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DESCRIPTION:Politics and Modern Arab Art\n\nSultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an E
 mirati columnist and researcher on social\, political and cultural affairs 
 in the Arab Gulf States\, and currently teaches at Georgetown University. H
 e was a practitioner in residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center of Near Eas
 t Studies at New York University\, and a Yale University Greenberg World Fe
 llow. He is also the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation\, an independent
  initiative established in 2010 to contribute to the intellectual developme
 nt of the art scene in the Arab region by building a prominent and publicly
  accessible art collection in the United Arab Emirates.  Sultan’s tweets be
 came a major news source during the Arab Spring\, rivaling the major news n
 etworks at the time\, until TIME magazine listed him in the “140 Best Twitt
 er Feeds of 2011.” In 2018 Sultan ranked 19th on the "Arabic Thought Leader
  Index" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. Sultan is currently conductin
 g research for a book that documents the modern architecture of the city of
  Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates\, and Adjunct Instructor at the Center
  for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.
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DTSTART:20191017T213000Z
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SUMMARY:Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
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