Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher on social, political and cultural affairs in the Arab Gulf States. He is also the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an initiative that seeks to collect and promote modern art from the Arab world. He has taught the course “Politics of Modern Middle Eastern Art” at New York University, Yale University, Georgetown University, American University of Paris and is currently teaching the course at Boston College, US and SciencesPo, France.