Welcome to F.I.E.L.D.- the First Ismaili Electronic Library and Database.
Home

quote

in

Your incessant and drenching downpours in Tanganyika which you so happily call 'short rains' will no doubt give you similar worries. I only wish they did not strike everywhere I go. Life gets soggy. I have nicknamed my own private cloud, 'deluge'.

SPEECH AT THE DAR-ES-SALAAM CULTURAL SOCIETY - 1957-11-25

Posted March 24th, 2010 by heritage
in
1961-62 speech.jpg
Source: 
Speeches Book I,(1958) pp. 20-36, Paigham-e-Imamat, pp. 58-68

Mr President, Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen

I have been asked to speak to you about Harvard University and studies of the Middle East. This is a double-barrelled topic which would take many hours to exhaust, but I hope in my own small way to be able to point out how the research work done in today's most advanced universities has and, I believe, will continue to contribute to solving some of the area's thorniest problems.

  • 864 reads


Back to top