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Tag: Smithsonian Folklife

Colin Powell, Aga Khan and Kennedy at Smithsonian Folklife Festival Barakah
October 18, 2021October 31, 2021 Malik Merchant, Editor

Flashback June 26, 2002: His Highness the Aga Khan and (Late) US Secretary of State Colin Powell Launch Smithsonian Folklife’s Silk Road Festival

August 10, 2019August 11, 2019 Malik Merchant, Editor

His Highness the Aga Khan’s address at the extraordinary 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival is in US Senate’s Congressional Record

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