Coordinators: Maho Sebiane (EHESS-CEFAS), Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (CEFAS) and Marion Breteau (CEFAS) This issue of Arabian Humanities proposes to make a multidisciplinary inventory of the Sultanate of Oman contemporary period by bringing together old and recent research works. They may relate as much to its history as to the great social and cultural changes that have crossed its society. It is about exploring the different aspects that can be observed today and which contribute to a better understanding of this country over time. What were the major stages of national construction and this economic and cultural "renaissance" in the light of its past history? In what ways the development of this geographic and human territory is articulated? How has Omani society, in all its diversity, contributed to this contemporary transformation? And how does this society look at its past?