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Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher on social, political, and cultural affairs in the Arab Gulf States. He is also the founder of Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent initiative established in 2010 to contribute to the intellectual development of the art scene in the Arab region by building a prominent and publicly accessible art collection in the United Arab Emirates. He has taught “Politics of Modern Middle Eastern Art” at New York University, Yale University, Georgetown University, Boston College, and SciencesPo, France. Al Qassemi is co-editor with Todd Reisz of Building Sharjah (2021), a book that documents the modern architecture of the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
