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The Barakat Trust supports and promotes the study and preservation of Islamic art, heritage, architecture and culture for future generations. In 2020, it awarded the KMP a grant to create the Barakat Trust Internship Program for Early-Career Conservation Professionals at the NLPCPM, which enables the transfer of knowledge, skills, and expertise from one generation of Tunisian book and paper conservators to the next to ensure the ongoing care of the NLPCPM’s collections. |
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Cardiff University, founded in 1883, is one of Britain’s leading research universities. It supports the delivery of the KMP’s professional development courses on preventive conservation by making an in-kind contribution to the teaching costs of instructors Jane Henderson, professor of conservation, and Phil Parkes, reader in conservation. |
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The Chester Beatty is the pre-eminent Irish museum promoting the appreciation and understanding of world cultures, with holdings of manuscripts, rare books, and other treasures from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. It makes a significant in-kind contribution to the KMP by supporting the official participation of its head of conservation, Kristine Rose-Beers, on the KMP leadership team and enabling her to make multiple visits to Tunisia annually to provide on-site collection care and management consultancy to the NLPCPM and conservation and manuscript studies training to its staff. |
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The Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (CICS) at TH Köln is one Germany’s leading centres of conservation research and education. It makes a generous in-kind contribution to the KMP’s collection care and management activities, especially the design, delivery, and evaluation of conservation-related professional development courses, by covering the consultancy fees of CICS research associate and instructor Marlen Börngen and enabling her travel to Tunisia. Ms Börngen also assists with the mentorship of the Barakat Trust Interns. |
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The Islamic Manuscript Association is an international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Islamic manuscript collections and supporting those who work with them. In 2019, it made a major in-kind contribution to the KMP by sponsoring a collection needs assessment of the NLPCPM made by then Association executive director, Davidson MacLaren, and assistant director, Ana Beny, with the assistance of KMP co-founder Asma Hilali. It also supported Davidson MacLaren’s official participation on the KMP leadership team. |
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The Pennsylvania State University supports the KMP through research grants from the College of the Liberal Arts and the Center for Humanities and Information . This funding will make possible the collection and translation of oral histories about the NLPCPM and Kairouani manuscript cultures, the organization of academic conferences on Qur’anic and legal manuscripts in the NLPCPM’s collections, and a pilot project to use pattern recognition software to analyze images of disbound manuscript folios at the NLPCPM. The University is the academic home of KMP co-founder Jonathan Brockopp, professor of history, religious studies, and philosophy, who serves on the KMP’s leadership team. |
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The University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), established in 1967, is the second-largest of the University of Toronto’s three campuses. UTM’s Old Books New Science Lab—a centre for scholarship on new scientific and global approaches to medieval book history; digital text editing and computational approaches to humanities research; and medieval literary studies—has made a generous donation of collection care-related equipment and materials to support the KMP’s professional development courses on preventive conservation and the implementation of environmental monitoring and integrated pest management programmes at the NLPCPM. |
