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18 year old Muslim student Hammasa
Kohistani, born in Uzbekistan,
wins the 2005
Miss England title and will be at the Miss World's in China this
December...10/20/05
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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!!!)
Interesting
Links...
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In 2001 The Government of Alberta
awarded lifetime
Volunteer achievement awards to Hussein Kanji and Jan Musani...10/19/05
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Yasmin
Alibhai-Brown is a household name in the UK. A
journalist and author she writes a weekly
column for the
New Statesman...10./17/05
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Samosas, Kabab and Mogo - as a youngster that was Ismaili
food to me -
here is an
interesting look at true Khoja cooking...10/14/05
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“Voluntarism is a part of Islam. It has brought me
closer to my faith; it is a part of me. Without it, my life (as a
Muslim) is pointless” --Khadija, American-born Ismaili university
student - quote from Zahra Jamal's research project
in 2003 which
focused on
Voluntarism in Houston's Ismaili community...10/13/05
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BusinessWeek article in November 2001
highlights the
Aga Khan Rural Support Program work in Pakistan...,10/12/05
November 1959
Visit to Los
Alamos Laboratory at UCLA
Maputo, Mozambique
Burnaby, BC
Did you know ?...
ISMAILI HEROES
Varas Abdul Rasul Alidina
Visram
- (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".
In the News in
2005...
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Vancouver's Ismaili Walk for Kids
raises
$200,000...10/13/05
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14 year old Sabrina Ramji
cited by
Calgary Herald for her volunteerism...10/13/05
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UK publication
issues apology
to His Highness the Aga Khan ...Guardian...10/12/05
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Esmail Mansoor,
a boxing name synonymous with the Kampala Aga Khan Club in the 1960's,
passes away at age 72...10/10/05
- Residents, clergy
differ
on Chicago Ismaili center
plans...10/10/05
- His Highness the
Aga Khan to receive Andrew Carnegie Medal of
Philanthropy at ceremony to be
held
in Scotland...AKDN...10/04/05
- His Highness the
Aga Khan
receives
Die Quadriga 2005 Prize in Recognition of
the Work of the Aga Khan Development Network...10/02/05
- Ontario's Shazeen Suleman
is
'Top 20 Under 20'
Award
winner...10/01/05
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Ismailis in the news ? Send it to us
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At 33, Naheed Nenshi has
accomplished a lot in both his professional career and his public service
work; so much, in fact, that the Mount Royal Nonprofit Studies instructor
has
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Since his arrival in Canada in 1988,
Hassanali Lakhani has made significant contributions to the Toronto
Islamic community. Lakhani established the Noor Cultural Centre, which
offers religious, educational, recreational and social programs, with an
emphasis on justice and gender equality.
He was
honoured by York
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M.G. Vassanji is an
award-winning author who has attained eminence in his field in a
remarkably short space of time. Of his six books, three have won
prestigious awards. His first novel, The Gunny Sack, won a
regional Commonwealth Writers Prize, and his two most recent novels –
The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall –
have both won Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize. He was recently
conferred with an
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Rehman Esmail follows his brother
Rahim in US collegiate tennis. Ranked number one in junior singles in
BC while in high school at Coquitlam's Charles Best
Secondary, he also won the Gold Medal at the Western Canada Summer Games.
He is currently a
member of the
University of Texas - Pan American Tennis team...10/06/05 |
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