2017 – 2020
2017
Talk – Global Art Forum #11: Trading Places
Organised by Art Dubai
Dubai, January 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE54RwTRlbU&t=35s
Talk – Art Salon
With Nissa and Faisal Raad, grandchildren of Fahrelnissa Zeid
Organised by Art Dubai
Dubai, May 2017
Talk – Art Salon
With Dr Ahmed Mater, Director, Misk Art Institute
Organised by Art Dubai
Dubai, October 2017
Talk – Art Salon
With Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani, Dhaka Art Summit
Organised by Art Dubai
Dubai, December 2017
2018
Talk – Art Salon
With Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi, UAE Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development
Organised by Art Dubai
Dubai, May 2018
Talk – The UAE Art Scene Today
With Emirati artist Abdulqader Al Rais, Isabelle de la Bruyere, Head of Client Advisory and Senior Director, Chairman’s Office, Europe, Middle East, Russia and India at Christie’s; Khalil Abdul Wahid, Head of Arts at Dubai Culture and Vilma Jurkute, Director of Alserkal Avenue
Organised by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and the Institut du Monde Arabe
Paris, September 2018
2019
Talk – Launch of Visions From Abroad published by Skira
With author and curator Mona Khazindar and Ashraf Al Fagih, Head of Communications at the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture
Organised by the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture and Art Dubai
Dubai, March 2019
Talk – The Rise of Art and its Impact on Luxury
With Vilma Jurkute, Director of Alserkal Avenue, Saudi fashion designer, Hatem Al Aqeel, Jasper Hope, Chief Executive of Dubai Opera and Khurram Schroff, Chairman of IBC Group
Organised by Arab Luxury World / Mediaquest
Dubai, June 2019
Talk – Art as Identity | The Art of Dialogue I
With Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi, UAE Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, and artists Ammar Al Attar (UAE) and Rand Abdul Jabbar (Iraq)
Organised by the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Design Hub
Dubai, July 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03fUWEY8rY
Talk – A Collector’s Journey | The Art of Dialogue II
With His Excellency Zaki Nusseibeh, UAE Minister of State
Organised by the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Design Hub
Dubai, September 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsBA4mU2XIk
Talk – Launch of Chaouki Choukini’s monograph
With art critic Kevin Jones and artist Chaouki Choukini (Lebanon)
Organised by Green Art Gallery
Dubai, November 2019
Talk – On the Defense: Cultural Identity | Al Burda Endowment
With artists Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Algeria), Dana Awartani (Palestine/KSA) and Stanley Siu (Hong Kong)
Organised by the UAE Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development
Abu Dhabi, November 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yANDUGsnA
2020
Talk – The Art of Dialogue III | Trailblazers of Emirati Art
With Emirati artists Nujoom Al Ghanem and Mohammed Kazem
Organised by the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Design Hub
Dubai, January 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d84LHKrKNjE&feature=youtu.be
Talk – The UAE in Venice: A Decade of the National Pavilion
With independent curator Munira Al Sayegh, moderated by journalist (The National) Melissa Gronlund
Organised by the National Pavilion of the UAE at the Venice Biennale
Zoom, April 2020
www.alserkal.online/content/the-uae-in-venice
Talk – Lost in Illusion
With Emirati artists Ebtisam Abdulaziz and Khalid Al Banna
Organised by the UAE Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development
Zoom, May 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhw57eLu_jg&t=430s
Talk – Good Society Forum: Art and the Good Society
With Emirati columnist and researcher, and founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (2018 Yale World Fellow) and Lebanese art expert, curator and gallerist Saleh Barakat (2006 Yale World Fellow)
Organised by the Yale World Fellows Program, Good Society Forum
Zoom, June 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u4EI-c_Ugk
Talk – The Role of Museums in Youth and Culture
With Maisa Al Qassimi, Senior Project Manager of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Joowon Park, Curator at MMCA, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea
Organised by the UAE Ministry of Culture and Youth
Zoom, July 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfrLxxzC3us