton Elementary School virtually as part of the Embassy Adoption Program (EAP) on 21 and 22 December. EAP is a special collaboration between Washington Performing Arts and D.C. Public Schools, hosted virtually this year. Students learned how to write their names in Arabic and showed…

  • Virtual Visits to SQCC

    SQCC virtually hosted the following visiting groups in February: Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State Arabic Department, University of Florida Students watched a video on Oman, and virtually toured SQCC’s permanent exhibition, where they learned about traditional Omani dresses, and handicrafts such as pottery, basketry, silver artwork and woodworking, as well as the aflaj irrigation system. Students also learned about…

  • Poetry and Prose: Valentine Special – Love in its Purist Form: A Pathway to the Divine

    Zoom

      Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center’s Poetry & Prose series was proud to host Associate Professor and the founding Director of Arabic Studies at DePaul University, Dr. Nesreen Akhtarkhavari on Thursday, 11 February 2021.  In Dr.Akhtarkhavari's Love in its Purist Form: A Pathway to the Divine presentation, she examined "the notion and essence of love as…

  • Embassy Adoption Program Capstone 2020-2021

    The SQCC and the Embassy Adoption Program (EAP) concluded the 2020-2021 academic year with Seaton Elementary School students virtually presenting their Capstone Project on 9 April. The presentation opened with the playing of the National Anthem of Oman. Students shared what they learned about Oman during the school year, in the form of skits, PowerPoint presentations,…

  • Poetry and Prose: The Aesthetics of Classical Arabic Poetry

    Zoom

    Click here to register for the event: conta.cc/2RqIlq6 In her recent book, Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature, Lara Harb argues that the main aesthetic that underlay classical Arabic literary theory was one of wonder. In this lecture, Harb will explore this aesthetic of wonder through reading a selection of verses from classical Arabic poetry,…

    Free

Events

These events range from our SQCC annual conference, held in partnership with a different university each year, to multicultural festivals and events hosted by organizations like the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries (Washington, D.C.), Arab Festival Orlando (Orlando, FL) and the Children's Museum of Manhattan (New York City, NY). SQCC also annually holds a booth at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference, where SQCC promotes its Indian Ocean in World History website, a free classroom resource, to K-12 educators.