FLICKR.COM -- JEFF WALLACE -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: This is a composite of two photographs: one of the Garden and one of the Northern Lights.] ARTICLE: Given the Garden's location at 53'N, a strong G3 geomagnetic storm would be visible from the garden. Using a southward facing photo from a major G3 storm in July 2017, created a composite showing how the ...
FLICKR.COM -- JEFF WALLACE -- Pristine snow blankets the Amphitheatre of the Aga Khan Garden, Alberta. The Talar was illuminated for the annual Luminaria event hosted by the University of Alberta Botanical Garden. Best part of this view, my youngest daughter joined me and took photos of the amphitheatre too ...
FLICKR.COM -- JEFF WALLACE -- Talar Bench, Aga Khan Garden, Edmonton ...
FLICKR.COM -- JEFF WALLACE -- Talar and Canopies, Aga Khan Garden, Edmonton ...
FLICKR.COM -- JEFF WALLACE -- The Chini Khana or backdrop behind the waterfall was the most interesting feature of the water channel. The self-guiding pamphlet explained these niches are traditionally filled with candles, oil lamps or flowers. Attractive in steady light, one day, I'd like to see a garden using candle or oil lamps, there's something about the randomness of flickering light. ...
CHRONICLE.COM -- THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- The manure has piled up deep in the hallways, classrooms, and administration buildings of American higher education. And it's mortally corrosive to society. Many thoughtful people in higher education today are well aware of different piles of BS around them. Fewer recognize the magnitude of the mounds of it that have accumulated and how badly they defile us. What do I mean by BS? BS is the university's loss of capacity to grapple with life's Big Questions, because of our crisis of faith in truth, reality, reason, evidence, argument, civility, and our common humanity. BS is administrators' delusion that what is important in higher education can be evaluated by quantitative "metrics," the use of ...
News story -- Alumni are our ambassadors, representing the values, principles and work of the IIS in their chosen fields; whether it be academia, development, law, arts and culture to name a few. In this new series of "In Conversation with IIS Alumni" we catch up with individual alumni to find out more about their current work and their journey to this ...
Global -- In October 2015, Essena O'Neill, a popular Instagram Influencer, deleted 2000 pictures from her profile in what appeared to be a crisis of conscience. Having counted over half a million followers, and living many young peoples' dream life, she eventually came to realise that the so-called 'real world' was a better place to spend her time. The pictures that ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for JULY 2019 -- 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 and Event Alerts. NOTE: Posts are randomly ordered.
The following piece has been compiled and adapted from material supplied by the Aga Khan Museum; it incorporates notes by Dr. Ulrike al-Khamis, the Museum's Director of Collections and Public Programs. From Mecca to TorontoKa'ba in Mecca. Photo: Aga Khan Museum; Toronto's Aga Khan Museum. Photo. Rian Dewji. On display for the first time in Toronto is a 100-year-old silk fragment ...
When:Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019 at 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM EDT Got 15 minutes? You've got a mentor! Join us for our latest #MentorTalks, a new Facebook Live series that puts ...
When you live in Silicon Valley, it feels like nearly everyone works in tech and that entry into the industry is wide open. Of course, the reality is very different. Even ...
SETHS.BLOG -- (Unless they want to). Humans are unique in their ability to willingly change. We can change our attitude, our appearance and our skillset. But only when we want to. The hard part, then, isn't the changing it. It's the wanting it. ...
AKU's Community Outreach Centre in Arusha was started in 2013 to empower the local community by providing them knowledge and skills and improve the quality of life of neighboring communities. To ...
Prepared by MALIK MERCHANT (Publisher-Editor, Simerg,Barakah and Simergphotos) THE PILGRIMS’ JOURNEY TO MECCA Between 1900 – 1920. To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Mecca pilgrims on deck a ship. Photo: US Library of Congress / G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. ~~~~~~~~ Between 1900 – 1920. Hajj pilgrims on train for Mecca. Photo: US Library ...
The Nizari Ismaili state of Alamut was established in 1090 in Persia (now Iran) and fell to the Mongols in 1256. After the fall of Alamut, the community was deprived of direct contact with and centralised leadership of the Imams, who remained in hiding for two centuries in order to avoid persecution; their identities and whereabouts were known to a few ...
Earlier this year, Ali and Dilshad karim decided to go visit another part of Brazil. Florianópolis (Floripa as known by locals) in southern Brazil, on the Atlantic coast, on an island ...
The Eccelsa Aviation private terminal at Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport on the Italian island of Sardinia is one of Europe's busiest, according to the airport, which says much about the types ...
Bit by bit, Aleppo's centuries-old bazaar is being rebuilt as Syrians try to restore one of their historical crown jewels, devastated during years of brutal fighting for control of the city. ...
ARTOFMANLINESS.COM -- The word reliable has its origins in relier, Old French for "fasten" or "attach;" the reliable man was an immovable pillar of strength on which you could hang your hat, someone you could lean and depend on, a man you could trust. Compare that image with its opposite: the flake. Floating, drifting, fragile. Melting as soon as it meets any resistance. We've all known reliable men, and we've all known flakes. We admire the former, and avoid the latter. To become the kind of man you've grown up trusting and counting on, read on. ...
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the inauguration of Amir Aqsunqur Mosque, Cairo, Egypt, 2 May 2015. Read more: ...
...Whereas Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of the Sacrifice, is an Islamic holiday which honors Abraham's symbolic sacrifice of his son to God, as referenced in the Quran, Old Testament, and New Testament...Whereas Islam is one of the world's major religions, sharing the belief in one God and one humanity.... Introduced by MALIK MERCHANT (Publisher-Editor Simerg,Barakah and Simergphotos) For 2019, Muslims ...
CNSNEWS.COM -- Darwinian theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting, in November 2016, organized by the world's most distinguished and historic scientific organization. The conference at the Royal Society in London confirmed a chasm in how evolution and its evidence are presented to the public, and how scientists themselves discuss it behind closed doors and in technical publications. What's really notable is that such a thoroughly mainstream body should so openly acknowledge problems with orthodox neo-Darwinian theory. The opening presentation by world-class biologist, Austrian evolutionary theorist Gerd Müller, who discussed several fundamental "explanatory deficits" of textbook neo-Darwinian theory. According to Müller ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- As we know, according to neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, random changes and unguided natural processes routinely succeed in assembling functional equipment for a range of uses. Wait...it doesn't work that way? ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- Did you guess last week's riddle correctly? Now it's time to guess how on earth Sir Ian crossed that bridge. ...
GOOGLE.COM -- NANOWISDOMS -- This NanoWisdoms Essential Reading summaries Mawlana Hazar Imam's and Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah's remarks on various issues related to Ismailism and Islam relevant to the contemporary world, including the Imamat, the Qur'an, tradition and modernity, pluralism, Imamat finances and tithes (dasond), the hijab, happiness and more. ...
KREATIVEMOMMY.COM -- Our series about Homeschooling moms in India is an initiative to help all the parents who are confused about the whole process of homeschooling in India. It's great to see that there are many parents who are homeschooling their kids and are ready to share the inputs. We recently met Sandhya who is one such mom who not only is homeschooling her kids but helping other parents. She is an admin of two main groups related to schools and homeschooling in India. ...
GOOGLE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Since this 2008 article, almost all first-tier universities now accept homeschoolers. For our other homeschooling articles, please search Ismaili Digest for "homeschool".] ARTICLE: I would be hard pressed to think of an issue which has more misconceptions, myths and misunderstandings than home-schooling. Once considered unusual, home-schooling has finally gained the mainstream recognition and acceptance it deserves. "Home-schoolers bring certain skills - motivation, curiosity, the capacity to be responsible for their education - that high schools don't induce very well." said Jon Reider, Senior Associate Director of Admissions, Stanford University. "Home-schoolers are the epitome of Brown students. They are self-directed, they take risks, and they don't back off." - Dean Joyce Read, Brown University. ...
SR Media Group presents: "Mowla E Kainaat" Series of episodes highlighting the life history of Hazrat Ali A.S. Episode 9- Wajhullah Narrated and Scripted by - Zulfiqar Ali Jessani Music Score ...
JollyGul.com has just launched Taufiq Karmali's website on its hosting platform. The Jamat can now conveniently play and enjoy all his wonderful devotional titles in one place. JollyGul.com audio player displays ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Zayn al-Abidin (ornament of the pious) was born in Medina on 38/658. He would feed the hungry at night, from one to three hundred families; and in daytime, he would have a hundred sheep a day killed for meat, which would be distributed to the needy people. Much of his time he spent sitting on an old piece of matting, fasting all day, or eating a little barely bread. When the soldiers of Yazid were bent on destroying Imam Hussain and his dear ones at Karbala, sparing neither old nor young, the survival of Imam Zayn al-Abidin was nothing but a miracle. His severe illness ...
In global rankings, the Aga Khan University (AKU) has been ranked among the top 100 universities for clinical medicine and among the top 200 for public health internationally in the latest ...
Traditional volleyball is a unique game which has been around for centuries and played all over the world. It is a one-touch game however; traditional volleyball does not require the bump-set-spike ...
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - It was an idea whose time had come, and it took hold at Wofford College - a new book on how to teach high school and college students ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- His Highness The Aga Khan Skiing in 1964 in Innsbruck, Austria ...
In this short message delivered for the launch of the Persian Edition of 'A History of Shi'i Islam', in Tehran, Iran, Dr Farhad Daftary elaborates on his dedicated efforts to clarifying misconceptions about Shi'i Islam, particularly in the West. Download the Persian transcript with English translation here. In his detailed study of Shi'i Islam, spanning over decades, Dr Daftary observes that ...
"The spirit of pluralism will be further enhanced by the fact that each Academy will be part of a larger network. All of them will be linked...through programs whereby teachers and ...
The new Aga Khan Garden, near Edmonton, in the Canadian province of Alberta, is the largest garden in North America to interpret the landscape traditions of Islam. For centuries, gardens have ...
By PRESS RELEASE THE GLOBAL CENTRE FOR PLURALISMA view of the Global Centre for Pluralism from Jacques Cartier Park in Gatineau, on the North side of the Ottawa River. The Centre sits on Sussex Drive alongside or close to other iconic buildings and monuments in the Canada's capital city, Ottawa. Photo: Simerg/Nurin and Malik Merchant. Announcing New Leadership for the Global ...
IPS, the industrial and infrastructure development arm of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), together with Norwegian international renewable energy company, SN Power, have signed project agreements for the ...
