He got his MD certificate in 2009 from Sultan Qaboos University. He did his surgical residency followed by the clinical fellowship in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery at Aix-Marseille University, France between 2013 and 2020. Dr Al Farai is interested in minimally invasive HPB surgery and he is a member of the International Hepato-Pancreato Biliary Association (IHPBA), the French Association of Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation (ACHBPT), International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologists and Oncologists (IASGO) and the International Laparoscopic Liver Society (ILLS)