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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Aliyu Adamu Isa
Aliyu Adamu Isa is a Lecturer in the Department and Heritage Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria. He has worked as archaeologist II, at the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Nigeria. My station, the Nok museum, under the partnership of Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, was at the centre of [...]
New Podcast: Revealing Esna – An Egyptian Hidden Gem with Kareem Ibrahim
Join Kareem Ibrahim, an architect and CEO of Takween Integrated Community Development, as he reveals an Egyptian hidden gem, the ancient city of Esna, and an innovative project to introduce sustainable tourism through community "site-doing"rather than site-seeing! Kareem Ibrahim is an Egyptian architect and urban researcher who graduated [...]
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 archaeological research and excavation work and the restoration work for the immediate consolidation of the structures excavated inside the Dūmat [...]
Episode 9 Season 2: Who are the Parsis? with Sarah Stewart
Dr Sarah Stewart is Shapoorji Pallonji Senior Lecturer in Zoroastrianism and co-chair of the Institute of Zoroastrian Studies at SOAS, as well as curator of The Everlasting Flame, Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination (Brunei Gallery at SOAS and National Museum in Delhi in 2016). Dr Stewart shares her insights and knowledge about the [...]
Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan
Hamid Keshmirshekan is an art historian, art critic and Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, SOAS, University of London and Research Associate/Barakat Senior Scholar at the Khalili Research Centre, Oxford University. His interests are twentieth and twentieth-first century art from the [...]
Margaret S. Graves
Margaret S. Graves is Associate Professor of Islamic art in the department of Art History at Indiana University. She received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2010 for her research on the plastic arts of the medieval Islamic world, and her research has been supported by the Institute [...]
Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan
Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan earned her Ph.D. from Boğaziçi University Department of History in September 2017. Her research focuses on the early modern Ottoman visual culture and Ottoman cultural history. Her PhD thesis presented the first comprehensive monograph on an Ottoman imperial festival and it was awarded with the Boğaziçi University [...]
Podcast 8 Season 2: Reviving the Cradle of Hindustani Culture with Ratish Nanda
Ratish Nanda, CEO of Aga Khan Cultural Services - India, tells us about his work and how the Aga Khan Trust for Culture helps transform neighbourhoods and communities based on their needs. Nanda and his team have revived and reinvigorated public spaces in India, creating new recreation places with a [...]
Podcast 7 Season 2: Contextualising the Occult with Liana Saif
Liana Saif explores how divination, talismans, amulets and ritual have helped people address social anxieties and cultural challenges throughout history. Liana Saif is a post-doctoral fellow at the Warburg Institute and Université Catholique de Louvain as part of the project "The origin and early development of philosophy in tenth-century [...]