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S6E6: A Shrine Online: The Case of Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin, with Keelan Overton
Jun 25, 2026
48m 23s
S6E5: The Shrines of Alexandria’s Lake Maryut region, with Ismael Awad
May 25, 2026
29m 58s
S6E4: Renewal in West Africa: The Great Mosque of Djenné with Michelle Apotsos
Apr 29, 2026
40m 19s
S6E3: Through Uzbekistan: Histories of the Persianate World, with Fuchsia Hart
Apr 2, 2026
37m 21s
S6E2: The Story of a Stone: Fatimids in Ethiopia, with Mikael Muehlbauer
Feb 25, 2026
34m 45s
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| 6/25/26 | ![]() S6E6: A Shrine Online: The Case of Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin, with Keelan Overton | In the city of Varamin, some 50km southwest of Tehran, lies the Shrine and Mausoleum of Emamzadeh Yahya, a site of pilgrimage and veneration for Shi’i Muslims. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many of the shrine’s tiles and its mihrab were looted and dispersed in museums around Europe and North America. The focus of this podcast is the project, supported by The Barakat Trust, that has sought to reunite the disconnects that have long afflicted this site, its worshippers, and audie... | 48m 23s | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | ![]() S6E5: The Shrines of Alexandria’s Lake Maryut region, with Ismael Awad✨ | cultural heritageAlexandria+3 | Ismael Awad | — | AlexandriaLake Maryut | AlexandriaLake Maryut+3 | — | 29m 58s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() S6E4: Renewal in West Africa: The Great Mosque of Djenné with Michelle Apotsos✨ | Islamic architectureGreat Mosque of Djenné+3 | Michelle Apotsos | — | DjennéMali+4 | Great Mosque of DjennéMali+3 | — | 40m 19s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() S6E3: Through Uzbekistan: Histories of the Persianate World, with Fuchsia Hart✨ | UzbekistanPersianate world+4 | Fuchsia Hart | The Barakat Trust | UzbekistanTashkent+2 | UzbekistanPersianate world+4 | — | 37m 21s | |
| 2/25/26 | ![]() S6E2: The Story of a Stone: Fatimids in Ethiopia, with Mikael Muehlbauer✨ | FatimidsEthiopian architecture+3 | Mikael Muehlbauer | Columbia University | EthiopiaWuqro Cherqos+1 | FatimidsEthiopia+5 | — | 34m 45s | |
| 2/4/26 | ![]() S6E1: The Armenian Architects of the Ottoman East, with Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan✨ | Armenian architectsOttoman empire+4 | Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan | University of LincolnUniversity of Oxford | eastern Anatolia | Armenian architectsOttoman empire+3 | — | 29m 26s | |
| 11/30/25 | ![]() S5E8: Islamic Silver in a Viking Treasure Hoard, with Jane Kershaw✨ | Islamic artViking history+3 | Jane Kershaw | Viking silver | BedaleNorth Yorkshire | Islamic silverViking treasure+3 | — | 20m 38s | |
| 6/6/25 | ![]() S5E7 The Mamluks: A Louvre Exhibition, with Carine Juvin✨ | Mamluk culturemonumental architecture+3 | Carine Juvin | Louvre | Cairo | MamluksLouvre exhibition+6 | — | 33m 37s | |
| 8/21/24 | ![]() S5E6 Ancient Arabia: A New UNESCO Site, with Juan de Lara✨ | Ancient ArabiaUNESCO Sites+4 | Juan De Lara | NabataeansIslamic art | ArabiaQaryat al Faw+3 | Qaryat al FawNabataeans+6 | — | 27m 35s | |
| 7/17/24 | ![]() S5E5 Teaching Islamic Art in Schools, with Rizwan Iqbal✨ | Islamic arteducation+3 | Rizwan Iqbal | National Lottery Heritage FundHands On Islamic Art | — | Islamic arteducation+4 | — | 35m 43s | |
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| 6/17/24 | ![]() S5E4 Seals of Sumatra, with Annabel Gallop✨ | Indonesian artMughal power+3 | Annabel Gallop | Ninefold Seal | AcehMughal+3 | Ninefold SealAceh+5 | — | 27m 36s | |
| 5/4/24 | ![]() S5E3 Lost Libraries of Tunis, with Laura Hinrichsen | Join Laura Hinrichsen as she walks us through her fascinating new research, reconstructing the great libraries of 16th century Tunis, once thought completely lost, by hunting down fragments scattered across the world. Listen as she explores the great conquest that destroyed these libraries, the sort of things you could read there, and the clever ways we might go about finding the contents of lost historic libraries. | 26m 00s | ||||||
| 3/27/24 | ![]() S5E2 Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, with Rachel Dedman | Join Rachel Dedman as she explores the beauty and politics of Palestinian textiles. Listen as she discusses her work on the current Material Power exhibition in the UK, whose public programme was part of our Hands On Islamic Art project which works to engage the UK public with Islamic art. | 23m 22s | ||||||
| 1/30/24 | ![]() S5E1 Gaza: Art History & Lost Monuments, with Leena Ghannam | Join Leena Ghannam as she walks us through an often unfamiliar aspect of Gaza: its art, architecture, and monuments. Listen in as she takes us through mermaid monuments and golden markets, from temples of Aphrodite to masterpieces of modern art, exploring from the conquests of Alexander until the recent annihilation of many of these precious sites. Hear a side of Gaza we don't often hear: creation, beyond destruction. | 30m 25s | ||||||
| 11/13/23 | ![]() S4E12 Unearthing Ottoman Greece, with Konstantinos Politis | Join Konstantinos Politis as he digs through the long history of the Greek city of Chalkida, from its war-altering strategic importance to its lush date farms. Listen as he discusses his work, as a grantee of The Barakat Trust, exploring the town's Ottoman Heritage, discovering several mosques, and navigating the complexities of Greek identity and how it can incorporate the history of post-Classical Greece. | 24m 42s | ||||||
| 10/12/23 | ![]() S4E11 West Asian Weaving, with Nour Hage | Join Nour Hage as she weaves a story of textiles in West Asia, from bridal practices, to talismanic symbols, to Nour's own work as an artist. Listen as she discusses her work on Leighton House's recent Kheit exhibition, as part of our Hands On Islamic Art project which works to engage the UK public with Islamic art. | 22m 32s | ||||||
| 9/25/23 | ![]() S4E10 Delicious Delicacies, with Nawal Nasrallah | Join Nawal Nasrallah for a delectable dive into the world of Medieval North African cooking. Learn the connection between ostrich eggs and eggplants, how we have been stuffing birds wrong this whole time, and the brilliant historical stories behind these recipes. Listen as Nawal discusses her work translating centuries-old cookbooks to access an art of history that is so often forgotten. This podcast will leave you hungry: for knowledge and for food. | 40m 29s | ||||||
| 8/19/23 | ![]() S4E9 Saladin: Between Man and Myth, with Abdul Rahman Azzam | Join Abdul Rahman Azzam for a discussion of espionage and honour, history and technology, as he explores the life and legacy of one of history's greatest leaders: Saladin. Listen now to learn where the man meets the myth, why he has endured so strongly in the popular consciousness, the extent to which he impacted the lives of those often thought unconnected to him, and how Abdul Rahman Azzam is using digital technology and machine learning to map Saladin's network of contacts. | 40m 37s | ||||||
| 11/29/22 | ![]() S4E8 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 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 is awarded this notable prize, hear about the latest winners, and learn how the creation of the award changed the understanding of architecture forever. | 33m 27s | ||||||
| 10/7/22 | ![]() S4E7 Jeddah: Crossroads of the World with Ahmad Angawi | Join celebrated artist Ahmad Angawi as he explores how Jeddah has been influenced by many cultures, from Morocco to Indonesia, and how Jeddah has influenced them back. Learn about the cultural exchanges that pilgrimages brought, explore the traditional woodworking that Ahmad is helping to keep alive, and discover how traditional crafts can cooperate with this rapid technological world not only to survive in it, but to improve it. | 37m 07s | ||||||
| 9/7/22 | ![]() S4E6 The Power of the Visual with Ulrike Al-Khamis | Join Ulrike Al-Khamis for an inside look at the Aga Khan Museum's latest exhibition in Toronto, Canada. IMAGE? The Power of the Visual explores image-making over the centuries, exploring through the lens of Islamic art from across many periods and cultures. We are surrounded, in fact inundated, by images and we often have little time to contemplate their deeper meaning; IMAGE? aims to open the visitor’s eyes to the power of images that surround us every day, be they in museums and galleries, ... | 34m 42s | ||||||
| 8/2/22 | ![]() S4E5 Olive Oil Empires with Anna Leone | Join Anna Leone for a tour through time as she explores life in North Africa from the Roman era to today. Find out how (olive) oil has been driving the world economy since antiquity, how you can tell a lot about a time period by its frying pans, and how superstitions about their brothers defined how Amazigh women weave their textiles. | 32m 04s | ||||||
| 6/13/22 | ![]() S4E4 Saudi Modern with Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz | How did the discovery of oil transform Saudi Arabia's cities and its architecture? How can art and architecture come together to capture the spirit of modernism in a nation known more for tradition? Join this conversation with Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz, two architect brothers, to discover how their curiosity to understand their home city of Jeddah led to the rise of "Saudi Modern," a project to discover, record, and capture the spirit of modernist architecture and urbanism across the... | 38m 47s | ||||||
| 4/28/22 | ![]() S4E3 Secret Geometry with Wael Sabry and Seif El Rashidi | 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 save this remarkable craft from disappearance and inventing new machinery that might give this craft a new life. | 32m 41s | ||||||
| 3/9/22 | ![]() S4E2 Decoding Arms and Armour with Arthur Bijl | Join Arthur Bijl, Hutton McRoberts Assistant Curator of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour at The Wallace Collection for a fascinating conversation about the social history of arms and armour. Discover how what we think of as 'weapons' today were once also fashion statements, works of art, and status symbols in the pre-modern age. | 35m 15s | ||||||
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