The Awards’ Academic Committee
Since its inception, The Barakat Trust has supported projects, students and scholars — in various ways, each has contributed to a greater understanding of the culture of the Islamic lands. The grantees have come from over thirty countries and their grants have covered academic research, archaeological excavations, architectural conservation, major exhibitions, scholarly publications, surveys and documentation, lectures and conferences, schools and educational programmes and travel grants.
The Barakat Trust Grants Programme
The 2023 Barakat Trust Grants Programme is now closed
The next Grants Programme will open on the
1st of January 2024 and will close at midnight GMT on the 31st of March 2024.
To assist in preparing for your application in the next round (2024), you are advised to read the following pages:
** Please only consider applying if you meet the criteria in the Scope of Awards.
Question & Answer Sessions
We usually hold six Q&A sessions (in Arabic and English) between January and March of every year so applicants can ask questions about The Barakat Trust Grants or the application process.
Q&A sessions will be announced in 2024.
Recent Projects
Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq
This book offers a new interpretation of early Abbasid palaces as “impermanent monuments.” Synthesizing an array of sources, ranging from archaeological finds and classical Arabic literature to modern studies on [...]
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950
Joining an emergent literature of “local art histories,” Fantasmic Objects offers the first English-language study of modern art in Lebanon. It is, moreover, the first study of Lebanon through [...]
An Archaeological Study of the Impact of Islam on Domestic Architecture of Surame, Nigeria
The concern of this research is to reconstruct the inward orientation of space within the domestic architecture of Surame. The traditional domestic and by extension, the community environments are [...]
The excavation of the Islamic historical core of Dumat al-Jandal (ad-Dira’ district)
BRIEF FINAL REPORT season 2021 Introduction The project, as part of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Saudi Arabia (season 2021), took place from 10/17/2021 to 11/19/2021, proceeding with both the [...]