Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani is the driving force behind the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, an art gallery in Manhattan. Al-Thani comes from one of the most prominent families in Qatar, the ruling Al-Thani family.
He calls the art gallery his passion project. He began the nonprofit organization seven years ago, and moved it to its current space in the West Village roughly two years ago.
Right now, Al-Thani is featuring the work of Nabil Kanso, a Lebanese-American artist who focused on wars — like the Lebanese civil war and Vietnam War — and human suffering.
“Of course, you see an apocalyptic vision, you know, in this work,” Al-Thani
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