Our upcoming Events
We have been forced to postpone our events planned for March 2020, April and May 2020.
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Latest News
New podcasts about heritage and culture as part of the ‘Arts in Isolation’ series
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 [...]
“Heritage and Heritage Guardians” – a new article about the work of The Barakat Trust
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 [...]
The Barakat Trust working remotely!
Due to health concerns related to COVID-19 all staff will be working remotely until further notice. The grant giving programme will continue as normal. We have been forced to postpone [...]
Post-Conflict Urban Recovery of Historic Cities: A Capacity Building Workshop for Aleppo
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 [...]
Grantee Profile
Noorah Al-Gailani
Noorah Al-Gailani has been Curator of Islamic Civilisations at Glasgow Museums since 2003. She is based at the Burrell Collection but works across the city’s [...]
Utrero Agudo
Since 2017, Dr Utrero Agudo has been a Tenured Researcher at the Escuela de Estudios Árabes (Granada), of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), [...]
Media
“Heritage and Heritage Guardians” – a new article about the work of The Barakat Trust
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 [...]
Egyptian Streets: Tamayouz Excellence Award
Three Egyptian women who work in the architecture and construction fields are shortlisted for the 2019 Tamayouz Excellence Award, which champions the best in the [...]