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TALKING ABOUT MODERN MIDDLE EASTERN ART
The King’s Academy community got a tantalizing taste of the fascinating, but often overlooked, world of contemporary Middle Eastern art during a visit by the authority on the subject, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi. BY MUNA AL-ALUL
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi engages King’s students in a discussion of art.
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he King’s community developed a renewed appreciation for modern Middle Eastern art following a talk by Emirati columnist on social, political and cultural affairs Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi at school last November. Al Qassemi was invited to King’s as one of a series of 15 guest speakers and panel discussions to mark the 15th anniversary of King’s Academy. 28
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Al Qassemi’s articles have appeared in publications such as The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and The New York Times. Highly active on social media, his tweets became a major news source during the Arab Spring, with TIME magazine listing him in the “140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011,” and Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranking him 19th on the 2018 “Arabic Thought Leader Index.”