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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Aiglemont. Thank you for being here. Thank you for participating in this seminar.

Thank you for being part of the courageous group of men and women who have agreed to face a great challenge, one that I have experienced for the last twenty five years, and which leaves me in the same state of perplexity as it did two decades ago when I succeeded to the Ismaili Imamat.

Partings are sad, and all the more so when they separate people with a common bond and a united interest. In this particular case, however, I think we can say a revoir, or “till we meet again,” rather than goodbye. I say this because I believe our commitment to the problem of architecture for Muslims is such that our path must cross again.