Islamic Culture Foundation 

Persia: 30 Centuries of Arts and Culture presents nearly 200 works from Persia’s antiquity to the end of the Qajar Dynasty in 1925. The exhibition begins with the Achaemenids, who built roads, canals, splendid palaces and temples adorned with sculptures and bas-reliefs. At the edges of their empire, nomadic peoples also left traces: Nomads from […]

Spirit & Life, an exhibition of rare Islamic art and manuscripts never before displayed in the UK, will run from 14 July to 31 August at the The Ismaili Centre (Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London).
Organised by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Spirit & Life will present treasures from the permanent collection of the Aga […]

Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection presents about 100 treasures from what is generally regarded as the finest private collection of early Islamic ceramics in the world.
They range in date from the early Abbasid caliphate in Iraq (9th–10th century) and the Mongol Ilkhanid dynasty in Iran (mid-13th–mid-14th century) to the […]

The Jazira: A Cultural Landscape Between the Euphrates and the Tigris presents the art and culture of the petty princes of the region—the jazira, or “island”—in the 12th and 13th centuries. The medieval dynasties of the Zanjids, Artuqids and Ayyubids favored a courtly lifestyle that manifested itself in opulent libraries and artistic production, and featured […]

Architecture of the Veil: An Installation by Samta Benyahia—the first US museum exhibition by the Algerian artist—takes its theme from the moucharabieh, the openwork screens used in Mediterranean Islamic architecture to cover windows and balconies, allowing those inside—typically women—to view the outside world without being seen. The installation provides a beautiful and dynamic exploration of […]

“Architectural Textiles: Tent Bands of Central Asia highlights a unique and fundamental weaving: the tent band”. The trellis tent has made nomadic life possible across Central Asia for at least 1500 years. An important component of its construction is a woven tent band, which girdles and braces the lower part of the wooden roof struts […]

Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa: Photographs by James Morris presents 50 large-scale images of structures from monumental mosques to family homes. For centuries, complex adobe structures have been built in the Sahel region of western Africa. Made only of earth mixed with water, these buildings display a remarkable diversity of form.
Morris, a British photographer […]

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Dear members of the Anna Lindh Foundation’s National Networks,
Warm greetings from Alexandria and the Secretariat of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Dialogue between Cultures.  
2 DAYS TO GO! THE EURO-MED AWARD FOR DIALOGUE
There is still time to nominate a candidate for the Euro-Mediterranean Award for Dialogue Between Cultures!
The annual award will recognize […]

Prints, Drawings, and Books. In conjunction with the special exhibition Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797, a selection of works on paper drawn from the museum’s permanent collection explores the related theme of Europe’s fascination with the peoples, costume, design and customs of Muslim lands. From Albrecht Dürer’s 15th-century engraving of a Turkish family to […]

Stories from the Silk Road takes children on a picture-book journey on the Silk Road to experience the cultures, landscapes and peoples of different lands. This exhibition features original illustrations from books about the people who traveled the Silk Road, including Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta, Genghis Khan and Marco Polo. Illustrations from Chinese and Indian […]