Category: history

  • Salgirah Mubarak

    Salgirah Mubarak

    My grand father, Sultanali Hasham Noorani was a devout Ismaili. He would wake up at 4 am to pray at the Jamaat Khana.

  • A short summary of my family’s history in Congo

    A short summary of my family’s history in Congo

    Everyone calls me Emilio but my full name is Khalid Emilio. It’s Khalid because I’m of Indian descent and also Nicaraguan on my mother’s side. My father and his father (my grandfather), Sultanali (Sultan), came to the Belgian Congo in the 1950s with his brothers Badhur and Sadru. They were among the first Indian Ismailis…