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 ...
Global -- As anticipation for the upcoming Ismaili Center in Houston continues to build, Prince Amyn joined Honorable Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner earlier today to engage in a dialogue around what the Center will represent. President Al-Karim Alidina of the Ismaili Council for the USA welcomed guests to the luncheon hosted in downtown Houston, and expressed the Jamat's gratitude to ...
TKN -- "When moving to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in November 2020 from the United States, I was clueless what I would be doing in a city I had not known before - geographically, culturally, linguistically or any other way..." reminisces Shireen about her move to not only a new city but a new continent, 20 months ago. "However, I had one observation ...
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 ...
Global -- Shortly after his arrival in Houston yesterday, Prince Amyn met with Houston Mayor, the Honorable Sylvester Turner at City Hall. During their meeting, the Mayor bestowed Prince Amyn with an Honorary Citizenship of the City of Houston. Prince Amyn is in Houston to review progress on the construction of the Ismaili Center, Houston -- a new building incorporating spaces ...
Imagine creating patterns that bring life to the interior and exterior of buildings. Using the painting of Shahnameh from the Museum's Collection as inspiration, what new patterns and shapes can you think of creating? Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn more about how you can support the Museum ...
This week, let's think about geometry and learn how to bring it into our art. Using pieces from the Museum's collection as inspiration, take a look at this video to learn how you can draw and decorate an eight pointed star through the principles of geometry. Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote ...
With the arrival of spring, you can build your own Persian garden with all the flowers, plants and animals that you love, using The Museum's Wagner Garden Carpet as inspiration. For more #MuseumWithoutWalls activities for kids, go to . Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn more about how you ...
What is in your universe? What is part of your world and what do you think is around us far out in space? This Family Sunday activity challenges us to think about our place in the world and the universe at large. For more #MuseumWithoutWalls activities for kids, go to Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to ...
Using eL Seed's majestic art display at the Aga Khan Museum as inspiration, see if your friends and family can guess the secret word or message that you choose to hide within your own art! Grab some art supplies, watch the video and have fun! Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the #EnablingEnvironmentConference in Kabul, Afghanistan on 4 June 2007. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for July 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.
Siyouni, Sea The Stars and Zarak all well represented. The first major yearling sale of 2022 gets underway later this week with the Arqana August Sale, and as usual the Aga Khan Studs sires are represented by a choice of well-bred individuals. It is just seven years since SIYOUNI's first three-year-olds, conceived at a fee of €7,000, began to make waves, ...
THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1976: "What was once wrong is now simply unconventional, and for the sake of individual freedom must be tolerated. What is tolerated soon becomes accepted. Contrarily, what was once right is now viewed as outdated, old fashioned and is often the target of ridicule."] ARTICLE: "The way society looks at death is changing," says Kevin Dunn. "One might argue that we've become so desensitized by the culture, that even human life and death have become matters of personal choice." Promotion of assisted suicide revolves around autonomy and self-determination. Children as young as 12, under the influence of their guardians, can "consent" to be euthanized, given certain conditions. Belgium recently lifted all age restrictions on euthanasia. Annette Hanson said that her concern is "physicians will come to approach this as a suggested treatment option." The effects of legal assisted suicide has already reached insurance companies. Stephanie Packer: "When the [assisted suicide] law was passed, a week later I received a letter ...
THEEPOCHTIMES.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah:, 1955: "Learn to desire the thing that happens, and not try to mould events to their desires ... you should endeavour to suit your desire to the event, and not the event to your desire." ~~ Hazar Imam, 1996: "The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know."] ARTICLE: Mark O'Brien got polio in 1955, when he was six. He was completely paralyzed, spending his next 44 years in an iron lung but he refused fall prey to despondency. Mark graduated from U.C. Berkeley, became a published poet, journalist, essayist and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary. Robert Salamanca, who died of ALS, said: "Euthanasia advocates believe they are doing people like me a favor. They are not. We, the terminally ill, often feel disheartened because of a false picture of what it is like to die created by these enthusiasts who prey on the misinformed. The pro-euthanasia followers are a great threat to the foundation upon which all life is based, and that is hope." Rosie Ashcraft, lives in British ...
This short video explains the Shia view of the Ahl al-Bayt, the family of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family). Watch the full film entitled "A Guiding Light, The Imam of the Shia Muslims," by visiting . The film is available in eight languages on tv.ismaili. #AgaKhan #Ismaili #Muslim #Islam #WhatIsmailisBelieve #AhlAlBayt #ProphetMuhammed #Quran #Muharram #Ashura ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Over the centuries, the delicate quatrains which made up the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, have undergone numerous translations of shich Edward FitzGerald's 19th-century effort has, to date, had no rival. FitzGerald has been Omar Khayyam. Robert Graves, the prominent English poet, was chosen by Omar Ali-Shah, a Persian scholar whose family owns a twelfth-century manuscript of the Rubaiyat, to render a new, more faithful, English translation which was published last year. Robert Graves has done away with rhymes, about which FitzGerald was meticulous enough to attempt an exact reproduction of the Omar Khayyam rhyme-scheme. I quote here Graves's rendering of the first quatrain to compare with FitzGerald's, which I quoted earlier ...
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 ...
Celebrated by Muslims worldwide, Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, commemorates Allah's test of faith for Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) and his son. This short video explains the exalted status of Prophet Ibrahim and his descendants, including Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) and the Ismaili Imams. Watch the full film here . #Ismaili #WhatIsmailisBelieve #EidalAdha #Islam #Mulim ...
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 ...
Exciting son of Siyouni remains unbeaten. Haras d'Haspel homebred God Blessing was the front-running, one-and-a-half-length winner of the Listed Prix de Tourgeville at Deauville on Thursday, becoming the 64th Stakes winner for his sire SIYOUNI. The Damien de Watrigant-trained colt is now unbeaten in three starts and is one of eight Stakes winners from SIYOUNI's current three-year-old crop, which also includes ...
Global -- In Afghanistan, the Parvaaz early childhood programme provides a safe space for parents and caregivers to lay the building blocks for their children's futures. Worldwide, 200 million children under the age of five are unable to reach their potential due to poverty, poor health and nutrition, and lack of learning opportunities. The vast majority of them are from disadvantaged ...
Global -- Exactly a year after the University of Central Asia's historic inaugural convocation ceremony, its new Class of 2022 celebrated their achievements and became the second graduating class. A total of 66 students from the Naryn and Khorog campuses graduated from UCA and look forward to sharing their knowledge and skills among wider society. At the ceremony, the keynote address ...
Mental Health is as important as your Physical Health. In this live session, Dr. Malik Merchant (Psychiatrist, Prince Aly Khan Hospital) will answer all your questions about mental health - diagnosis, treatment, therapy, counseling, good habits, etc. This session will be hosted by Natasha Surani, Clinical Psychologist and Counsellor at International Institute for Population Sciences. #MentalHealth #AKHB #TheIsmailiIndia ...
This video was first screened at the inaugural Schools2030 Global Forum, held in Dar es Salaam in June 2022. It is composed of the voices and perspectives of students from across the Schools2030 programme, and was intended to remind all delegates why the shared goal of improving education access and quality across the world is so important. ...
NATIONALREVIEW.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: These days children are being indoctrinated into everything that subverts traditional values, and in Canada that now includes introducing children aged 6-12 to euthansia. The children's book, "Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)" teaches them how a person is killed during euthanasia and that, once a person asks to die, there is no changing their mind. The book even has children's activities: "Draw or write about your ideas and feelings about the person in your life who is choosing MAiD". Once we endorse killing as an acceptable answer to human suffering, we have to train the children that killing is okay. The whole euthanasia agenda is gut-wrenching, morally destructive, ...
EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- Canada has gone all in for euthanasia. The statistics are startling and illustrate that once euthanasia consciousness infects a culture, it grows like a fungus. And it's just going to get worse because in 2022, Canada started allowing it for people with chronic and disabling conditions, and in 2023 it will be allowed for those with dementia and mental illnesses. The number of assisted deaths increased by 32.4% representing 3.3% of all deaths in 2021. One woman asked to die because of isolation from COVID lockdowns. Her family was allowed to attend her death, but not visit to relieve her isolation. Once a society falls into the cultural abyss, it is very difficult to climb back out. And here's a shocking truth ...
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 ...
This short video explains three core principles of Imamat in the Ismaili Tariqah: 'Ilm, Nass, and Bay'ah. Watch the full film by visiting . #AgaKhan #Ismaili #Muslim #Islam #WhatIsmailisBelieve #Imamat #ImamatDay #ImamatDay65 ...
Dual Derby winner to stand at Kilbarry Lodge Stud. The Aga Khan Studs' dual Derby winner HARZAND has been sold and will continue his career at Kilbarry Lodge Stud in County Waterford. HARZAND retired to Gilltown Stud in 2017 after having won the Epsom Derby and Irish Derby. He was among the leading European sires of three-year-olds by percentage of winners ...
ANZ -- A few years ago, I was clueless on how to even use an oven for baking. The journey from there to here has been nothing but invigorating. In late 2017, I felt the urge to do something new. I knew that as 'baking' was my weakness, I would have the chance to learn a lot if I challenged myself. ...
Global -- Education is the foundation of development. We never stop learning in life, and we never should. An important part of our learning experience is the teachers and schools that equip us for the future. However, teachers and schools often find themselves left out of the key conversations on how to support children and young people to access quality learning. ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the #MNCHSummit in Toronto, Canada on 29 May 2014. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
IFSTUDIES.ORG -- INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES -- Pollsters asked kids in the USA, UK and China "What do you want to be when you grow up?" The #1 choice of American and British kids was YouTuber; astronaut their last choice. The #1 choice of Chinese kids was astronaut; YouTuber their last choice. Historically, culture sets the context for finding purpose and meaning but, by most measures, our culture now comes up short. Between the 1960s to 1990s, the most popular TV shows taught kids moral lessons. Now they focus on winning and fame. Consider music. The sexually-explicit, profanity-laced lyrics of the 2022 #1 song, "Jimmy Cooks," are too graphic for IFS to print, but the New York Times praised it. This means, we need to limit our kids' exposure to the worst of American culture ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- HOOVER.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1989: "On the question of modernity the issue is essentially whether one is affecting the fundamental moral fabric of society..." ~~ Writing in 1997, the author felt the Internet would help bring the changes in morality needed. However, 25 years later, we now know that the opposite happened. Nevertheless, the article remains true and is essential reading.] ARTICLE: The mere absence of centralized state control does not mean there is freedom, and soulless forces operating freely is actually tyranny in another guise. So what is the moral basis of a free society? Today [1997], citizens and leaders world-wide are looking to America for answers. However, while others look to us, we Americans are seeking answers to painful and bitter questions. We are learning that capitalism and democracy are not enough for a healthy society and that a self-governing nation is made from self-governing individuals. For example, can a free society survive the collapse of the two-parent family? A breakdown in the moral fabric of society has dire consequences and the stakes are enormous. If America makes the necessary moral changes, the rest of the world has a chance. Otherwise ...
AMERICANEXPERIMENT.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2015: "Is that message clear? You listen to people you don't like!"] ARTICLE: Economist Paul Krugman wrote: "I know we're supposed to pretend that both sides always have a point; but the truth is that most of the time they don't." I think Krugman is fundamentally mistaken. After all, what is the best use of our limited time? The affirmation from reading what we already agree with? Each day I read an old Newsweek column by economists Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson. I disagree most of what Samuelson writes. But by reading arguments you disagree with, you become better prepared to rebut them. And who knows, they might even convince you. Just as boxer Marvin Hagler got better by sparring with a good opponent, similarly, for your intellectual health, read someone who you disagree with. Try it. ...
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 ...
Pakistan -- This summer, more than 100 mountaineers set a record by conquering the world's second highest mountain, K2 in the early morning hours of July 22, 2022. Amongst them, nine brave Ismaili mountaineers completed their summit and set new records for Pakistan. 31-year-old Samina Baig, hailing from Shimshal Valley of Hunza, set a record of being the first female Pakistani ...
