Shelina Shariff-Zia: Gulzar Mami and Moaez
I AM NOT GONE I am not gone, While you cry with me. I am not gone, While you smile with me I am not gone, While you remember with me. ...
ALEX AWITI: Our health and the future of our planet depend on our food choices
The EAT- Lancet Commission report on Food, Planet, Health that was released on January 17 is cause for concern. A group of 37 leading scientists warns that our food systems now ...
VIDEO: Celebrating the transformative power of generosity
Sept 2018 - A panel discussion with AKU's leadership including Trustees Princess Zahra Aga Khan and Naguib Kheraj, President Rasul and Provost Amrhein, on the university's future growth, and its aspirations to become a liberal arts institution. ...
Success is a lousy teacher ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." -- Bill Gates ...
Aga Khan Youth and Sports Board organises 6th Camporee
Pakistan -- Unity in Diversity - Let's Embrace Our Differences' was the theme of the sixth boy scouts and girl guides camporee organised by the Aga Khan Youth and Sports Board, Pakistan. The camp was held at Pakistan Boys Scouts Association headquarters, Sumbal Park, Islamabad. An astounding 255 boy scouts and 286 girl guides from all over the country attended the ...
The Separation Of Church And State Is An Impossible Fiction
THEFEDERALIST.COM -- It is impossible even at the conceptual level, let alone at the level of practice. The separation of church and state is one of the pieties of classical liberalism, and for good reason. It makes the necessary room for the expansion and protection of religious liberty. But I find the concept troubling, not because I don't love religious liberty, but rather because I do, and the separation seems like a somewhat flimsy foundation for supporting so important a value.... Let me explain. ...
Vote for Alqaim Lalani - Top 50 Most Influential Young Tanzanians
Alqaim Lalani is in his final year at the Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa. He was recently shortlisted as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Young Tanzanians for his project Tumaini ...
Sonaina Hamiya: Working on Preservation of Burushaski Language
My name is Sonaina and I'm from Aliabad, Hunza. I've recently graduated from National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore. Being a Hunza girl, it came to my realization that Burushaski language ...
Easy Nash: "Creation" in the Ismaili Lexicon @NVelshi
By Easy Nash My rebooted Blog(Part 2), resumed in late 2018/early 2019(ie a few short weeks ago), began with a comparison between 2 similarly-sounding quotes uttered by Mawlana Hazar Imam which ...
The Courtyard Commission: Dispersion @RunghCulture
Dispersion is a site-specific audio-visual dance performance featuring dancers Sophia Wolfe and Alex Tam, choreographed by Ralph Escamillian, visual projections by Nancy Lee and Laine Butler and musical composition and clarinet ...
masks X molds Solo Art Exhibition by Romana Kassam
From 25th January - 27th January 2019, The Neighbourhood Studios in (Leslieville, Toronto 24 McGee Street, Toronto, ON) will host Toronto artist Romana Kassam's FIRST solo exhibition titled masks X molds. ...
Arqana and Goffs catalogues feature Aga Khan pedigrees
Relatives of Zarkava and Alamshar entered in forthcoming sales. The Aga Khan Studs are represented by eight individuals in the Goffs Mixed Sale on 6th February, and by two breeding prospects at Arqana's Mixed Sale to be held on 12th and 13th February. In Ireland, the consignment features a single colt, the once-raced three-year-old ALANARI (lot 322), by Canford Cliffs, from ...
Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot - The Best Speech About Humanity
[H/T SAHIL BADRUDDIN] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- CARL SAGAN -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Magnificent!] ARTICLE: Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic ...
Apply to be a Staff Member
Global Encounters camps seek professionals and educators with experience and passion for working with youth to join us on an exciting journey! Global Encounters seeks to retain a talented and committed staff team that reflects a diversity of cultures, interests, careers, and educational backgrounds. For each camp, we try to build a cohort of facilitators and staff that complement each other's ...
Storytelling and fables were used to convey the timeless ideals of leadership
Following his address to the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon on July 10, 2018, Mawlana Hazar Imam opened the exhibition titled Ideals of Leadership: Masterpieces from the Aga Khan Museum Collections, hosted at the Parliament building.Mawlana Hazar Imam tours the exhibition hosted at the Parliament building, São Bento Palace in Lisbon. Source: AKDN / Mo Govindji The exhibition, which was on display ...
Artist Marwan Aridi speaks on 'The Holy Quran Pursuit' exhibit
Marwan Aridi, the creator of the exhibit titled, "The Holy Quran Pursuit" currently on display at the Museum of Texas Tech University, USA spoke about his exhibit and career in a ...
Joelysa Pankanea gives Bicycle Thieves a musical tune-up for PuSh Fest
Is there anything Joelysa Pankanea can't do? The 41-year-old composer has won multiple awards for her work in musical theatre. She's written scores for films, for chamber ensemble, and for choir. ...
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
By Rozina Ali Rumi used the Koran, Hadiths, and religion in an explorative way, often challenging conventional readings. One of Barks's popular renditions goes like this: "Out beyond ideas of rightdoing ...
Sakina Minhaj Shikari: Alif Allah
"An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success." Henri Matisse. Sakina Minhaj Shikari is one such self trained artist who refuses ...
Ambreen Charania: Landscapes of My Heart @AmbreenC
" Landscapes of the Heart" is a journey. It's the journey of friends, family, and the world around us. Every time we take a turn, we meet a friendly face or ...
22 Kitchen Tips to Save Your Food and Time
YOUTUBE.COM -- These kitchen tips are guaranteed to save your food and time! Let's take a look at some popular kitchen mistakes that make our lives harder and discover perfect solutions to avoid them! Find out how to peel and cut fruits and vegetables in the quickest way possible and how to prepare food for the cooking correctly! Learn the ways to store ...
The Competition Myth
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- ISI.ORG -- INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW -- Competition is supposed to be healthy. But as we engage in all this competition, we usually don't stop to ask: why are we doing this to ourselves? I use some contrarian questions to escape from competition ... "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" Good answers are ones that are uncomfortable.... The real problem is conformity, a fear of stepping outside the bounds. We have become more lemming-like.... We live in a world in which courage is in far shorter supply than genius. ...
Prince Rahim Aga Khan: Pluralism Harnesses Human Creativity and Kindles the Very Spirit of the Knowledge Society
[DEFINITIONS:What is meant by the Knowledge Society? In a speech [1] delivered in Karachi, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mawlana Hazar Imam, said that "the key to intellectual progress will not lie in any single body of instruction, but in a spirit of openness to new expression and fresh insights." He suggested that we were moving into a new epoch of ...
Sema Yoga - from principles to practice
United Kingdom -- "Sufism and yoga share an intricate and esoteric psycho-physical technique of meditation." - Carl W. Ernst. 'Sema Yoga - from principles to practice' Why yoga? The human body has long been recognised in Islam as the vehicle on our journey towards Allah. As travellers we must maintain the body in optimal condition so that we can be free ...
NEW: Announcing Ismaili Digest's "Saturday Series"!
We're happy to launch a new section on Ismaili Digest: Saturday Series where, each Saturday, we'll serialise longer reads into short bite-sized instalments. Last Saturday we concluded our first series, the "Aga Khan Studs History," published in 23 instalments on agakhanstuds.com. With today's launch of Saturday Series, we're starting the outstanding book "Selections from Qadi al-Nu'man's Kitab-ul-Himma fi Adabi Ataba-el-a'emma or Code of Conduct for the Followers of Imam." We hope you'll enjoy reading it, chapter by chapter, over the coming weeks.
Life of Qadi al-Nu'man -- Qadi al-Nu'man's Code of Conduct for the Followers of Imam
GOOGLE.COM -- The writings of No'man are, upto this day, considered to be the most authoritative information on the Fatmid Faith.... When Imam Al-Moiz ascended the throne, No'man rose to the height of his influence and became a constant companion of the Imam. [Imam Al-Moiz told him,] "Every well-wisher of mine ought to look upon you as a model." No'man tells us in his "Majalis-wal-Musacrat," "Imam Al-Moiz often used to invite me to address the people on the knowledge of the Fatmid Faith. I used to write books and read them to the Imam, chapter by chapter, before I read them to the people." ...
JollyGul.com Presents: Kalame Mawla with Synchronized Lyrics & Translations
JollyGul.com has launched a new Kalame Mawla on demand service with a custom designed and developed audio player that also displays synchronized lyrics and translations. Kalame Mawla is a poem of ...
Tariqua poem by Afraaz Mulji
I am the path home towards myself inward journey Tempered by the fire of longing I will taste the ultimate essence my thirst will be quenched my hunger will be sated ...
Eco-Soap Bank: 3 Million Bars Donated! @Samir_lakhani
For the cost of a cup of coffee, you can support 50 children with lifesaving hygiene for an entire year. Save lives by donating today. #soapsaveslives#ecosoapbankClick here to donateEco-Soap Bank is a ...
How the Internet has changed us
Global -- The digital age has changed our lives in many parts of the world, inextricably tethering them to the Internet for the simplest to the most sophisticated of tasks. In the first of a new series of articles on how to use digital media safely, Altaf Jiwa outlines the role that the Internet and social media have come to play ...
Maya Tharoo: What is Youth Philanthropy to a Youth @TedxSugarland
What is youth philanthropy? How is the youth of today changing the world and the entire landscape of philanthropic behavior? In this talk we take a look at how and why ...
Hunza Girl Guides win National Award
Pakistan -- The Hunza Girl Guides recently won a top award from the Pakistan Girl Guides Association for a pioneering environmental project. The Hunza Girl Guides focused on the mess left behind by tourist visiting the beautiful region, cleaning the mess left behind by tourists and making and maintaining dustbins to encourage tourists to properly dispose of rubbish. This hugely succesful ...
Welcome to Tajikistan!
YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Well worth the 6 minutes to view!] ARTICLE: Tajikistan is a wonderful country for tourism. ...
Midwest Regional Sports Tournament: "The Year of the Woman"
United States -- The Midwest Youth and Sports Board hosted its annual Midwest Regional Sports tournament at the Libertyville Sports Complex on Saturday, November 24. Shaifali Lalani, Co-Project Manager of this year's tournament, said she was most excited about the number of athletes this year. "We had originally planned for 100 to 150 at most, given the Thanksgiving holiday weekend; we ...
Mawlana Hazar Imam speaks about community, pluralism, and civil society at conference in Berlin
Global -- Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke at a conference in Berlin, Germany on 15 January 2019, during an event focussed on stability and effective development in fragile environments. The evening event, entitled "Fragile States Thinking Ahead," brought together leaders from the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and German development partners, to share best practice and lessons learned on development projects in ...
The Aga Khan and Germany's Minister of State Speak about Stabilization Measure Experiences in Northern Afghanistan
The following are excerpts from speeches made on January 15, 2019 in Berlin, by Germany's Minister of State Niels Annen and the 49th Ismaili Imam His Highness the Aga Khan at the event "Fragile States 'Weiterdenken' ('Thinking Ahead') - Utilising Experiences from Stabilisation Measures for the Future". The event brought together leaders from the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), of which ...
VIDEO: The Senator by Shayain Lakhani, United States of America
Jubilee Arts -- Film Title: The Senator Artist: Shayain Lakhani Country: United States of America ...
Zainub Verjee delivers the Opening Note at the Ideas Digital Forum
As the interaction between the Public Art Gallery as the site of engagement with the digital technologies increases, it's time to face the challenge and innovate. At the recently held Ideas ...
Easy Nash: There are around 50 stars in the sky which still bear their original Arabic and Persian names @NVelshi
"At various times in world history, the locus of knowledge has moved from one centre of learning to another. Europe once came to the Islamic world for intellectual enrichment - and ...
Aga Khan Foundation USA: Children, Our First Priority
There is nothing that parents love more in this world than their children. Parents everywhere want our children to grow up safe, healthy, and happy. We want them to have a ...
