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 ...

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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 ...

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"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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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#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 ...

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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: ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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