THE BARAKAT TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£337k
Grants listed (FY2024)
25
Listed grants total
£242k
Accounts grants total
£422k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2024 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Egypt
- Throughout England And Wales
What changed: FY2023 → FY2024
| Change | Grantee | FY2023 | FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | The Prince’s School for Traditional Arts | — | £25k |
| new | University of Pennsylvania | — | £25k |
| new | Maryam Heydarkhani | — | £20k |
| new | Gunseli Gurel | — | £20k |
| new | Riwaq | — | £10k |
| new | Heritage, Culture and Art Foundation | — | £10k |
| new | Dr Nicolo Pini | — | £10k |
| new | The British Museum | — | £10k |
| not listed | Mozhgan Pakcheshm | £25k | — |
| not listed | Moaaz Lafi Abdelhamed | £15k | — |
| not listed | Safa Mahmoudian | — | — |
| not listed | Shiva Mihan | — | — |
| not listed | Yeliz Teber | — | — |
| not listed | Zahra Kazani | — | — |
| not listed | Tatreez | — | — |
| not listed | Casablanca Art School | — | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Prince’s School for Traditional Arts | FY2024 | £25k | Funding for Mariam Ashraf Dakkak to pursue a master’s degree |
| University of Pennsylvania | FY2024 | £25k | Funding for Nadine Nashef to complete the final years of her studies in architecture |
| Maryam Heydarkhani | FY2024 | £20k | A postdoctoral fellowship awarded for research that would consolidate her PhD and subsequent research experience through the delivery of monograph on Qajar madrasas through their form and life |
| Gunseli Gurel | FY2024 | £20k | A postdoctoral fellowship awarded for research to revise and expand my DPhil thesis into a monograph that explores late sixteenth-century Ottoman prose works depicting diverse pasts and geographies |
| Riwaq | FY2024 | £10k | Funding awarded to Shatha Safi director of Riwaq for the establishment of an in situ archaeological school at the historic centre of Qalandiya, rural Jerusalem |
| Heritage, Culture and Art Foundation | FY2024 | £10k | G2022:A3/782 for £4,000 of which £3,600 was paid. This grant was awarded to a group of heritage preservationists working on documenting the threatened historic cemetery of Cairo. The money was originally transferred to the Heritage, Culture and Art Foundation in Egypt on their behalf |
| Dr Nicolo Pini | FY2024 | £10k | Funding awarded to systematically investigate the site and surrounding landscape of Terravecchia di Caltavuturo in Sicily |
| The British Museum | FY2024 | £10k | Funding awarded to support a curatorial professional from the Islamic world attending the International Training Programme at the British Museum in Summer 2024 |
| Inigo Almela | FY2024 | £10k | Funding awarded for documentation of two masterpieces of the Almohad architecture: the mosques of Tinmal and Taza in Morocco |
| Ismail Awad | FY2024 | £10k | Funding awarded to document and study undocumented shrines located in the Maryut region of Egypt |
| Sarah Ann Knusten | FY2024 | £10k | Funding awarded to examines the complex ways that Islamic (Umayyad to the Ottoman period) coins have been taken out of monetary circulation and placed into other silver assemblages across the Middle East and North Africa |
| Dr Keelan Overton | FY2024 | £10k | Funding awarded to support the production of an online exhibition about "The Emamzadeh Yahya Shrine at Varamin |
| Francesco Pagliani | FY2024 | £10k | Funding to create an inventory of mills known in the territory of Wadi Jerash, Jordan their 3D documentation, the study of the building technique and functional characteristics in order to propose a relative chronology |
| The Nadim Foundation | FY2024 | £10k | Funding to create a portal pertaining to the documentation of Islamic-era woodwork from Egypt |
| Egypt Exploration Society | FY2024 | £10k | Funding for Carl Ayento Graves, Director of the Egypt Exploration Society to fund the attendance of specialists working in the field of preservation of Islamic architectural heritage at a workshop about heritage and climate change |
| Sami Luigi De Giosa and Nicolas Vryzidis | FY2024 | £6k | Funding for the publication of The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity: Crosspollinations in Art, Architecture and Material Culture |
| Heather Ecker | FY2024 | £6k | Funding for the publication of Stars over Mashhad: Empiricism, Globalism, and the Creative Imagination in Seventeenth-century Iran |
| Alison Wharton | FY2024 | £6k | Funding for the publication of Forms of Belonging: Armenian Architects, Vernacular Style and Architectural Placemaking in the Ottoman East (19th-20th Centuries) |
| Peyvand Firouza | FY2024 | £6k | Funding for the publication Intimacies of Global Sufism: The Making of Ne‘matullahi Material Culture between Early Modern Iran and India |
| Deniz Turker | FY2024 | £6k | Funding for the publication of Ottoman Harems of the Eighteenth Century |
| Sana Mirza | FY2024 | £6k | Funding for the publication of Handlist of the Manuscripts in the Sherif Harar Municipal Museum |
| Akshaj Awasthi | FY2024 | £2k | Funding to attend a Turkish language summer school in Turkey |
| Negar Kazem | FY2024 | £2k | Funding for her studies on the restoration and conservation of canvas and mural paintings belonging to a 19th century of Harem Mansion in İstanbul, Turkey |
| Mohamed AbdelKarim | FY2024 | £2k | Funding to travel to Salt Lake City to present a paper in an archaeology conference |
| Elnaz Latifpoit | FY2024 | £2k | Funding to travel to study Persian carpets in collections in the USA |
| Mozhgan Pakcheshm | FY2023 | £25k | Barakat International Studentship |
| Moaaz Lafi Abdelhamed | FY2023 | £15k | Barakat International Studentship |
| Safa Mahmoudian | FY2023 | — | Barakat Publication Grants |
| Shiva Mihan | FY2023 | — | Barakat Publication Grants |
| Yeliz Teber | FY2023 | — | Barakat Postdoctoral Scholarship |
| Zahra Kazani | FY2023 | — | Barakat Postdoctoral Scholarship |
| Tatreez | FY2023 | — | Hands On Islamic Art Grant |
| Casablanca Art School | FY2023 | — | Hands On Islamic Art Grant |
| Islamic Art: A History in Objects (MIAH) | FY2023 | — | Hands On Islamic Art Grant |
| Islamic Art in Cambridge | FY2023 | — | Hands On Islamic Art Grant |
| Salam for Schools | FY2023 | — | Hands On Islamic Art Grant |
| Zeynep Yurekli | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Hamza Benattia | FY2023 | — | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award |
| Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath | FY2023 | — | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award |
| Sara Ann Knutson | FY2023 | — | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award |
| Asa Eger | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Zahra Khan | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Mohamed Hossam Eddin Ismail | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Mohamad Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abdel-Salam | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Mohd Affendi bin Mohd Shafri | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Juan De Lara Golden | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Naseer Arafat | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Victoria Stopar, British Museum | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Mamdouh Farouk Mohamed | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Mandana Barkeshli | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Valentina Vazzoli | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Konstantinos Politis | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Sitti Ruqayah | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Hakim Sameer Hamdani | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Alison Ohta | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Flavia Ravaioli | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Andrew Peterson | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Sumit Mandal, Keramat | FY2023 | — | Barakat Major Awards |
| Abbey Stockstill | FY2023 | — | Barakat Publication Grants |
| Blair Fowlkes Childs | FY2023 | — | Barakat Publication Grants |
| Emily Neumeier | FY2023 | — | Barakat Publication Grants |
| Hilary Becker, Development Officer, Wallace Collection | FY2023 | — | Barakat Publication Grants |
| Laura Hinrichsen | FY2023 | — | Barakat Publication Grants |
| The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom | FY2022 | £750k | Hands On Islamic Art Grant - Public engagement activities |
| Leighton House and the Arab British Centre, London United Kingdom | FY2022 | £750k | Hands On Islamic Art Grant - Textile installation project |
| Museum of Islamic Arts and Heritage Foundation (MIAN), Birmingham, United Kingdom | FY2022 | £750k | Hands On Islamic Art Grant - Mingana Collection project |
| SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom | FY2022 | £225k | Barakat International Studentship for Shahira Yatim |
| University College London, United Kingdom | FY2022 | £225k | Barakat International Studentship for Abder Rahman Qadir |
| Safa Mahmoudian | FY2022 | £220k | Barakat Postdoctoral Scholarship |
| Glaire Anderson | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Research for 3D immersive video game |
| National Library of Kairouan, Tunisia | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Manuscript conservation support for Davidson McLaren |
| Yousef Mouradi | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Documentation and Investigation of Takht-e Solayman |
| The British Museum's International Training Programme (United Kingdom) | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Funding a curator from the Muslim world |
| Tarik al Murri | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Documentation of Historic Cairo's cemeteries |
| Romolo Loreto | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Excavation of Islamic historical core |
| Rabiu Yusuf | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Archaeo-metallurgical study |
| Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Archaeological Excavation and Training for Noura Shalaby |
| Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo, Egypt | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Online catalogue and database project for Mohamed Ahmed |
| Marjan Mashkour | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Study of faunal remains |
| Mahmoud Balawi | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Conservation and community building |
| Konstantinos Politis | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Investigating Islamic monuments |
| Ignacio Arcs | FY2022 | £210k | Barakat Major Awards - Documentation and analysis of architectural fragments |
| William Gallois | FY2022 | £26k | Barakat Publication Grants - Publication of Qasrwasn |
| Alya Karame | FY2022 | £26k | Barakat Publication Grants - Publication on Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties |
| Nahid Assemi | FY2022 | £26k | Barakat Publication Grants - Publication of Staging Piety |
| Museums with No Frontiers | FY2022 | £26k | Barakat Publication Grants - Publication of An Architecture of Light for Amr Hamdy |
| Hallie Swanson | FY2022 | £22k | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award - Research travel grant |
| Fahimeh Ghorbani | FY2022 | £22k | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award - Research travel grant |
| Dalia Nabil | FY2022 | £22k | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award - Research travel grant |
| Agnieszka Bystrom | FY2022 | £22k | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award - Research travel grant |
| Kristyna Rendlova | FY2022 | £22k | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award - Research Travel Grant |
| Hamza Ben Attia | FY2022 | £22k | Barakat Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award - Research grant |