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Message from Mawlana Hazar Imam on the occasion of Imamat Day - 4 February 2026
Posted February 10th, 2026 by librarian-hdAs I complete the first year of my Imamat, I have been deeply touched by the warm messages of congratulations received from around the world.
I convey my heartfelt thanks to the numerous world leaders and partners of the Ismaili Imamat and our institutions who have welcomed me during the past year. Their enduring friendship is a source of happiness and pride.
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Prince Hussain delivers presentation for 'Our Living Ocean' at Geneva Graduate Institute 2025-09-23
Posted October 2nd, 2025 by librarian-hdLast week, Prince Hussain delivered a keynote speech to students, partners, and fellow conservationists for ‘Our Living Ocean,’ in partnership with @wwf & @graduateinstitute in Geneva.
The event focused on solutions for a productive and resilient ocean, sustaining people and nature.
Prince Hussain said the following;
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But we can do better, you and I.
Forgive me, please, if I make mistakes, because I spend most of my time
trying to communicate with fish, cephalopods, seagrass, orchinoderms, not
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Our Living Sea exhibition attended by Hazar Imam Shah Rahim
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Happy Birthday Princess Zahra
Princess Zahra was born September 18, 1970 in Geneva, Switzerland. She is the first-born child and only daughter of His Highness Aga Khan IV. She attended Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland and later graduated from Harvard University.
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Imamat Day Mubarak
Posted July 10th, 2021 by librarian-hdIn His Last Will and Testament, our 48th Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah appointed "Karim, the son of my son" to be the Imam and Pir of all Ismailis
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Interview of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan by Annick Billard of
Posted April 12th, 2021 by librarian-hdInterview with Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Co-ordinator for United Nations Humanitarian and Economic Assistance Programmes relating to Afghanistan By Annick Billard (Courtesy Refugees - November 1988) Following the historic agreement signed in Geneva on 14 April 1988 between Afghanistan and Pakistan, on 11 May, the U.N. Secretary General appointed Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan to the position of Co-ordinator for United Nations Humanitarian and Economic Assistance Programmes relating to Afghanistan.
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Birth of Prince Irfan - first son of Prince Rahim
Posted April 11th, 2021 by librarian-hdPrince Irfan was born in Geneva, Switzerland on 11th April 2015 to Prince Rahim and Princess Salwa Aga Khan
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Birth of Prince Irfan - first son of Prince Rahim 2015-04-11
Posted April 11th, 2021 by librarian-hdPrince Irfan was born in Geneva, Switzerland on 11th April 2015 to Prince Rahim and Princess Salwa Aga Khan
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Prince Hussain at the Living Sea exhibition
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Prince Hussain Birthday
Happy Birthday Prince Hussain. Born April 10, 1974 in Geneva, Switzerland
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Wedding of Mowlana Sultan Muhammad Shah and Yvette Labrousse (Mata Salamat) 1944-10-10
Posted February 21st, 2021 by librarian-hdThe Ismailia community of Africa celebrated the marriage of Mowlana Sultan Muhammad Shah and Begum Mata Salamat (Yvette Labrousse) held in Geneva, Switzerland on 10th October, 1944
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Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan signs a giant version of a new manifesto of the European Committee for Improvements in the Transportation of Farm Animals in London, December 1, 1993.
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LIVING SEA - photo essay by Prince Hussain Aga Khan
Posted December 26th, 2020 by librarian-hdI would like to ABSOLUTELY thank Marta, who has been amazing and inspiring… encouraging and unbelievably supportive throughout.
And for giving me a platform and outreach capacity I never dreamed I might have.
It is such an immense honor for me to be here today… And it always feels like so many other people are more deserving, have been doing
this for longer and are more technically competent.
Never in my life did I dream I would become a wildlife photographer – despite spending hundreds of hours as a child looking at
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A Man For All Nations - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
Posted December 16th, 2020 by librarian-hdOn a clear day, with binoculars, you can look across lake Geneva from Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan's office to the towers of his seventh century Chateau Bellerive, at least you could until yesterday, when he resigned after 12 years as UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Outside are well-kept lawns, winding paths, splendid great evergreens. It all seems a million miles away from the squalor and misery one associates with the very word refugee.
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Happy 84th Birthday our beloved Hazar Imam
Our Beloved Hazar Imam celebrates His 84th Salgirah Mubarak on December 13, 2020 in the 64th year of His ascension to the throne of Imamat
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Happy Birthday Sara Boyden Aga Khan
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Happy Birthday Prince Rahim
Prince Rahim celebrates his 49th birthday this week on Monday. Prince Rahim was born in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday October 12th 1971
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H.H. THE AGA KHAN'S REVIEW AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ON ADJOURNMENT OF THE SESSION 1937-10-06
Posted September 27th, 2020 by librarian-hdOctober 6, 1937 - Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan III made a Presidential Review at the Adjournment of the 18th session of the League of Nations at Geneva. He said, 'The tribulations of one people are the tribulations of all. That which weakens one weakens all. That which is a gain to one is surely a gain to all. This is no empty ideal...'
H.H. THE AGA KHAN'S REVIEW AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ON ADJOURNMENT OF THE SESSION
Geneva
6th October 1937
18th Session
THE AGA KHAN'S PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW
Ladies and Gentlemen,
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Prince Amyn Aga Khan
Prince Amyn Muhammad celebrates his 83rd birthday. Born in Geneva on September 12th 1937 to Prince Aly Khan and Princess Tajuddawlah Aga Khan (née Joan Yarde-Buller).
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Prince Sadruddin: Interview with The Unesco Courier 1991-05-01
Posted September 6th, 2020 by librarian-hdUNESCO Courier May 1991.
Courier: You have been associated with the United Nations system for many years. Did you feel a vocation to serve the UN?
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