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Silk Route Festival 2008 at Gulmit (Photo by PT)

Gulmit is the vibrant capital of Gojal, a valley located 35 kilometers from Karimabad in Hunza. The word ‘gulmit’ means ‘a land of flowers’ in Wakhi, one of the local languages.

Every year, Gulmit sees a number of festivals between the months of March and August, such [...]

Iman Rahim

Iman was born in the beautiful Hunza Valley . He speaks fluent Urdu, English, Japanese, Chinese and several local Chinese dialects. Iman loves traveling; he has trekked through the great Karakorum and Himalaya ranges and traveled extensively in Central Asia , China , Tibet , Inner Mongolia , Europe and Oceana. He [...]

IIS

The Sayyidi Muhammad ‘Ali Hamdani Collection came to The Institute of Ismaili Studies in 2006, thanks to the generosity of Professor and Mrs. Abbas Hamdani of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA). The Collection is extremely important, not only because of the rare and precious manuscripts it contains but because it was formed over generations by scholars [...]