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Barjeel Art Foundation and United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates: As founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Qassemi is more than comfortable in that world. In fact, cosmopolitan and fluent in several languages, educated in Paris, he comfortable in many cultures, according to Metro News. What brings him to Toronto is his touring exhibit of contemporary Arab art, the field that been a passion since his student days haunting the galleries and museums of Paris. To this day, the 37-year-old laughed in an interview, he still has the ticket stubs from those visits during his teens and Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi arrived at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto one morning this week slim build, in black jeans, open-necked shirt, neat beard, glasses looking every bit the hipster Manhattan art maven. What brought Qassemi to international celebrity was his live-tweeting during the Arab Spring of 2011, which made him a major explainer of the Arab world to the West, a role that remains a point of considerable pride. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.