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Aga Khan Award for Architecture – A new podcast with Farrokh Derakhshani
Join Farrokh Derakhshani for an inside look into the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the most prestigious architectural awards in the world. Find out how one [...]
News: Diriyah Biennale Foundation announces Hajj Terminal in Jeddah as the location for first-ever Islamic Arts Biennale
Curatorial Team from left to right: Sumayya Vally, Dr. Julian Raby, Dr. Saad Alrashid, Dr. Omniya Abdel Barr, Diriyah Biennale Foundation Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, 6 June 2022: The Diriyah [...]
Interview: The Archaeology of Islamic Sicily – with Angelo Castrorao Barba and the Superintendence of Palermo
Of all the important centres of the historic Islamic World, there is one region that many do not realise was ever Islamic at all: Sicily. We caught up with [...]
New Podcast: Retracing the Silk Roads, with Christopher Wilton-Steer
Join photographer and writer Christopher Wilton-Steer on a colourful journey across the Silk Road to discover the cultures, peoples, traditions, [...]
New Podcast – Meeting for Coffee Ottoman Style with Doğukan Atmaca
Featuring in our new Young Perspectives series, Doğukan Atmaca explores the emergence of coffeehouses in Istanbul, and the way in which [...]
Ask The Expert Zeynep Yürekli Q & A
Converging Paths has launched a new initiative to enable audiences to ask their burning questions about the artistic culture [...]
Stories For Change: A conversation with award-winning documentary filmmaker Oliver Wilkins
Watch a recording of our latest Webinar "Stories for Change" with award-winning documentary film maker Oliver Wilkins. Using film clips, [...]
Ask The Expert: May al-Ibrashy
This month, May Al-Ibrashy is our selected expert. Dr. May Al-Ibrashy is a conservation architect who undertakes projects to preserve [...]
A Young Perspectives Conversation: Mysa Kafil-Hussain on Iraqi Art and Seeking Inspiration from the Past
Featuring in our new Young Perspectives series, Mysa Kafil-Hussain explores the changes that Iraqi art went through to form [...]
Suzan Abed: A New Instagram Series on Architecture in Iran
Follow us on Instagram (barakat_org) for a new series of images of Iran by Suzan Abed. Suzan is currently a [...]
New Podcast – Robert Hoyland: Revealing Arabia
Professor Robert Hoyland takes us on a journey through time to discover the ancient Arabian Peninsula, evidencing a much more [...]
Ramadan Mubarak 2021
Ramadan Greetings from The Barakat Trust At this time of continued global lockdown and changes due to COVID-19, [...]
Working on the collection of the ‘Eastern Museum’ at Kedleston Hall, Derby.
Read more about this new project to research and tell the stories of the collection of Islamic art at Kedleston [...]