A Profile in Muslim Social Consciousness: The Aga Khan Development Network

A Profile in Muslim Social Consciousness: The Aga Khan Development Network
by TAUFIQ RAHIM & QAHIR DHANANI
If you visited the Darb al-Ahmar district in Old Cairo a few years ago, you would have found a neglected neighborhood replete with economic and social difficulties, dilapidated houses and large-scale unemployment. Adjacent to it, you would have seen a [...]

BoOk: Aga Khan Museum Toronto

Synopsis
Nearly twenty acres in suburban Toronto are beingtransformed to create a showplace for Islamic art and culturethat will be unlike anything in the Western Hemisphere. Thisvolume includes the plans for and explores the concept behindthis important project. It explains why the Aga Khan choseToronto as the location to exhibit his family’s substantialcollection of Islamic art [...]

Microsoft & Aga Khan Foundation to collaborate to help underserved communities in Africa & Asia

 At Microsoft HQ, Michael Rawding, vice president of the Unlimited Potential Group at Microsoft, and Iqbal Noor Ali, CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in the development of innovative technology solutions and human resource capacity through education, health, civil society, financial services, rural livelihoods and economic development [...]