Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher on social, political, and cultural affairs in the Arab Gulf States. He is the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent initiative established in 2010 to contribute to the intellectual development of the art scene in the Arab region. 

He has taught ‘Politics of Modern Middle Eastern Art’ at New York University, Yale University, Georgetown University, Boston College, The American University of Paris, Brandeis University, Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia University, and Bard College Berlin. 

Sultan recently completed a Fellowship at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in 2024, was a Research Associate at SOAS Middle East Institute, London. Sultan is currently an Instructor at the American University of Sharjah.