Changing lifestyles, mobility patterns and its linked identity challenges of young Omani nationals in Muscat After extensive modernisation processes linked to the prosperity derived from the oil industry starting in the 1970s, the Sultanate of Oman is now in a post-modernisation era. To respond to the current challenges, e. g. diversification of the economy due to limited oil resources, high numbers of international labour force, high youth unemployment amongst Omani nationals, the Sultanate of Oman is envisioning a knowledge-based economy as its future strategy and is expanding its global exposure. This increased international alignment affects the political, the economic and the social level. By focusing on the latter, the paper aims to investigate current aspirations of the “post-oil”-nation with its above-average young society from a socio-spatial perspective. In this context, the following question arises: To what extent do new lifestyles affect mobility patterns and challenge identification processes of young Omani nationals (under 35 years)? The analysis is based on qualitative interviews, which are evaluated hermeneutically-interpretatively. The ongoing globalising processes in the form of increasing mobility through study visits abroad, global consumption patterns, the use of digital media etc., particularly concern the focus group of young Omani nationals (under 35 years), especially when they are highly educated and live in the capital area of Muscat. These influences affect their lifestyles, with differences emerging here between the urban and the rural area. The young generation of Omanis finds itself balancing between modern urban lifestyles and tribal-based patterns of life of their parent’s generation, in particular when the latter live in the rural area outside the capital. Therefore, the paper aims to analyse which new lifestyles are emerging and how they are spatially expressed. In addition, identification processes are challenged due to the before mentioned new life plans. Most of the younger generation has been raised and educated in the nation-building process, and thus has embraced national identity as promoted in school curricular –at least those living in the urban context. However, new global lifestyles in the urban area and resulting changes in mobility patterns within Oman are creating new identity challenges for the young generation (in urban as well as outside of urban areas), which the paper will analyse. Therefore, the paper examines to what extent new urban lifestyles and the increasing global exposure affect identification processes and the sense of belonging of young Omanis.