United States -- Sports have been part of the human experience since history has been recorded, as far back as Sumerian times (4000 BCE), and ancient Egypt. They were generally associated with religion, making sports a sacred activity, with such events being consecrated to the gods. In those times, sports included wrestling and archery, and Zen Buddhism was the foundation for ...
United States -- "There are those...who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who ...
United States -- "It's all about a balancing act between time, temperature and ingredients: That's the art of baking." Peter Reinhart Watching cooking competitions has become quite popular in households around the world. After watching chefs create mouthwatering dishes that receive honest critique from experts, viewers are left at the edge of their seats waiting patiently for the next episode. This ...
GOOGLE.COM -- It is the duty of the followers of the Imams that they should train themselves to do things openly and secretly, which are agreeable to the Imams. They should refrain themselves from doing what is disagreeable to them. God has linked our obedience to the Imams with our obedience to Himself and has made it as obligatory on us to obey the Imams as to obey Him.... We must bear in mind that if the Imams tolerate our misconduct they do so with an uneasy mind. It is a great hardship on them to stand it and a great burden on their minds. ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Dedicated to all those who remember this popular song from the late 1960s!] ARTICLE: ... no you don't. But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed? Won't you tell me the thoughts that surround you? I want to look inside your head, yes I do. Your name is heard in high places. You know the Aga Khan. He sent you a race horse for Christmas. And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh, ha-ha-ha. And they say ...
Launched in 2009 at the Clinton Global Initiative, G(irls)20 places young women at the centre of decision- making processes. Through our signature programs, Global Summit and Girls on Boards, we make ...
CBC Communications team caught up with Zahra Premji to learn more about her career and her life. How did you get into journalism? My life has been one whacky journey so ...
Date And Time Thu, 9 May 2019, 18:00 BST Location Atrium Conference Room Aga Khan Centre 10 Handyside Street London N1C 4DN United Kingdom About a millennium ago, an unknown author ...
No fim de semana passado, Mawlana Hazar Imam visitou Lisboa para ser reunir com o Board of Trustees da Universidade Aga Khan, uma das 10 agências da Rede Aga Khan para o Desenvolvimento. Durante 4 dias, reuniram-se para discutir iniciativas e parcerias com universidades Portuguesas nas áreas da investigação e desenvolvimento. O Board of Trustees da Universidade Aga Khan inclui a ...
Do not fail to take a few dozen samosas home with you when you visit the Aga Khan MuseumBeef samosas from the Aga Khan's Museum's cafetaria. Note the image is of samosas that I froze after bringing the cooked version home. I simply microwave them for 30 seconds and then place them in a toaster oven (toast mode) for 3 - ...
CHRONICLE.COM -- THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- For at least a generation, academics have elaborately and publicly denounced the ponderous pedantry of academic prose. So why haven't these ponderous pedants improved, already? The critics would say the ponderous pedants are doing it on purpose. Academics supposedly indulge in pettifogging to obscure their own muddled thinking. Or, in a more generous reading, professors write obscurely because they know obscurity is expected of them, and they fear for their jobs if they phrase their insights with populist clarity. ...
Ismaili therapists Shahaa Kakar & Nasreen Gulamhusein, founders of the Port Moody-based private practice Breathing Space Counselling, have organized a workshop for parents on understanding the impact of childhood abuse and ...
THEATLANTIC.COM -- Harvard's Steven Pinker authored an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he used adjectives like "turgid, soggy, wooden, bloated, clumsy, obscure, unpleasant to read, and impossible to understand" to describe academic writing.... A disconnect between researchers and their audiences fuels the problem, according to Deborah S. Bosley, former University of North Carolina English professor. "Academics, in general, don't think about the public; they don't think about the average person, and they don't even think about their students when they write," she says. "Their intended audience is always their peers. That's who they have to impress to get tenure." ...
Karima Ewig, has just been accepted as a member of the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee for a three year term. Karima has been working in the field of disabilities for 11+ ...
News story -- On 13 April 2019, twenty-eight students graduated from the Secondary Teacher Education Programme (STEP) at The Ismaili Centre, London. Students from Canada, India, Kenya, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania and the USA received a double Master's degree: an MA in Education (Muslim Societies and Civilisations) and an MTeach (Master of Teaching). Both degrees were awarded by University College London Institute of ...
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, currently University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University, Washington D.C. is one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious and Comparative Studies in the world today. He is the author of over fifty books and five hundred articles which have been translated into several major Islamic, European and Asian languages. ...
Ali Asani, professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic religion and cultures at Harvard University, gave a fascinating talk entitled, From Qawwali to Sufi Rock: Exploring Contemporary Expressions of Muslim Devotional Literature on Friday, February 11 in the Meyerson Conference Room at the University of Texas at Austin. ...
"...art is a matter of humanity just as much as it is a matter of identity. As the Islamic tradition has reminded us for many centuries, the Divine spark that bestows upon us our individuality also bonds individuals in a common human family. " Mawlana Hazar ImamAga Khan Music Awards, Lisbon, Portugal, March 31, 2019Speech "...the arts, particularly when they are ...
United Kingdom -- Looking into the arena of #ismailiexcellence, our attention was brought to the achievements of of Rahim and Salima Nurmohamed who are co-directors of The White House Nursing Home in New Malden, Surrey. The White House Nursing Home is a small 30 bed independent nursing home that was established in the late 1980s by Salima's father, the late Mr ...
United Kingdom -- In Conversation: Nobovar Chanorov & the Shams Group share their love of music. At the Ismaili Centre London, we sat down for a traditional chai and chat with the Shams Group, a spectacular collaboration of musicians who have been performing in their home country of Tajikistan, and across the world, for nearly twenty years. The closely-knit group, its ...
IZQUOTES.COM -- "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" -- George Carlin ...
Global -- At a special dinner hosted in Lisbon on 13 April 2019, the Aga Khan University (AKU) celebrated its partnership with Portuguese universities on research and development initiatives. The event was attended by Mawlana Hazar Imam and Princess Zahra. The AKU Board of Trustees welcomed representatives from Portugal's Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education; the Catholic University of Portugal; ...
Canada -- Hillary Clinton once referred to women as "the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world." To celebrate this year's International Women's Day, Canada's Ismaili community tapped into this supply of expertise and creativity, hosting thought-provoking discussions in six cities across the country. Approximately 850 participants attended events in Burnaby, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, and Montreal to discuss this ...
Global -- The Aga Khan University's Board of Trustees welcomed representatives from Portugal's government, Higher Education institutions, and leaders of the Jamat and Aga Khan Development Network to a special event in Lisbon on 13 April 2019. ...
Lisbon, 13 April 2019 - The Aga Khan University (AKU) celebrated its partnership with Portuguese universities on research and development initiatives at a special event in Lisbon. Attended by the University's Chancellor, His Highness the Aga Khan, the AKU Board of Trustees, representatives from Portugal's Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education; the Catholic University of Portugal; Nova University of Lisbon; ...
India -- 'Coffee Connect', a first of its kind progamme held at Pallavaram (Chennai) on 13th January 2019, which was a joint endeavor by the AKYSB and AKES, Bengaluru. The programme was ideated and executed by youth and was aimed at inspiring and motivating members of the Jamat in the age group of 13 to 23 years. It was, in fact, ...
QUIETLYROMANTIC.COM -- To many of us, death is an abstract thing that we believe is so far in the future that it's not even worth thinking about. Maybe it's worth thinking about it. No man is an island, and your relationships are one of those few things that truly matter in this world. Give your family and friends a call. Because you never know when it's your last chance to talk to them. We live in a world where being overworked is almost like a badge of honor. [But] people regret working so hard that they missed out on all their relationships, just like that old song "Cat's in the Cradle". ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- My son turned ten just the other day. He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play. Can you teach me to throw." I said, "Not today. I got a lot to do." He said, "That's OK." And he walked away but his smile never dimmed and said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah, you know I'm gonna be like him." And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon. Little boy blue and the man on the moon. "When you comin' home dad?" "I don't know when, but we'll get together then, son. You know we'll have a good time then." ...
countless circles of love not a sufi a mystic or a sheikh if you must know arif does not dance or spin in love but in reality all that exists in ...
The astounding autobiography of the man who transformed Rumi from a learned religious teacher into the world's greatest poet of mystical love. Translated, Introduced, and Annotated by William C. Chittick. ...
Shraaoh a game winner of the Sydney Cup. Gilltown Stud sire SEA THE STARS broke new frontiers on Saturday as his son SHRAAOH stayed on strongly to lift his first Group 1 during the Championship Meeting at Royal Randwick. SHRAAOH becomes the tenth individual Group 1 winner for his Arc de Triomphe winning sire SEA THE STARS, and the first in ...
Artificial sweeteners promise to hit your sweet spot - minus the calories. But we know, there's always more to the story, than meets the eye. Following is a deep dive into ...
Talk by Dr Shireen Kassam given at Winchester University as part of Southern Policy Centre sponsored event on Living Well. Shireen Kassam, MBBS, FRCPATH, PHD (Founder and Director Plant-based health Professional, ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- Miss Goldie died on stage! One murder, four suspects. Are you clever enough to figure out who killed her? Only a true singer will be able to solve these riddles. RIDDLE ME THIS! ...
It was a little over two years ago when Saara Punjani and her brother, Ali Punjani, made their first sale to a multinational drug company from a "random meeting room" at ...
In the lead up to the world's biggest #GenderEquality conference this June in Vancouver, Canadian creative consultant / cultural strategist, Tasleem Somji, will discuss why #GenderEqualityMatters and share the Canadian perspective ...
Of all Islamic cultures, it is Persia that has received the most attention. Somewhat neglected by scholarship are ceramics of the Qajar era. The period from the late eighteenth to the ...
Born in the United States and educated in Pakistan, Aisha Sethi graduated from the Aga Khan University (AKU) in 1999, after completing its Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery programme. The same year, she travelled to the US as a visiting medical student for two months of electives, and subsequently received a National Institutes of Health dermatology research fellowship from ...
Fearful that Persia's history would be forgotten, Abu'l-Qasim Firdawsi (940-1020) composed the Shahnama (Book of Kings), comprising more than 60,000 rhyming couplets, telling the story of Persia (modern-day Iran) from the time of creation to its conquest by Muslims in the seventh century. Partly legend, partly historic, it is also a manual on kingship, a collection of heroic tales, and a ...
QUIETREV.COM -- If you're an introvert, have you ever noticed that you tend to be good at asking questions? Do you ever feel that this is just a weakness of yours, something you fall back to when other conversational options seem exhausted? Have you ever wondered how to frame questions like the thoughtful and skilled conversation partner you are (or could be)? In this article written for the Quiet Revolution community, Warren Berger, author of The Book of Beautiful Questions, contributor to the New York Times, and "Questionologist" column writer, explains how and why questioning is the quiet person's "secret weapon." ...
