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Sultan Al Qassemi’s Biography

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Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is a UAE based columnist whose columns have appeared in publications within and outside the Arab Gulf region.

His columns have appeared in The Gulf News, The National Newspaper, The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Open Democracy, The Globe and Mail amongst others.

Sultan Al Qassemi is also non-resident Fellow at the Dubai School of Government, and an active presence on Twitter at @SultanAlQassemi.

Sultan Al Qassemi’s Journalist Portfolio

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Egypt's Brotherhood war on the UAE

Egypt's Brotherhood war on the UAE

UAE should consider cutting diplomatic ties with the government in Egypt

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The new generation and the future of the broader Middle East

The new generation and the future of the broader Middle East

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Qatar's Brotherhood Ties Alienate Fellow Gulf States

Qatar's Brotherhood Ties Alienate Fellow Gulf States

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Treasure troves of history and diversity

Treasure troves of history and diversity

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Spiraling relations between the Brotherhood and the UAE

Spiraling relations between the Brotherhood and the UAE

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Institutionalising the Arab Gulf Governments

Institutionalising the Arab Gulf Governments

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The Role of Art in Society

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By Tim Wise, Denise Shelton, Beatrice Phi, Ramesh A Nagarajah, Sultan Al Qassemi
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Egypt’s Awakening by Mahmoud Mokhtar At a Good Society Forum webinar on June 7 2020 Lebanese art expert Saleh Barakat, Dubai based art consultant Myrna Ayad and I were asked to contemplate the societal value of art. I am sharing my prepared notes for the talk here.
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Mona Hatoum: The First Contemporary Arab Artist?

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By Sultan Al Qassemi
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Over My Dead Body at the The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil. Source: Juan Eyheremendy Attempting to pinpoint a specific date in which modern Arab art gave way to the contemporary is bound to raise more questions than answers. And yet it is a question that curators, gallerists and collectors continously face and one that hasn’t even been settled in the West.
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13 degrees east

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By Sultan Al Qassemi
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Author visit to Eiffel Tower in the summer of 1996. Photo courtesy of Alyssa Kinnel The first time I visited the Institut du Monde Arabe was in 1995 when I was 17 years old during my second year as a student in Paris. Although I was born and brought up in Sharjah, my relationship with the Arab world was at best aloof. I wore Western clothes (mostly blue jeans and a white t-shirt) and read Western books such as Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Call of the Wild by Jack London.
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