For as long as she could remember, Makhfirat Abdullaeva dreamed of helping people. But life as a doctor in Khujand, Tajikstan, a small, bustling city and one of the oldest in Central Asia, consisted of excruciatingly long days, outdated medical equipment, a lack of human resources, and most notably, extremely low wages. As a mother of two and a wife to ...
#BalanceforBetter #IWD2019 #IWD Azima Dhanji, founder of social startup "Connect Hear" and alumna of the U.S. government funded Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study (YES) Program, is making lives easier for differently ...
India -- The dictum of the seventies was 'Its a man's world and a woman has no place in it.' This was the underlying workplace statement the world over. Let's look at this statement in the perspective of the historical, social, political and cultural environment of the people at that time. Women have been working from time immemorial and the acceptance ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- BBC -- In this two-part special, Rajan Datar explores the diverse communities, histories and traditions that form the constantly changing map of India. He begins his journey in the far western state of Gujarat where he visits a shipyard in the ancient port of Mandvi, that by building dhows today, continues the state's centuries-old sea trading tradition ... He takes a tour to the border with Pakistan which has become a tourist spectacle in itself ...
#BalanceforBetter #IWD2019 #IWD Pictures Courtesy: Nash Velshi (Easy Nash) IAEA International Women's Day 2019: Inspiring Stories of Women in the Nuclear Field To mark International Women's Day 2019, IAEA Deputy Director ...
Are human beings at the centre of everything? Clearly. And then, I have a conviction: poverty exists, but is not inevitable. We need the courage to analyse and understand it.... What is important is to try and predict future developments in society and then create institutions that can contribute to positive growth. For example, it is important to reduce poverty as much as possible. It is probably a battle that is limitless in time. We try ...
United States -- Four Definitions of Success, One Message from Ismaili Women Leaders: Your Story is Your Own. Ismaili women in America fit no singular mould. But in interviews with four women leaders, one key aspect shines through: Ismaili women are breaking new grounds and setting bars extremely high, equipped with education, critical thinking, humility, and a thirst for excellence. Jenny ...
United Kingdom -- International Women's Day, first established in 1911, celebrates the success of women around the globe.Used as a day to mark gender parity, International Women's Day celebrates the achievements of women in leadership positions in all arenas of life, be it social, economic, cultural or political. As part of our #IsmailiExcellence campaign, we aspire to showcase how Ismailis across ...
The Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam - Phase II will be inaugurated on Saturday 9 March 2019 in the presence of Princess Zahra and His Excellency, the Honourable Kassim M. Majaliwa (MP), Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania. ...
To help celebrate International Women's Day 2019, we are sharing some stories about women in Pakistan, Tajikistan, Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania, whose participation in AKDN-supported activities is leading to a better quality of life for themselves and future generations. ...
Learn more about our DFID funded programme that is supporting over 200,000 girls to get to school and stay in school longer! ...
LIVE WEBCAST -- THE ISMAILI -- DATE: Saturday 9 March 2019, 10:00am Dar es Salaam (EAT) ... 11:00am Dubai (GST) ... 12:00pm noon Karachi (PKT)/Dushanbe (TJT) ... 12:30pm Mumbai (IST) ... 7:00am London (GMT) ... 2:00am New York/Toronto (EST) ... 1:00am Chicago/Houston (CST) ... 12:00am Midnight Calgary (MST) ... Friday 8 Mar 11:00pm Vancouver (PST) ... Princess Zahra and His Excellency The Prime Minister of Tanzania to inaugurate the Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Phase II. The event will be webcast live at the.ismaili/live ...
Global -- On the occasion of International Women's Day, 8 March 2019, we celebrate the achievements of notable Muslim women - historical and contemporary - who have inspired and continue to inspire people of all faiths, backgrounds, and fields of endeavour. International Women's Day is commemorated on 8 March every year, and has become a contemporary recognition celebrating the accomplishments of ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for FEBRUARY 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.
Global -- Prince Rahim and Princess Salwa attended two ceremonies in Seattle this week, during which the Aga Khan University (AKU) signed memorandums of understanding with two American institutions. On 4 March, the University of Washington (UW) signed a memorandum of understanding with AKU to formalize their existing partnership and to leverage complementary strengths to further expand research, service, and education ...
The organisations signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on prevention, diagnosis, treatment of cancer and related diseases. Seattle, USA, 6 March 2019 - The Aga Khan University and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today expressed their shared commitment in working together to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer and related diseases in low- and middle-income countries. President Firoz ...
13 February 2019 - AKU has awarded more than 1,200 degrees and diplomas in Kenya and more than 3,000 in East Africa. ...
It's perfectly human to grapple with questions, like 'Where do we come from?' and 'How do I live a life of meaning?' These existential questions are central to the five major world religions and that's not all that connects these faiths. John Bellaimey explains the intertwined histories and cultures of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. ...
Life of Mawlana Hazar Imam, Aga Khan IV. He is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism, a denomination of Isma'ilism within Shia Islam. At the age of 20, he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III. It is believed that the Aga Khan is a direct lineal descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. ...
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Imam Abu Tamim Ma'add succeeded his father to the Imamat and Fatimid caliphate on March 7, 953 1 at age of twenty-one, adopting the regal title of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, 'the one who strengthens the religion of God.' Named after the Prophet's daughter, the Fatimids, Mawlana Hazar Imam's ancestors, established their empire in 909 in North Africa when Imam al-Mahdi was ...
At Chordz we work on innovations and develop effective techniques to make your guitar learning journey easy, simple and fun. Chordz is a smart gadget that will help you to experience ...
This is Zahir's 13th non-profit book, available at Amazon.com: A student can learn all three aspects - reading, writing, speaking. Even tourists, expatriates, volunteers, etc, who may only be interested ...
What would you do if you held the power to help the entire world? It sounds intimidating, but one teenager, Jules Khan embraces his destiny for the good of all mankind ...
Mindfulness is a popular concept many of us are familiar with. From health-care professionals and registered dietitians just like me to entrepreneurs, career coaches and yogis: we're increasingly discovering its many ...
Pakistan -- Music is the nucleus of artistic expressions; it translates the emotions and simultaneously contributes to the preservation of the melodious culture of any region. It helps the Jamat reflect that the human race is greater than we can fathom. The Aga Khan Youth and Sports Board for Pakistan (AKYSBP), in collaboration with renowned academia National College of Arts (NCA), ...
UNMISTAKABLECREATIVE.COM -- Formulas are seductive and easy to sell. Follow these 5-steps, and you'll get this result. Formulas breed dependency on gurus, coaches, mentors, and teachers. Frameworks teach you how to think. If you modify a formula, discard what doesn't work or don't follow the instructions to the letter, it becomes a framework. A framework forces you take responsibility for your results. Frameworks lead to innovation. Formulas lead to imitation. ...
FS.BLOG -- In this world we have two kinds of knowledge. One is Planck knowledge, the people who really know. They've paid the dues, they have the aptitude. And then we've got chauffeur knowledge. We have the people who don't do the work -- they pretend. They've learned the talk. They'll make a hell of an impression. While they've learned to put on a good show, they lack understanding. They can't explain things without using jargon or vague terms. They have no idea how things interact. They can't predict consequences. ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right." -- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President ...
THEGLOBEANDMAIL.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In 1999, Hazar Imam said he watches other (non-Ismaili) communities to learn how they retain their heritage, identity, and traditions.] ARTICLE: From a near-even mix of growing and declining church attendees and their clergy, we found that conservative religious doctrine ... is a key driver for church growth in mainline Protestant congregations.... We [also] found that the pastors of the growing churches were, on average, about a decade younger than those of the declining. Other researchers have made similar observations. Martha Grace Reese [has shown] these younger pastors had greater theological conservatism. ...
FAITHTODAY.CA -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In 1999, Hazar Imam said he watches other (non-Ismaili) communities to learn how they retain their heritage, identity, and traditions.] ARTICLE: At its very core liberal theology insists that there is no single "correct" interpretation of Scripture and that there is no "authoritative" belief that must be held. That being the case, the best one can do when articulating liberal theology is to provide options of what one might believe ... Our research contributes to a large body of evidence that churches who stick to traditional beliefs can grow and thrive, even in today's world, and that abandoning those beliefs in search of relevance and popular appeal is a fool's errand. ...
"I wanted to beat the stereotypical thinking that girls are not strong enough," says MMA fighter Anita Karim Five seconds into the fight, Anita Karim -- who had stepped on to ...
The scale of human displacement across the world means more children than ever are growing up without stable homes. In our latest Deeply Talks, we discuss lessons from child-development experts on ...
[H/T SAHIL BADRUDDIN] -- IAMFEARLESSSOUL.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Highly recommended.] ARTICLE: Do you love your wife? Yes. Prove it. Like, what's the metric? Give me the number that helps me know, right? Because when you met her, you didn't love her. Now you love her, right? Tell me the day that love happened. It's an impossible question, but it's not that it doesn't exist, it's that it's much easier to prove over time. Right? Leadership is the same thing, it's about transitions.... My friend George, was a three-star General in the Marine Corps, he says his test for leadership ...
Migration is inevitable. It has been happening for centuries. Whether by choice or by necessity, it will continue with every generation. We are intellectual beings. We strive to progress. Progress is ...
The University of Washington today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Aga Khan University to codify partnership activities already underway and to leverage complementary strengths to further expand research, service ...
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"The passage of a millennium has not diminished Nasir Khusraw's relevance nor dulled the lustre of his poetry. It continues to uplift and inspire..." Mawlana Hazar Imam Born into a noble Twelver Shi'i family in 1004 in Marv in the eastern Iranian province of Khurasan, Nasir Khusraw studied mathematics, medicine, Greek philosophy, astronomy, and the Qur'an. He followed family tradition and ...
A portrait of Shirin Mohamedali Khimji (1935-2019). Photo: (Late) Shirin Mohamedali Khimji Family Collection. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un"Surely we belong to God and to Him we return" -- Holy Qur'an, 2:156 "Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny. ...
To discover how clusters can attract the best talent and empower people to contribute their best, European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) sat down with Zabeen Hirji, Global Advisor, Future of Work ...
The Cabinet Secretary for Education, Hon. Dr. Amina Mohamed has challenged academic institutions to increase their intake in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) courses. Speaking during the 15th convocation ceremony ...
Birmingham-based company was one of the two winners in the first Alabama Launchpad event of 2019. Birmingham Medical startup CerFlux and Phenix City's VentorLux LLC were the two winners. CerFlux, led ...
