Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi is a columnist and researcher on social, political and cultural affairs in the Arab Gulf states. He is also the Founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, UAE.

Sheikh Sultan was an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow from 2014 to 2016, a practitioner-in- residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University in Spring 2017 and a Yale Greenberg World Fellow in 2018. He was a visiting instructor at the Council of Middle East Studies at Yale University, the Center of Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, the American University of Paris, the Islamic Civilization and Societies program at Boston College, the School of Public Affairs at SciencesPo Paris, the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, the School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University, the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York, and most recently at Bard College Berlin.

Sheikh Sultan, along with Todd Reisz, is co-editor of Building Sharjah (Birkhäuser, 2021). He recently completed a Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.