Omar Kholeif’s Next Big Adventure

Next week, Dr. Omar Kholeif, director of collections and senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) and a mainstay of the UAE’s cultural scene will be packing up their bags as a co-director of SAF to become one of the few persons from Egypt or Sudan to become a professor at a major British art school—a country, which although Kholeif’s home, has also been historically ambivalent regarding its complicity in colonial art history. Here Robert Ross, aP21 correspondent sits down for a quick fire interview.