Professor Leif Stenberg is the Dean of the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). His latest research has been on the various intersections between football, religion ...
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Calgary, Canada It's a rare day when you meet someone whose generosity has impacted the lives of so many others -- someone whose dedication to ...
Business Wire, Toronto, Canada, August 24, 2022Zabeen Hirji, Future of Work Leader and Former Chief Human Resource Officer at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Joins Knockri as a Senior Advisor.From left ...
Cover of the Swahili song titled Malaika, a popular number in Eastern Africa, by Shaheena Karim, music by Karim Fazal, and mixing by Aabid Fazal, with landscapes of Portugal. ...
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA We all belong to many communities. In our school and work communities we encounter others who have common goals, mission, and purpose. In our neighborhoods, a ...
"I was in a small place in Uganda called Fort Portal. We were going to leave that day when the army showed up looking for me, and my husband would just ...
The Ugandan Expulsion at 50, and the 75th anniversary of the Partition of India: A Call for a New Approach to Oral History. Asian communities throughout the world, like various Jewish ...
Arab royals across the decades, through lens of Pakistani family of photographersByAsma Ali Zain, Arab News Pakistan, Dubai The iconic photographs of a flag ceremony in 1971 after the United Arab ...
Fakir Hassen, Johannesburg, August 21, 2022 (PTI) The expulsion of tens of thousands of Asians from Uganda 50 years ago by dictator Idi Amin should be commemorated for the lessons all ...
By Jon Parsons, Faculty of Mathematics Having an undergraduate program upended by the pandemic and the move to remote classes was not just a challenge academically, but also with respect to ...
A stage show titled 90 Days is one family's story of the Uganda Asian expulsion. To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Ugandan exodus of Asians, and based on the ...
Fifty years ago, on 4th August 1972, the Ugandan dictator, General Idi Amin, had served 90 days' notice to around 70,000 Asians to leave the country. Of these, 28,200 held British ...
We are re-starting the journey of Ali & Dilshad Karim highlighting the next leg of their travels along the Silk Road that took place in 2019. These travels took them from ...
Nicole Graham NAIT Media Relations, Edmonton, Canada August 15, 2022 Yasmin Jivraj has been appointed the Chair of the board of governors of Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT).An accomplished entrepreneur ...
Aga Khan University School of Nursing (AKU-SONAM) graduate and former senior instructor Shaista Meghani joins Sujjawal Ahmad in conversation as she receives the 2022 AbSPORU Graduate Studentship in Patient-Oriented Research at ...
August 11, 2022 A community building is currently under construction in downtown Houston, and while it's being built by the city's Ismaili Muslim residents, it will be a place where everyone ...
August 9, 2022 Many Asians expelled by Idi Amin from Uganda 50 years ago have thrived in Canada. When I visited a Ugandan Asian family in Calgary recently, I was amazed ...
A new publication by Dr. Azim Jiwani titled Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible - Memoirs of engagement with a Global Development Network, chronicles almost 40 years of involvement in global health ...
August 4, 2022 An educator with more than 25 years of transdisciplinary and international teaching, research and leadership experience, Dr. Shafik Dharamsi will join The University of North Texas Health Science ...
The Tall Poppy Campaign was created in 1998 by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) to recognise and celebrate Australian intellectual and scientific excellence and to encourage younger Australians ...
Karachi, August 5, 2022: In a first for Pakistan and a big milestone for the nursing fraternity in the country, Dr. Rozina Karmaliani, Dean of the Aga Khan University School of ...
August 4, 2022, Ottawa, Canada The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Asian resettlement: "Fifty years ago, Canada welcomed more than ...
July 29, 2022 Citizen Witness [Kenya] can report that despite being a cohort that started their International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) journey online, the Aga Khan Academy Mombasa's Class of ...
THE necessity for peaceful coexistence has never been so pressing in our history as it is today. Rivets Learning's recent book, "Pakistan Here and Now: Insights into Society, Culture, Identity, and ...
Gilgit-Baltistan is, perhaps, the most spectacular region of Pakistan in terms of its geography and scenic beauty. Moreover, it is strategically close to the heart of Central Asia and is the ...
July 28, 2022 David Eidelman, MDCM, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs),Dean of the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences: I am pleased to announce the appointment of Farhan Bhanji, MD, MSc (Ed), as ...
"No one will feel secure on the Resurrection Day except those who feared God in this world." Hazrat Imam Husayn (a.s) By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA The Secondary Teacher Education Program ...
Nairobi, Kenya, 27 July 2022 - Aga Khan University Hospital has been accredited by the Joint Commission International for the 4th time for providing the highest quality of patient care measured ...
Samina Baig and Natasha Baig of Pakistan bring inspiration to the nation, as both make historical achievements. Samina Baig, who is an Ismaili mountaineer from Pakistan succeeds in climbing K2, the ...
Contributed by Munaza Kazmi Munaza Kazmi holds MPhil in Management Sciences, is a travel writer, an author, and a co-author of scientific contributions in national and international publications.Photo: Munaza Kazmi Joined ...
This challenging question serves as an excellent framework for introducing the concept of "Cancer stem cells" in this article. It broadly echoes some of the many crucial questions surrounding the havoc ...
This book, comprising 100+ recipes to spice up your baby's life, was years in the making. I am very thankful to a whole community of people who saw this project through. ...
Faculty of Education, York University, July 18, 2022 The Robert Tiffin Student Leadership Awards recognize students whose leadership has contributed to the growth, development, and vitality of York University. Both undergraduate ...
"Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, ...
The Living Sea presents the gaze of two friends: Hussain Aga Khan and Simone Piccoli in the extraordinary diversity of the underwater world of three countries: Tonga, Mexico and Egypt. Both ...
A short and powerful poetry chapbook written by Saher Lalani in remembrance of her mother, Dr. Fatima Hashamali, a pediatrician who dedicated her life to caring for vulnerable children in Kenya, ...
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Musharrat Amin Maisha @mushypandaa - July 5, 2022 Although the construction is expected to be finished in 2025, the project has already won the World Architecture Festival Award 2017 in the ...
A new book titled What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field is co-authored by two professors of the The Aga Khan University's Institute for the ...
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Dr. Karima Velji is a health care leader with extensive national and international experience working with health care organizations to develop clinical and academic strategies, executing business/operational plans and quality systems, ...
The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding welcomes Shenila Khoja-Moolji as the new Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies (effective August 1).Shenila Khoja-Moolji. Image: Georgetown University ...
