{"id":17739,"date":"2024-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/17739\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:48:20","slug":"germany-arab-cultural-house-discusses-omani-city-of-bahla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/17739\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Arab Cultural House discusses Omani city of Bahla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derdivan.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Arab Cultural House in Berlin<\/a> held a discussion on the city wall of Bahla in Oman, as part of a reading of the book &#8220;The Surrounding Wall: The Wall of Bahla City&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derdivan.org\/buchlesung-und-diskussion-zur-stadtmauer-von-bahla-im-oman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The even<\/a>t featured Dr Nasser Al Saqri, an Omani historian and academic at Sultan Qaboos University, and Dr Michaela Hoffmann Ruf, a researcher in a German Research Foundation-funded project titled &#8220;Letters to the Sheikh: Political and Economic Transformations in the Indian Ocean World as Reflected in the Letters to the Al Abri Family of Al Hamra (Oman) during the Long Nineteenth Century&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1457251279  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62111 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/GaLyTVdWQAAdWhQ-800x534-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Germany: Arab Cultural House discusses Omani city of Bahla\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The session presented historical documents published for the first time and discussed the significance of the city wall. This was not only a defensive structure but also a symbol of collective social participation in the region and coexistence with geography and nature.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion highlighted how Omani society organised itself to preserve its cultural and material resources before the introduction of modern administrative structures. The connections between the Sultanate&#8217;s cultural heritage and modern Omani society were also explored.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1652096914  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-62113 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/GaLyTVfXkAAFW8Z-800x534-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Germany: Arab Cultural House discusses Omani city of Bahla\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maitha Saif Almahrouqi, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to Germany<\/a>, along with several individuals interested in Omani history and identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Cultural House in Berlin held a discussion on the city wall of Bahla in Oman, as part of a reading of the book &#8220;The Surrounding Wall: The Wall of Bahla City&#8221;. The event featured Dr Nasser Al Saqri, an Omani historian and academic at Sultan Qaboos University, and Dr Michaela Hoffmann Ruf, a researcher in a German Research &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/17739\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-mission-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17743,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions\/17743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}