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News Flash for Digest + Ignition February 2022 -- Jamat's Choice: Most Popular Articles & Videos
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for February 2022 -- Each month enjoy the most popular new articles and videos viewed by the Jamat from over 36 of the best Ismaili websites with just one click! 'Most popular' means most viewed post(s) on each website (excluding duplicate postings, Event Alerts and COVID-19 advice) without social media influence. NOTE: Posts are randomly ordered.
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A moment in time: Nasir-i Khusraw began his seven-year journey
Nasir Khusraw (1004- ca.1077) was born in Qobadiyan in the district of Marv in the eastern Iranian province of Khurasan. He did well at school, learning Persian and Arabic as well as sciences, literature, mathematics, philosophy, religious sciences, and history. Following his family's tradition, Nasir joined the government bureaucracy in a financial capacity, perhaps as tax collector. He enjoyed to travel ...
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The Fallibility of Experts and What That Means for Your Organization
LEARNINGS.SUBSTACK.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1989: "Knowledge is constantly changing, must ever be challenged and extended." ~~ Hazar Imam, 2003: "The true test [of education] is the ability of students and graduates to engage with what they do not know and to work out a solution."] ARTICLE: In 2019, the WSJ asked senior economists for their 12 month interest rate predictions. And boy, did they turn out to be wrong. All predicted rising rates but rates fell. Although experts are often wrong, we treat their knowledge, when it's outside our fields, as sacrosanct. This is called Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: we can spot flaws in an "expert's" report related to our fields but, when it comes to another field, we treat those "experts" as gurus. Institutions do the same, large ones more so than small ones. Large institutions always an "expert" to which individuals will outsource their thinking. However, it is just as important to try and figure things out for yourself. And if an expert's prediction doesn't make sense to you, ...
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West promised not to expand NATO - Der Spiegel
RT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: While we normally do not post on political matters, we are posting on the situation in Ukraine because it is an invaluable case study about Western media.] ARTICLE: Putin was right, Stoltenberg was wrong: NATO "brazenly deceived" Russia about expansion. A newly discovered British document confirms NATO pledged not to expand eastward towards Russia, proving Moscow right, a top German weekly discovers. The document are the minutes of a March 6, 1991 meeting between political directors of the foreign ministries of the US, UK, France, and Germany. "We had made it clear during the 2+4 negotiations that we would not extend NATO beyond the Elbe [sic]," said West German diplomat Juergen Hrobog. "We could not therefore offer Poland and others membership in NATO." NATO admitted Poland, Hungary, and Czechia in March 1999, just before launching an air war against Yugoslavia without the permission of the UN Security Council. This put NATO directly on the Russian border for the first time ever. The next round of expansion, in 2004, included Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, placing NATO's eastern frontier just ...
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What's Really Going on: Why Putin Invaded Ukraine - Maajid Nawaz
MAAJIDNAWAZ.SUBSTACK.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: While we normally do not post on political matters, we are posting on the situation in Ukraine because it is an invaluable case study about Western media.] ARTICLE: NATO promised Russia it would not expand Eastwards, however this BBC map depicts NATO's eastward expansion since 1997. It explains why Russian felt threatened by the 2014, Western backed, bloody Maidan uprising that led to a Ukraine regime change and Ukraine's touted and potential NATO membership. This was a red line for Russia. In the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, America feared Soviet nuclear missiles placed 103 miles from the US border. We have now returned to similar tensions, but in reverse. Then there's the eight year war in Donbas, which you would be forgiven for not knowing about due to a media blackout. Perhaps they were ashamed that we directly funded and armed the Azov who were, after all, documented by the UN as having committing war-crimes and atrocities. With this background, and context, it is now possible to understand Russia's interests in Ukraine, and how to ...
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Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1996: "For centuries, the press has cast itself as the champion of understanding and enlightenment. And yet, even as the press has become more international, it has often left a trail of misunderstanding in its wake." ~~ Hazar Imam: 2015: "Is that message clear? You listen to people you don't like!"] ARTICLE: The double standards are glaring and everywhere. Suddenly it's sexy to make improvised explosives. Western journalists' support for Ukraine's civilian "resistance" must be maddening to Palestinians in tiny Gaza, confined to a cage by a military occupier for decades. Russia's intervention in Ukraine has gotten much more coverage, in just 24 hours, than the US-Saudi war on Yemen in 7 years despite 377,000 dead. In the midst of this rampant, often unhinged western war propaganda, especially from the BBC, the British state broadcaster, Europe has banned Russia's state broadcaster, RT. Obviously RT's editorial line is generally sympathetic to Moscow's positions, just as the BBC's is generally sympathetic to Britain's positions. But the problem for western audiences is not exposure to Russian state propaganda, it is constant exposure to relentless western state propaganda. We need voices from Russia to understand what Putin thinks and wants, not what the BBC's "chief international correspondents" think he wants. And most of all we need ...
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Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) Ismaili Festivals Book Launches in Series of Popular Events
News story -- Ismaili Festivals: Stories of Celebration by Dr Shiraz Kabani, the first title in the IIS's Living Ismaili Traditions series, has launched in recent weeks at a series of popular events. The first launch, hosted by the IIS and ITREB UK, took place at the Ismaili Centre, London, on February 10th and was streamed live by The Ismaili TV. It ...
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Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) International Women's Day: IIS Women on Working at the Institute
News story -- For International Women's Day, seven women from across the IIS spoke to us about the joys and challenges of their jobs, their paths to the Institute, and the women who inspired them along the way. Interviewees: Remi Adebiyi (Human Resources Advisor); Shola Ajilore (Project Manager, Department of Curriculum Studies); Rosa Barugh (Academic Support Programmes Manager, Department of Graduate Studies); ...
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The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
FIRSTTHINGS.COM -- Michael Crichton: "The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well.... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.... In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies ...
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Ismaili Graduates Form Research Group -- BoAI Vol #1
GOOGLE.COM -- Rai Sadaruddin said Ismailis ought not be ashamed of digging out from original sources things which are in their favour. While it was all very well to say that research had to be objective and impartial, most researchers in Ismailism seemed to have prejudiced views, and the "objectivity" and "impartiality" now lay in attempts to remove these prejudices. Ismaili scholars alone could do this ... This did not mean, however, that Ismaili scholars should twist points in their favour. All they needed to do was to discover more facts. Research students were led away by academic sentiments about being objective, which had been hammered into them, and no doubt quite correctly by their instructors. Rai Sadaruddin had no quarrel with that, but felt the time had come when Ismaili researchers should pause to think how they could, through no less objective research, remove the ...
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International Stakes success for Aga Khan sires
New Stakes winners Down Under for Siyouni and Sea The Stars. Both SIYOUNI and SEA THE STARS posted new Stakes winners in Australia over the weekend. In Perth, SIYOUNI two-year-old Amelia's Jewel lived up to her pre-race hype by winning the Listed Supremacy Stakes in decisive fashion on her racecourse debut. The exciting filly is out of Irish Stakes winner Bumbasina ...
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A importância de dar sangue
Portugal -- Já pensou que ao dar sangue pode ajudar a salvar mais que uma vida? A dádiva de sangue é um ato voluntário, seguro e simples que não tem repercussões negativas na saúde da pessoa que faz a dádiva, e pode ser realizada em menos de uma hora. Num adulto, cerca de 4,5 a 5,5 litros de sangue circulam pelo ...
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Estágios Global Encounters
Portugal -- O programa de estágios do Global Encounters, criado em 2019, apoia alunos pós-universitários e jovens profissionais na criação de uma carreira caracterizada por liderança, pluralismo e ações em favor da humanidade. Destinando-se a jovens universitários e recém-graduados, é uma ótima oportunidade para criar um currículo com experiência em instituições de excelência, desenvolver conhecimento em diferentes áreas e desenvolvimento pessoal. ...
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Volunteer work
Portugal -- The pre-primary children from Dar-at-Ta'lim classes volunteered in support of the most vulnerable. Portuguese The Dar-at-Ta'lim school aims to promote, in its students, values, social awareness, critical thinking and creativity, always in accordance with the ethics of Islam. Through examples and stories, during the second term, 4 and 5-year-olds learned about the personality, character and values of Prophet Muhammad, ...
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Ação de voluntariado
Portugal -- Os alunos da Infantil do Dar-at-Ta'lim fizeram voluntariado em prol dos mais vulneráveis. English A escola de Dar-at-Ta'lim procura promover, nos seus alunos, valores, consciência social, pensamento crítico e criatividade, sempre acompanhados pela ética do Islão. Através de exemplos e histórias, ao longo do 2º período, os alunos de 4 e 5 anos aprenderam sobre a personalidade, carácter e ...
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Multi-campus convocation marks milestone for AKU
Global -- Graduands, faculty, staff, and special guests gathered for an exciting event full of energy and enthusiasm to celebrate the achievements of the Aga Khan University's Class of 2021. The multi-campus convocation brought together AKU's graduating classes in Kenya, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, and the UK -- a total of 664 graduands -- who were joined virtually by parents, friends, and ...
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The Prophet and the Imams: How are they connected?
Global -- The Imams of the Shia Ismaili Muslims are direct descendants of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family). They trace their lineage through an unbroken line of hereditary male descent from the Prophet's daughter, Bibi Fatima (peace be upon her), and her husband, who was also the Prophet's first cousin, Hazrat Ali (peace be upon him). In ...
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The positive power of women's education
Global -- Today, more girls attend school than ever before. Yet, despite this progress, women and girls continue to face barriers to education. Jamati and AKDN institutions have long strived to remove these barriers and still believe that investing in girls' education can transform communities and societies around the world. Women's education is a worldwide issue, not restricted to any one ...
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GALLERY:
Breaking the bias
"If every child could grow up with a father and a mother, both of whom love and care for the child, ours would be a much better world." -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Imagine a world free of bias. Workplaces free of glass ceilings and pay gaps between men and women, with equal parental leave for new moms and dads alike. ...
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