Samina Baig spoke at Aga Khan University's (AKU) Faculty of Arts and Sciences Library series titled Beyond the Shelves. Karachi, September 8, 2022: "Don't be afraid of failures as you learn ...
Parindey, founded by Sonal Dhanani, is a social enterprise working to build resilient communities through wellness, peace building and mental health programs in Pakistan. In Pakistan and other third world countries, ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for August 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.
UK -- In response to the flooding emergency in Pakistan, The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat Pakistan (AKAH-P) has provided emergency relief supplies, evacuation and shelter support and technical coordination services with funding support from Focus Humanitarian Assistance. Extreme temperatures in early July 2022 led to glacial melting, high river levels and flash flooding throughout Pakistan, intensified by heavy monsoon rainfall. ...
Portugal -- Se a aprendizagem ao longo da vida faz parte da sua forma de estar, então, esta sugestão é mesmo para si! English O Aga Khan Museum leva-nos numa viagem pela Arte Islâmica, dando-nos a conhecer o que está por trás da palavra e da imagem nas diferentes formas de arte - da arquitetura à caligrafia. Propomos-lhe três cursos, que ...
Portugal -- If lifelong learning is part of your way of being, then this suggestion is for you! Portuguese The Aga Khan Museum takes us on a journey through Islamic Art, showing us what lies behind word and image in the different forms of art - from architecture to calligraphy. We are suggesting three courses, which you can take online and ...
Ginans are a vast collection comprising several hundred poetic compositions which have been a central part of the religious life of the Nizari Ismaili community of the Indian subcontinent that today resides in many countries around the world. Derived from the Sanskrit gyan, meaning contemplative knowledge, Ginans refer to the poetic compositions authored by Ismaili Da'is, known as Pirs, who were ...
Who would imagine that undergraduate students curious to learn more about Gujarati, Kachchhi or Sindhi heritage could do so in Canada? What's more, this international research experience studying fascinating topics such ...
Global -- Featuring almost a decade's worth of photos, Prince Hussain's exhibition The Living Sea - Fragile Beauty finally arrived in the UK. Entering the social hall of the Ismaili Centre, London yesterday, visitors found themselves in a dazzling underwater world. Guests at the launch event included Princess Fareen, the Mayor of Kensington and Chelsea, the High Commissioner of Pakistan, senior ...
To coincide with Prince Hussain's exhibition "The Living Sea - Fragile Beauty" currently on display in the UK, The Ismaili is pleased to present Child of The Ocean, produced and performed by the Ismaili Community Ensemble in the UK. For more information on the exhibit, visit #AgaKhan #LivingSea #ClimateChange #SaveOurOceans ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Uganda's former dictator, Idi Amin, expelling the 80,000-member Asian community. Vancouver's Salim Rahemtulla, who never set out to be a playwright, is releasing a special play "90 Days" that tells the story of an Ismaili Muslim family's forced exodus from Uganda in 1972. Salim Rahemtulla's father waited until two days left before the deadline ...
Global -- My blindness is not my weakness, but my greatest strength. I could see one day, but the next I could not. Once I realized I would be blind for the rest of my life, the challenge placed before me cultivated a strong motivation. I wanted to learn new and diverse ways of doing things. Each barrier became a challenge, ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the Conference of #IndigenousPhilanthropy in Islamabad, Pakistan on 17 October 2000. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
"I know welcoming me into your homes every night is not a right; its a privilege. I will work hard with our team to earn and build your trust for that continued privilege. That's my commitment to you. And that is our commitment to you." -- Excerpt from Omar Sachedina's message to CTV viewers, September 5, 2022 ( see link to ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan on receiving the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy in Edinburgh, Scotland on 4 October 2005. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1999: "[One reason the Ummah may disappear is that they] adopt the modern world and forget their traditional values."] ARTICLE: There are about 38 million U.S. households (about 1/3) who live lives significantly persuaded by their faith. New research on these faith households, which include evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims, and Jews, finds that 84% of them "lean conservative." However, major corporations have increasingly left faith-driven households out of their financial equations, claims Brad Benbow, a growth strategist who has advises Fortune 500 companies and co-author of "Spiritugraphics." In their marketing plans, they ignore how people's beliefs drive their decisions." As a culture at Disney, do they view people from traditional and faith-centric families as, essentially, bigots?" he asks. The marketing guru points out that "most of the world" has for millennia viewed "the traditional family model as the norm." Pew Research reports ...
NATIONALPOST.COM -- Elite activists and Big Tech endlessly promote conspiracy theories suggesting religious believers will seize power and force their religious views onto others. While they look upon the faithful with contempt, these elitists hypocritically force their new, godless religion upon the public: wokeness. Wokeness is the belief that discrimination is present at all times. However, wokeness is mostly performative and ritualistic. Its adherents show piety by simply reciting approved political scriptures about alleged injustices and condemning others for not being woke enough, without actually helping anyone overcome injustice. Wokeness appropriates many concepts found in traditional faiths: blasphemers (with "problematic" opinions), heretics (targeted by social media mobs), damnation (cancellation), sin (privilege), righteousness (victimhood) ...
In a Tweet dated September 4, 2022, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Shariff has expressed his indebtedness to Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, for contributing US $10 mission for relief efforts following the severe flooding in Pakistan. He said on his Twitter page: "Deeply indebted to His Highness the Aga Khan for contribution of $10 million for the flood ...
Lisbon, Portugal, 4 September 2022 - The Ismaili Imamat has announced it will be donating US$10 million to support relief efforts following the severe flooding in Pakistan. $5m will be donated directly to the Government of Pakistan while a further $5m will be provided to the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) agencies in the country, which are engaged in the relief ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Our ginans are an invaluable treasure we Ismailis have inherited from our Pirs and sayyids. They can be classified as hymns of devotion and piety; hymns ethical in essence; "venti" (prayer) and metaphysical hymns. I shall limit this discussion to ginans in which firstly the writers make human beings (higher selves or souls) realise their real status and make them aware of the destination they have to reach, and secondly they show the way (tariqa) by which to attain the goal (ma'rifa). In order to discuss this particular sufi content, I have selected most of the verses from Imam Begum's collections because I think she is the most comprehensive of all in this aspect. We must not forget ...
Featured Image at top of post: The floods in Pakistan have turned plains into seas. The featured image shows the district of Qambar on August 4, 2022 (left) and on August 28 (right).The following piece has been adapted from the NASA website. To read the article on NASA that contains additional information and features, please click Devastating Floods in Pakistan - ...
Tune in live from the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada, for the 2022 Lapis Ball & Digital Benefit: The Art of Transformation. The event will bring together the best of our in-person and digital offerings to highlight the Museum's incredible impact on individuals and communities both locally and globally. We look forward to sharing how we have harnessed the power of art ...
TABLETMAG.COM -- We are told that only large, randomized control trials (RCTs), with positive results, can inform us if new treatments are useful. However, "only the RCTs matter" is not the position in mainstream practice. In 2017, the New England Journal of Medicine published a piece by Thomas R. Frieden, former head of the CDC (about as "mainstream" as it gets), in which he said, "Despite their strengths, RCTs have substantial limitations." One problem with RCTs are their "exclusion criteria" which exclude people from a study. So many are used that study samples no longer represent real-world patients. A review of RCTs found that 71.2% were not representative of real-world patients. Many of the patients studied were less sick than real-world patients. That, combined with ...
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 ...
[Much of the material in this post on the floods in Pakistan is reproduced from reports by Voice of America's Lisa Schlein who is based in Geneva. Her full reports on the floods can be read HERE and HERE -- Ed.] "Pakistan is awash in suffering. The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids -- the relentless impact of epochal ...
USA -- Aga Khan University leadership meets with the Jamat in Texas and Georgia The President of the Aga Khan University (AKU), Dr. Sulaiman Shahabuddin, and the Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Pakistan, Dr. Rozina Karmaliani, recently visited Jamats, donors, and alums, in three U.S. cities in Texas and Georgia. They were accompanied by Dr. Zeenat Sulaiman, ...
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 ...
Voice of America's (VOA) 52 DOCUMENTARY is a new documentary series that connects you with the global community through human interest stories. The compelling films allow you to explore new places via spectacular visuals and brilliant storytelling, empowering you to engage with the world in new ways. To watch previews of the 52 DOCUMENTARY series, click HERE. We are pleased to ...
Global -- Weeks of extreme rainfall in Pakistan have caused the world's deadliest flooding for years and have placed the country in a state of emergency. Senator and Federal Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman described the situation as a climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. A combination of rising sea surface temperatures and heatwaves over recent weeks have brought heavy ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the #Africa 2016 Conference on 21 February 2016 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
Islamabad, Pakistan, 29 August 2022 - The Aga Khan Development Network is responding to the devastating floods in Pakistan by evacuating residents to safer areas, and providing food, shelter and health care. Over 1,000 people have died in Pakistan since June, in the worst floods the country has experienced in over a decade. The country is in a state of emergency, ...
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. ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- SEE THE PATTERN -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: At Ismaili Digest we predict James Webb Space Telescope observations will continue to undermine Big Bang Cosmology, leading to the inevitable collapse of the theory. That may, however, spark a crisis amongst many believers who pointed to the Big Bang as evidence of a Creator. We will address this misplaced faith in the Big Bang in an upcoming Ismaili Ignition Paradigm Proposal.] ARTICLE: The first images from the James Web Space Telescope (JWST) are not at all what theorists expected to see and reveal fundamental problems with current theories. For example, JWST images not only show normal galaxy structure much earlier than previously thought possible -- just 400 to 500 million years after the Big Bang -- but analysis of these galaxies shows they have stars that appear to be over a billion years old. In other words, stars created before the Big Bang. Another prediction from the Big Bang is ...
IAI.TV -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: At Ismaili Digest we predict James Webb Space Telescope observations will continue to undermine Big Bang Cosmology, leading to the inevitable collapse of the theory. That may, however, spark a crisis amongst many believers who pointed to the Big Bang as evidence of a Creator. We will address this misplaced faith in the Big Bang in an upcoming Ismaili Ignition Paradigm Proposal.] ARTICLE: In a flood of recently published papers authors report again and again that JWST images show surprisingly more, surprisingly smooth, surprisingly small and surprisingly old galaxies than expected. For decades, the Big Bang hypothesis has been defended as unquestionable truth consequently the new data is causing panic. Indeed, one paper's title begins with the exclamation: "Panic!" "Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning," says professional astronomer Alison Kirkpatrick, "and wondering if everything I've done is wrong." It is not too complicated to explain why these too small, too smooth, too old and too numerous galaxies are ...
USA -- Ten-year-old committed environmentalist wins prize for recycling project This story began with a simple email from Aria's father, who had come upon an ongoing call for an innovative pitch competition named (Re)verse; as he explored the concept in detail, Aria and her passion for upscaling came to mind immediately. The competition focused on Practices and Social Entrepreneurship for Upcycling. ...
NATIONALPOST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: For those unfamiliar, The National/Financial Post is what might be called Canada's "Wall Street Journal."] ARTICLE: The Uganda expulsion created a crisis. Who would take in the 60,000? Most ended up in Britain, but some 6,000 resettled in Canada, many of whom were Ismaili Muslims. Their head, the Aga Khan, personally appealed to his friend, then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. It was the largest settlement of non-European refugees until that point in Canadian history. Despite hardships faced, the Indian immigrants have contributed mightily to the fields of education, science, entrepreneurship, civic engagement and religion in the UK and Canada. For example, across the Atlantic, the frontrunner to be the next Conservative Prime Minister of the UK is Rishi Sunak. His grandparents left India for East Africa and then moved to Britain in the ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Cosmology is that aspect of metaphysics which deals with the origin, creation and evolution of the universe. The doctrine of creation occupies a significant position in all religious and philosophical thought. That it has excited the imagination of man throughout the ages is apparent from the universality of creation and solar myths in all traditions of folklore. However, it is in the context of classical philosophy and religious doctrines that cosmology has entered the stream of modern thought. The dissemination of cosmological knowledge in traditional civilisation was largely confined to esoteric societies. In contrast to the 'descending' scale of both creation and revelation, esoteric doctrines ...
Pakistan -- The Council for Pakistan would like to provide an update on the current economic climate prevalent within the country which remains delicate and there is a need for the Jamat to take careful steps during the present conditions.Urdu Version The Jamat should be aware that:High inflation will continue to impact the price of utilities such as electricity, gas, as ...
[The following book review by Nizar Motani of His Highness the Aga Khan's "Where Hope Takes Root" has been adapted from Barakah's sister website, Simerg. The book was originally published during the Aga Khan's Golden Jubilee Year which was celebrated from July 11, 2007 to December 13, 2008. When originally released, the book was readily available at numerous on-line stores such ...
