Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi Explained

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi
Nationality:Emirati
Alma Mater:American University of Paris
European Business School
Occupation:Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation
Founder and Chairman of Barjeel Geojit Securities
MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow
Member of Global Commission on Internet Governance
Known For:Barjeel Art Foundation
Website:http://www.barjeelartfoundation.org
http://www.sultanalqassemi.com
http://www.barjeelgeojit.com

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi (Arabic: سلطان سعود القاسمي) is an Emirati educator, art collector, scholar, and columnist.[1] [2] [3] [4] Sultan is a member of the ruling Al Qasimi family of Sharjah.

Al-Qassemi is an influential commentator on Arab affairs, and is known for his use of social media—Twitter in particular.[5] [6] He has been described by numerous media outlets as a prominent voice during the events of the Arab Spring.[7] [8]

In 2010, he founded the Barjeel Art Foundation, an organization dedicated to art of North Africa and West Asia based in Sharjah.[9] [10] Al-Qassemi is increasingly regarded as an authority on modern and contemporary art in the region.[11]

In February 2014 Al-Qassemi joined the Global Commission on Internet Governance[12] and in the summer of 2014 became an MIT Media Lab Director's Fellow.[13] He has completed a number of academic fellowships and residencies, including at Yale as a World Fellow,[14] at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center[15] at Harvard University,[16] and others. He has also offered courses on the Politics of Modern Middle Eastern Art as a visiting scholar at universities including NYU,[17] Boston College,[18] Brandeis University, Sciences Po, and Columbia University.[19]

The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut's Global Influence list of Arabic thought leaders ranked Al-Qassemi number 19 in 2018.[20] Al-Qassemi is also the Chairman of Barjeel Geojit Securities, a joint-venture that was formed with Geojit Financial Services of India.[21]

Barjeel Art Foundation

Al-Qassemi is the founder of the Sharjah-based Barjeel Art Foundation whose mission is to promote art by artists from the Arab world through exhibitions locally and internationally. He was on the panel of judges on Sheikha Manal's Young Artist Award in 2010,[22] 2011 and 2016. Al-Qassemi was also part of the Jury and Selection Committee of The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2017. In January 2020, Sultan and Barjeel Art Foundation debuted the largest collection of abstract art by Arab artists in "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950's-1980's" curated by Suheyla Takesh at NYU Grey Art Gallery. This U.S. traveling exhibition explores mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia, and the Arab diaspora.

Barjeel Geojit

Barjeel Geojit was formed as a joint venture between Al-Qassemi and Geojit Financial Services of India in the year 2000. The company is an eight time consecutive winner of Best Performing Financial Advisor in NRI Category at the CNBC-TV18 Financial Advisor Awards.[23] [24] [25] Al-Qassemi was also featured in the World Economic Forum's list of Young Global Leaders in 2011 as the Chairman of Barjeel Geojit Securities.[26]

Articles

Al-Qassemi's articles have appeared in publications including Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Independent and CNN. He sparked a debate[27] in the UAE following an article[28] in which he recommended that certain expatriates be granted UAE citizenship. In 2013 Sultan Al Qassemi was criticised[29] for suggesting in an article[30] that continuous civil unrest in parts of the Arab world is leading to the emergence of Persian Gulf cities as cultural and commercial centres of the region.

Al-Qassemi has written about media in the Arab world,[31] the Jewish presence in Middle East,[32] British journalists coverage[33] of Dubai and atheism[34] in the Persian Gulf among other topics. He has also written articles on modern art and aspects of popular culture in West Asia and North Africa.[35] An archive of his articles and interviews appears here.[36]

Awards and recognitions

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-05-21 . Arts This Week: 'Abstraction From The Arab World' And 'A Woman Of The World' . 2022-03-28 . News . en.
  2. Web site: 2020-03-12 . Scholar and art collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, an interview CFA . 2022-03-28 . Conceptual Fine Arts . EN.
  3. Web site: Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi . 2022-03-28 . Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program . en-US.
  4. Web site: Sultan Al Qassemi . 2022-03-28 . Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs . en.
  5. The 140 Best Twitter Feeds Of 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110411161901/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058946_2059032_2059025,00.html . dead . April 11, 2011 . Time . Dan . Fastenberg . 2011-03-28.
  6. Fastenberg . Dan . 2011-03-28 . The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011 - TIME . en-US . Time . 2022-03-28 . 0040-781X.
  7. News: How Sultan al-Qassemi tweeted up a revolution . London . The Guardian . Richard . Adams . 2011-07-08.
  8. Web site: On The Pulse - Majalla Magazine. 11 November 2011.
  9. News: Ayad . Myrna . 2015-11-05 . Whitechapel Gallery in London Brings Modern Arab Art to the World . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-28 . 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: arielhauter . 2017-09-10 . Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi . 2022-03-28 . ARTnews.com . en-US.
  11. Web site: 2017-09-07 . Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Apollo 40 Under 40 Global The Collectors . 2022-03-28 . Apollo Magazine . en-US.
  12. Web site: Sultan Al Qassemi and Dian Triansyah Djani join the Global Commission on Internet Governance . www.cigionline.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140209114445/http://www.cigionline.org/articles/2014/02/sultan-al-qassemi-and-dian-triansyah-djani-join-global-commission-internet-governan . 2014-02-09.
  13. Web site: Person Overview ‹ Sultan Al Qassemi – MIT Media Lab.
  14. Web site: Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Yale Greenberg World Fellows . 2018-04-08 . worldfellows.yale.edu . en.
  15. Web site: Sultan Al Qassemi . 2022-04-20 . Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs . en.
  16. Web site: Teaching Engagements . 2022-04-20 . sultanalqassemi.com.
  17. Web site: Sultan Al Qassemi as Spring 2017 Practitioner-in-Residence | Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies New York University. neareaststudies.as.nyu.edu. en. 2017-05-16.
  18. Web site: Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi - Visiting Instructor - Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences - Boston College . 2022-04-20 . www.bc.edu.
  19. Web site: Sultan Al-Qassemi Columbia SIPA . 2022-03-28 . www.sipa.columbia.edu.
  20. News: Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi - Global Influence. Global Influence. 2018-04-08. en-US.
  21. News: Barjeel Geojit wins CNBC award. The Hindu Business Line. 2018-05-20. en.
  22. Web site: Sheikha Manal Young Artist shortlist shows a healthy mix The National. 2015-06-12.
  23. News: Barjeel wins best performing financial adviser award. 28 August 2017. The Gulf Today. 20 May 2018.
  24. Web site: Barjeel Geojit now a five-time winner at CNBC-TV18 awards. Khaleej Times. 2018-05-20.
  25. Web site: Winners of UTI CNBC TV18 Financial Advisers Awards . Morning Star . 3 June 2018.
  26. News: Four UAE residents are Young Global Leaders. Staff. 2012-03-06. Emirates 247. 2018-05-20. en-GB.
  27. News: Call to naturalise some expats stirs anxiety in the UAE . Reuters . 2013-10-10.
  28. Web site: Give expats an opportunity to earn UAE citizenship. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Special to Gulf. News. 22 September 2013.
  29. Web site: Responses to Gulf Cities as new Arab Centres of Culture & Commerce article. 15 October 2013.
  30. Web site: Thriving Gulf Cities Emerge as New Centers of Arab World. 8 October 2013.
  31. Web site: Al Jazeera's Awful Week. Foreign Policy.
  32. News: Welcoming Our Long-gone Neighbors. 16 May 2008. Haaretz.
  33. News: Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi: If you think Dubai is bad, just look at your own country . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/sultan-sooud-al-qassemi-if-you-think-dubai-is-bad-just-look-at-your-own-country-1666748.html . 25 May 2022 . subscription . live . London . The Independent . 2009-04-10.
  34. Web site: Gulf atheism in the age of social media. 3 March 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150710191405/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/03/gulf-atheism-uae-islam-religion.html. 10 July 2015.
  35. Web site: 2020-06-27 . Blue Collar: Depiction of Workers in Modern Arab Art . 2022-04-20 . رصيف 22.
  36. Web site: Sultan Al Qassemi - journalisted.com.
  37. Web site: Imperfect Chronology: Arab Art from the Modern to the Contemporary . 2022-04-20 . Whitechapel Gallery . en.
  38. Book: Building Sharjah . 2021-07-05 . Birkhäuser . 978-3-0356-2277-5 . en . 10.1515/9783035622775. 241776311 . Al Qassemi . Reisz . Sultan Sooud . Todd .
  39. Web site: Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf: Obsolescence and Opportunities . 2022-04-20 . Routledge & CRC Press . en.

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