Melanie Gibson

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

The Gingko Fellowship Annual Retreat allows scholars of religion from MENA & the West to discuss, debate & simply spend time with each other

This year the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum is proud to welcome the GINGKO Fellows to Aachen. Full info in flyer 👇🏼 Register by 29 August

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

#PublicationDay

Iznik Ceramics at the @TheBenakiMuseum
"Lavishly illustrated & enriched with drawings" (Charlotte Maury, Curator, Dept of Islamic Art, @MuseeLouvre)

Find out more / buy the book https://t.co/ISUODjVf2D
#NewBooks #Iznik #ceramics

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

Here’s our stand 2A45 @LondonBookFair - do call by and see us if you’re at Olympia today #publisher #publishing #newbooks

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

New Books January-June 2023 https://t.co/PhC0FZTIke via @issuu #NewBooks #publishing #history #ceramics #iznik #islamicart

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

📢📢 Author event

Alain George at the Royal Asiatic Society @RAS_Soc
Monday 15 May 6.30pm
Free event, all welcome

Email [email protected] if you would like to attend online

[Leighton House and Sambourne House @LeightonHouse_]

🎨 Help us bring home #AlmaTadema's 'In My Studio' (1893) a stunning oil painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA (1836-1912), one of the most prominent artists of the Victorian period...

[Melanie Gibson @MJSGibson]

@stephenniem And in the US

https://t.co/arbBgHV2Bt

[Melanie Gibson @MJSGibson]

@stephenniem An excellent review. For those of you who would like to buy the book

https://t.co/ZyUnWiRidT

[Leighton House and Sambourne House @LeightonHouse_]

Join us for an evening of literary exploration as
@gingkolibrary editor @MJSGibson guides the conversation between award-winning authors
@bellaigueC & @hishamjmatar as they discuss their inspirations, writing process & the Mediterranean world 👉 https://t.co/kYJdV5W0hJ

[Leighton House and Sambourne House @LeightonHouse_]

Join us for an evening of literary exploration as @gingkolibrary editor @MJSGibson guides the conversation between award-winning authors @bellaigueC & @hishamjmatar as they discuss their inspiration, writing process & the Mediterranean world 🎫 https://t.co/kYJdV5W0hJ

[Apollo Magazine @Apollo_magazine]

As two of the British Library’s most beautiful manuscripts show, the art of illustration hit new and extraordinary heights in 15th-century Herat @britishlibrary

https://t.co/afFKFf4nik

[Fuchsia Hart @FuchsiaHart]

In the 4th Aug 2020 Beirut explosion, a case with 74 glass objects crashed over at AUB archaeological museum, smashing everything, ancient shards mixing with the glass of the case. Painstakingly, some objects have now been put back together & are on display at the British Museum.

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

“Richly illustrated and handsomely produced, it is testament to the author's creativity and resourcefulness, which have resulted in a landmark study.”
Detailed, generous review by @shahanSean of Alain George’s The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus in the latest issue of @BurlingtonMag

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

“Brend’s summary of the tradition of Persian painting and survey of other royal 15th-century manuscripts makes Treasures of Herat a valuable introduction to the topic.” Thank you @davidchaffetz @BookReviewsAsia for this detailed review of Treasures of Herat #persianart #newbooks

[Gingko @gingkolibrary]

And for more beautiful Qajar art, do check out our book Revealing The Unseen, published last autumn https://t.co/olwjGF8utu #QajarArt

[Melanie Gibson @MJSGibson]

Stunning Hazara embroideries

[Fuchsia Hart @FuchsiaHart]

I've been thinking a lot about Hazara embroidery from Afghanistan recently, which has many styles & uses, but I'm particularly interested in the cloths used for praying on and/or wrapping up the prayer tablet (mohr), so here's a thread of beautiful examples...

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT!
We are looking for a Research Fellow to join our wonderful team @hsmOxford and carry out research on astrolabes from the Islamic world
#IslamicArt #astrolabes #HistSci #HistAstro

https://t.co/myd2y0TMZw

[Haus Publishing @HausPublishing]

Two of our wonderful authors are at Chalke Valley History Festival this week!

23 June: David Owen, author of ‘Riddle Mystery and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British-Russian relations’.

26 June: Christopher Somerville, author of ‘The View from the Hill’.

[Ali Ansari @aa51_ansari]

Very pleased to present Professors Robert and Carole Hillenbrand with their joint festschrift following the award of an Hon Doc to Carole at St Andrews earlier today. @gingkolibrary @BarbaraSchwepck @univofstandrews @StAndrewsIIS

[Sophie Ibbotson @sophieibbotson_]

I am reviewing this book for @RSAsianAffairs & it is exquisite. The official launch is in London on 24 May so I'm hoping to be there too 😊