Morningchai

In the News in 2006...

Ismaili Centre to be built in Houston...11/19/06

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Buster Deane/Chronicle

The historic Robinson Warehouse on Allen Parkway has been sold to the Aga Khan Foundation and will be cleared to make room for a Muslim Ismaili center.

Vancouver's Adam Karim garners ranking (35th) in BC Golf Junior Order of Merit...11/19/06
Toronto's Mohammed Dhanani 214 votes shy of City Council seat...11/19/06
Chicago's Aziz Nathani featured in Crains Chicago...11/13/06
Alim Nagji, a second-year McMaster health sciences student was honoured with the Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers by the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration...McMaster News...11/13/06
SFU graduate student Arif Jamal's Masters Thesis features Ismaili immigrants...11/10/06
Vancouver's Nazira Premji featured in Notary Public magazine for her volunteerism...11/10/06

HIS HIGHNESS: The Aga Khan and host Museveni tour the Kampala Serena Hotel after opening it on Friday
New Vision

His Highness the Aga Khan in Kampala for Serena Hotel opening...AllAfrica...AKDN...11/10/06

Serena Hotels invites National Social Security Fund to invest...11/10/06

AKU to expand Karachi campus...11/10/06

His Highness the Aga Khan in Pakistan...11/03/06

His Highness meets Pakistan PM...11/03/06

APP/Sohail Nashir

Prince Charles tours Northern Areas with His Highness the Aga Khan...Photos...The News...Dawn...11/05/06

His Highness the Aga Khan in Central Asia

AKDN/Gary Otte

His Higness the Agakhan in Tajikistan...11/01/06
His Highness the Aga Khan opens Afghan bridge...11/01/06
His Highness the Aga Khan Visits Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan...11/01/068-29 October 2006
Karen Armstrong, British nun turned author, speaks at AKU...11/01/06
Uganda's Ismaili Community host street children in Idd celebration...11/01/06
AKF launches ‘Valleys in Transition: Twenty Years of AKRSP’s Experience in Northern Pakistan’...11/01/06
Wilferd Madelung, Senior Research Fellow at IIS, to receive Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies...11/01/06

Did you know ?...

ISMAILI HEROES

SABZALI RAMZAN ALI, PIR

(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...

Canada: One nation or many ?...11/18/06

AKDN invited to 2nd Regional Economic Conference for Afghan Reconstruction...11/13/06

Pakistan launches Destination Pakistan 2007...11/10/06

AKF sponsors Afghan Trekking Guide Training...11/01/06

(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.)

Tid Bits

Portraits of Afghanistan...11/10/06

(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!!!

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