United States -- On August 18 and 19,650 members of the Midwest Jamat and neighboring communities of Chicago, Glenview, Milwaukee and Naperville, collaborated with Illinois' Feed My Starving Children to prepare and pack nutritionally complete meals for malnourished children around the world. In six hours, this group of volunteers was able to pack over 155,000 meals, enough to provide food for ...
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Ismaili doctor in America receives Freedom Award BY SULTAN JESSA ATLANTA - Georgia: Awards and honors keep piling. A refugee resettlement in the United States of America has presented Dr. Gulshan ...
Canadian doctor helping to improve welfare of Africa BY SULTAN JESSA OTTAWA: An emergency doctor in Ottawa is helping to bring meaningful changes to vast Africa one step at a time. ...
Nutrition Centre -- Healthy Hints Since this recipe calls for a shallow fry in a few tablespoons of oil, it is a better alternative to the generally deep-fried varieties of this crowd favourite. Because the peppers and onions are cut into big chunks and do not absorb large amounts of oil, this recipe yields 200 calories per serving. A little portion ...
A team of faculty and students from the School of Business got an international education this summer as they traveled to an island country off the coast of Africa to share ...
Sikeena Karmali's latest novel The Mulberry Courtesan is set in pre-Independent India and focuses on the final phase of the Mughal Empire, with an ageing, ailing Bahadur Shah Zafar. Told against ...
Burnaby's Hanif Mawji pushed it to the playdowns before getting bumped at the Boccia International Sports Federation's (BISFed) 2018 World Boccia championships in Liverpool, England last week Source: Burnaby Now - ...
In this presentation, a multi-part crash course series on Ismaili History, discusses the Fatimid Period, considered to the golden age of Ismailism. The Ismaiili Imam-Caliphs during the Fatimid period were Imam al-Mahdi to Imam al-Mustansir. Notable contributions during the Fatimid Empire included the establishment of Al Azhar University and also the creation of the Dar al-Ilm, among many things. ...
Opinion: University of Toronto professor Shafique Virani says his 'weapons of mass instruction' can help curb Islamophobia. The National is CBC Television's flagship news program. Airing seven days a week, the show delivers news, feature documentaries and analysis from some of Canada's leading journalists. ...
THOUGHTCATALOG.COM -- Whether you're shopping online, scrolling through social media, or streaming a film, your every move is being logged and processed by software. There's a recommendation engine at every digital turn, powered by a finely tuned algorithm that suggests what you should watch, buy, or read next. But when your next move is driven directly by your existing interests, you can easily end up stuck in a bubble of similar content, products, and ideas. ...
The Ontario Legal Professionals' Alliance presents a fireside chat with his Honour Justice Hafeez Amarshi on Saturday September 15th, 2018 at 10:00 am at the Aga Khan Museum. Join Shazeen Merani, ...
The Aga Khan Foundation USA hosted a golf tournament to raise awareness and funds for its work around the world to break the cycle of poverty. Thank you to our partners and supporters who joined us on the green! ...
The Aga Khan Foundation USA hosted a Walk|Run to raise awareness and funds for its work around the world to break the cycle of poverty. Thank you to our partners and supporters who joined us for this amazing event! ...
Zein Dhanidina has been honoured with the nomination in the 2018 Premier's Award in the community services category. Zein Dhanidina Georgian College Fundraising and Resource Development, 2006 Founder and Executive Director, ...
OTTAWA, Aug. 28, 2018 CARE Canada announces the appointment of three new directors to its Board. Joining the Board are Jocelyne Lafrenière, Michael J. McLaughlin and Anar Simpson. "From serious, in-depth ...
Shafik Bhalloo and Andrew Flostrand have been named the 2018 winners of the TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards, the highest teaching honour of its kind at SFU's Beedie School of ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- Not all celebrations have to be about huge, monumental affairs. Sometimes the smallest moments in everyday lives are worth celebrating. ...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 5 September 2018 - The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tajikistan and the University of Central Asia (UCA) took a key step forward by signing an Agreement of Cooperation to enhance their mutually beneficial relationship with "the aim of preparing highly educated professional specialists who are able to meet competition in internal and external labor ...
Nutrition Centre -- It's that time of the year again - back to school for children! If you're a parent trying to find creative ideas to ensure a healthy meal for your child, we've got you covered! Nutritionist, Shameera Somani and Afshan Khoja have prepared some handy tips to help make lunchbox packing a breeze, and a yummy treat that children ...
My viewpoint on this matter is widely shared. One example, is the Global Peace Index for 2018, a report for the Institute for Economics and Peace. The Global Peace Index measures ...
Who shouldn't drink caffeinated coffee? How does it affect you? Plus 14 irresistible coffee recipes. Coffee is one of those things - you either love it or hate it. You know ...
Aga Khan Museum brings together a fascinating selection of masterpieces created under the Qajar dynasty between 1785 and 1925. Transforming Traditions: The Arts of 19th Century Iran - A Country at ...
On September 4, 1090 Hasan-i Sabbah acquired Alamut, a remote mountain-fortress in the Rudbur region of Daylam in northern Persia (modern-day Iran), marking the founding of the Nizari Ismaili state. According to the Persian chronicles, Hasan gave the owner of the fortress a draft of 3,000 gold dinars as the price of the castle.A 17th-century copy of the first six lines ...
Pakistani musical scene is seeing a revival at world's stage with quality performances and artistic feats all around. Asfar Hussain's musical band 'Bayaan' participating in a reality show called Pepsi Battle ...
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THEFEDERALIST.COM -- It has been a year since my mother died. She was 85 and had been in ill health, so her death wasn't unexpected.... Yet I will be forever thankful for the opportunity I was given to care for her at home in her last days. As hard as those days were, they were also a priceless gift. I can't help ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- QED, BBC DOCUMENTARY -- One Glasgow GP has been interested enough to try Buteyko ... Dr Gerald Spence had become frustrated at spending a 1/10th of the budget of his inner-city practise on ever more potent asthma drugs without seeing much improvement in his patients.... "It is so effective, they are able to reduce medication.... The simple fact is that in 34 patients, prior to Buteyko, they were costing UKP 15,000 per year for their asthma medication. After Buteyko they cost UKP 5,000."
NYTIMES.COM -- I don't often write about alternative remedies for serious medical conditions.... [But] I've seen Buteyko work miraculously well for a friend who had little choice but to stop using the steroid medications that were keeping him alive.... Various trials, have found that those diligent about practicing Buteyko breathing can expect a 90% reduction in the use of rescue inhalers and ... 50% for steroids within 3-6 months.
Ambassador Nurjehan Mawani, who serves as the Aga Khan Development Network Diplomatic Representative in Afghanistan was honored by the American University of Afghanistan on May 11, 2018 with an Honorary Doctor ...
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan met with Nurjehan Mawani, the Ambassador of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan in Afghanistan, to discuss the future of Aga Khan Development Network development ...
The University of Central Asia (UCA) was founded in 2000 as a private, not for profit, secular university through an International Treaty signed by the Presidents of the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, ...
Video highlights of Mawlana Hazar Imam's Diamond Jubilee visit to Kenya in April 2018. ...
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) held an encore presentation of Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema, celebrating the unique cross-section of cultures that informed the development of Indian cinema ...
Global -- The film of Mawlana Hazar Imam's Diamond Jubilee visit to Kenya is now available online. This 37-minute film recounts the history of the Ismaili community in East Africa, preparations by the Jamat, and the programme undertaken by Hazar Imam during his visit to the country in April 2018. The visit brought together Jamats from the jurisdictions of Kenya, the ...
From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Carlo Rovelli brings together physics, philosophy and art to unravel the ...
United States -- "Our plans begin with the realization that governments alone cannot meet the educational challenges of the 21st century. Nor can private institutions which are constrained by the necessity to earn a profit. The answer lies in the expanding role of civil society - in voluntary institutions which are not governmental but which are nonetheless dedicated to community values ...
United States -- "Understanding one's own spiritual journey by learning about and respecting the diversity of beliefs in the community" and exploring connections between the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, part of the fifth grade religious studies curriculum, brought over a hundred fifth-graders to visit the Ismaili Jamatkhana in Atlanta. Students from The Lovett School, an independent college-preparatory school ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- BBC DOCUMENTARY -- Part 3 covers how the European scientific revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries (The Renaissance) had its roots in the Islamic civilisation's scholarship. Host Jim Al-Khalili travels to Italy to see how Islamic ideas permeated into the West and ultimately helped shape the works of the great European astronomer Copernicus, and investigates why science in the Islamic world appeared to go into decline after the 16th and 17th centuries.
