Over the past few months, a steady drip of devastating news emanated from Abraaj Capital, the once venerated regional financial giant that is now in liquidation. In this article, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi discusses how the regional art industry is left poorer by the departure of an institution that collected works and commissioned new ones. Read more »
An Emirati collector leaves his art behind
In this feature, Asia TImes speaks to Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, profiled as the daring Gulf Arab commentator that goes West, leaving behind his thought-provoking collection of modern Arab art for the public to contemplate. Read more »
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi: New York ‘breathed life’ into me
In a candid interview, the Emirati art expert talks about his habit of cleaning plane bathrooms and how New York lifted him out of a time when his ‘spirit was broken’. Read more »
Collecting Art for the Public Good
In this feature interview, Shawati speaks to Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi about his passion for Arab arts and culture, and his personal journey as an art collector and curator through the years. Read more »
Rising Gulf cities look to protect landmarks
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi discusses the need for Gulf states to recognize the value that the modern architecture holds in a historical context, which tell countless stories of the immigrants and the residents who made the UAE and the Gulf their homes. Read more »
Indian architect Ashok Mody shares memories of building Sharjah
Ashok Mody was a young architect from India on his first international assignment when he arrived in Sharjah in 1975. Over the next five years, he worked on projects that have become enduring landmarks of the emirate such as Al Zahra Hospital, the Oceanic Hotel in Khorfakkan and the biggest public housing development — the 1000 Villas project in Al Ghubaiba. Four decades later, Mody still cherishes his memories of living and working in Sharjah and acknowledges that the experience was invaluable to his career. Weekend Review caught up with Ashok Mody during his visit to the city, in this interview. Read more »