Visiting scholar Souren Melikian studying metalwork from the Eastern Islamic lands (found in the al-Sabah Collection at Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah’s Collection Office). Dr. Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani is the Emeritus Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and Research Director at the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. He is also Curatorial Director for the Aga Khan Museum and one of the world’s leading scholars of the cultural history of eastern Islamic world. He is a specialist in metalwork and Persian painting and has written many academic articles and books, most notably Islamic metalwork from the Iranian world. November 30th 2014

Visiting scholar: Trudy Kawami studying the Iron Age collection for the upcoming publication on this subject.   November 23rd 2014

Today at Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah in al-Yarmouk, our technical team, headed by the Assistant Secretary General for Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah at the National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters (NCCAL) Abdulkareem al-Ghadban, met with the Czech technical team (from Space Films) to put the final touches on the state of the art theatre at Yarmouk.   November 17th 2014

Visiting scholars: Dr. Yuka Kadoi and Dr. James C.Y. Watt study the jade objects in the al-Sabah Collection at Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah’s Collection Office.   November 16th 2014

Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif continues her work at the Collection Office on the upcoming publication about the metal work from the west Islamic lands in the al-Sabah Collection.   November 9th 2014

Today we welcome two visiting scholars – Dr. Xu Yong Xiang and his assistant Ms. Joan Xu – from the Chinese National Committee of Culture to the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah Collection Office.   October 30th 2014

Sophie Budden, head of conservation at DAI, talking to our museum interns about the conservation & restoration aspects in the museums.   October 19th 2014