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Articles / Mathqaf / April 6, 2021

Remembering Dr Ramzi Dalloul

My most enduring memory of Dr Ramzi Dalloul (1935-2021) was at a dinner I hosted in my house in Dubai back in October 2014. I posed a question to Dr Dalloul asking him: “Can you tell us your philosophy behind collecting Arab art?” What I received was a 15 minute speech, parts of which are etched in my memory. Read more »

Articles / Raseef22 / June 27, 2020

Blue Collar: Depiction of Workers in Modern Arab Art

Since at least the 1950s, Arab artists depicted workers in paintings, sculptures, posters and more recently, in new media and installations. Workers from different industries were not only painted as central figures, they were also depicted with dignity. Read more »

Articles / Raseef22 / June 16, 2020

New Arab Hip Hop: Between Love and Rebellion

A generational divide is manifesting itself in the Arab World in politics, activism, human rights and more recently in music. Nowhere is this more evident than in the hip hop industry. Read more »

Articles / Gulf News / April 22, 2020

How Expo 2020 Dubai will bring the world together again

After the world heals from the Covid 19 pandemic, Dubai has the gargantuan task of bringing nations back together in a celebration of humanity through Expo 2020. Read more »

Articles / Middle East Institute / March 12, 2019

Uncovering a lost Sudanese masterpiece

The groundbreaking 2001 exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 finally introduced non-Western modernities on a larger scale into leading Western museums. The exhibition included works by 50 or so artists, including El Salahi, a native of Sudan who was born in 1930 during the Anglo-Egyptian colonial era. Read more »

Articles / Gulf News / October 29, 2018

In defence of Abraaj, a champion of art

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 »

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About Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher whose articles have appeared in The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Globe and Mail, as well as other notable publications. Al Qassemi is also a prolific commentator on Arab affairs on Twitter.

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