The Almighty God has granted the Sultanate of Oman a distinguished geographic location, which made the country a pioneer in maritime sciences. This, in turn, has enabled the Sultanate to establish a deep-rooted marine heritage which reflected the extent of advancement and prosperity the Omanis had achieved in ship-building industry and maritime sciences. As a consequence, the Omanis were able to expand their maritime sovereignty where they crossed with their ships and naval fleets the word’s continents. Hence, they were a truly maritime nation, which contributed greatly to the spread of Islam in the lands with which they had contacts; and this contributed to enhancing the commercial ties and civilizational connections with ancient and modern civilizations such as Mesopotamia, North and West Africa, China, India and Southeast Asian countries and USA. Despite the peace culture, which had been adopted by Omanis on their travels, they were not deedless to boost their maritime sovereignty and to become a formidable power to defeat their enemies, expel them from the Sultanate and even chase them overseas and extend the Omani influence in the Indian Ocean.

     The conservation of the Omani maritime heritage is a national responsibility due to its political, economic, social and cultural values and its role in enhancing the national identity among people. Thus, enhancing people awareness is quite crucial to build up a generation that is concerned with marine sciences, shipbuilding and develop their understanding of challenges and perils that threaten that Omani marine heritage and their necessary contribution to preserve it.

     Based on the importance of the preservation of Omani marine heritage, the Maritime Omani Heritage and Its Exhibition conference would be a golden opportunity to present such heritage which was acknowledged at the domestic, regional and global levels or across spaces and times and made Omanis the sea lions at some periods of history and the focus of world attention by scholars and researchers and hence the necessity for such heritage to be studied in-depth.

1. Studying Oman maritime heritage and and highlight its cultural and social specificities and the challenges it faces
2. To identify the materialism and immaterialsm of Omani maritime heritage.
3. Highlight the culture of the sea and Sunnah and related aspects such as the buidling of ships, marine art, navigation and astronomy tools, customs and traditions, and fishing.
4. Study the impact of modern socicl changes on the conservation and preservation of Omani marine culture.
5. Review local and national efforts to revive and preserve the marine heritage.
6. To explore the future of Oman's maritime heritage.
7. Provide the opportunity for researchers,scholars to meet and learn about marine science and heritage.
8. Enriching the Omani library with a scientific material about Omani maritime heritage.

Theme 1 : Geography and its role in the building of marine heritage

- The role of geographical location in the promotion of Omani marine activity.

- Effect of Climate conditions on Omani marine activity

- The geographical thought of Ahmad bin Majid

Theme 2 :Marine Global communication of Oman civilization

- Political Relationshiops

- Ecomomic Relationships

- Oman Exports

- Oman Maritime Ports

- Foreign Ports reached by Omani ships

Theme 3 :Marine Science

- The development of Omani marine science

- Oman Authoresse In Marine science

- Omani manscripts and documents related to marine science and activities

- Oman figures in marine activities ( leaders, captin, workers, merchants , makers)

Theme 4 :Ships Building

- Building of Malitery and Comurical ships

- Manufacture and development of marine tools and machinery

- The development of Omani navigation systems

- Types of ships

- Sources of tools and machines used in the manufacture of Omani ships (place, methods of transporting them to Oman, types, uses).

Theme 5 :Oman Marine Navy  

- History of Oman Marine Navy

- Activities of Oman Marine Navy

- Role of Oman Navy in preservation of peace and scuirty in Indian Ocean

- Role of Oman marine navy in decolization

Theme 6: Fishing and pearling activity  

- Marin Fishing activities

- Pearling activities

- Oman materlizam and immterailism heritage

- Archaeological heritage

- Work environment in ships ( laws, roles, wages, crew etc)

Theme 7:Oman Marine Customes

- Literacture pattern of marine

- Marine relgulation

- Oman Marine accidents and events

- Marine arts

-drilling and protecting of marine bay

Theme 8 :Case studies of Oman marine expereince

- Shabab Oman Ship

- Jawharat Muscat Ship

- Other experiences

Theme 9 : Economic and Promotion of Oman marine heritage

- Maritime Museum

- Marain Tourism

- Marine Archeology

1- Abstract submission deadline 10/3/2018  19/3/2018

2- Acceptance notification of Abstact 30/3/2018

3- Full Research submission deadline 30/6/2018

4- Approval of acceptabed research and sending invitations 30/7/2018

5 -Conference 23-25 /10/2018

General Conditions:

•Originality and innovation and direct connection with Conference themes

•Participation should not have been published or presented in previous seminars and conferences

Submission format:

•Language Fond Simplified Arabic (14) for Titles and (12) for text

•Total words ranging from 5000 to 8000 including including references, images, figures and tables.

•Scientific Committee is entitled to apologize for not accepting any papers that do not meet the conditions specified

Research Paper Content:

Submitted papers should include:

•Two abstracts: Arabic & English.

•The abstract should not be more than 150 words.

•Five keywords in both languages

•Introduction: That include the theoretical framework and literature review integrated into the body and provided without A separate sub-heading

•Research problem, objectives and questions

•Significance of the study

•Study frame and limits

•Methodology and procedures including Study population and the sample, and study tools, and procedural definitions as well as procedures and methods of data analysis

•Results and discussion include the results of the analysis with a discussion

•References

•Annexes, if any

A- BOOK ONE AUTHOR:

Ellis, R. (2003). Task-based language learning & teaching. New York: Oxford University Press.

In-Text: Ellis (2003) or (Ellis, 2003)

B- BOOK )TWO OR MORE AUTHORS

Strunk, W., Jr. & White, E.B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd Ed.). New York: Macmillan.

In-Text: (two authors):

Strunk and White (1979) or (Strunk & White, 1979)

In-Text (three or more authors):

Strunk, White, & Smith (1979)or (Strunk, White & Smith, 1979)

In-Text (subsequent references):

Strunk et al. (1979) or (Strunk et al., 1979)

C- CHAPTERS IN AN EDITED VOLUME:

Abu Hilal, M. (2008). Motivation, attributions of academic experiences & achievement among Arab students within a socio-cultural context. In T. O. Seng, D. M. McInerney, A. D. Liem, & T. Ai-Girl (Eds.) Research in Multicultural Education & International Perspectives (Vol. 7, pp. 217-244). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

In text: Abu-Hilal (2008) or (Abu-Hilal, 2008)

D- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

Pica, T., Washburn, G., Evans, B., & Jo, V. (1998). Negative feedback in content-based second language classroom interaction: How does it contribute to second language learning? Paper presented at the Annual Pacific Second Language Research Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

E- UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS:

Boyd-Kletzander, R. (2000). Student responsibility in a whole language classroom. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

F- JOURNAL ARTICLE )ONE AUTHOR

Abu-Hilal, M. (2000) A structural model of attitudes toward school subjects, academic aspiration & achievement. Educational Psychology, 20, 75-84.

In-Text:

Abu-Hilal (2000) or (Abu-Hilal, 2000)

G- JOURNAL ARTICLE )TWO AUTHORS

Atkinson, R.C., & Shiffrin, R.M. (1971). The control of short-term memory. Scientific American, 225, 82-90.

In-Text (two authors):

Atkinson and Shiffrin (1971) or (Atkinson &Shiffrin, 1971).

In-Text (three to five authors):

Smith, Zapplla, Rosen, Gustman& Rock (1194), or (Smith, Zappella, Rosen, Gustman, & Rock, 1994).

In-Text (six or more authors): or In-Text (subsequent references):

Smith et al. (1994) or (Smith et al., 1994).

H- MAGAZINE ARTICLE )ONE AUTHOR

Kuel, E. R. (2000, November 10). Neuroscience: Breaking down scientific barriers to the study of brain & mind. Science, 290, 1113-1120.

In-Text:

Kuel(2000) or (Kuel, 2000).

I- NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ) NO AUTHOR(

Amazing Amazon region. (1989, January 12). New York Times, p. D11.

In-Text:

«Amazing Amazon Region,» (1989).

J- SPECIFIC INTERNET SITE

Electronic reference formats recommended by the American Psychological Association. (2000, October 12). Retrieved January 3, 2001 from http://www.apa.org/journals/jwebref.html

In-Text:

American Psychological Association [APA](2000)

In-Text (subsequent references):

APA (2000) or (APA, 2000).

K- ELECTRONIC ARTICLE )JOURNAL ARTICLE FOUND IN A DATABASE

Jacobson, J.W., Mulick, J.A., & Schwartz, A.A. (1995). A history of facilitated communication: Science, pseudoscience, &antiscience. American Psychologist, 50, 750-765. Retrieved January 12, 2001, from PsycARTICLES database.

In text:

Jacobson, Mulickand Schwartz (1995) or (Jacobson, Mulick, & Schwartz, 1995); Jacobson, et al. (1995), or (Jacobson et al., 1995) in subsequent references

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