The Institute for Educational Development targets a very important, low status profession: teaching. AKU has long addressed, in nursing, another such profession. The strategy that IED has developed for improving teaching bears many similarities to that which the School of Nursing has used. The very creation of IED highlights the importance of teaching, and the programmes of IED are crafted to ...

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It is difficult for me, in a few words this evening, to explain to you what is their contribution, but I would like you to know that it is massive.... The generosity which you have shown is absolutely remarkable, and I want you to be aware that I look at this generosity not only with admiration, but frankly with amazement. Because ...

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But adaptation is neither a simple process, nor one that can be completed in one or two generations. Still, today, there are Ismaili children born in this country, who like many other immigrant children, grow up sometimes unable to speak their ethnic language and who learn and adopt as their own ways which their parents always considered alien or worse. Many ...

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The religious diversity of Islam is important, and misunderstood by most non-Muslims.... But, for many in the West, the first awareness that there were two major branches of Islam -- Shia and Sunni -- came only with the Iranian revolution. That represents a superficiality of understanding that would be as though we Muslims only just learned that there were two branches ...

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[To the architects:] Do not only set the example, share it in a generous and deliberate way, so that it reaches all those who build in every part of the world. Your skills have a meaning and an impact which can become vital. The results of your efforts, for good and ill, are felt far beyond the responses of your clients ...

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Speaking to teachers at the school, His Highness the Aga Khan expressed his enthusiasm at the exciting possibilities that lay ahead for the school. He encouraged the teachers to aim beyond the achievement of superior results for their students and to look at the wider dimension of education. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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Noting that the transfer of technology was a "Two-way street," the Aga Khan cited some examples. Recalling the revolutionary medical breakthrough of oral rehydration therapy in the treatment of diarrhoeal diseases, first developed in Bangladesh, the Aga Khan noted that the Aga Khan Foundation was transferring this technology from Bangladesh, through a variant of the technique, to Pakistan and Kenya. In ...

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May 4 1993 (Dacca): Aga Khan Development Network and Government of Bangladesh "Accord of Co-operation for Development" Signing Ceremony.May 4 1993 (Dacca): Aga Khan Development Network and Government of Bangladesh "Protocol of Co-operation for Development" Signing Ceremony.May 5 1993 (Dacca): Dinner in Honour of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.May 6 1993 (Dacca):Prior to his departure, His Highness the Aga Khan stated ...

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February 13 1993 (Islamabad): Dinner hosted by the President of Pakistan.February 14 1993 (Islamabad): Luncheon hosted by the Prime Minister of Pakistan.February 14 1993 (Karachi): Dinner Governor of Sindh Province. SOURCESIsmaili Canada, 13 February 1993 ??ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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The banquet was attended by Shri Ramrao Adik, Maharashtra's Minister for Finance and Planning deputizing for the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, dignitaries from the State Government and prominent citizens of Bombay, as well as various jamati leaders and executives of the Aga Khan Development Network institutions in India. At the banquet, His Highness the Aga Khan expressed his sincere gratitude to ...

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The end of the Cold War, the dismantling of the Soviet Union, the emergence of newly-independent states, worldwide economic uncertainty, exploding ethnic forces -- all must cause us to reflect on the horizons of our future. One result of these changes is that the imposition of certain long-held political and economic dogma on the human mind is disappearing, leaving greater space ...

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November 9th, 1992 (Mumbai): Dinner hosted by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.November 14, 1992 (New Delhi): Luncheon hosted by the President of India.November 14, 1992 (New Delhi): Presentation and Reception for the 1991 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding to the Indian freedom-fighter and social worker, Shrimati Aruna Asaf Ali.November 17, 1992 (Hyderabad): Dinner hosted by the Chief Minister of Andhra ...

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Muslim societies everywhere are having to confront complex patterns and pressures of change. The nine projects we will see tonight, and countless others known to the Award, demonstrate that these pressures can be a source of creativity and opportunity. We see our task in the Award to build a space for reflection and debate on the meaning for architecture of these ...

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Two generations of inspired building by Timur and his grandson, Ulugh Beg, have shown us how determined patronage and the skills of different schools and practice can be brought together to create great architecture. Thanking President Karimov, the Government of Uzbekistan and the officials of Samarkand, the Uzbek Union of Architects and the people of Samarkand for making the 1992 award ...

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Friday last, I signed an important accord in Ottawa for co-operation with the Canadian Government on behalf of the Aga Khan Development network. It is a further -- very significant -- step in the close and increasingly productive collaboration between the network and Canadian institutions and more particularly the Aga Khan Foundation and CIDA. Indeed this accord follows on similar accords ...

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I have thought about [the Salman Rushdie issue] a lot; it saddens me. It's a very sensitive issue, the Rushdie issue, (he said, citing it as proof of the) stunning lack of knowledge (in the west about Islam and its 1 billion followers).... The law of blasphemy in England could have been looked at before the Rushdie book, and there may ...

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August 14, 1992 (Ottawa, Canada): Aga Khan Development Network and Government of Canada "Accord of Co-operation" Signing Ceremony.August ??, 1992: Other functions and events His Highness the Aga Khan attended where speeches may have been made, during the week long visit are unknown. SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan hosted a dinner at his residence at Aiglemont to commemorate the Aga Khan Foundation's Silver Jubilee (1967-1992). SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...

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If local needs are best solved locally, what role can the West play in fostering development in the Third World? ... [H]ow can outsiders foster good governance? Donors have been gratifyingly quick to come forward with aid to support specific projects of fledgling voluntary institutions in developing countries. These funds, and accompanying expertise, have enabled those institutions to do more sooner ...

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The Cantonal authorities of Geneva hosted a lunch in honour of His Highness the Aga Khan to mark the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Aga Khan Foundation. Presenting the Aga Khan with a book of engravings depicting Geneva's rich past, the President of the State Council, Jean-Phillipe Maitre, recalled the Aga Khan family's long and friendly relationship with the ...

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The university is a place where ideas are created and tested, where ideas compete on their merits. Just as the university should be a market place of ideas, we should seek to create a market place of institutions of higher education where different institutions are designed to meet different needs and where soundly based, well honed institutions succeed. This model of ...

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November ??, 1991: Announcement of a Chancellor's Commission to enable the Aga Khan University to expand its international role. In his speech, the Prime Minister of Pakistan paid glowing tribute to His Highness the Aga Khan's work.November ??, 1991: Other functions and events the Aga Khan attended where speeches may have been made, during the 17 day visit are unknown. SOURCESismaili.net ...

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Those who wish to introduce the concept that you can only practise your faith as it was practised hundreds of years ago are introducing a time dimension which is not part of our faith today. It is a very delicate issue, whether it is in science, in medicine, in economics. Interviewer: Akbar S. Ahmed The central issue facing Muslims in the ...

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"[Good government] is absolutely essential. I cannot think of anything more central to development than good government. I don't think you can through external forces impose good government. Good government comes from within, not from outside -- and I would tend to say 'good governance' rather than 'good government'." By "governance" he means the competence with which both public and private ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan announced the formal establishment of a Tanzanian unit of the Aga Khan Foundation, underlining a significant increase in the Foundation's commitment to East Africa. In welcoming the agreements reached with the Tanzanian Government, the Aga Khan paid particular tribute to the Government's initiatives to enhance the environment for development, contributing to a strengthened sense of confidence ...

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The Zafra House is a small gesture, a modest venture, towards creating bridges between worlds which do not often know each other and when they do know something, often misunderstand the values or significance of whatever little they know.... To us, and I hope, for generations to come, the Zafra House is a small token of gratitude towards past worlds whose ...

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The Aga Khan thanked the CEC and the British Overseas Development Administration for co-funding the Chitral programme and acknowledged the role of the Government of Pakistan in facilitating the co-operation of national and international agencies in contributing to the development of the region. He underlined that the Rural Support Programme has various dimensions. It is designed to develop the ability of ...

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On Monday 10th December, 1990, His Highness the Aga Khan signed a Protocol of Agreement on behalf of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture with the Governor of Cairo H.E. Mahmoud Sherif for the creation of a public park in one of historic Cairo's last remaining open spaces.... During the ceremony, the Aga Khan spoke of the concept of Trust with ...

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Democracy should be society's way of protecting the rights and entitlements of all its members. Entitlement, for the weakest or neediest, to their basic rights. But also, entitlement for the most capable, to their highest hopes: entitlement to a world in which they can struggle to achieve their utmost, and come close to doing so. A world in which the individual ...

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I have often heard it said, and I think that it is an undercurrent of aspiration widely held in the Islamic world, that it will regain its position of universal recognition. But I think that if that is one of our concerns, we have to be honest about the fact that in order to achieve that, we have to attain political, ...

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The essence of the Aga Khan Award is to premiate outstanding quality in all principal aspects of the built environment for Muslims. We seek to identify excellence in landscaped spaces, restored buildings, social housing, high-tech constructions, and others, all over the world. The single binding theme is that the buildings or spaces be essentially used for those born into, or who ...

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In villages where the spirit of enterprise and organisation is changing some of the traditional ways, women are coming forward to request assistance to reduce the burden of traditional tasks. They are also learning to increase their incomes by raising poultry, growing vegetables and planting nurseries. With increased income and confidence, they want, and are prepared to help pay for, education ...

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His Highness the Aga Khan gave the keynote address at the Rockefeller Foundation Dinner hosted by the Rockefeller family at their Pocantico Hills, N.Y. home on the occasion of the 150th birthday of John D. Rockefeller. The Aga Khan was introduced by his former classmate at Harvard, Mr. David Rockefeller Jr. (Senator Rockefeller). SOURCESAmerican Ismaili, 13 December 1989, pp. 16Canadian Ismaili, ...

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We strive for appropriate solutions to the problems of today's Muslim societies. Firmly anchored in the present, the best architectural efforts are those that dare to innovate, to start from what we have, and actively invent the future in practical, empowering terms, thereby creating a heritage for the future. Invariably, such efforts do not copy the past, or import solutions developed ...

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Barriers between the Islamic World and the West are beginning to break down everywhere. At the inauguration of the John Addis Islamic Gallery at the British Museum, His Highness the Aga Khan said: Barriers between the Islamic World and the West are beginning to break down everywhere. His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCESText (secondary source): ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED ...

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[T]he university must also express intellectual restlessness -- the imperative not merely to apply knowledge, or to confine research to that which is immediately useful. It must embody the fact that knowledge is constantly changing, must ever be challenged and extended. This conviction, this buoyant but disciplined impatience, is what makes modern science a metaphor for modern civilisation. Concerned as they ...

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Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was the keynote speaker at the event while His Highness the Aga Khan referenced his own address in his speech at the the day after the seminar: I had the opportunity in yesterday's health seminar to mention some of the avenues of research that the University has pursued over the past five years. SOURCESCanadian Ismaili, July 1989ismaili.net ...

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If I look to the years ahead and ask myself where are the principal areas of potential growth in the Pakistani economy, I am perplexed as to whether this country can, and should, seek to harness itself to the fastest growing sector of the economies of both North America and Western Europe, and which by the end of this century, 11 ...

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