{"id":25881,"date":"2025-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/25881\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:50:09","slug":"japan-embassy-hosts-japanese-reading-of-alqasmis-novel-the-water-diviner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/25881\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan: Embassy hosts Japanese reading of Alqasmi&#8217;s novel &#8220;The Water Diviner&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/tokyo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Tokyo<\/a> hosted Omani author Zahran Alqasmi for a reading and signing of his award-winning novel &#8220;The Water Diviner&#8221;, which was recently translated into Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1310919464  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83172 size-full\" 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\/GsVXan3a8AAd-IV.jpg\" alt=\"Japan: Embassy hosts Japanese reading of Alqasmi's novel &quot;The Water Diviner&quot;\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This well-attended event represents part of the Embassy\u2019s efforts to promote Omani culture and literature. It was held in cooperation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keio.ac.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keio University<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/UTCMES\/about\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sultan Qaboos Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Tokyo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=904782431  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83174 size-full\" 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\/GsVXanzaMAQ2n2U.jpg\" alt=\"Japan: Embassy hosts Japanese reading of Alqasmi's novel &quot;The Water Diviner&quot;\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=605732490  data-opt-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\/GsVXan8aMAAwqJ5.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83178 size-full\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Japan: Embassy hosts Japanese reading of Alqasmi's novel &quot;The Water Diviner&quot;\" width=\"1372\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Tokyo hosted Omani author Zahran Alqasmi for a reading and signing of his award-winning novel &#8220;The Water Diviner&#8221;, which was recently translated into Japanese. This well-attended event represents part of the Embassy\u2019s efforts to promote Omani culture and literature. It was held in cooperation with Keio University and The Sultan Qaboos Chair &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/25881\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,113],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-25881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-mission-news","tag-japan-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25881","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=25881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25882,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25881\/revisions\/25882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}