Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi discusses recent social developments in Egypt with alternative media platform Jung & Naiv. Read more »
Arab Spring
What Do Gulf States Want for Egypt?
Stability or democracy? Sultan Al-Qassemi, commentator on Arab affairs, and Hani Sabra, MENA director at the Eurasia Group, joins in conversation with Richard LeBaron, visiting senior fellow with the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. Read more »
Journalist who used Twitter to chronicle the Arab Spring speaking at the IU School of Journalism
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, a respected commentator on Arab affairs who is widely recognized for his use of the popular social networking site Twitter during the Arab Spring, will speak Monday, Nov. 12 2012, at the Indiana University School of Journalism. Read more »
Gulf Monarchies inside and outside
BloGlobal spoke to Sultan al-Qassemi about external and internal dimension of the Gulf Monarchies’ policies during the Festival of Internazionale 2012. Read more »
Internazionale a Ferrara 2012 – Maryam Al-Khawaja e Sultan Al Qassemi
Maryam Al- Khawaja and Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi discuss the present and future condition of the so-called Arab Spring, focusing on key-countries such as Egypt and on themes less discussed, such as the influence of regional actors on these various movements. Read more »
Support reform or get out of the way
Few countries so small resonate so widely as Bahrain does today. The island kingdom has become a center of attention for all the wrong reasons. Bahrain was for decades the beacon of freedom and social activism that the rest of us in the Gulf looked up to. Today the island is almost unrecognizable. But there is hope yet. Read more »