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Introduction

Several AKDN agencies and affiliates are active in the USA. Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA), established in 1981 as a private, non-denominational, not-for-profit international organization is committed to the struggle against hunger, disease and illiteracy, primarily in Africa and Asia.

Focus Humanitarian Assistance, which provides aid after disasters usually in developing world contexts, was involved in relief operations after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture, at Harvard and MIT, works to improve the study of Islamic architecture and cultures while the on-line archive and forum ArchNet.org provides a global resource on the study of architecture of the Islamic world.

Contact information

1825 K St., N.W.
Suite 901
Washington, D.C. 20006
Telephone: 202.293.2537
Facsimile: 202.785.1752
Email: info@akfusa.org

 

News Archives

Programme Notes for "New Sounds from Arab Lands"
11 February 2013 - Programme notes for "New Sounds from Arab Lands"

Aga Khan Music Initiative Presents “New Sounds from Arab Lands” in Europe and United States
06 February 2013 - Five eminent performer-composer-improvisers from Syria, Tunisia and Lebanon will tour Europe and the United States from 8 to 28 February 2013 in a tour supported by the Aga Khan Music Initiative. The five musicians exemplify the rising generation of cosmopolitan Arab musicians who combine jazz, classical music, and the microtonal subtleties and myriad melodic modes of Arabic music.

Aga Khan Music Initiative and Smithsonian Folkways Release “Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route”
11 May 2012 - Smithsonian Folkways and the Aga Khan Music Initiative celebrate the tenth and final release of their award-winning "Music of Central Asia" series, a groundbreaking CD/DVD set entitled "Borderlands: Wu Man and Master Musicians from the Silk Route", on 29 May 2012.

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