Levantine Heritage Foundation

Upcoming Events - LHF

16 December 2020, 5pm

2nd LHF online presentation with guest speaker Diana Darke: ‘Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture shaped Europe’ - flyer - registration:

20 January 2021

3rd LHF online presentation with guest speaker Deniz Türker: ‘Herder in the Ottoman Garden: European head-gardeners, reformist Sultans, and imperial parks’ - details coming soon.

External Events

1 December 2020, 5 pm

Online presentation: ‘A City in Fragments’, Yair Wallach in conversation with Nadia Atia - booking:

2-4 December 2020

Online international conference: ‘Migration and Education. Sources, Researches and Methodologies’, Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin - flyer:

7 December 2020, 12-2 pm EDT

Online presentation: Istanbul’s Russian Moment, 1919-1923, Vladimir Alexandrov: ‘The Case of the Black Russian’, András Riedlmayer: ‘Russian Refugee Lives’

15 December 2020, 6pm

Online presentation: ‘The Lily and the Crescent: Louis XIV and the Ottomans, Culture, Commerce and Crusades’, Philip Mansel

24 December 2020, 7pm

Online presentation: Feriköy Latin Katolik Mezarlığı Yapılarında Üslûp Okumaları, Selva Suman – Mimad, Istanbul

until 27 December 2020

Exhibition: Between Empires, Beyond Borders: The War and Armistice Years through the eyes of the Köpe Family – Salt Beyoğlu, İstiklal Caddesi 136, Beyoğlu, Istanbul

until 31 January 2021

Exhibition: Cairo Streets: Come face to face with everyday life in 19th century Cairo - Victoria & Albert Museum, Gallery 42, South Kensington, London

28 June - 30 June 2021

Conference: 4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds – Aix-en-Provence, France - deadline: 1 July 2020

28 June - 2 July 2021

Conference: 10th International Conference, Crusading Encounters – Royal Holloway, University of London

Thank you to all our supporters and sponsors (Erol Makzume, Catoni Group) who made our recent conference a success:

4th LHF-Istanbul Conference, ‘Levantine lifestyle on the Princes’ Islands’, 21 September 2019 - flyer: - brochure: - gallery:

LHF Istanbul volunteer group

Also thank you to the participants and supporters of the recent LHF-Italy roundable in Genoa on the occasion of Between Immigration and Historical Amnesia, Third Conference of the Symposium Diaspore Italiane – Italy in Movement, 27-29 June 2019 – Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa, Italy - programme: - gallery:

We are saddened by the recent (19 August 2019) death of Prof. Haluk Dursun, the former vice culture minister of Turkey who honoured us with his introductory talk on 23 September 2016, at the Levantine Heritage Foundation conference in association with the Beyoğlu Municipality: ‘The Effects and Contributions of Levantines in the development of Beyoğlu/Pera and Galata Neighbourhoods: A long heritage of Trade, Culture and Arts since 1453’ - video (in Turkish) - Conveying to his family and friends our deepest condolences.

We also offer our condolences to the families of project contributors Mr Enrico Aliotti Snr (13 April 2020, Nice, France) and Mr Patrick Grigsby (8th June 2020, England). May they rest in peace.