Mr Al Qassemi is the guest for this episode for My 2020, where he speaks about personal and professional adjustments forced by the pandemic, from 155 days of isolation and starting an “online majlis” that brought artists and audiences together all over the world. Read more »
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Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi on ‘male chauvinism’ in art: ‘Women represent women better’
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Sharjah art collector and cultural figure, is on a mission to redress the gender imbalance of the art world. 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 »
Ashok Mody, who built Sultan Al Qassemi’s family home, on the distinctiveness of Gulf architecture
Ashok Mody, who lived in Sharjah from 1975 to 1980, is responsible for a number of buildings in the Emirate. A group of about 80 people packed into the majlis of one of the vast family residences in central Sharjah last weekend for a conversation between the house’s architect – Ashok Mody – and one of the children who grew up in it, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi. Read more »
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi’s mission to celebrate Sharjah’s unsung architecture
‘I want to show people that there was a history between the arish houses and the glass towers,’ Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi says of his new architecture history project called Building Sharjah, in this press article about his work. Read more »
Sharjah Art Museum: new exhibition sheds light on Arab Modernism
At last, the public has a chance to see – and revisit – key moments in Arab Modernism, in a five-year exhibition of the works of the Barjeel Art Foundation at Sharjah Art Museum, The National reports. Read more »