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Speech by Prince Rahim Aga Khan at the Kusi Ideas Festival 2022 2022-12-08
Posted December 29th, 2022 by librarian-hdDecember 8, 2022
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I would like to congratulate the Nation Media Group on holding this fourth edition of the global award-winning Kusi Ideas Festival.
Since it was founded by His Highness the Aga Khan in 1959, during the struggle for independence and Pan-Africanism, the Group’s path has been closely entwined with the history of Kenya, of East Africa and of the African continent.
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Prince Rahim Aga Khan addressed the Kusi Ideas Festival: Climate Change: Exploring African Responses and Solutions 2022-12-08
Posted December 29th, 2022 by librarian-hdNairobi, Kenya, 8-9 December 2022 – ‘’Climate change is the most crucial existential phenomenon that Africa, and indeed the world, is currently facing,” said Prince Rahim Aga Khan. He was delivering an address virtually, to an audience of distinguished guests gathered in Nairobi’s Karura Forest, during the opening of the Nation Media Group’s (NMG) fourth edition of the Kusi Ideas Festival: Climate Change: Exploring African Responses and Solutions.
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Speech by Prince Hussain Aga Khan at AKU President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions 2022-12-02
Posted December 24th, 2022 by librarian-hdSpeech by Prince Hussain Aga Khan
At the Aga Khan University, Pakistan
December 2022
First and foremost, I want to applaud everyone who participated in the President’s challenge for climate solutions.
Climate change is a subject that we hear about constantly. It is on the front page of newspapers. It is the subject of films, television shows and books. It is discussed by world leaders at high-profile events and by millions of people on social media. Yet the volume of attention still exceeds the appetite for action.
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Speech by Prince Rahim Aga Khan at the Inauguration of the Aga Khan Academy Maputo 2022-03-20
Posted December 11th, 2022 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency, President Nyusi, Republic of Mozambique
Your Excellency, President Marcelo of the Portuguese Republic
Your Excellency, President Chissano
Honourable ministers and excellencies
Students, parents, and staff of the Aga Khan Academy
Todo protocol compredo
Ladies and gentlemen
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Speech by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan - Earth on the Market 2002-12-19
Posted December 7th, 2022 by librarian-hdDespite all the hype, the UN-sponsored world summit on sustainable development in South Africa in August could not introduce any real constraints because they would have meant re-examining globalisation. So could sustainable development just be a pretext for maintaining a growth that must be, by nature, destructive to the environment?
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Speech by Princess Zahra Aga Khan at the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture ceremony in Muscat, Oman 2022-10-31
Posted November 26th, 2022 by librarian-hdBismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim,
Your Highness Sayyid Theyazin bin Haitam Al Said,
Your Highnesses,
Members of the Diplomatic Corps,
Excellencies,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As-salaam-o-aleikum.
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Speech by H.H. The Aga Khan at the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Closing Ceremony, Marrakech 1986-11-25
Posted November 17th, 2022 by librarian-hdYour Royal Highness, Your Excellencies Ministers of Culture, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
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Prince Rahim addresses guests after signing the Agreement of Cooperation with the Province of British Columbia 2022-09-29

Prince Rahim and Princess Zahra represented Mawlana Hazar Imam at a special ceremony and luncheon today in Vancouver to sign an Agreement of Cooperation between the Ismaili Imamat and the Province of British Columbia.
The parties will work together to improve the quality of life of vulnerable individuals around the world, beginning by addressing growing global challenges around the environment and climate.
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Remarks by Prince Rahim Aga Khan at the Agreement of Cooperation between Ismaili Imamat and British Columbia 2022-09-29
Posted October 8th, 2022 by librarian-hdRemarks by Prince Rahim Aga Khan at the Agreement of Cooperation between the Ismaili Imamat
and the Government of British Columbia
(source: Video the.Ismaili)
September 29, 2022
….British Columbia’s knowledge , combined with the Aga Khan Development Network’s field experience, will enable us to help protect our fragile world and create a better quality of life for the many people who are already suffering from the effects of climate catastrophe.
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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 October 4th, 2022 by librarian-hdGeneva
6th October 1937
18th Session
THE AGA KHAN'S PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your work for the time being is at an end. But I have still a duty to perform.
Thanks.
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Speech by Prince Amyn in Houston 2022-07-11

Shortly after his arrival in Houston yesterday, Prince Amyn met with Houston Mayor, the Honorable Sylvester Turner at City Hall. During their meeting, the Mayor bestowed Prince Amyn with an Honorary Citizenship of the City of Houston.
Prince Amyn is in Houston to review progress on the construction of the Ismaili Center, Houston — a new building incorporating spaces for social and cultural gathering, intellectual engagement, reflection, and spiritual contemplation being built by the Ismaili Community across from Buffalo Bayou Park in the heart of Houston.
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Speech by Prince Amyn Muhammad during the discussion of the Houston Ismaili Center with Mayor Turner 2022-07-11
Posted September 4th, 2022 by librarian-hdHouston, Texas
11th August 2022
Bismillah-ir-Raheman nir Rahim
Mayor Turner, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen
Thank you very much.
Like you, dear Mayor, dear friends, I am amazed by the film that we just saw. I don’t know how it was made. My worry is that people who saw it would think that the building was already there. And when they finally see the building in a year and a bit, they will say “where have all the yellow flowers gone?” They were so pretty (laughter)
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Address by Princess Zahra Aga Khan at the 2022 UCA graduation ceremony 2022-06-22
Posted June 22nd, 2022 by librarian-hdBismillah ir Rehman ir Rahim
Your Excellency the Governor of GBAO, Alisher Mirzanobot,
Your Excellency the Governor of Naryn, Sabyrkul Ashimbaev,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and Members of the Board,
Rector Sohail Naqvi,
Dean Maxim Khomyakov and the Faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences,
Generous donors and friends of UCA around the world,
Parents and family members,
Distinguished guests,
And dear graduates of the class of 2022,
Parents and family members,
Distinguished guests,
And dear graduates of the class of 2022,
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Address by Princess Zahra Aga Khan at the 2022 UCA graduation ceremony 2022-06-22
Posted June 22nd, 2022 by librarian-hdBismillah ir Rehman ir Rahim
Your Excellency the Governor of GBAO, Alisher Mirzanobot,
Your Excellency the Governor of Naryn, Sabyrkul Ashimbaev,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and Members of the Board,
Rector Sohail Naqvi,
Dean Maxim Khomyakov and the Faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences,
Generous donors and friends of UCA around the world,
Parents and family members,
Distinguished guests,
And dear graduates of the class of 2022,
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Speech of Mawlana Hazar Imam at a public meeting at the Concert Hall - Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 1995-05-27
Posted May 5th, 2022 by librarian-hdYour Excellency President Rakhmanov
Distinguished Guests
Dear Friends
Today's gathering is a remarkable event. It brings together people from the many parts of Tajikistan, a country that, though small, has a rich and challenging diversity. It brings together representatives of a variety of neighboring and distant countries that wish well to the people of Tajikistan. It brings together religious and secular leaders deeply concerned with the future of Tajikistan’s people.
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Hazar Imam's Remarks upon receiving the Rockefeller Leadership Award 2012-10-22

Thank you so much
As I have done my work, over the past decades, I’ve concluded that one of the most important forces in development is civil society. If you think about the countries around the world which have had fragile governments but which have still made progress, there are umpteen examples of countries which have made progress, because they have had strong civil society.
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