We are happy to announce that we are now producing digital content to share with you during this time of lock-downs and social distancing. We hope that this will mean that more of our followers can enjoy our cultural programme. As part of our Converging Paths 2020 series, we have [...]
The work of The Barakat Trust was recently featured in this Arabic article in a leading Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masry al-Youm. The article focuses on the impact The Trust has had over the past 30 years, namely by building the capacity of professionals in the field of heritage and museum studies [...]
Between January 13-18, 2020, the Urban Recovery Platform at the Beirut Urban Lab, the American University of Beirut, conducted a capacity building workshop funded by the Barakat Trust and the Ford Foundation. The workshop focused on post-conflict urban recovery and took the city of Aleppo in Syria as [...]
The Barakat Trust and Asia House are very happy to announce the second edition of our dynamic Converging Paths: Creative Encounters with the Islamic World. The series is a curated programme catering to audiences of different ages sharing the arts and heritage of the Islamic world through exciting performances, exhibitions, film, discussions, [...]
As a first stage towards preserving a valuable neighbourhood of historic Cairo, a team of four art historians and two conservation architects will survey and assess the conservation state of historic commercial buildings in the area of Bulaq, Cairo, the city's historic river port. Bulaq is a largely overlooked quarter [...]
We are happy to announce the following recipients of The Barakat Trust Grants in our 2019 round. Senior Visiting Scholarship: Dr Hamid Keshmershekan for research on Discourses on 20th and 21st Century Art of Iran International Scholarship: Doa Khan – A conservation architect working in Lahore, Pakistan, to pursue an MA in [...]
Departures: A Photographic Journey Through The Islamic World an exhibition organised by The Barakat Trust and Asia House receives coverage in Arab News in an article entitled "Images of Syria's Destroyed Heritage Feature in London Exhibition That 'Journeys' through the Islamic World". You can read the article here.
Dr Micaela Sinibaldi, director of the archaeological excavations taking place in al-Baydha, Jordan, supported by The Barakat Trust is interviewed in Jordan Times. Read the article here. Image courtesy of Dr. Micaela Sinibaldi.
The Barakat Trust is proud to announce that Ms Hamida Alireza, one its founding trustees, received the Rawabi Holding Award from the Saudi-British Society, on Wednesday February 20th, at the Institute of Directors, London. The Rawabi Holding Awards are made annually to one Saudi and one British citizen for making [...]
We are very happy to announce the successful launch of our year-long series of cultural events "Converging Paths" developed and delivered with Asia House on February 12th, 2019. The first event, attended by 150 people, was a series of talks entitled "Cultural Encounters in Medieval Islam". The event comprised talks [...]
