His Highness the Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims. He is also the chairman of the global development network, Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) that provides development in areas of education, health, tourism and many more, particularly in Africa and Asia. ...
News story -- Colleagues and staff will remember with great affection Kutubdin (Kutub) Kassam, who passed away in London on 24 March 2019 at the age of 75. Best known for his literary prowess, Kutub was the man behind many of the IIS's finest published works. As a judicious editor, he had a meticulous regard for the conventions of language, and contributed ...
In our first installment, In memory of Prince Aly Khan and Prince Sadruddin: Two brothers who passed away on same day 43 years apart, we carried excerpts of a speech on Islam made by Prince Aly Khan, father of Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan. In this second and final installment, we produce a tribute to Mawlana Hazar Imam's ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- THEFEDERALIST.COM -- In college, I voraciously ingested all the great anti-theist scribes, from Christopher Hitchens to Richard Dawkins to Sam Harris. It enabled me to roll my eyes at anything religious with the best of them. My once-rabid atheism evolved not into belief, but into a calm acceptance of the more faithful people I met, as I gradually came to understand what many non-believers fail to: You're not smarter or stronger than religious people, and you don't know something that they fail to grasp. The notion that you've finally cracked the multi-millennium religious instinct because you angrily read a New York Times bestseller is unlikely. [Consider] Francis Collins, the decoder of the human genome who converted from atheism to Christianity, or Georges Lemaître, the Catholic priest who first theorized an expanding universe. Can you confidently look down on them as deluded? ...
DEVIANTART.COM -- "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -- Benjamin Disraeli ...
JollyGul.com has just released Parviz Somji's graceful rendition of "Moman Man Em Jaann Jo Jee" in a video format with running lyrics and translations. Pir Hasan Kabiruddin strongly cautions against vanity, ...
Global -- Recreation plays a key role in the physical and mental wellbeing of everyone, young and old. For seniors especially, involvement in recreation has a number of benefits in enhancing cognitive and motor skills, and provides an opportunity for socializing and developing new talents. For a group of seniors in the USA, a passion for music has shown that age ...
International Day of Light commemorates the anniversary of the first successful operation of the LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) on May 16, 1960 by Theodore Maiman, a physicist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. "The study of light and its properties has revolutionised every field of science and have involved all the major figures of science from ...
Geneva, Switzerland, 13 May 2019 - The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) partnered with the "Resilient Homes Design Challenge" in a crowdsourced challenge - spearheaded by the World Bank - to design climate-resilient single-family homes costing less than US$ 10,000. Over the last 10 years, natural disasters have caused 23 million people to become homeless - many of them poor. ...
Aleem Nasser explains his own personal equation for success, and why working harder doesn't always yield better results. Aleem Nasser M.B.A. is the president and founder of The Art of Being ...
EVIEMAGAZINE.COM -- Trish Regan (the only woman to hold the 8PM/ET primetime slot) is happily married and mother to three beautiful children. "If you want to be a mother and have a successful career, it's very hard to strike a balance. I think there's something fundamentally different in women. When my kids are sick, they want their mom. They love their dad, too, but they want their mom. Men automatically take that promotion but women, we feel the responsibility. It makes it harder, which is why I bring my kids to the office and spend as much time with them as I can. I have so much respect for those that stay at home and take care of their kids because that's our future." ...
The Aga Khan Foundation USA hosted a golf tournament to raise awareness and funds for its work around the world to break the cycle of poverty. Thank you to our partners and supporters who joined us on the green! ...
Fans of the celestial sounds of classic and contemporary choral music are in for a special treat on May 22 as one of Canada's most storied and revered choral ensembles, the ...
Karachi, Pakistan: Women Leadership development Program - Phase 2 was held on 5th May 2019, at The Aga Khan University, DJ Fraser Mustard Hall, SONAM. The program by Guiding Chapter for ...
Matt Reed (CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation UK) in conversation with Lakshya Datta (Founder of Launchora). AKF has been supporting JLF since 2015. Click the link below to listen to ...
News story -- While the Fatimid and Alamut periods have received considerable scholarly attention and are more widely written about, the Nizari Ismaili history of the 19th century has had much less coverage. Shedding light on this understudied, yet significant period in Ismaili history, the joint Editors of The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam,Dr Daniel Beben and Dr ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- Are you ready for the best of Season 1 of Riddle me this? Only a true psychopath will be able to solve these 10 riddles. ...
Women and girls disproportionately carry the burden of poverty. Gender inequality means they are likely the first to drop out of school, the last to eat, and the ones least likely ...
Remarks by President Velshi at Innovation Showcase May 9, 2019 Toronto, Ontario Good afternoon. My name is Rumina Velshi, and I am the President and CEO of the Canadian Nuclear Safety ...
Karima Ramji/ Times Colonist It was the year 2008. A few hundred people, including dignitaries such as the Honourable Beverly Oda, then Minister of International Cooperation, Khalil Z. Shariff, CEO of ...
Global -- Today marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week in the United Kingdom, while May represents Mental Health Month in the United States. The occasion provides an ideal opportunity to ask and understand what mental health actually is, and to explore some of the existing perceptions around it. Preservation of a sound mind is among the foundational principles of ...
The Aga Khan Palace in Pune, India, was built by Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III in 1892. It is said that it was built to provide employment for the people ...
A Group hat-trick in Ireland. The Aga Khan Studs enjoyed a fine weekend with a total of seven successes in Ireland and France, highlighted by the Group victories of TARNAWA, HAZAPOUR and HAMARIYNA. TARNAWA set the ball rolling at Naas on Saturday, when securing a game success against her elders in the Gr.3 Blue Wind Stakes for trainer Dermot Weld and ...
By ABDULMALIK MERCHANT Publisher-Editor, Simerg,Barakah and Simergphotos The Toronto Raptors lapel pin that I was presented with as I arrived at Section 307 to watch the 7th and final playoff game between the Raptors and 76ers. Photo: Malik Merchant. No one, not even NBA players, could recall a shot in any NBA seventh playoff game in the dying second, such as ...
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WASHINGTONPOST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: 1998 article about the Nairobi bombings.] ARTICLE: "This bombing enabled many groups to get together in a way that is unprecedented," said Alnashir Visram, a Kenyan of Indian descent who heads the local Aga Khan Council. "The people's sympathy transcended race, tribe, creed, ideology. Everyone is hoping this becomes a permanent feature of this society." Many Kenyans said the response of the nation's Indians, known here as Asians, was especially heartening. Many Asians are second- and third-generation Kenyans but are often seen as outsiders. "We have treated them as non-Kenyans," Mwangi Ngaji said. "I was surprised that they were the first people to come and help." ...
"Lost and Found: Seeking the Light of the Imam" By Sujjawal Ahmad I wandered lonely with heart so intoxicated Through a deserted land so much isolated; As I searched around for ...
Dear brothers and sisters, my name is Nizam Ramji. I'm a 53yr old Ismaili Muslim living in Vancouver, Canada. I'm writing to let you know about my medical situation. I have progressive ...
By Sharon Brownie, Research Associate, University of Oxford and Former Dean, Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery. In May each year global communities join together to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions of nurses and midwives. At 23 million strong, nurses and midwives are the world's largest healthcare profession forming 50% of the total health workforce and up to 85% ...
Working closely with medically complex preterm infants and experiencing first-hand the stress and trauma their new parents go through changed Rehana Salam's career trajectory. From the early start of leading nursing care at the Aga Khan University Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Karachi, she has come a long way, becoming an accomplished public health researcher, a task force member ...
