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Sultan Al Qassemi
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Sultan Al Qassemi is a columnist on Arab affairs and an MIT Media Labs Director’s Fellow. Sultan is also the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent initiative established to contribute to the intellectual development of the art scene in the Arab region. He tweets @SultanAlQassemi

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COLUMNISTS
Sultan Al Qassemi
Sultan Al Qassemi

Sultan Al Qassemi is a columnist on Arab affairs and an MIT Media Labs Director’s Fellow. Sultan is also the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent initiative established to contribute to the intellectual development of the art scene in the Arab region. He tweets @SultanAlQassemi

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Why the Arab world must embrace placing art online

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

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A labor of love: Vespa scooters in Pakistan
A labor of love: Vespa scooters in Pakistan
A labor of love: Vespa scooters in Pakistan
A labor of love: Vespa scooters in Pakistan
A labor of love: Vespa scooters in Pakistan
A labor of love: Vespa scooters in Pakistan

Amin, who paints repaired Vespa scooter parts, reads a newspaper outside his workshop in Karachi, Pakistan. (Reuters)
Living in fear in Syria’s Ghouta
Living in fear in Syria’s Ghouta
Living in fear in Syria’s Ghouta
Living in fear in Syria’s Ghouta
Living in fear in Syria’s Ghouta
Living in fear in Syria’s Ghouta
Living in fear in Syria’s Ghouta

Children stand near curtains in a shelter in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, March 11. (Reuters)
Saudi women shifting gears and learning to drive
Saudi women shifting gears and learning to drive
Saudi women shifting gears and learning to drive
Saudi women shifting gears and learning to drive
Saudi women shifting gears and learning to drive
Saudi women shifting gears and learning to drive
Saudi women shifting gears and learning to drive

A Saudi woman sits in a car during a driving training at a university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)
Inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Worshippers kneel and pray in front of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. (Reuters)
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