Amir Kassam is a Visiting Professor in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK, where he teaches a post-graduate course entitled ‘Rethinking Agriculture: Implementing Solutions’. Kassam was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Honours List in 2005 for services to tropical agriculture and to rural development. Kassam is an adviser in sustainable agriculture intensification with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, and with The Aga Khan Foundation. He is: Convener of the Land Husbandry Group of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA-UK); and Moderator of FAO-hosted Global Platform for Conservation Agriculture Community of Practice (CA-CoP).
New Delhi, 28 November 2004 — The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) was selected as a winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA), one of the most prestigious architectural prizes a building project can win. This particular prize was especially pleasing to Ismail Serageldin who had personally chaired two previous AKAA juries (1983 and 1992) and had served on three steering committees in the early days of the AKAA and had helped set the course of the world-famous triennial prize. Furthermore, the BA prize came on the silver jubilee of the Award.
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