Rehabilitation of Manama Post Office, Manama, Bahrain, by Studio Anne Holtrop: Built in 1937, the Post Office was rehabilitated to its original form and role as a functioning post office, and added a new wing to the existing building. The Rehabilitation of Manama Post Office is one of 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Read more ...
ACADEMYOFIDEAS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazrat Ali: "Use your intellect to understand something when you hear about it. The intellect that examines and not just the intellect that repeats what it hears, for surely there are many who repeat the knowledge that they hear, and there are few who examine it."] ARTICLE: Repetition is a well-known propaganda technique for solidifying falsehoods and perpetuating fear. By repeating specific phrases and warnings over and over, entire populations can be paralyzed with a fear psychosis. The Nazi Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, well aware of this, said: "It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition ... that a square is in fact a circle." Or, as George Orwell wrote: "Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." And, as Voltaire explained, "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." To avoid this, one must give up being a common passive propaganda receiver and instead become an active truth seeker. Skepticism is ...
RT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2014: "As I look around me, my deep sense is that today the strongest human force, sadly, is fear."] ARTICLE: If you believe that you are a divinely created sovereign being, and that your rights come from God, as the American Founders did, not the government, you have the basis to create something truly wonderful. But how far we have fallen. America in 2022 more closely resembles a giant mental asylum inside a circus than a country of the brave and the free. Sometimes I wonder if most of my fellow citizens even believe in freedom anymore, or are they so fearful and shellshocked they've forgotten what that word means? It's almost like safety is the new American pastime, replacing baseball. Or worse, Safety is the new religion. Neighbors rat on neighbors, calling the cops. All of it driven by instilled fear, all of it devoid of human empathy. Not only are fearful ...
Argo Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran, by ASA North / Ahmadreza Schricker: Distinct materials differentiate new additions from the brick-built historic fabric in this contemporary art museum housed in an abandoned 100-year-old brewery. Argo Contemporary Art Museum and Cultural Centre is one of 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Read more about the ...
A treble of Aga Khan winners and a double for Zarak. The Aga Khan Studs enjoyed a fantastic streak of success on Sunday thanks to a treble of winners headed by VADENI and a double of Group winners for ZARAK. VADENI was a dominant winner of the Prix du Jockey Club when powering clear of his rivals to land the French ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Islam, as Mowlana Hazar Imam has explained in one of his farmans, means "creating a world in which you can practise your faith to the best of your ability". The Prophet's vision of life was based on creating an Ummah that would be based on those values that were revealed to him in the Quran; his whole mission was directed to developing such a society. Today, Mowlana Hazar Imam explains, "Your understanding of your faith will lead them (i.e. our children) to their understanding of theirs" -- first we must try to develop that understanding so that we have something to hand on to our children. For Ismailis, ...
Flying Saucer Rehabilitation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, by SpaceContinuum Design Studio / Mona El Mousfy: The Flying Saucer, a 1978 Brutalist-style building that was fully restored as a community art space, contributes to Sharjah's collective cultural memory. The Flying Saucer Rehabilitation, Sharjah is one of 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Read more about the shortlisted ...
Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible: Memoirs of Engagement with a Global Development Network by Azim H, Jiwani (FriesenPress, 2021). Review by Theo Richardson-Gool, CEO of Public Health Pathways. He also works ...
Lilavati Lalbhai Library at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India, by RMA architects / Rahul Mehrotra: The library, a living case study of passive climate mitigation strategies, integrates seamlessly into the existing campus while forging its own distinct identity. Read more about the shortlisted projects for @TheAgaKhanAward for Architecture 2022: For more about the #AgaKhan Award for #Architecture, visit #AKAA2022 ...
Baaeed brother the 17th Group 1 winner for Sea The Stars. Hukum became the 17th Group 1 winner for SEA THE STARS on Friday, powering clear in the Coronation Cup at Epsom to take the 12-furlong contest by more than four lengths, ahead of last year's winner Pyledriver. The five-year-old Shadwell homebred, who is the first Gr.1 winner for trainer Owen ...
Artany Art Gallery and Advisory (AAGA) is a digital gallery space and art consultancy specialising in contemporary art focused on the rising Ismaili artists with a global reach. Artany aesthetically renders ...
Here's a sneak peek of the shortlisted projects for @TheAgaKhanAward for Architecture's Fifteenth Cycle, 2020-2022. Read more about the shortlisted projects here: ...
By MOBINA MARANI (nee JAMANI) In the early spring of 1957, at age 27, our mother Daulat Hassanali Jamani (lovingly known as Dolly), with encouragement from our dad, left Kampala, Uganda, to pursue a professional seamstress course at the Paris School of Dressmaking in London, England. She was one of the first Ismaili women from East Africa to go abroad for ...
q is Canada's liveliest arts, culture, and entertainment magazine program that covers pop culture and high arts. 'Specificity is representation': Iman Vellani is Marvel's first Muslim superhero. She used to dress ...
Literally meaning "luminous lamp," the Chiragh-i Roshan (or Rawshan) is a ceremony practised by the Nizari Ismailis of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, western China, and northern Pakistan. The ceremony, generally performed on the third night following the death of a family member, is guided by the authorised text Chiragh-nama which comprises poetry, supplication, and verses of the Qur'an, culminating in the kindling of ...
Learning the art of healthy negotiations that are crucial to a growing business. If you enjoyed the session and want to be a part of Maaro Vyaapar, Maari Pragati 2.0 (MVMP 2.0), you can register for the upcoming sessions at the link below Sessions are held in Hindi and Gujrati, every alternate Sunday ...
Learning the art of healthy negotiations that are crucial to a growing business. If you enjoyed the session and want to be a part of Maaro Vyaapar, Maari Pragati 2.0 (MVMP 2.0), you can register for the upcoming sessions at the link below Sessions are held in Hindi and Gujrati, every alternate Sunday ...
20 projects in 16 countries, from Indonesia to Cape Verde Geneva, Switzerland, 2 June 2022 - The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) today announced 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Award cycle. The projects will compete for a share of the US$ 1 million prize, one of the largest in architecture. The 20 shortlisted projects were selected by an independent ...
With the digital world gaining utmost importance, learn the importance and art of selling online on aggregator platforms like Amazon and Flipkart that help a business scale up to greater heights. If you enjoyed the session and want to be a part of Maaro Vyaapar, Maari Pragati 2.0 (MVMP 2.0), you can register for the upcoming sessions at the link below Sessions are held ...
A few weeks after the first presentation of "The Ismaili Imamat: A Signature in History", a Q&A session was held in which a short recap of Signature as well as answers to some written questions were presented, followed by an open Q&A. We are pleased to make the videos of these available for the Jamat. The younger Jamat, especially in the West, do not often find traditional, philosophical arguments for God and the Imamat intellectually satisfying. "The Ismaili Imamat: A Signature in History" is a new, highly acclaimed, objective assessment of the Ismaili Imamat's authenticity using a fresh, ground-breaking approach inspired by the fundamental principle that faith is, and always has been, evidence based. We are confident it will be of particular interest to parents, young adults, youth, especially high school and university students as well was the wider Jamat.
YOUTUBE.COM -- SPROUTS -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazrat Ali, Maxims of Ali: "Stupidity is a pain irremediable; a disease incurable."] ARTICLE: Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless -- reason falls on deaf ears and thus the stupid person is self-satisfied. There are human beings who are remarkably agile intellectually yet stupid, and others who are intellectually dull yet anything but stupid. People who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals in groups. In conversation with a stupid person, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him as if he is under a spell. Having thus become a mindless tool ...
QZ.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2016: "Public wisdom is not dependent on education."] ARTICLE: In 1976, Carlo M. Cipolla (d.2000), a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley outlined 5 laws governing what he perceived as humanity's greatest existential threat: Stupidity. Stupid people, he explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves. He argued there are no defenses against stupidity. ~~ Law 2: The probability that a particular person is stupid is independent of any other personal trait -- gender, race, nationality, education level, income. Every category one can imagine possesses a fixed percentage of stupid people. There are stupid college professors, stupid people at Davos and at the UN General Assembly, and in every nation on earth. How numerous ...
ANZ -- Originally from Ahmadabad, Hunza (Northern Pakistan), Shahida Bano is a Senior Quality Improvement Consultant at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. SHAHIDA BANO Senior Quality Improvement Consultant Melbourne, Australia Shahida completed the early years of her education at Diamond Jubilee School, Ahmadabad. She started her career in the field of health management and quality assurance at the Aga Khan University ...
By MOBINA MARANI(nee JAMANI) My name is Mobina, and I live in Crystal Beach, a lakefront community in Fort Erie, located some 180 kilometres from Toronto, Canada. I was born in Kampala, Uganda, and developed an interest in art at a very early age. After leaving Uganda, I attended an art school in England where I learned to work with many ...
Got a bunch of kale? Lunch is all sorted with this easy and healthy vegan Kale Salad tossed in a creamy avocado-herb dip and topped with slightly crispy, warm and spicy ...
By Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago During the month of Dhu'l Qa'dah, in the year 6 after hijrah, the Prophet set out on a journey with his companions to perform the minor pilgrimage ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the #AgaKhanAcademy in Kampala, Uganda on 22 August 2007. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
Portugal -- Anúncio do Ismaili International Conciliation and Arbitration Board (ICAB) relativo às Diretrizes para a Transferência Ética da Riqueza e Planeamento Sucessório. O Ismaili International Conciliation and Arbitration Board (ICAB), com base nas suas revisões anuais do sistema CAB a nível mundial, concluiu que muitas disputas se centram em torno da distribuição da riqueza. Para prevenir tais disputas, e para ...
The Ismaili International Conciliation and Arbitration Board, in collaboration with the IIS, and at the direction of Mawlana Hazar Imam, has produced Guidelines for Ethical Wealth Transfer and Inheritance Planning to assist Ismailis to engage in ethical wealth transfer and inheritance planning. The Guidelines are based on ethical principles which reflect the values of our Tariqah, particularly, natural justice and equity, and they ...
CAB -- اخلاقی طورپر دولت کی منتقلی اور وراثت کی منصوبہ بندی کے حوالے سے اسماعیلی انٹرنیشنل کنسی لیشن اینڈ آربیٹریشن بورڈ کی جانب سے Guidelines کا اعلان اخلاقی دولت کی منتقلی اور وراثت کی منصوبہ بندی کے لیے رہنما خطوط ...
CAB -- إعلان من الهيئة العالمية للمصالحة والتحكيم الإسماعيلية (ICAB) بشأن الإرشادات التوجيهية للنقل الأخلاقي للثروة والتخطيط للميراث المبادئ التوجيهية لنقل الثروة الأخلاقية والتخطيط للميراث ...
CAB -- اطلاعیۀ ادارهٔ قضا و داوری بین المللی اسماعیلی (ICAB) در مورد رهنمودِ انتقال اخلاقی دارایی و پلانگزاری میراث رهنمودهایی برای برنامه ریزی اخلاقی انتقال ثروت و ارث ...
CAB -- Annonce du International Conciliation and Arbitration Board (ICAB) Ismaili concernant les orientations pour le transfert éthique de patrimoine et la planification successorale. Sur la base de ses examens annuels du système CAB dans le monde, Ismaili International Conciliation and Arbitration Board (ICAB) a observé que de nombreux litiges sont liés à la distribution du patrimoine. Afin de prévenir de ...
CAB -- Эъломияи Анҷумани Байналмилалии Мусолиҳа ва Доварӣ дар мавриди меъроси сарват ва банақшагирии он Анҷумани Байналмилалии Мусолиҳа ва Доварӣ (ICAB), бар асоси баррасиҳои солонаи худ дар бораи системаи Мусолиҳа ва Доварӣ дар саросари ҷаҳон мушоҳида кардааст, ки баҳсҳои зиёде дар атрофи тақсимоти сарват дар ҷамоат ба вуқӯъ омада истодаанд. Барои ҳамин ICAB барои бартараф намудани ин гуна муноқишаҳо ва ба ...
CAB -- ધી ઇસ્માઈલી ઇન્ટરનેશનલ કન્સિલિએશન ઍન્ડ આર્બિટ્રેશન બૉર્ડ (ICAB) તરફથી સંપત્તિના નૈતિક હસ્તાંતરણ અને વારસાના આયોજન માટેની માર્ગદર્શિકા અંગેની જાહેરાત ધી ઇસ્માઈલી ઇન્ટરનેશનલ કન્સિલિએશન ઍન્ડ આર્બિટ્રેશન બૉર્ડ (ICAB)એ, વૈશ્વિક સ્તરે keb (CAB) પદ્ધતિની તેની વાર્ષિક સમીક્ષાઓના આધારે એવું નિરીક્ષણ કર્યું છે કે ઘણા વિવાદો સંપત્તિની વહેંચણીની આસપાસ કેન્દ્રિત હોય છે. આવા વિવાદોને રોકવા માટે, અને ખાસ કરીને વ્યક્તિના મૃત્યુના સમયે ...
Zagrey an easy winner of the 166e Derby du Midi. The Yann Barberot-trained Zagrey ran out a smooth winner of the Listed 166e Derby du Midi on Saturday at Bordeaux-le-Bouscat on his first try over 1900m. Co-owned by his breeder Jean-Paul Challet and Gérard Augustin-Normand, the colt is a half-brother to Gr.1 performer Graignes and recent Listed-placed Anatiya (DARIYAN). He becomes ...
BARIWEISS.SUBSTACK.COM -- I taught English at Yale University for ten years and mostly I taught what one of them herself called "excellent sheep." Excellent sheephood, like wokeness, is a species of conformity. Today's elite college students still regard themselves as children, and are still treated as such. The nature of the authority, parental as well as institutional, that the young now have is an authority that does not believe in authority, that does not believe in itself. It's an authority that wants to be liked, that wants to be your friend, that wants to be thought of as cool. That will never draw a line, that will always ultimately yield. Children can't be children if adults are not adults, but children also can't become adults. The 1960s broke authority, and ...
USA -- Let us reflect upon how we can coexist peacefully in a globalized world through the cosmopolitan ethic. In his work of prose entitled Gulistan (Rose Garden), the 13th Century Persian poet Sa'di captures the sacredness and connectedness of human beings in the poem entitled, "Bani Adam" (Children of Adam): The children of Adam are parts of one wholeFor they ...
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." -- Mawlana Sultan Mahomed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan III (1877-1957), 48th ...
GOOGLE.COM -- On Tuesday, the 17th of Sha'ban, in the year 358 Hijri -- a day 1,000 years ago corresponding to July 6, 969 A.D. -- the victorious Fatimid General Jawhar, acting on the orders of the Caliph, Imam al-Muizz-li-din-Allah, laid the foundation of the city of alQahirah. This notable event, which also marked the opening of a glorious new chapter in the history of the Fatimid of North Africa, was attended by all the pomp and splendour of a dramatic moment in history. More than 100,000 panoplied soldiers, scores of noblemen in splendid garments and an uncounted number of the newly conquered people of nearby Fustat watched the historic ceremony as the lines of the new city were traced on the virgin earth. Cairo ...
