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Artist, curator, teacher and soldier,Mohammed Kazem has been at the

oreront o contemporary art in the UAEsince the 1980s. Here, he talks toT Emirates about his burgeoning

international profile and his ambition

or the countrys still-fledgling art scene.By Orna BaLLOut

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