Change is inevitable; we all go through it at every stage of our lives. Therefore, we need to understand the nature of change and learn to respond to it in a way that helps us grow and develop ourselves and our societies. ...
At the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Princess Zahra Aga Khan delivered an address congratulating laureates on behalf of His Highness the Aga Khan and spoke about the power of architecture. "Over the years, the Award has been a lighthouse for those who feel we can design and build differently; to those who believe that we have a responsibility to build ...
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The 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Stamp Cancellation ceremony took place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman. The event is part of a series of ceremonies held as part of the Aga Khan Awards events. Watch more videos from the event on our YouTube channel. @TheAgaKhanAward #AgaKhanAwards2022 #AgaKhanAwardsOman #AKAA2022 #AKAA #AKMA2022 #AKMA #Music #Architecture #AgaKhanTrustForCulture #AKDN #AKTC #Oman #Muscat ...
"Culture is not a mortgage but an asset to be exploited for the benefit of communities": Luis Monreal, General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, shares his perspective on culture's potential to transform lives. #LuisMonreal #Culture #akdn #development ...
"Culture is not a mortgage but an asset to be exploited for the benefit of communities": Luis Monreal, General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, shares his perspective on culture's potential to transform lives. @Aga Khan Music Programme @TheAgaKhanAward #LuisMonreal #Culture #akdn #development ...
Dr. Sulaiman Shahabuddin, President of Aga Khan University, visited the United States in the summer of 2022. This video highlights his visit to Atlanta, Georgia, where he met with a number of university alumni, as well as delivered a presentation hosted by the Ismaili Council for the Southeastern USA. ...
#Speech by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the prize-giving ceremony at the Presentation of the Gold Medal by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in Toronto on 26 November 2013. Read the full speech here: ...
Islamic Philosophy and Sufism evolved as distinct yet interweaving strands of Islamic thought and practice. Despite differences, they have shared a concern with the perfection of the soul through the development of character. ...
#QuoteoftheWeek: At the inaugural Aga Khan Music Awards Ceremony in Lisbon in 2019, Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke of the significance of music in the Muslim world. For many centuries, music has been considered a form of expression and communication, and has transcended boundaries to bring people together. Read his full speech at #AgaKhan #Ismaili #AKTC #Music #AKMA #Culture #Muscat #Oman ...
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 winner - Banyuwangi International Airport, Indonesia. Shunning the standardised international style of most airports, this domestic airport embraces a context-conscious design approach. Serving over 1,100 passengers daily, it caters to the hot climate through a large-scale, contemporary interpretation of vernacular passive design principles. Openings and overhangs are optimised for temperature control through natural ventilation and shading. A ...
Highlights of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture awards ceremony that took place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman, yesterday. At the event His Highness Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitam Al Said, Crown Prince of Oman and Princess Zahra Aga Khan presented the certificates to the 2022 winners. The event is part of a series of ceremonies being held this week in Muscat ...
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 winner - Argo Contemporary Art Museum and Cultural Centre, Iran. Tehran's first independent contemporary art museum is housed in a more-than-100-year-old former brewery that had been abandoned for decades. The Iranian-Austrian architect's aim was to create a dialogue between old and new by inserting a new foundation and metal structure to support floating concrete floors and roofs ...
Join host Noor Al Kassir for the fourth instalment of The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards, an Ismaili TV special giving viewers an insight into this week's events taking place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman. Episode four includes highlights from the Aga Khan Award for Architecture awards ceremony, in which His Highness Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitam Al Said, Crown Prince of ...
At the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards, Prince Amyn Aga Khan delivered an address congratulating laureates on behalf of His Highness the Aga Khan and spoke about the power of music. "While there is no single music that one could say is a universal language, the urge to make music and to have music in our lives is universal," The Aga Khan ...
"At the root of this community," she added, "is the key idea of pluralism, which His Highness the Aga Khan has repeatedly underscored as a fundamental condition for a peaceful and prosperous world." Fairouz Nishanova, Director of the Aga Khan Music Programme gave a speech at the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony, in her address she spoke about how pluralism is at ...
Zarsanga, laureate of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards, is a singer from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan who is known as the Queen of Pashtun Folklore for her career-long devotion to the orally transmitted musical traditions of the tribally-organised Pashtun. The Aga Khan Music Awards were established by His Highness the Aga Khan to recognise exceptional creativity, promise and enterprise in music performance, production, education, ...
Yahya Hussein Abdallah, laureate of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards, is a singer and composer of devotional songs and reciter of the Qur'an from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He performs praise songs and sings both a cappella and with the accompaniment of instruments, which can range from violin and oud to electric keyboard and synthesizer. The Aga Khan Music Awards were established by ...
#DaudKhanSadozai, laureate of the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards, has had a profound impact on the preservation, development, and dissemination of Afghan music. He has trained many young musicians in the unique Kabuli style of Hindustani raga performed on the Afghan rubab as well as in instrumental music from Afghanistan's regional folk traditions. The Aga Khan Music Awards were established by His Highness ...
Farrokh Derakhshani, Director of @TheAgaKhanAward for #Architecture recalls the Award's history and explains its contribution to the field. For more about the #AKAA: For more about the #AgaKhan Development Network: ...
The Aga Khan Music Awards Ceremony took place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman. At the event the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Zakir Hussain, who then gave a special performance with the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra and Aga Khan Master Musicians. The next day at Part 2 of the ceremony Prince Amyn and His Highness Sayyid Bilarab bin Haitham al ...
At the Aga Khan Music Awards, Zakir Hussain received the Lifetime Achievement Award. This was in recognition of his highly visible model of enlightened cross-cultural musicianship that has elevated the status of the tabla both in India and around the world through countless artistic collaborations, concert tours, commissions, recordings, and film scores. Read more about the Aga Khan Music Awards on our website! #AgaKhanAwards ...
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture. The Award seeks to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of societies across the world, in which Muslims have a significant presence. ...
Join host Noor Al Kassir for the third installment of The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards, an Ismaili TV special giving viewers an insight into this week's events taking place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman. Episode three includes highlights from the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Seminar and the Aga Khan Music Awards Ceremony Part 2, in which the 2022 Aga ...
During the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony, laureates (L to R) Jasser Haj Youssef (violin), Yahya Hussein Abdallah and Yasamin Shahhosseini (oud) performed together. The Aga Khan Music Awards were established by His Highness the Aga Khan to recognise exceptional creativity, promise and enterprise in music performance, production, education, preservation and revitalisation in societies across the world in which Muslims have a significant ...
During the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman (L to R) Sadiq Khan (dholak), Asin Khan Langa (Sindhi sarangi), Zaki Khan Langa (backup vocal), Dilshad Khan (sarangi) and Rajan Dwarka (tabla) performed together at the Awards ceremony. The Aga Khan Music Awards were established by His Highness the Aga Khan to recognise exceptional creativity, promise and enterprise in music ...
Afel Bocoum & Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane During the 2022 Aga Khan Music Awards ceremony, a special collaborative performance was done by Laureates (L to R) Mamadou Kelly (backup vocals), Afel Bocoum (guitar), Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane (vocal and ardin) and Mamadou (Madou) Kouyate (backup vocals, bass ngoni). The Aga Khan Music Awards were established by His Highness the Aga Khan to recognise exceptional creativity, promise ...
Join host Noor Al Kassir for the second instalment of The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards, an Ismaili TV special giving viewers an insight into this week's events taking place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman. Episode two includes highlights from The Aga Khan Music Awards Ceremony Part 1, in which a speech was given by Prince Amyn and His Excellency Jamal Bin ...
Join host Noor Al Kassir for the first instalment of The Ismaili Update: Aga Khan Awards, an Ismaili TV special giving viewers an insight into this week's events taking place in Muscat, the Sultanate of Oman. Episode one includes a behind the scenes look at the venue for this year's Awards, the Royal Opera House and a glimpse into the Muscat ...
The Aga Khan Music Awards reflect the conviction of His Highness the Aga Khan, 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, that music can serve as a cultural anchor, deepening a sense of community, identity and heritage, while simultaneously reaching out in powerful ways to people of different backgrounds. ...
#QuoteofTheWeek: On 6 November 2016, at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Ceremony in Al-Ain, UAE, Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke about the purpose behind the award, and highlighted the importance of preserving our cultural heritage and traditions. The 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Ceremony will take place this week in Muscat, Oman. Read his full speech at #AgaKhan #Ismaili #AKTC #Architecture #AKAA ...
#Speech by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the Aga Khan #MusicAwards prize-giving ceremony at the @Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, Portugal on 30 March 2019 Read the full speech here: ...
In anticipation of the Aga Khan Music Awards this weekend, take a look at this 10-minute Ismaili Sounds special behind the scenes video, "The making of Shukrana." A collection of 50 music artists came together earlier this year to produce Shukrana in celebration of Mawlana Hazar Imam's 65th Imamat Day. The song is an expression of gratitude for the guidance and leadership ...
#Speech by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the Global #Philanthropy Forum in Washington DC, USA on 23 April 2009 Read the full speech here: ...
#QuoteofTheWeek: On 28 September 2022, during a luncheon at Government House in the City of Edmonton, Princess Zahra spoke of the strong commitment to pluralism that has helped to strengthen diverse societies, not only in Canada, but around the world. Read his full speech at #AgaKhan #Ismaili #Alberta #Edmonton #Canada #Pluralism #Diversity ...
Mawlana Hazar Imam has approved a set of new guidelines for our uniformed volunteers who render service day in, day out, in Jamatkhanas and beyond. In his recent message to the Jamat, Hazar Imam said that the aim is "to bring about standardisation and parity in the various elements relating to the organisation of the uniformed volunteers, without compromising their spirit of ...
