Designation: Founder
Organization: Barjeel Art Foundation
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. He has taught ‘Politics of Modern Middle Eastern Art’ at NYU, Yale, Georgetown University, Boston College, The American University of Paris, Brandeis, Harvard Kennedy, Columbia and Bard College Berlin. Sultan also completed a Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Sultan is currently a Research Associate at SOAS Middle East Institute, London.