THEPOLYMATHPROJECT.COM -- Smil was a little-known academic until he rose into public awareness thanks to Bill Gates. Gates has read all of Smil's books and goes as far as to say, "I learn more by reading Vaclav Smil than just about anyone." ... Here are a few things I'm learning from him on how to think clearly: Read widely, with maximum curiosity ... Put reality first and theory last ... Manage your identity ...
Austin, Texas, USA, 4 September 2018 - Today, a delegation from the Aga Khan Academies together with representatives from the Ismaili Council for the Unites States met with Rolando B. Pablos, Secretary of State for the State of Texas, USA at the State Capital in Austin. The group had a collegial and wide-ranging discussion about the work of the Aga Khan ...
In 1090, Hasan-i Sabbah acquired the fortress of Alamut in northern Iran, marking the founding of what was to become the seat of the Nizari Ismaili state. Over the next 150 years, the Ismailis acquired more than 200 fortresses in Iran and Syria, located in the inaccessible mountainous regions for refuge of the Nizari Ismailis as well as others fleeing persecution ...
Shahzadi Devje - Diabetes expert and chairperson The Ismaili Nutrition Centre - does a fantastic job of conveying the essence of preparing healthy protein meals in 15 minutes or less. Click ...
Very insightful conversation on the Ismaili community and its contributions. Source: ...
CREATIVITYATWORK.COM -- "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein "And if everybody says that you are wrong, then you are one step ahead. But there is one situation which is better still, when ...
Life of Jehangir, a poster that adorned Alwaez Jehangir’s room at Normanna. By ABDULMALIK MERCHANT Editor/Publisher Simergphotos, Simerg and Barakah .Com Alwaez Jehangir Merchant, loving husband of Alwaeza Maleksultan, dear father of Alnoor, Fahar and Abdulmalik, and a cherished and proud ‘dada’ (grandfather) of Naim and Nurin died at Normanna Living on May 27, 2018 at the age of 89. ...
Islamic Studies Colloquium - Wed, September 19, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM The Transformation of Imāmology: The Ascension of the Imām in Ismā'īlī Islam - with Alyjan Daya, Departmental ...
On Saturday, they held a talk on "Cosmopolitan Ethic in Action" at the Ismaili Jamatkhana and Centre at Bashundhara in Dhaka. Members of the academia, representatives of civil society, business leaders, ...
Joint UN / World Bank report. This launch event in Nairobi brings together lead authors of the report along with experts from a range of fields to offer a Kenyan perspective on the challenges and successes of development, inclusion and conflict prevention. The panel also explores what insights from the report are most relevant for Kenya's future efforts on conflict prevention and inclusion.
TED.COM -- What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone - but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned ...
Global -- On 6 September 2018, The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) hosted a celebratory event at the Aga Khan Centre to commemorate the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between SOAS University of London and the IIS. The Memorandum of Agreement is a formal arrangement whereby SOAS will award MA degrees for the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities ...
GOOGLE.COM -- KAMALZAR.COM -- Mawlana Hazar Imam said at Peshawar University: "The day we no longer know how, nor have the time nor the faith to bow in prayer to Allah because the human soul that He has told us is eternal is no longer of sufficient importance to us to be worthy of an hour of our daily working, profit-seeking time, ...
15MINUTEHISTORY.ORG -- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS -- Guest: Shainool Jiwa, Institute for Ismaili Studies, London. Around the first millennium of the Christian era, a small group of Ismaili Shi'i Muslims established a dynasty that rapidly conquered North Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. At the height of their power they conquered Egypt, where they founded the city of Cairo, and ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- Riddle 01: An ice cold mystery - The coach is found dead on the ice rink with and ice skate lodged in his chest ... Who is the murderer? Riddle 02: The camping accident - Is it a crime or an accident? Riddle 03: The detective meet up - Detective west and detective lance have to meet up, can you ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- AL JAZEERA -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In 2008, Hazar Imam said, "[Nuclear power] has the potential to change the global economic scenario."] ARTICLE: A number of research projects are currently exploring thorium as an alternative to traditional nuclear fuels. Thorium reactors are safer and easier to control. The waste produced is a tiny fraction of what conventional reactors produce and has a far shorter half-life. ...
TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM -- MIT -- Cheaper and cleaner nuclear plants could finally become reality -- but not in the United States, where the technology was invented more than 50 years ago.... Today's Chinese program, in fact, is the fruit of a unique and somewhat controversial partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Shanghai Institute. In February I flew through the interior of a ...
WIRED.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In 2010, Hazar Imam said, "[M]y sense is we are looking to the future for a massive increase in nuclear use around the world."] ARTICLE: Thorium by itself could start to solve [convential nuclear] problems ... the element leaves behind minuscule amounts of waste [that only] needs to be stored for only a few hundred years, not a few hundred thousand like other nuclear byproducts ... In 1965, Weinberg and his team built a working reactor ... that would have zero risk of meltdown. ...
United States -- In 2011, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer initiated Orlando Cares, a service initiative which includes The Garden is an impactful volunteering program. The Garden is a joint program with Orange County, which manages the recreational division, as well as with others partners to engage adult volunteers to mentor youth. Participation in the Garden activity provides a safe and constructive ...
This unique building houses The Institute of Ismaili Studies, the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) and the Aga Khan Foundation. Source: Bespoke joinery throughout | ...
Imran Amed's website, the Business of Fashion, is the oracle of the style world. As its top 500 power list is published, Guardian asks how he's got designers and editors hanging ...
A photograph of Elizabeth Tschursin sitting in the snow-capped Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan hangs over a doorway in her mother's Santa Fe home. "That's when she was the happiest," said Diana ...
Al-Murtaza Academy joins network of Aga Khan Schools following generous gift. Murtazabad, Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, 9 September 2018 - The Aga Khan School Murtazabad, today joined the Aga Khan Education Service's network's 107 schools in Gilgit Baltistan, further expanding its vision to provide much needed quality education to students in the region. Previously known as the Al-Murtaza Academy, the school was ...
First Chapter: Reverberations of Thar: The first chapter of Sound Diaries was based on capturing the natural reverberations and it was concluded at TharParkar (Sindh). The experiment was conducted at three ...
Apollo recently asked leading figures and in the museum and art worlds from the UK and from the Netherlands to pick out five items from public collections that they felt every ...
HOW CAN ART BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER WITH EL SEEDDate: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 06:30PM For 4th Annual Lecture, join Aga Khan Museum as they welcome internationally renowned artist and global thinker, ...
More than 200 guests joined gala co-chairs Honorable Erum Jivani-Gillani and Saul and Lisa Valentin, and sponsor the Greater Houston Retail Association (GHRA), at the Aga Khan Foundation's Houston Banquet. The ...
One on one with Stella Mbugua of Aga Khan Foundation East Africa focusing on early childhood development education in Kenya's informal settlements. ...
The Design for Diversity exhibition highlights six winners and shortlisted works from the 2014-2016 cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Shown in Boston's BSA Space, the projects on display ...
AGAKHANSTUDS.COM -- Largely thanks to Mumtaz Mahal, the Aga Khan, despite a numerically small stable, finished 2nd to Lord Derby in the leading owners' list in 1923 and twelve months later had garnered the first of thirteen English championships. 1924 was also the year in which he won his first English Classics - Diophon in the 2,000 Guineas and Salmon Trout in the St. ...
The very first revelation to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) was a command to read. Thus, from the very beginning, learning and education has held a special place in Islam. For all communities and societies today, learning and education rests on literacy, or, the ability to read and write. The recently-established Gulshan-e-Noor Library and Reading Room ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for AUGUST 2018 -- 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.
TKN -- Dr. Fazila Lalani, a full-time Emergency Physician with Aga Khan Health Services-Tanzania (AKHS-T), has exactly the job she wants, and it started as a TKN assignment. After completing her residency four years ago, Dr. Lalani taught medical school and emergency medicine residents as an Assistant Professor in Northwell Hospital's Emergency Medicine Residency Program, in her hometown of Long Island, ...
News story -- On 6 September 2018, the IIS hosted a celebratory event at the Aga Khan Centre to commemorate the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between SOAS University of London and The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS). The Memorandum of Agreement is a formal arrangement whereby SOAS will award MA degrees for the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities ...
8 September is International Literacy Day. Around the world, agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network work with children and adults to enhance literacy. From providing school books to running educational programmes, from teaching grandparents to read to their grandchildren to teaching young boys and girls to read to their younger siblings, we recognise that reading from an early age is ...
[H/T VISITOR SUGGESTION] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- JOLLYGUL.COM -- Ginan with music aae rahem rahemaan ab to rahem karoge O Most Gracious and Most Merciful Bestow your kind mercy upon me now Composed by Sayyeda Imaam Begum Recited by Shemina Bhojani Video dedicated to Ismaili women for their important contributions in spiritual and worldly matters throughout our 1,400 years history. In loving memory of Huzur Mukhiani Nurbanu Somji 1954-2018 ...
Yourtimeisnow on schedule for her sire. CHARM SPIRIT's excellent season with his first juveniles continued on Thursday as the appropriately-named Yourtimeisnow offered the young sire his first Group success. Already a winner from pillar to post at Newbury in August, on this occasion Yourtimeisnow showed both courage and a turn of foot. She took the lead in the early stages of ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: We're sure these short, stunning videos will bring back fond memories of game park safaris.] ARTICLE: Make sure to watch in 4K if your connection and display can handle it! ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: We're sure these short, stunning videos will bring back fond memories of game park safaris.] ARTICLE: Crocodile hunt in ultra sharp slow motion. See the power of the crocodiles while hunting in great slow motion shots. The crocodile hunt a defenceless wildebeest and bit in the throat. From the full documentary "Serengeti - The Adventure". ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: We're sure these short, stunning videos will bring back fond memories of game park safaris.] ARTICLE: Giant hippo in ultra sharp slow motion. See the morning awakening of the wonderful giant hippo taken with a high-speed-camera in slow motion. From the documentary "Serengeti - The Adventure" we show one of most stunning takes from filmmaker Reinhard Radke. ...
