Lecture SeriesDissemination of Architectural and Urban Forms of the Islamic World Lecture Series On Tuesday 2nd July 2019, ArCHIAM’s Director Prof Soumyen Bandyopadhyay presented the pedagogic material on Architectural and Urban Forms of the Islamic World produced in partnership with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture as part of his talk on “Omani Towns: Tradition of the Desert and the…
Raising awareness of Oman’s history and cultural heritage In July 2019, two children workshops were held at the National Museum of Oman. The workshops were attended by school children between the age of 7 and 17 years old, as part of the National Museum’s Learning Centre activities and were focused on the content of the…
TalksOmani Towns: Tradition of the Desert and the Sea On Tuesday 2nd July 2019, ArCHIAM’s Director Prof Soumyen Bandyopadhyay lectured on “Omani Towns: Tradition of the Desert and the Sea” at the National Museum Oman. The history of the Arabian Peninsula has often been conceptualised in terms of a duality that once existed between a ‘cosmopolitan’…