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18th August 2021
GPISH (2018) alumna Semina Halani received a scholarship from Harvard University to attend a four-week Institute of World Literature Summer Programme in July.
17th August 2021
WTEP (1994) alumna Nazneen Lakhani attended the G7 Summit as a Hindi Interpreter in June. Here she gives an insight into her experience, which included working with India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi.
12th August 2021
Professor Ali Asani, who teaches on the GPISH programme and is a member of the IIS’s Board of Governors, has been awarded the Harvard University 2021 Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
11th August 2021
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz, who was appointed alongside five other leading figures in arts, business and culture, also serves on the IIS’s Board of Governors.
10th August 2021
Zulfiqar Khimani has recently been promoted to Educational Programmes Manager in the Department of Community Relations. Here he talks about his new role and his plans for the unit.
5th August 2021
The IIS Student Recognition Awards were held at the Aga Khan Centre on July 29th, with students, faculty and staff attending.
2nd August 2021
In this interview, second-year GPISH student Nabila Walji talks about her first exhibition, UnBelonging in my Fatherland, and how GPISH has helped her practice develop.
15th July 2021
Dr Otambek Mastibekov, Manuscript Researcher and Cataloguer in the Ismaili Special Collections Unit, set up Maktab-i Madḥiya-khānī in Tajikistan in 2011.
13th July 2021
It is with deep sadness that the IIS announces the untimely loss of Dr Janis Esots, colleague and esteemed scholar.
8th July 2021
Created specifically for the Jamat, Living Ismaili Traditions is the IIS’s first in-house series and will launch on September 2nd with Ismaili Festivals: Stories of Celebration by Dr Shiraz Kabani.