Film Imam Ali

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Pictures of Golden Jubilee in France

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Founder Pro-Chancellor : Sir Aga Khan

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Biography Of Sultan Mohd Shah

H.H. Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III

Founder Pro-Chancellor : Sir Aga Khan

Born : 2nd November, 1877 in Karachi : British India now Pakistan
Died :11th July, 1957 : (Burried in Aswan, Egypt)
Spouse: Shahzadi Begum, granddaughter of Aga Khan I.
Married: 2 November 1896, in Poona, India

Cleope Teresa Magliano (1888-1926) Married: 1908
Andrée Joséphine Carron (1898 – 1976) Married: 13 December 1929, in Bombay, India
Yvonne Blanche Labrousse (February 1906 – 1 July 2000)
Married: 9 October 1944, in Geneva, Switzerland

Father: Aqa Ali Shah alias Aga Khan II (47th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims)
Mother :Nawab A’lia Shamsul-Mulk, A granddaughter of Fateh Ali Shah of Persia.
Children:Giuseppe Mahdi Khan (died February 1911) and Ali Solomone Khan

(1911-1960) from Cleope Teresa Magliano
Sadruddin Aga Khan from Andrée Joséphine Carron

Grandson : Karim Agha Khan : 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims
Giuseppe Mahdi Khan, Ali Solomone Khan,
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan : Served as United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1978

Career:

August 1885- 11th July, 1957 : 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims
1902 : Member, Imperial Legislative Council
1906-1913 :Founding President. All-India Muslim League
Visitor, MAO College Aligarh.
10th Jan. 1911 :Founding Chairman, Central Foundation Committee, Aligarh
17th Dec. 1920-April 1930: Founding Pro-Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University
12th Nov. 1930 : Delegate, First Round Table Conference
1934-37 : Member, General Assembly of League of Nations
1937 : Member, Privy Council
1937-38 : President, General Assembly of League of Nations

source at here: http://karwaanealigarh.blogspot.com/2008/01/founder-pro-chancellor-sir-aga-khan.html

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ismailispirit — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:13:42 +0000

Past Presidents: David Fraser

Fraser became head of the Aga Khan Secretariat’s Social Welfare Department, which manages the health, education, and housing initiatives of the Aga Khan Development Network. (The Development Network is a group of non-profits working to improve quality of life primarily in South Asia and East Africa; the eponymous Prince Aga Khan IV is the Imam of the Ismali branch of Shi’ah Islam.)

Living in France, Fraser worked with the directors of a variety of educational and health-care systems. The largest of these were in Pakistan, but he also oversaw programs in Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Tanzania, and other countries. He was also the Aga Khan’s “point person” for the Aga Khan University‘s budget.

This was, Fraser said, “an entirely different culture” from Swarthmore. “A liberal arts college,” he said, “has a kind of wonderful horizontal anarchy…it’s not always easy to run, but it is always intellectually challenging. With the Aga Khan, on the other hand, he’s the prince – he makes the decisions.” Personally, he thought that although he could “adapt to the situation,” it was not the style to which he was most naturally suited. Yet, because the Aga Khan was doing “such good work,” Fraser was happy to work within the system for a time.

Source at here: http://daily.swarthmore.edu/2009/1/22/david-fraser/

Aga Khan Film in Paris at the famous Institut du monde arabe!

ismailispirit — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:12:03 +0000

Aga Khan Film in Paris at the famous Institut du monde arabe!

The Institute is a cultural endeavour as a partnership between France and twenty-two Arab countries including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan.

Details:

Tickets: FREE

Jan 29th – 6:30PM

Auditorium (niveau -2)

Institut du monde arabe

1, rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard – Place Mohammed V

Paris Cedex 05

75236

The film will play in English with French subtitles. See the trailer.

After the screening, there will be a discussion with Co-Director Jane Chablani and myself.

We hope to see you there and please forward this e-mail to your friends and family in Paris.

Best wishes.

PM urges KSA to recruit more Bangladeshis

ismailispirit — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:02:40 +0000

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the Saudi government to increase their development assistance to Bangladesh and recruit larger volume of human resources from the country.She suggested that Saudi Arabia could recruit both unskilled and skilled manpower from Bangladesh, particularly engineers, doctors and nurses.The prime minister made the request when Saudi Ambassador in Dhaka Abdullah Nasir-Al Bossairy called on her at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) this morning.The Saudi ambassador formally handed over to Sheikh Hasina a letter of felicitation from Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz on her assumption of the office of prime minister.The PM thanked to the Saudi King for his congratulation and extended an invitation to him for visiting Bangladesh.The Saudi envoy assured the PM that Saudi Arabia would “gradually” increase development assistance to Bangladesh and recruit more manpower from the country.During the discussion, the prime minister laid emphasis on establishing peace in the Middle Eastern countries as well as across the world for prosperity of all mankind.They also discussed various issues of mutual interests and hoped that the existing friendly relations between Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia would be strengthened further in the days to come.Later, a three-member delegation of Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council of Bangladesh led by its president Habib Hirji paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Habib Hirji formally handed over a felicitation letter from Prince Aga Khan, Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, to Sheikh Hasina on her assumption of the office of prime minister.The delegation apprised the PM of their various development projects in Bangladesh including the proposed Aga Khan Academy and Ismaili Jamayat KhanaThe PM was also informed that Prince Aga Khan has expressed his willingness to build more educational institutions in Bangladesh.The prime minister inquired about the well-being of members of the Shia Ismaili community living in Bangladesh.Secretary to the PMO Kazi Aminul Islam and Press Secretary to the Prime Minister Abul Kalam Azad were present.

source at here: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=14536

Book Review: Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema

ismailispirit — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:55:17 +0000

By Farouk Mitha

Farouk Mitha is Academic Course Director for the Secondary Teacher Education Programme at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, England

“The power of American cinema is even greater than America’s military might. In the long run the presence of American cinema across the globe could create more problems than its military presence.” These provocative words are offered by the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami near the end of his documentary entitled 10 on Ten (2004). Ostensibly this is a documentary on the making of his film Ten, though it is also arguably Kiarostami’s masterclass on filmmaking in general. Like Ten, the documentary is divided into ten segments, each segment is introduced with a film editing leader number, thus making transparent that we are watching an edited film, or, put differently, a selected version of reality. In these selected versions we watch Kiarostami in the driver’s seat (presumably through a fixed camera on the passenger side); we hear Kiarostami in Farsi followed by an English voice-over. Kiarostami’s monologue, in effect, takes us behind the scenes of the art and craft of filmmaking.

source at here: http://www.arabmediasociety.com/topics/index.php?t_article=257

Golden Jubilee Timeline

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What is Green Architecture?

ismailispirit — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:35:49 +0000

“What is Green Architecture?” Season Premiere to Feature Diébédo Francis Kéré

Aga Kahn Prize Winner to Deliver a Lecture – “Step by Step: Building Schools in Africa”, Followed by a Discussion with MoMA Curator Andres Lepik

Prizewinning architect designs low-cost green buildings in his native Burkina Faso.

Full Release

NEW YORK (January 15) — The Goethe-Institut New York, a branch of the Federal Republic of Germanyʼs international cultural institution, is pleased to announce the season premiere of its hit series, “What is Green Architecture?” — recommended by The New York Post, Time Out New York, The Architect’s Newspaper, Flavorpill, Unbeige, Apartment Therapy, Gothamist and more — which spotlights next-wave pioneers in the field in conversation with curator and host Andres Lepik. “What is Green Architecture?” brings architects and engineers to New York in order to give audiences the exclusive privilege to travel the globe via projects of the future, from Harvard’s transformative Allston Science Complex to the first carbon-neutral city, currently taking shape in the United Arab Emirates. ( compelte source )

AKU Newsletter

ismailispirit — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:17:21 +0000

AKU Newsletter

Current Issue

July 2008
Celebrating 25 Years
“March 16, 2008 is a milestone in the history of our University. On that day, 25 years ago the Aga Khan University received its charter as a private international University…..{ Download }