Sultan Al Qassemi is an Emirati commentator on Arab affairs. Al-Qassemi is known for his use of Twitter[1] and has been described by numerous media outlets as a prominent voice during the events of the Arab Spring.[2][3] In February 2014 Al-Qassemi joined the Global Commission on Internet Governance[4] and in the summer of 2014 became an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow.[5] In the Spring 2017 Al-Qassemi was a practitioner in residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center of Near East Studies at New York University, where he offered a course on Politics of Middle Eastern Art.[6]