New Sounds from Arab Lands is presented in collaboration with, and curated by, the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.Kinan Azmeh, clarinet Basel Rajoub, saxophone Jasser Haj Youssef, violin, viola d'amore Feras Charestan, qanun Khaled Yassine, percussion Programme The concert programme is drawn from new works created by members of the New Sounds ensemble. ...
Written by Ayesha Daya, journalist writing for AKDN and TheIsmaili.org Part one: Purpose. The twenty-first century has begun with a wave of new construction projects reshaping the landscape of many Muslim countries. From the shores of the Arabian Peninsula to the steppes of Kazakhstan, artificial islands, air-conditioned football stadiums and newly created capital cities are being built as countries use advances ...
Written by Ayesha Daya, journalist writing for AKDN and TheIsmaili.org Part two: Impact During the 36 years since its establishment, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has become a forum for a professional and academic discussion of developments affecting the built environment. The debates that take place during the seminars, the breadth of articles published, and the variety of projects honoured ...
Delhi, India, September 2013 - The restoration of the Mughal Emperor Humayun's 16th century garden tomb, the jewel of Mughal architecture that predates the Taj Mahal, has been completed. Six years of conservation works and 200,000 work days undertaken by master craftsmen have been required to restore the Tomb's Mughal finery. For more information, please see the following documents: Media Advisory ...
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, September 2013 - The Aga Khan Academy in Hyderabad is a new, not-for-profit school situated on a 100-acre campus near the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. It will be inaugurated by the Union Minister of Human Resources and the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in the presence of His Highness the Aga Khan, founder and Chairman of the Aga ...
After ten years as the premiere online resource for the study of material and visual culture in Islamic societies, Archnet has been re-imagined and restructured. The new Archnet -- a collaboration between the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Libraries -- is a portal to rich and unique scholarly resources featuring thousands of sites, ...
Om Habibeh Foundation Signs Agreement with Aswan University January 2015- The Om Habibeh Foundation (OHF) in Aswan, signed an Agreement with Aswan University to further develop the institutional relationship with the two organisations, specifically around the strengthening of the quality of education at the Faculty of Nursing, and the improvement of employability skills of Aswan University Students. As part of the ...
Delhi, India, April 2015 - As part of its continued efforts to restore and revitalise the areas around Humayun's Tomb, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and its partners will begin construction on a site museum and visitor's centre in Delhi. The need for a museum and visitor centre at this world heritage site became apparent in recent years. Two million ...
Aswan, June 2015 - The Aswan Directorate of Agriculture (DOA) and the Om Habibeh Foundation signed a five year Co-operation Agreement that will increase and strengthen partnership in the field of agriculture within Aswan Governorate. The Co-operation Agreement was signed by Ms. Mofida Al Kholy, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Mr. Malik Kotadia, CEO of the Om Habibeh Foundation. ...
Paris, France, 3 December 1999 -- His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims, today expressed the hope that more initiatives such as well-researched publications, exhibitions and scholarly exchanges by academic and cultural institutions in the West, "could help deepen public understanding of Islam and its intellectual and artistic heritage." The Aga Khan was attending the formal ...
His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims, today expressed the hope that more initiatives such as well-researched publications, exhibitions and scholarly exchanges by academic and cultural institutions in the West, "could help deepen public understanding of Islam and its intellectual and artistic heritage." His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Ismaili Muslims, today ...
Beirut, Lebanon, 26 November 1999 -- Are architects building what their societies want? Do societies want what their architects build? As their societies change, those who build and design in the Middle East are questioning whether they are creating the environments those societies want. Planners, architects and educators from across the Middle East who design challenged each other over a 3-day ...
Several sessions have considered the gaps within and between developed and developing countries, and how they may be exacerbated because not all countries and cultures are presently positioned to reap the benefits of new technology. The importance of access was the subject of an entire session this morning. At this point access is the biggest constraint facing the networked economy. I ...
I think the racing public like continuity (he said on Thursday, reflecting on a recent award as the most influential owner of the last 50 years) they like to follow a set of colours like mine, to watch the sons and daughters of horses they remember. Being the breeder, planning the matings, is fascinating. But unless you just want to treat ...
News story -- Class of 2002 students, who recently returned from their pre-programme coursework at the University of Edinburgh, were introduced to the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities and welcomed to the Institute of Ismaili Studies during Orientation Week at the end of September. ...
Interviewer: Malagassy TV According to the Madagascar journal Midi Madagascar, the President and His Highness the Aga Khan met in Paris before flying to Moncton in Canada for the Francophone summit. Co-operation in the field of education (new schooles), health (cholera eradication) and development was discussed. The meeting and an interview was shown in the Malagasy TV. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS ...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 20 August 1999 -- An urgent appeal has been launched to assist up to 100,000 people displaced in the Panjshir Valley of Northeastern Afghanistan following fighting in the Shamali Plain north of Kabul just over a week ago. Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) and ACTED, two relief agencies who have begun food distribution in the area, made the urgent appeal ...
In 1957, when Prince Karim was 20 years old and a student of Islamic history at Harvard, word arrived that his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III, had died of a heart attack at the age of 80. "I had no expectation of being in a position to fulfil his responsibilities," Karim says. Sir Sultan, the spiritual leader of ...
Forbes Global, 31 May 1999 Contents Cover Story: Venture Capitalist to the Third World Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957. Prince Karim, a 20-year-old Harvard undergraduate majoring in Islamic history, receives word that his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, has died. names young Prince Karim his successor as spiritual head of the world's Ismaili Muslims. Millions of Ismailis (and gossip columnists) ...
Cairo, Egypt, 4 May 1999 -- President Hosni Mubarak today discussed with His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, an integrated plan for development of Cairo's largest park, and innovative cultural restoration and economic revitalisation projects being undertaken by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in the capital's historic old city. Their meeting followed extensive site visits by ...
Paris, France, 27 April 1999 -- France's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hubert Vedrine, and His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the Ismaili Muslims, today signed an Accord of Co-operation between France and the Association Aga Khan, whose members include some of the principal agencies and affiliates of the Aga Khan Development Network. The Accord seeks to strengthen France's ...
News story -- Samples of Tajik songs Project Tajikistan at the IIS, in association with the Ismaili Council and ITREB USA, presented this multi-dimensional programme in seven American cities. The programme, inaugurated in Atlanta in February 1999, travelled to Dallas, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Thousands of visitors viewed the exhibition and performances ...
In the long run, the question is what is the context in which human society will function and the Islamic community will function? And I think the whole notion of relevance is a massively important issue. It's going across all faiths. Not just the Islamic faith. Not just the Islamic interpretation. It's going across all faiths today. There is a clear ...
Granada is truly exceptional; its history is steeped in influences from several major world cultures, each of which is richly represented in the city's splendid assemblage of historic buildings and public spaces. As someone with a life-long interest in architecture, it is thrilling to move through this city, its monumental buildings, and its historic neighbourhoods. As a Muslim I am moved ...
Granada, Spain, 9 October 1998 -- Civil strife, expanding populations, poverty, urban drift, hegemonic claims of traditional orthodoxies and monopolistic tendencies in electronic media can be destructive of world culture and are dangers to tomorrow's human and physical environment, but they need not overwhelm every society. In the gardens of the Alhambra, one of the most well-known Islamic monuments in the ...
Granada, Spain, 9 October 1998 -- Addressing culture ministers, diplomats, architects, planners and civic dignitaries in the Generalife gardens in the presence of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain, the AgaKhan spoke during the ceremony to announce the winners of the Seventh Cycle of the AgaKhan Award for Architecture. An international Master Jury selected seven projects for the 1998 ...
Collectively the seventy-six projects selected for premiation over the last twenty years share a celebration of the humanity of inspired architecture, and confirm the potential of its social purposes. They are also distinguished by the pluralism of the cultures of the Islamic world in which they are rooted, a pluralism that all Master Juries have both honoured and trusted. This richness ...
Ishkoshim, On the Afghan-Tajik Border, 28 September 1998 -- In a powerful appeal to all Muslims in Afghanistan, Shia and Sunni alike, His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, outlined a basis for constructing a new and more stable civil order in Central Asia. All Afghans should, as promptly as possible, re-establish open and brotherly ...
All the Afghans should promptly resume an open and fraternal dialogue, thereby turning Islamic peace ethics into a national reality and putting an end to hatred and division... [My] heart overflows with sorrow from the very idea that Muslims are now fighting against Muslims (whereas) it is necessary to respect the sanctity of life. Interviewer: Itar-Tass in Dushanbe, Tajikistan "All the ...
Ishkoshim, On the Afghan-Tajik Border, 28 September 1998 -- In a powerful appeal to all Muslims in Afghanistan, Shia and Sunni alike, His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, outlined a basis for constructing a new and more stable civil order in Central Asia. "All Afghans should, as promptly as possible, re-establish open and brotherly ...
On this day of joy and happiness, and at the beginning of this Irshad, I convey to all my murids my most affectionate and most loving blessings, and I pray that Allah may bring all of you here present, and to your families and homes, peace and hope in the future.... All Afghans should, as promptly as possible, re-establish open and ...
This process of building peace is urgent in Tajikistan, not only for Tajikistan's future, but also for the future of the whole region. And it is my hope and prayer that your neighbours will watch and learn from the peace process in Tajikistan, to bring peace to their country and I am of course referring to Afghanistan. Without peace it is ...
His Excellency the President mentioned that this was going to be a test-case institution in Badakshan where we will be testing new methods of education, new principles of education to try to bring into Badakshan the most sophisticated methods of education for young people. Some of the principles on which we will function will be [an] education -- and there will ...
Now Tajikistan is going through a very important time when the foundation is being laid for its development in future.... During the visit we want to consider projects to make our contribution in the support of the peace process and the economic development of Tajikistan. Spiritual leader of world's Ismailis Aga Khan IV said on Tuesday, after his meeting with Tajikistan's ...
24 September 1998 (Khorog): Banquet hosted by The Hukumat.25 September 1998 (Khorog): Meeting with Khalifas of Badakshan-Tajikistan and with khalifas of Badakshan-Afghanistan.25 September 1998 (Bartang Valley): Meeting with teachers and staff and students at the Khorog English Language Program (KEP) at school #7, followed by a Mulaqat with approx 60 other religion teachers.26 September 1998 (Zanj): Mulaqat in Zanj with approx ...
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 25 August 1998 -- Her Highness Princess Zahra Aga Khan today outlined a concept of volunteerism that can create and sustain healthy civic societies into the next millennium. "Citizen participation, ownership, and empowerment" she said, "are all critical to a world of peace and understanding" as is "the interaction of citizens across groups...whether those groups are defined in ...
In the work we have been doing, and I hope will be doing in the future, there is nothing absolute. The built environment is changing every day, societies are changing, tastes are changing, knowledge is changing, needs are changing, nothing is definitive and final. I think that what the Award has succeeded in doing, at least I hope it has, is ...
Maputo, Mozambique, 11 August 1998 -- His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique today signed a Development Co-operation Agreement which establishes a mission of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Mozambique and lays the framework for AKDN's development activities in the country and thereby the extension of its ...
