Aban House, Isfahan, Iran, by USE Studio / Mohammad Arab, Mina Moeineddini: On a narrow rectangular site in Isfahan's historic centre, the three-storey house is arranged around three open courtyards. Aban House is one of 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Read more about the shortlisted projects for the #AgaKhan Award for #Architecture 2022: For more ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for May 2022 -- 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, Event Alerts and COVID-19 advice) without social media influence. NOTE: Posts are randomly ordered.
By MALIK MERCHANTPublisher/Editor Simerg, Barakah andSimergphotos Simerg's series entitled "Books by Ismaili Authors" continues with Calgary based Mansoor Ladha's book "A Portrait in Pluralim: Aga Khan's Shia Ismaili Muslims."Mansoor is being featured in the series for the second time, following our interview with him on March 6, 2021 on his more recent work, the highly acclaimed "Memoirs of a Muhindi" that ...
Journey behind-the-scenes at the Aga Khan Museum in part four of the Making an Exhibition series as the team prepares to open our newest exhibition: Image? The Power of the Visual. The pressure is on as the team works hard to bring the exhibition to life just in time for opening day. Learn about how the Museum engages and interacts with visitors in ...
Understanding the importance of innovative trends and applying them to a growing business to help achieve success. 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 ...
Wafra Wind Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait, by AGi Architects: The 13-storey building conceived as a wind tower features a central, vertical courtyard that provides natural ventilation to each apartment unit. Wafra Wind Tower is one of 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Read more about the shortlisted projects for the #AgaKhan Award for #Architecture 2022: For ...
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK -- According to a YouGov poll, the British public hugely overestimates the size of minorities and, thereby, warping the view of society. While official figures show black Britons make up about 3% of the population, those surveyed estimated it was 20%. Conversely, when asked what proportion of adults were white, the median answer was 65% yet the true figure is 87%. Similarly, Britons believed about 15% of the population is Muslim, against the true figure of about 4%, and they estimated the Jewish community stood at 10% when it is 0.5%. MP Sir John Hayes said: "This distorted impression created by much of the broadcast and online media is so out of tune with the facts." The poll revealed that the public thinks 10% ...
Expandable House, Batam, Indonesia, by ETH Zurich / Stephen Cairns with Miya Irawati, Azwan Aziz, Dioguna Putra and Sumiadi Rahman: This new sustainable dwelling prototype is designed to be flexibly configured around its residents' (often) precarious resources over time. Expandable House is one of 20 shortlisted projects for the 2022 Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Read more about the shortlisted projects ...
Description: 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 ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the plenary session of the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit in the #KyrgyzRepublic on 31 October 2002. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
NATIONALPOST.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2008: "People come together around competence, around ability, around knowledge. They don't like mediocrity." ~~ Hazar Imam, 2000: "Pakistan, fortunately, like many other developing countries, is moving to what we call a merit-based educational system."] ARTICLE: It is quite likely that the diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE) motivated eradication of objective testing will hinder students from mastering topics such as statistics which social sciences rely on. And so, when I meet someone hired on DIE grounds, should I be skeptical of their professional competence? Even the New York Times expressed its doubts about DIE in a 2021 headline: "Are Workplace Diversity Programs Doing More Harm than Good?" Commenting on the Western woke madness, Vladimir Putin said that although the advocates of so-called "social progress" believe they are introducing a new and better consciousness, Russia has been there already. The Bolsheviks, relying on Marx, led the destruction of age-old values, religion, and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family (we had that, too). And they were absolutely intolerant of opinions other than theirs. "We are amazed ...
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 ...
