Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Said Sultan Al Hashmi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston. He is an Omani writer and Human Rights activist. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in political sciences and economics from the University of Kuwait in 1999 and his MA in Strategic Studies from Aberdeen University of the United Kingdom in 2006. His research interests include anti-colonialism, imperialism, revolution and resistance in Oman and Arabian Peninsula. He is the author of Oman: Human and Authority, A Primer to Understanding the Modern Omani Political Landscape (Arabic, 2014). He is the author of several novels and prison literature: “If the Trees Fell in Love” (Arabic novel), “The Shadow’s Lullaby” (Arabic novel), “What the Cell left Behind for the Rose, The Papers of a Prisoner in 2011” (Arabic), “Jasmine of Absence: Letters from Solitary Confinement” (Arabic), “Omani Spring: Reading into the Contexts and Significance" (Arabic),The Sacred Valley Infantries: Studies and Readings in Sufi Life in Oman (Arabic).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Gulf Studies
Colonialism
Transnationalism
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
Oman
Palestine
All Middle East
Arab States
Arabian Peninsula
Specialties
Oman
Arabian Gulf And Peninsula
Anticolonialism
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Abstracts
Revolution in Omani Memory: Rethinking Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Work of the "Green Mountain Angels" and "A Woman from Dhofar"
