Volunteer name: Nasir Peerani
Location: East Africa (Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Arusha)
Duration of assignment: 9 years
Task: To oversee AKU’s campus planning and design projects in Tanzania
Author: ismailimail
Independent, civil society media featuring Ismaili Muslim community, inter and intra faith endeavors, achievements and humanitarian works.
Assistant Professor Tammy Gaber is spending her next two years travelling across the country to photograph, draw and collect oral and written histories of mosques.
Written as a series of reminiscences, Ladha, third generation in his family to live outside his grandfather’s native India, begins his story with his birth on the East African island of Zanzibar.
If CNN deems Samir Lakhani’s Eco Soap project popular enough (clicks and donations), they will invite them as a ‘Top 10’ Hero and attend a live televised special on Thanksgiving day.
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Suncor logistics director Fauzia Lalani was in a meeting in Calgary on May 3, 2016 when her smartphone rang.
Rahim Essabhai ensures that students gain skills and abilities that enable them to create business projects that will benefit society.
Part of the Atassi Foundation “Syria: Into the Light” exhibition Program, Art Dubai Modern Symposium
In 2011, Calgary’s Fatimah Sorathia, an architect with over 25 years of experience, travelled to Gilgit and the Northern Areas of Pakistan to assist in the construction of jamatkhanas
A retired Ismaili physician, Dr. Mirza Datoo has been presented with the Order of Australia.
Dr Rahimtoola was an active social member of the Jamat. He served different localities of the com
Aziz Dhalla, retired pharmacist and Carleton Place, Stittsville and Richmond IDA co-owner, passed away on Nov. 20 after a long illness.
Model United Nations is a wonderful social experience, allowing us to meet people from all various countries around the world. Talking to people with views contradictory to your own leads to learning, and shaping a pluralistic outlook on life.
The Shi’a Ismaili Muslim Centre, designed by Bruno Freschi, is a synthesis of traditional Islamic architectural principles and modern construction techniques.
Shereen Ladha learned to be proud of her South Asian heritage through dance
Nordic telecom operator Telia Company has agreed to sell its Tajik operations to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development
