The British Columbia Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards are held annually to honour British Columbians for their leadership in promoting multiculturalism and addressing racism. This year's ceremony was held virtually on March ...
Tatuli Abuladze plays an instrumental version of a popular Ukrainian folk song "Plyve Kacha" with her 1872 antique French cello. She is playing this sad song about war from a bomb ...
Honoured guest, your presence inspires the curious imagination, and foretells the signs of great blossoming. Spring Equinox, you are lovelier than all the other equinoxes combined, for I bear testament to ...
Let the once dead earth be a sign to them. We gave it life, and from it produced grain for their sustenance. We planted it with palm and the vine and ...
An original film production (Navroz 2021). Zoya, a healthcare professional in her early 30s, finds herself struggling with feelings of boredom and anxiety during the pandemic. Covering her life from #Navroz ...
JollyGul.com special presentation to celebrate Nowruz. "Jashn-e Nowruz" is an original song being presented in 3 languages - Wakhi, Farsi and Urdu. The song is based on a poetry by Fazal ...
After a humbling experience with Ilm-e-Noor and Ilm-e-Haqiqat, I present with love and gratitude to all my brothers and sisters, my next Ginan album, Ilm-e-Maarifat, consisting of ten Ginans and Qasidas. ...
The new three-part documentary series, beginning on July 5 on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video app, follows a young Muslim American couple -- rapper Mona Haydar and her husband Sebastian ...
The Shi'i Ismaili Muslims of Central Asia have a complex political history. This open access book is the first English-language study of the Ismaili Muslims in this region, based on analysis ...
Nomsa Maseko, BBC News A virtual gallery to showcase Mali's cultural history has been launched, featuring tens of thousands of Timbuktu's ancient manuscripts. The manuscripts were smuggled to safety from Timbuktu ...
Musician Afraaz Mulji, a connoisseur and patron of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, reflects on various aspects of life in his compendium. He notes: "At the request of numerous mentors, and ...
Winners of the South Australia 2021 Governor's Multicultural Awards were announced at a small award ceremony at Government House on Thursday 10 March 2022.Source: dpc.sa.gov.au The awards were presented by Her ...
Conservation Agriculture (the use of no tillage systems) to preserve soil structure and integrity has become an increasingly important step towards sustainable farming. This book brings together conservation agriculture and climate ...
"Since high school I have always been fascinated by my lab classes. When I first came to AKU-CRM, I was looking forward to better my understanding on translational medicine and how ...
[The Preservation Rover mission] made me internalize the importance of us as humans being stewards of our planet and having to take care of it." - Farah AlibayImage source: NASA.gov Farah ...
Street Children's Assistance for Nakuru Networks (SCANN) was founded in 1997 to provide homeless children with an education for a better society in the areas of Kabachia and Kisulisuli near Nakuru, ...
Piano composition by contemporary multi-instrumentalist Afraaz Mulji is inspired by a 16th-century music manuscript in the exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. ...
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA What is civil society? This phrase was uncommon in Western discourse before the 1980s, and so it may still be unfamiliar to many people. In simple ...
Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, ...
Case StudyBy Zuzanna Błajet - Abstract The mass influx of people from the former republics of the Soviet Union has resulted in 'migration' and 'integration' being one of the central foci ...
The Theremin is a musical instrument controlled entirely without physical contact. One of the most intriguing inventions, it "revolutionised music as the predecessor of the modern synthesiser, among others. When radio ...
An estimated 14 million children around the world suffer from acute malnutrition, but a Rhode Island (USA) mother of four - Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of Edesia Nutrition - is ...
Hasan Ali Khan: "...we came upon a well-maintained property with a palatial gate, and a plaque that read: The palace of the first Aga Khan Hasan Ali Shah, date: 1843. Our ...
H Ahmed presents a heartwarming rendition of the nasheed "Tala Al Badru" originally attributed to Ansars (the Helpers), the local inhabitants of Medina who took Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his early ...
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi, better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi, one of the major intellectual scholars of the thirteenthcentury who contributed to many fields of learning, was born on ...
Professor Amir Kassam, University of Reading, UK and Moderator, Global Conservation Agriculture Community of Practice (CA-CoP), FAO, Italy, has edited a third volume in a series on the adoption of Conservation ...
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 ...
Islam has a long history in the People's Republic of China, dating to the seventh century. The earliest Muslims in China were traders who came to the south eastern ports as ...
Nairobi, Kenya, February 7 - The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUH, N) has appointed Rashid Khalani as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). A statement from the institution indicated that ...
Toronto, Canada, January 24, 2022 /CNW - The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) is thrilled to announce that, after an extensive national and international search, Dr. Rahim Karim has accepted ...
Faith and Ethics: The Vision of the Ismaili Imamat, by M. Ali Lakhani, I. B. Tauris, London/New York, 2018 This book is important for several reasons. First, as stated by the ...
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Following the death of Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mustansir bi'llah in 1094, there was a dispute over his successor between his two sons Abu Mansur Nizar and Abu al-Qasim Ahmad, known as al-Musta'li ...
An exhibition on the pioneering scholar of Ismailis studies at the Aga Khan Centre, London, UK, until 31 March 2022. This exhibition (which opened on 1 December 2021) follows the pioneering ...
The World Interfaith Harmony Week (February 1 to 7) is based on the pioneering work of A Common Word initiative, started in 2007, which called for Muslim and Christian leaders to ...
By Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA Over the past few months, we have focused on several concepts which are integral to the understanding of Islam. [Please read my previous articles here ] ...
February 1 to 7 is World Interfaith Harmony Week, an annual observance by the United Nations (UN). This initiative was first proposed at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010 ...
Vancouver Magazine: Generally speaking, we like to define power as impactful and influential, but power, in 2022, seems to lie less often in the CEO office ... and is found instead ...
The concept of Paradise as a garden is an ancient one pre-dating the Abrahamic faiths by centuries. Paradise - from the ancient Persian paradesion, pairi meaning 'around,' and daeza meaning 'to ...
"I'm an artist, self-taught designer, and educator. I was born and raised in Europe with nothing more than some pencils, my laptop, and passion. Sandy Kurt Art by Sandy KurtArt by ...
South-African born Sumayya Vally's design, research, and pedagogical practice, Counterspace, is centred on finding form and expression for hybrid identities and contested territories. Sumayya's work is often forensic and draws on ...
