A new forum of Ismaili knowledge-seekers has recently been launched with hopes of stand-out speakers highlighting each on-line event every quarter.
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Dr Tashmin Khamis of AKU appointed as a member of the Global Teaching Excellence Award judging panel
The Aga Khan University is proud to announce the appointment of Dr Tashmin Khamis, the Founding Director of AKU’s Networks of Quality Assurance and Improvement (QAI_net) and Teaching and Learning (TL_net), as a member of the international judging panel for the UK Higher Education Academy’s Global Teaching Excellence Award.
Irfanali Moledina is a natural entrepreneur who started an essential oils business in Calgary
Salima is a finance executive with international experience directing corporate strategy and building high-performance teams.
There’s a new director of finance at the City of Burnaby. Noreen Kassam takes over for Denise Jorgenson, who recently retired from the city after three decades.
Gulnara Kamal, head teacher at Diamond Jubilee (DJ) Middle School, Gitch (Gilgit-Baltistan)
Shelina Adatia specializes in teaching French as a Second Language and in Muslim Societies and Civilisations. In 2012, she completed a double Masters program at the Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance and the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. joined together to help Egyptians face challenges with a program called Head Start! for Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment,
“The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) introduced mosques in Madinah as a multi-dimensional space — as administrative office, shelter, educational institute and even as a nursing space.
Translated from the Gujarati by Zahir K. Dhalla Habib Lalani was born in British India…
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
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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Fearful that Persia’s history would be forgotten, Abu’l-Qasim Firdawsi (940-1020) composed the Shahnama (Book of Kings), comprising more than 60,000 rhyming couplets
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