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Hands On Islamic Art Project – Congratulations Grantee!
Congratulations to the Museum of Islamic Arts and Heritage Foundation! Who are the Museum of Islamic Arts and Heritage Foundation? The Museum of Islamic Arts and Heritage Foundation (MIAH) [...]
Olive Oil Empires: A new podcast with Anna Leone
Join Anna Leone for a tour through time as she explores life in North Africa from the Roman era to today. Find out how (olive) oil has been driving [...]
Congratulations New Grantee – Ignacio Arce
Congratulations to one of our 2022 grantees! We are thrilled to fund Dr Ignacio Arce of the Madrid School of Architecture, Spain. So what is the project? The project [...]
Congratulations New Grantee – British Museum
Congratulations to one of our successful 2022 grantees! We are thrilled to fund the International Training Programme (ITP) at [...]
Matt Saba
Matt is Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture at the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries. His research interests include [...]
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 [...]
Press: Helping Gaza university restore a Sufi institute
We are delighted to be funding the Iwan Center for Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Engineering at the Islamic [...]
Hands On Islamic Art Project – Congratulations Grant Winner!
We have some exciting news: our grants committee have made their decisions. It's time to start announcing the grant-winners [...]
Saudi Modern: A new podcast with Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz
How did the discovery of oil transform Saudi Arabia's cities and its architecture? How can art and architecture come [...]
Independent Evaluator – Hands on Islamic Art Heritage Lottery Project
Independent Evaluator Hands on Islamic Art Heritage Lottery Project The Brief Project Evaluator/Evaluation Team for the evaluation of [...]
Working in an Indian Archive: Indo-Persian Documents
Grantee: Hallie Nell Swanson In summer 2019, with the support of The Barakat Trust’s Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early [...]
New Podcast: Secret Geometry with Wael Sabry
Join Wael Sabry on his quest to save the ancient craft of Kundekari - complex wooden geometry. Sabry is [...]
New Podcast: Decoding Arms and Armour with Arthur Bijl
Join Arthur Bijl for a revealing conversation about the forgotten meanings of arms and armour, once a global symbol of [...]