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Speculation grows over who could succeed Sultan Qaboos as he continues treatment in Germany over Eid holiday
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The 74-year-old sultan has left no clear successor.
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Marc Valeri is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy of the Middle East, Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, in the United Kingdom. An expert on the Sultanate that w…
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The summer of 2012 in Oman was punctuated by a litany of reports announcing arrests and convictions of bloggers and human rights activists. This new crackdown on civil society started in May, when two human rights activists and a lawyer were arrested whil
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If the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 has produced unprecedented consequences for the internal policies of Middle Eastern regimes, this is not related to the upsurge of democratization that was supposed to spread like a contagion through the neighboring countries. Rather, it is due to the increased impact of the Shiʿi issue on the national political agendas of many Arab states. Following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, many observers thus drew attention to the emergence of what they regarded as a Shiʿi “revival” in the Middle East—a perception that the military success of the Lebanese Hizbullah against Israel in the summer of 2006 seemed to confirm.
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Depuis 1996, le sultanat d’Oman dispose d’un parlement bicaméral, le Conseil d’Oman, composé d’une chambre haute, le Conseil d’état, nommée intégralement par le sultan, et d’une chambre basse, le Conseil Consultatif, élue au suffrage universel tous les quatre ans. Ce texte s’interroge sur le rôle de cette institution, dans un pays gouverné depuis 1970 par un souverain (Qabous Al Said) qui a su concilier un développement économique et social sans précédent avec la personnalisation du pouvoir la plus élaborée de toute la Péninsule arabique.
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Mascate jouit depuis des décennies d'une réputation enviable, celle d'un pays discret et stable, bénéficiant d'une relative aisance, sous la férule bienveillante d'un despote éclairé. Mais à l'image de son souverain affaibli par l'âge et la maladie, et îlot de paix voit son équilibre mis à l'épreuve par l'émergence de difficultés économiques et par les conflits régionaux.
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Encensé comme l’incarnation de la stabilité, le sultan Qabus poursuit la réussite remarquable d’Oman… mais à quel prix ?
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Some twenty years ago, I wrote up the following notes for myself after reading John C. Wilkinson’s The Imamate Tradition of Oman (Cambridge University Press, 1987): While Omanis are virtually all M…
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Oman is facing important economic and political challenges. The economic challenge it faces is that its population is rising while its oil reserves are declining. The political challenges it faces are the extreme concentration of authority in the hands of one man (Sultan Qaboos), the sultan's unwillingness to allow meaningful political participation or dialogue, political legitimacy issues concerning both Sultan Qaboos and the succession process he has set up, and sporadic but persistent signs of opposition. This article examines these problems and assesses their implications for the political stability of Oman.
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This article was originally intended as a review of that excellent book by Fred Halliday, Arabia Without Sultans. However, I realise that there is not much point in commenting on a book about a situation of which many Australians are ignorant. Hence, my “ book review” has, as its main task, an account of some very important developments in the south of Arabia (defined as the peninsula including Saudi Arabia, North and South Yemen, Oman and the Trucial or Gulf States).
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La maladie dont souffre l’atypique sultan Qabous pose la question de la succession, qui s’annonce d’autant plus délicate que le souverain s’est façonné un État sur mesure et n’a pas d’héritier. – Jeune Afrique
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This interview with the head of state of the Sultanate of Oman was conducted in writing during the last week in January 1995 by Anne Joyce, editor of Middle East Policy.
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Thirty-one Omanis convicted of trying to overthrow the government are pardoned by the state's ruler.
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A total of 31 suspected Islamists in Oman get sentences of up to 20 years in jail for plotting a coup.
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At least 100 people are reportedly arrested in Oman amid rumours of a planned attack on a festival.
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