Join BAFTA-nominated artist Alia Alzougbi in this inspiring and thought-provoking tale about individuality, self-overcoming and our role within a community. Alia's practice is based on storytelling techniques and traditions and, as well as performing, she curates and produces cultural events. Alia is renowned storyteller, educator and cultural producer. She is Head [...]
Navina Haidar, Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, takes us on an inspiring journey to South India and the sultanates of the Deccan. She reveals this little-known region of India — a land of great natural wealth that produced striking [...]
Economist, author and gallerist Michael Backman reveals the importance and key role of the Malay world in the history of economy, business and trade; and discusses how the fluidity of the Malay world and its interaction with the rest of the world has impacted on its art. Michael Backman [...]
Join Professor Anna Contadini as she takes us on an evocative journey to discover the fascination and curiosity that Islamic art and intellectual thought inspired among pre-modern European thinkers and scholars, and how that fascination—led by wonder and awe—resulted in the creation of some of the most beautiful cultural dialogues in the [...]
Join archaeologist and professor Scott Redford to explore another side of the Crusades - a period usually understood in terms of violence and Holy War. Redford uses art and architecture to reveal the vibrant cultural life of the eastern Mediterranean and its profound effect on the cultural flowering of Western [...]
Join Lara Zureikat, designer of the gardens of the award-winning Palestinian Museum for insights on how she used landscape to capture Palestinian identity, culture, and memory. The Palestinian Museum is a recent winner of the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the most important prizes in the [...]
Join historian Edhem Eldem in his reflection on the past, multiculturalism, and Orientalism, focusing on the Ottoman Empire. Edhem Eldem is a professor at the Department of History of Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and has taught as visiting professor at Berkeley, Harvard, at the EHESS, EPHE, and ENS in Paris [...]
Listen to Doris Behrens-Abouseif talk about the concepts of beauty in Islamic art in this new podcast "God is beautiful and loves beauty" produced as part of Arts in Isolation and our Converging Paths Series with Asia House. Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif is a world authority on the art and [...]
Listen to our new podcast as part of the Arts In Isolation Series. Layla S. Diba narrates her experiences directing the Negarestan Museum in Tehran—and how it was erased from history. Layla Soudabar Diba is an Iranian-American independent scholar and curator, specializing in 18th/19th-century and contemporary Persian art and the [...]
What can history teach us about the present and the future. Listen to Aga Khan Professor Nasser Rabbat reflect on the lessons of the past and what we can learn with respect to the current crisis. The second in the series of our podcasts as part of the Arts In Isolation [...]
