During an official luncheon hosted by Zanzibar's President His Excellency Abeid Amani Karume, [the Aga Khan] described Zanzibar as a "cultural jewel" and expressed readiness to invest in rehabilitation of the Island's rich and diverse cultural heritage, concentrated in the Old Stone Town. During an official luncheon hosted by Zanzibar's President His Excellency Abeid Amani Karume, [the Aga Khan] described Zanzibar ...
And I am very excited by the prospects that I see ahead of our institutions in Africa and elsewhere, because I do genuinely feel convinced that the decades ahead can be very, very exciting for our Jamat world-wide if we are able to build in the various parts of the world where we are ... continue to invest in intelligence, in ...
News story -- Zouhal (Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities - GPISH - class of 2005) will research "The Treatment of Gender-Based Violence in the Justice System of Tajikistan" at the Department of Law, Sussex University. Her study will focus on law, ethics and gender issues in Central Asia. Rafiq's (GPISH class of 2006) doctoral studies will examine "Implications of the ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 14 August 2007 - His Highness the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims was awarded Kenya's highest medal of honour, the Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya, (C.G.H.) by the President of the country, His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki. Bestowing the award during a state banquet held in honour of the ...
Mombasa, Kenya, 14 August 2007 - Kenya's Education Minister, Professor George Saitoti, today laid the foundation stone for the construction of the new Residential Campus at the Aga Khan Academy in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa, in the presence of His Highness the Aga Khan. The residential campus will transform the Academy from a high quality day school attended by Mombasa-area ...
Mombasa, Kenya, 14 August 2007 - The Aga Khan Foundation today marked the 25th anniversary of the Madrasa Early Childhood Development Programme in the presence of His Highness the Aga Khan, founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and Chief Guest Kenya's Minister for Science and Technology, Hon. Dr. Noah Wekesa. The Madrasa Programme was launched a quarter ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 14 August 2007 - His Highness the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims was awarded Kenya's highest medal of honour, the Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya, (C.G.H.) by the President of the country, His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki. ...
Mombasa, Kenya, 14 August 2007 - Kenya's Education Minister, Professor George Saitoti, today laid the foundation stone for the construction of the new Residential Campus at the Aga Khan Academy in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa, in the presence of His Highness the Aga Khan. The residential campus will transform the Academy from a high quality day school attended by Mombasa-area ...
Mombasa, Kenya, 14 August 2007 - The Aga Khan Foundation today marked the 25th anniversary of the Madrasa Early Childhood Development Programme in the presence of His Highness the Aga Khan, founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and Chief Guest Kenya's Minister for Science and Technology, Hon. Dr. Noah Wekesa. ...
From the seed that was planted here in the Coastal Region some 25 years ago -- when Bi-Swafiya Said received her grant from the Aga Khan Foundation -- the East African Madrasa Programme has grown to include 203 pre-schools, with nearly 800 teachers, reaching some 30,000 households and serving more than 54,000 children. This is truly an inspiring story. It is ...
[A new] World Bank study confirms a central tenet of our Academies planning, our confidence in the value of a residential campus. We believe that students draw valuable life lessons not only from learning together but also from living together -- especially if the mix of students is broadly diversified. The laying of this cornerstone symbolises this commitment to a residential ...
This evening, His Highness the Aga Khan hosted a Banquet in honour of His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. Numerous Government Ministers and senior Diplomats also attended this event. SOURCES POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 13 August 2007 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of the Aga Khan University, accompanied by Professor George Saitoti, Kenyan Minister for Education, today inaugurated the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Aga Khan University (AKU-FHS) - East Africa's first premier private medical school. The US $250 million health sciences campus to be established in Nairobi, aims to ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 13 August 2007 - His Highness The Aga Khan Meets with His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki at State House, Nairobi, Kenya. ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 13 August 2007 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of the Aga Khan University, accompanied by Professor George Saitoti, Kenyan Minister for Education, today inaugurated the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Aga Khan University (AKU-FHS) - East Africa's first premier private medical school. ...
[The Aga Khan University is] planning a number of new post-graduate schools in Pakistan and Eastern Africa, to meet important needs in both areas. Amongst these Graduate Schools will most probably be "Architecture and Human Settlement", "Media and Communications", "Tourism and Leisure", "Management" and "Government, Public Policy and Civil Society".... The central challenge of this new [Faculty of Health Sciences in ...
Inter-governmental cooperation in many areas can be a key which unlocks the future in East Africa. This is why both the Imamat and the AKDN support the creation of new federal constructs in the region -- including the concept of an East African Community. A federal concept simply means that governments will forge a united approach on matters which call for ...
12 August 2007 - His Highness the Aga Khan arrives in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Sunday, 12 August, on the first leg of a 12-day official visit to the East Africa region, at the invitation of the Governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. During the trip the Aga Khan will meet with members of the Ismaili Community and top ranking government ...
Dalakhani scored a double with his progeny at the weekend to enter the first-season sire scoresheet in style. The Aga Khan Studs stallion's first win as a sire came on Saturday 4th August as his son Unwritten Rule lifted the Dawn Juice EBF Maiden at Galway. This victory was followed less than 24 hours later with the success of Yahrab in ...
A successful week for the Aga Khan's horses in France finished particularly well at Deauville on Sunday with three " green and red " victories to add to that of Darjina in the Prix d'Astarté. SAGEBURG, a son of Johannesburg and Prix de Malleret winner Sage et Jolie, is now unbeaten in three outings after lifting the Listed Prix Ridgway by ...
Darjina stamped herself the best female miler in Europe with victory in a highly competetive edition of the Group 1 Prix d'Astarté at Deauville on 29th July. In doing so she followed in the footsteps of stablemate MANDESHA, whose Astarté win last year was the first of a Group 1 treble completed by the Prix Vermeille and Prix de l'Opera. DARJINA ...
[I]t is striking to me how many modern thinkers are still disposed to link tolerance with secularism -- and religion with intolerance. In their eyes -- and often in the public eye I fear -- religion is seen as part of the problem and not part of the solution. There are reasons why this impression exists. Throughout history we find terrible ...
The Aga Khan family currently leads the French owners' standings when earnings from representatives of HH the Aga Khan and his daughter Princess Zahra are cumulated. HH the Aga Khan's green and red colour-bearers have won a total of 41 races so far this season, with Princess Zahra's green and brown silks passing the post first on 6 occasions, giving total ...
Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Darjina will seek to return to winning ways in the Prix d'Astarté at Deauville on 29th July. After her courageous win over Finsceal Beo in the Longchamp Classic, Darjina finished third in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on rain-softened ground. Alain de Royer Dupré's charge will meet her elders for the first time in the ...
News story -- All images in this article are copyright The Aga Khan Trust for Culture.Spirit & Life displays over 165 objects exemplifying the development and diversity of artistic traditions in the Muslim world, including portraits, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, books of fables, tiles and musical instruments. Highlights of the exhibition include miniatures from the Persian epic Shahnama ('The Book of Kings'), manuscripts ...
Cairo, Egypt, 17 July 2007 - Cairo's Governor, H.E. Dr. Abdel Azim Wazir, and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture's General Manager, Mr. Luis Monreal, today signed an historic Public-Private Partnership (PPP) linking Al-Azhar Park, a future "Urban Plaza" project at the northern end of the Park, and ongoing work by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Darb al-Ahmar. The ...
The ten-strong AK horses in training consignment from John Oxx's Currabeg Stables proved to be popular at Tattersalls July sale with all the horses finding buyers for a total of 215,900 Guineas. The top price of 85,000 Guineas was attained by SHABAHAR (Lot 762). This Hernando colt is from the family of Shergar, and his second dam Sharamana was the winner ...
News story -- The talk introduced the IIS and Encyclopaedia Islamica, an abridged translation of the Persian Encyclopaedia Da'irat al-Ma'arif-i Buzurg-i Islami. The first volume of the translation will be published in 2008 under the chief-editorship of Professor Wilferd Madelung and will encompass approximately 16 volumes. The conference was hosted by the Bosniac Institute in Sarajevo and run in conjunction with the ...
News story -- GPISH continues to attract a wide range of applicants from Asia, Europe and North America, who have completed their first degrees in a broad range of academic disciplines. This year's 12 candidates, who were selected from a pool of over 150 applicants, come from Canada, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Syria, USA, and France. Their academic backgrounds include Computer and Media Studies, ...
This exhibition is designed to give us a glimpse into the future. What we see here today is the nucleus of the Islamic art collections of the future Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. This museum, which is being designed by the renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, is conceived as a primarily educational institution in the field of Islamic art and culture, ...
The aim of the Aga Khan Museum will be to offer unique insights and new perspectives into Islamic civilisations and the cultural threads that weave through history binding us all together. My hope is that the Museum will also be a centre of education and of learning, and that it will act as a catalyst for mutual understanding and tolerance.... This ...
Delhi, India, 11 July 2007 - An agreement on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for the revitalisation of the Nizamuddin district of India's capital was signed today. To be carried out by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Aga Khan Foundation in partnership with the Archaeological Survey of India, the Central Public Works Department and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, ...
In a world where quality of life is increasingly measured in material terms there is risk that the essential value system of Islam will be eroded, or even threatened with disappearance. Political situations with a theological overlay are also causing disaffection or antagonism between communities of the same faith, and even more so amongst different faiths. At the centre of this ...
News story -- Trainers and Participants Two core courses, 'An Introduction to Qualitative Research' and 'An Introduction to Anthropology' werefacilitated by a team of scholars from the Institute including Akim Elnazarov, Dr Zulfikar Hirji and Dr Sarfaroz Niyozov. Supporting lectures on various topics were delivered by Dr Najam Abbas and Sultonbek Aksakolov, also members of the Central Asian Studies project, and by ...
[AKDFED's] main purpose "is to contribute to development," [the Aga Khan] adds. "It is not a capitalist enterprise that aims at declaring dividends to its shareholders." Central to his ethos is the notion that his investments can prompt other forms of economic growth within a country or region that results in greater employment and hope for the poor. Economic developments experts ...
The Aga Khan congratulating graduates of a midwife training course in Afghanistan that was sponsored by the Aga Khan Development Network. (Image Gary Otte/AKDN) He is a moderate Muslim religious leader and a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. He is also a twice-married jet-setter, and he owns hundreds of racehorses, valuable stud farms, an exclusive yacht club on Sardinia and a ...
The Aga Khan Studs will present nine horses at the Tattersalls Horses In Training sale at Newmarket on 12th July. These include ALMANYAN, an Anabaa half-brother to Alamshar who has already been placed, and the unraced Velkhar, a half-brother to Gr 1 winners Valanour and Vereva by King's Best. SHABAHAR (Hernando), who is from the family of Shergar, and RAJNAGAN (Muhtarram) ...
Six of the seven Aga Khan horses presented at Arqana's Summer Sale met with success in the ring, for a total of 129,000€. Most look to be destined for a career over jumps, where they will try and emulate recently-sold Aga Khan Stud graduates such as Afsoun (Gr 1 Champion Hurdle and Aintree Hurdle second), Zaiyad (Gr 1 Grande Course de ...
News story -- Content Areas in Aluka Aluka is a not-for-profit organisation building a digital library about Africa in partnership with governments, libraries, museums, as well as cultural and scientific organisations around the world. As Aluka's Collections Development Manager, Mr Rajan is responsible for leading the content development of the digital library and for building partnerships and collaborations with a variety of ...
News story -- African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes This area links high-quality visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. In partnership with the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Aluka is documenting a range of cultural and heritage sites across Africa. Thus far, Aluka has documented a number of sites, including the Grand Mosque in Djenné, the Djingerayber Mosque ...
