Barakat Culture Vulture
A selection of reports on the culture vulture projects we have supported and funded in the field of Islamic Art, Heritage and Culture since we were founded in 1987
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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 a three-year heritage project called “Hands On Islamic Art”. The project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and is to be delivered by The Barakat Trust. We are [...]
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 Career Award, I travelled to Hyderabad to take part in the “Working in an Indian Archive” Indo-Persian Summer School, a workshop focused on reading Indo-Persian manuscripts, run by the University [...]
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 tracking down the few remaining master carpenters in Turkey and Egypt, trying to learn their carefully-guarded secrets, hidden even from father to son. Discover how he is using technology to [...]
Ramadan Mubarak 2021
Ramadan Greetings from The Barakat Trust At this time of continued global lockdown and changes due to COVID-19, we hope you stay safe! We need your support more than ever with our fundraising activities in 2020 having been severely affected by the pandemic. But despite COVID, we found inspiration in developing our podcasts in [...]
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 Hall near Derby, UK, a project supported by The Barakat Trust. Image: A lacquered shield in the collection of Kedleston Hall.
ASK THE EXPERT: GLAIRE ANDERSON
ASK THE EXPERT This month, Glaire Anderson is our selected expert! Glaire is a specialist in Islamic visual culture with a focus on medieval Iberia and the age of the great caliphs (roughly 650-1250 CE), and a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh. An advocate for [...]
New Podcast: Searching for Minarets in the Mountains with Tharik Hussain
Journalist and travel writer Tharik Hussain shares his experiences of searching for and documenting the little-known Muslim heritage of Europe. Tharik Hussain is a Bangladeshi-born, British-Muslim, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster, specialising in the Muslim heritage of the West. Hussain began his media career as a news reporter, before [...]
Converging Paths Podcasts 2021 “Why Art History?” with Wendy Shaw
Wendy Shaw, Professor of Islamic Art History at the Free University of Berlin, reflects on the importance of art history as a discipline, and explores its universal value as a way to engage with the different narratives that shape our history. Ultimately, Shaw reaffirms the importance of art history as [...]
Nilay Ozlu Curates Images of Topkapi Palace
We are happy to welcome this month's instagram guest curator, Nilay Ozlu, who will be curating a series about Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. To follow the series, please follow our Instagram Account (barakat_org). Nilay is an architectural historian with a focus on the urban culture of Istanbul, late-Ottoman history, museum [...]