Shamez Babvani/Samreen Hooda: The Aga Khan Helps Brown University Celebrate Its 250th – HuffPost

Shamez Babvani/Samreen Hooda: The Aga Khan Helps Brown University Celebrate Its 250th - HuffPostBy Shamez Babvani and Samreen Hooda

“George Washington…came to this campus in 1790, after just one year as President, when Brown itself was only a quarter of a century old,,” His Highness the Aga Khan said on Monday during his own visit to Brown University’s 250th anniversary celebration.

President Christina Paxson invited the Aga Khan to deliver the 88th Stephen A. Ogden, Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs, just a few weeks after his historic speech to both houses of the Canadian Parliament, the first Muslim non-head of state to address the Canadian Parliament, a country of which he is also an honorary citizen.

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