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In the News in 2006...
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Joulekan Pirbay
reappointed
to Immigration Board...12/11/06
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Vancouver's Aliza Vellani
stars
in new CBC sitcom...12/11/06
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Kastoria in photo
finish
at Hong Kong Vase race...12/09/06
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Pakistan Tourism Minister
praises
efforts of His Highness the Aga Khan's investments in
Northern Pakistan as country launches major tourism
initiative...12/09/06
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Serena Hotels
awarded
Investor Award for Kampala hotel...12/08/06
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Ontario Ismaili Council
hosts
Awards for Excellence...12/08/06
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Rasool Verjee, co-founder of LavaLife,
featured in Toronto Sun...12/08/06
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AKDN to
continue
support for education and health: Aga Khan...12/06/06
Craig Hodge/The Tri-City News
Arif Jamal and his family: his father Shiraz,
mother Zahra and brother Rahim. Arif Jamal, whose parents
emigrated from Kenya, recently
completed
his thesis for a master's degree in
human geography on the subject of migration and education
among Lower Mainland Ismaili people...12/06/06
donate
for Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and
Cultures at Simon Fraser University...12/04/06
Sindh Chief Minister
hosts
His Highness the Aga Khan...12/04/06
273 graduates
awarded
degrees at AKU convocation...12/04/06
AKDN
His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor
Aga Khan University, greeting Princess Zahra Aga Khan,
Member Board of Trustees at AKU Convocation 2006.
Carmine Marinelli/Richmond News
Accountant-turned-activist Azim Jamal has written seven books,
and
recently spoke
at the India Leadership summit
inblive.com
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At the tender age of 24 Sonia
Mackwani has written 2 books and has
founded
her own NGO providing services for those in need...12/04/06
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Vancouver Sun article
features
Burnaby, BC's Alyshah Pirani...12/01/06
Scout leader Alyshah Pirani of Ismaili Colony leads a group
of Beavers in a sing-a-long around a campfire.
Photograph by : Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun
collects
O'Sullevan Award...Telegraph...12/101/06
Did you
know ?...
ISMAILI HEROES
AMIR ALI MUHAMMAD
ORMADAWALA, ITMADI
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(Ed. note: Our sincere thanks
to prolific author
Mumtaz
Ali of
Karachi
for allowing us to share a periodic chronicle of our history
with excerpts from his book "101
Ismaili Heroes".
Interesting Links...
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Uganda:
House of the
Year...12/11/06
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(Ed.
note: Readers continue to tell us how much they love the sites
we find on East African nostalgia - if you know of any we should
share let us know)
Check out
our
Bookmart
for books we are reading...
(Authors include Azim
Jamal, MG Vassanji, Anil Giga, Riaz Manji etc.)
As a convener for the Aga
Khan Award for Architecture, and later as the head of
architectural activities of the secretariat of the Aga Khan
and then as the director of special projects and outreach for
the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Hasan-Uddin Khan
says
he has seen more than his fair share of buildings and
architecture. Khan has authored and edited seven books on
architecture, mostly on Asian architecture and architects, and
Islamic architecture.
Tid Bits
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Philosophy of Sindh’s Sufi poets
highlighted...12/11/06
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Islam and
modernity -
a book review...12/11/06
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(Ed. Note: We will use
this section to bring you news and events that may be of
interest to us all - many readers have asked us to broaden
our content - we will try this out to see if you like it -
let us know!!!
Do you know of any
Ismailis
in the news ? Send it to us
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PROFILES
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Husnen
Rupani, a resource developer and sessional teacher at RMIT
University – TAFE in Melbourne, has been
declared
Engineers Australia’s 2006 Young Engineering Officer of the Year. |
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