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 ...
Daughter of Sea The Stars scores in Lillie Langtry. Sea La Rosa won her second Group race of the season on Saturday at Glorious Goodwood, bravely chasing down the long-time race leader Urban Artist to score by a length in the Gr.2 Lillie Langtry Stakes. The improving four-year-old daughter of SEA THE STARS, bred by G B Partnership together with Ecurie ...
A spotlight series on the innovations that have arisen from schools involved in the Schools2030 programme in Uganda. ...
A spotlight series on the innovations that have arisen from schools involved in the Schools2030 programme in Uganda. ...
RT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: While we normally do not post on political matters, we think it is important the Jamat be aware of long-term, tectonic shifts now unfolding on the global, geopolitical landscape. These have been noted by keen observers and Western leaders, however, their remarks are, by and large, going unreported in the Western press.] ARTICLE: "It is the first time in modern history that the East can be on equal terms with the West," former British prime minister Tony Blair said. "We are coming to the end of Western political and economic dominance. The world is going to be at least bi-polar and possibly multi-polar," he predicted. China is "already the world's second superpower" and Beijing "will not be alone. It will have allies. Russia now for sure. Possibly Iran." "Western politics is in turmoil - more partisan, ugly, unproductive; and fueled by social media." "For a large part of the Western population, living standards are stagnating ...
RT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: While we normally do not post on political matters, we think it is important the Jamat be aware of long-term, tectonic shifts now unfolding on the global, geopolitical landscape. These have been noted by keen observers and Western leaders, however, their remarks are, by and large, unreported in the Western press.] ARTICLE: A new epoch of world history is approaching and only "truly sovereign" states will succeed in the changed environment, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. By "sovereign" he means "freedom of national development, and thus of each person individually." Such a state, he said, will serve as an example for others when it comes to "standards and quality of people's life [and] protection of traditional values." The Western-dominated uni-polar world order, in Putin's opinion, is "becoming a brake on the development of our civilization" and said that despite attempts to preserve the existing world order, the changes are "irreversible." The new "multi-polar" world has been discussed in the West, too, most recently by German Chancellor ...
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 ...
MISES.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2005: "The reality is that not all students are created equal intellectually." ~~ ED: "Diversity, equity and inclusion's" (DEI's) vision of a just and fair society is based on "equal outcomes," not excellence and merit, i.e. not an individual's drive/effort and talent/blessings. Equal outcomes means, for example, if one group doesn't get A grades as often as another, then no A grades be given to anyone. Why? Because DEI claims the system, and not the individual (i.e. their aptitude, effort, etc.), is always to blame for the unequal grades. So, by hijacking innocent words, DEI replaces a society based on excellence and individual merit with a homogenized collective, equalized at the lowest level (i.e. intellectual socialism).] ARTICLE: When everyone is equally competent, none is excellent. Therefore, a truly equal society is one where we are all similarly mediocre and living a life that's below humanity's potential. Now, since some people are more talented than others, markets invariably produce inequality. Inequality is beneficial to society, because ...
NATIONALPOST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1989: "Uncompromising excellence is also an ethical principle."] ARTICLE: The social justice crowd's unquestioning devotion to diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) has turned it against classical liberal principles. Since the current culture holds certain opinions up as undeniable truths, just questioning DIE can get you cancelled. For exmaple, I was twice denied funding by Canada's federal science foundations just because I said I would hire assistants on merit and not their gender, ethnicity, culture. Last year, Dorian Abbot of University of Chicago and Ivan Marinovic of Stanford argued that DIE should be replaced with merit, fairness and equality (MFE). My experiences, as a Third World immigrant, also make me a defender of merit, fairness and equality. In my father's world, merit let him advance. Merit is also central to the immigrant dream, and ...
GOOGLE.COM -- In his own country today, Omar Khayyam is highly esteemed as a mathematician and astronomer, while as a poet he is overshadowed by his kinsmen Firdusi, Nizami, Hafiz and Jami. The reason that he was not recognised as a poet by his contemporaries is possibly because he did not write a divan, which was obligatory for those who wished to pass as true poets. He probably wrote a quatrain when the idea came into his mind, but we do not know whether he himself collected his quatrains or whether they were put together after his death. In the Rubaiyat many quite contradictory views are expressed which ...
Memories of a Ugandan Refugee: Encounters of Hope from Kampala to Vancouver By Jalal Jaffer, Q.C. 336 pp. FriesenPress, 2022 US$ 29.99 (Hardcover), US$ 19.99 (Paperback) and US$ 6.99 (eBook) as listed on the publisher's website FriesenPress; also available at Amazon.ca (Hardcover, C$ 33.70; Paperback, C$ 26.57; Kindle C$ 8.91); and at Indigo.ca (as a Kobo Ebook for C$ 8.99). ...
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 ...
Now I know that in some parts of the world, the words "Muslim" and "music" are not often linked together in the public mind. But they should be... The cultural heritage of Islam has long embraced musical language as an elemental expression of human spirituality. Listening to music, practising music, sharing music, performing music - have long been an intimate part ...
CLIMATECHANGEDISPATCH.COM -- The rich world's self-inflicted energy crisis over Ukraine has fully exposed their fossil fuel and climate hypocrisy. While wealthy countries lecture the poor to only use renewables, Europe and America beg Arab nations to expand oil production, Germany reopens coal plants and Spain and Italy ramp up African gas production. The poor are told to "leapfrog" from no energy to a sham green nirvana of solar panels and wind turbines, while the rich don't accept off-grid, renewable energy themselves. Consider Greenpeace promoted Dharnai, India's first solar-powered community. Fridges, TVs and electric cookstoves were prohibited so villagers were forced to continue burning wood and dung, whose indoor pollution kills millions every year and WHO says is like smoking two packs of cigarettes every day. A study found ...
"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 ...
WATTSUPWITHTHAT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2007: "Skyrocketing [electricity] costs work to reinforce the cycle of poverty for millions ... Continuing power shortfalls can be a downward spiral of disappointment and discouragement.... It is striking [that Africa], with fully one-sixth of the world's population, produces only four percent of the world's electricity."] ARTICLE: Now, with Europeans facing blackouts, their governments are turning on their coal-fired plants. It's like vegans running to steak houses over a vegetable shortage. But what about Africa? Africans are being forced by Western elites to a fossil fuel free future rife with poverty. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò calls it climate colonialism. Globally, fossil fuels have been the predominant driver behind long-term economic development: North America and Europe during the industrial era and India and China, more recently. A British family boiling a kettle just twice a day uses 5x more electricity than Malian in a year. An American uses as much electricity in 1 month than a Tanzanian in 8 years. While a freezer uses 10x more electricity than a Liberian in 1 year. More and more African ...
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 ...
Held in Dar Es Salaam in June 2022, the inaugural Schools2030 Global Forum brought together over 200 delegates from more than 30 countries. They convened under the guiding question - How might we collectively reimagine the role(s) of schools, systems and societies for the future of learning? We are pleased to share with you this short film capturing the diverse perspectives, voices and ...
At the inaugural Schools2030 Global Forum, we were pleased to bring the voices of children from across our programme to bear on the important discussions. ...
An introduction to the ten-year Schools2030 participatory learning improvement programme, led by the Aga Khan Foundation. Learn more: schools2030.org ...
001: A view of the forests and Rocky Mountains from a memorial bench off Hwy 40, Kananaskis Country. See corresponding tribute in photo 002, and another view of the mountains from the bench in photo 003 below; July 1, 2022. Photo: Malik Merchant/Simerg Photos. By MALIK MERCHANTPublisher/Editor Simergphotos, Barakah, and Simerg Over the past month, I have had the good fortune of ...
Understanding the importance of a business plan, and methods of preparing one keeping business ethics in mind in order to execute each step rightfully. ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] --THEFEDERALIST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1965: "Left-wing attitudes tend not only to destroy the Faith of a man towards his religion but also the respect of one individual towards another. When the Faith is broken down everything goes with it: the family, society, the individual, the intelligence."] ARTICLE: Arguably, wokeism is defined by its rejection of Nature on gender, sexuality, the laws of economics, energy and rationality itself. But, Nature always has the final say, and we're seeing that in the slow retreat of leftists from wokeism. Hardly a day goes by when a writer confesses some variation of, "I'm a proud progressive, but these new leftists are crazy, and I'm done with the Democrats." The cognitive dissonance created from suspending reality has become too much. But do liberals realize their dissonance is due to leftism rejecting God? All forms of leftism are a house of cards that will collapse, like Nietzsche going insane after using words his whole life only to then say words are suspect. We can only handle so much cognitive dissonance before Nature ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- AMERICANMIND.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "How can we inspire people to reach beyond rampant materialism, self-indulgent individualism, and unprincipled relativism?" ~~ Hazar Imam, 1999: "It's clear that uncontrolled freedom becomes license.... It's probably the most challenging issue that I have to address today."] ARTICLE: To understand today's society, it is useful to look at Plato's four stages by which minds become progressively disordered and the corresponding four increasingly corrupt societies they create. For Plato, reason is that faculty by which we understand objective facts. He, therefore, rejects the relativist view that what a thing is, and what is good for it, are matters of human convention.... For Plato, democracy is characterized by the "diversity of its characters" and "treats all men as equal, whether they are equal or not." In particular, it treats all ways of life as equal, no matter how irrational or immoral. The young "throw off all inhibitions" and celebrate "insolence, license, extravagance, and shamelessness," becoming ever more extreme." All pleasures are equal and ...
#Speech made by Princess Zahra #AgaKhan at the foundation ceremony of the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam's Cancer Care Centre in Tanzania on 10 April 2022. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
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 ...
An overview of all skillsets a person in business must inculcate in his daily life in order to scale up a business. ...
Ismaili Center Houston: Construction Progress May 2022 ...
As part of The Ismaili Sounds Jam Sessions series, this week we present "Allah Tu Hazir," performed by the ZIKR Band. Originally released during the Diamond Jubilee year, this Hamd -- composed and written by Kamal Haji -- highlights the beautiful names of Allah and promotes the message of one humanity. #AgaKhan #Ismaili #IsmailiMuslim #IsmailiSounds #IsmailiCommunity #Islam #Muslim #Music #Musicians #Hamd #Talent #TalentSpotlight ...
FOXNEWS.COM -- In a letter to President Biden, Jim Banks and 14 House Republicans are demanding answers regarding the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor's (DRL) new grant program. The letter states that the DRL's Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announced it "would award grants of up to $500,000 to organizations committed to the practice and spread of atheism and humanism, namely in South/Central Asia and in the Middle East/North Africa.... In the NOFO, the State Department characterizes atheists as a unique religious group while then encouraging the building of 'networks and advocacy groups' for atheists ... This would be analogous to official State Department promotion of religious freedom 'particularly for Christians' in China, with the express goal being to build a corresponding missionary network." "Any such program ...
VICE.COM -- Banana. Bapple. Para tú. Poulet tikka masala. Minionese is largely a gibberish language, but it also contains the odd English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, French, Russian, Filipino and Korean word. "The magic of understanding what they're feeling or saying isn't the words, but more the music. Just by the melody of a sentence, you could understand if they were angry, if they were pissed, if one was telling a joke and the other wasn't finding it funny," says director Pierre Coffin. In hindsight, Minionese's mix of languages paved the way for global domination. But, crucially, the fact that Minions largely spoke in gibberish meant that people could easily put words into their mouths. For the better part ...
On 8 July 2022, the #AgaKhan Master Musicians together with artists from Portugal performed at the São Jorge Castle in Lisbon, Portugal. President of the Portuguese Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Mayor of Lisbon Carlos Moedas, and Minister of Justice Catarina Sarmento e Castro, together with Prince Amyn Aga Khan, Prince Hussain Aga Khan, and Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan were in ...
HARVARD.EDU -- At night, light throws the body's biological clock -- the circadian rhythm -- out of whack. Sleep suffers. Even a mere eight lux -- a level of brightness about twice that of a night light -- affects the circadian rhythm, notes Stephen Lockley, a Harvard sleep researcher. Worse, research shows that disrupting the circadian rhythm may contribute to the causation of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. Blue wavelengths seem to be the most disruptive at night and the proliferation of electronics with screens, as well as energy-efficient lighting, is increasing our exposure to blue wavelengths. Protect yourself from blue light at night: Avoid looking at screens (TV, computers, tablets, mobile devices, etc.) beginning two to three hours before bed. If ...
BUSTLE.COM -- Stay away from your phone two hours before bedtime. Swap out your evening Instagram scroll for a book, and you might feel a world of difference in the morning. Use software and apps that reduce blue light levels. For example, F.lux automatically adjusts your computer's display as it gets darker outside, so that the display doesn't feel as bright and emits less blue light. Similarly use the night shift setting on your iPhone to adjust the color temperature of your phone display to reduce the blue light at night. Go to "Settings," then "Display and Brightness." You should see the option for Night Shift there. Set screen time hours and ...
THEEPOCHTIMES.COM -- Although we may not like to admit it, many of the sleep problems we experience are the result of bad habits and behaviors. We stay up late or sleep in late. We eat foods that disagree with us or enjoy a drink late at night, oblivious to their disruptive impact on our sleep rhythms. Over time, we teach our body not to sleep and for relief we often turn to sleeping pills, which mask rather than solve the problem, and can lead to addiction. Ultimately for real success, with insomnia as with any chronic problem, one must look for the underlying imbalances and root causes and address those. Here are the common sleep "mistakes" I see in my practice and their solutions. Mistake #1: Not ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Omar Khayyam's whole being was his craving and yearning for the vision of Unity, for he full well saw that the end of Sufism was total absorption in God. He was a humble devotee of "The Existing One", i.e. God and that he was Sufi of the highest order, a Sufi of Sufis. Out of several meanings attached to the word "Sufi," I favour the following: Sufis themselves connect this word with the Arabic root "Safi" -- Saf which signifies what is pure. Now were we to judge rightly, the most wonderful fact about the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is that it contains something more than mere pessimism because beneath it lies a positive doctrine of life as well. It is only when we approach its ...
"We are extremely proud to announce that Samina Baig, with her strong Pakistani team, successfully summited the world's most fascinating and dangerous mountain known as the savage mountain" -- Statement by Samina Baig's Team Introduced by MALIK MERCHANT Publisher/Editor Barakah, Simerg and SimergphotosMountaineer-siblings Samina and Mirza Ali Baig present a memento to Princess Zahra and Prince Rahim at an institutional dinner ...
Prince Amyn, Prince Hussain, and Prince Aly Muhammad were in attendance for the special performance of the acclaimed Aga Khan Master Musicians on the evening of 8 July 2022 at the spectacular São Jorge Castle, Lisbon, Portugal. They also welcomed distinguished guests to the live event, including President of the Portuguese Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Mayor of Lisbon Carlos Moedas, and ...
Global -- As the evening sun shone brightly above the Lisbon sky, a chorus of birds were the supporting act as guests arrived at the spectacular São Jorge Castle for an open-air concert by the Aga Khan Master Musicians on the evening of 8 July. Prince Amyn, Prince Hussain, and Prince Aly Muhammad were in attendance for the special performance of ...
