Global -- On 15 March 2020, during the spring semester, the University of Central Asia (UCA) campus in Naryn closed abruptly, to stop the spread of Covid-19. Students and teachers were faced with a challenging question: how to continue classes and learning, when everyone had been asked to stay at home? Like all other educational institutions, UCA had to find a ...
The House of Commons of Canada convened a Special Committee on Afghanistan in Ottawa on 21 March 2022 to examine Canada's response to the situation in Afghanistan and how Canada can ...
Learning the art of making strategic decisions that benefit a business and help the business grow significantly. 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 ...
This webinar will help students and professionals explore and learn more about the emerging career opportunities in the field of accountancy. ...
#Address by His Highness the #AgaKhan to the #ParliamentofPortugal in Lisbon, Portugal on 10 July 2018 Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
In the Quran, nature and water are explained as signs of God (ayah), which is also the term used for each verse of the sacred text. "That means that, like the words of God written as verses in the sacred text, nature and water specifically are signs of God on which people are called to meditate. Hence, nature is a scripture ...
"Women play a critical role in the development of nations. An educated girl is a truly empowered girl. Women education, therefore, is vital for the success of not only her own, ...
THESTAR.COM -- Following the 2019 [pre-pandemic] release of Ontario provincial test scores, the Toronto District School Board can't explain why most math results are dropping. Across Ontario only 58% (down from 63% and 71%, 4 and 9 years earlier) of 3rd graders are performing at or above provincial standards. And just 48% (down from 50% and 61%, 4 and 9 years earlier) of 6th graders are performing at or above provincial standards. In Toronto, the largest school board in Canada with 246,000 students, 3rd and 6th graders are doing worse than the provincial average. Only 61% of 3rd graders and 53% of 6th graders are meeting standards. At the Toronto Catholic District School Board, just 58% of 3rd graders and 44% of 6th graders met standards. In Peel District ...
As part of our new series, What Ismailis Believe, this short video explains why Ismailis seek help from Hazrat Ali and the Imams. Read more at SCRIPTWRITING - Aleem Karmali & Zaitoon Murji NARRATION - Ziyana Vasaya DESIGN - Danish Shiraz Virani EDITING & ANIMATION - Salman Tarani & Sameed Makhani DIRECTORS - Aleem Karmali & Karim K. Dossani PRODUCER - Shahed ...
Global -- Many religious communities around the world, including both Sunni and Shia Muslims, believe in the concept of intercession, which means to plead or intervene on behalf of another. Believers ask those who are considered close to God to intercede with the Lord on their behalf. Many religious communities around the world, including both Sunni and Shia Muslims, believe in ...
Portugal -- O Ismaili CIVIC Portugal dinamizou hoje uma campanha de dádiva de sangue no Centro Ismaili, em Lisboa. O Príncipe Hussain e a Ministra da Saúde estiveram presentes na campanha, organizada com o objetivo de aumentar as reservas de sangue no país. English O serviço voluntário há muito que faz parte da tradição Ismaili, assim como o reconhecimento da santidade ...
Global -- Ismaili CIVIC Portugal hosted a blood donation campaign today at the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon. The Portuguese Minister for Health and Prince Hussain attended the pop-up clinic, organised to boost blood reserves in the country. Em Português Service and volunteering have long been part of Ismaili tradition, as has the recognition of the sanctity of human life. In the ...
ZEROHEDGE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2007: "The path to meritocracy in leadership is meritocracy in education."] ARTICLE: In 2021 there's an outright holy war against scholastic achievement. Oregon passed a bill that says high school students don't need be able to read, write, and do math to graduate, even though the latest Rasmussen survey finds that 81% of American adults oppose such laws and only 12% favor them. Mathematics, we are told, should be replaced by "social justice" mathematics, in which there are no correct answers and, in English, students should not be judged on the quality of their writing. Recruitment of future scientists and science teachers and researchers should no longer be based on achievement, merit, and potential, but on "diversity, equity, and inclusion." Opinion polling shows that a supermajority of Americans, including every racial minority group, oppose ...
THEEPOCHTIMES.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1978: "Some might say that our academic systems [in Aga Khan schools] are a little old-fashioned. Yes, we believe in examinations."] ARTICLE: California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, said it will no longer use entrance exams in undergraduate admissions. ACT criticized the move, arguing that it is more likely to harm than help students, especially those of underrepresented demographics who depend on standardized test scores to showcase their academic achievements. "Abandoning objective assessments, like the ACT test, introduces greater subjectivity and uncertainty into the admissions process," ACT said in a statement. "Solving the prevailing education inequities requires focus on root causes, rather than dismissing the tools that substantially improve our understanding of them," the company added. Both Cal State and UC administrators suspended ...
GOOGLE.COM -- I hope my frank remarks will not be taken too harshly. With this fear of offending others, we have failed to communicate our real feelings. In reviewing Mr. Amin Amershi's report, "The problems facing the Ismaili Youth in East Africa," I think he is not far wrong about the our youth's total ignorance of Ismailism and Islam. Has the Association [now ITREB] ever taken a survey to find out how much our young people know? Mr. Amershi states "The young people have isolated religion from life and now consider religion as useless. In this state of ignorance Western religious scepticism poses a serious threat." The youth is frustrated in no uncertain ...
Global -- In Tajikistan, Navroz is a four-day public holiday and an opportunity for families to come together in celebration of traditions, particularly with the youngest members of the family. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), parents play a particularly key role in influencing development in the early years. In order to support young families, the Aga Khan Education ...
Global -- Following recent political and economic instability in Afghanistan, The Ismaili conducted a special interview with Amir Baig, President of the Ismaili Council for Afghanistan, who explained the conditions facing the Jamat, and how Jamati and AKDN institutions are responding. The situation in Afghanistan has grown ever more complex over the past 40 years. Amidst droughts and insecurity, the country ...
Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible - Memoirs of Engagement With A Global Development Network by Azim H. Jiwani, MD 300 pp. FriesenPress, US$ 30.99 (Hardback), US$ 24.99 (Paperback) and US$ 7.99 (eBook) all via FriesenPress Also available in all editions at Amazon.ca and Indigo.ca. BOOK REVIEW BY NIZAR MOTANI, PhD Dr. Azim Jiwani's book was a surprise gift from ...
ARCHDAILY.COM -- The ChamberChurch aims to create a spatial container that both respects the past and looks towards the future. It provides a religious experience and secular touch. To create a modern icon, we needed to create a pure shape, that's still evokes the archetype of a church. The design echoes the memories associated with them, but interprets them in a timeless modernity creating a sense of the future. The design still features the classic components associated with a church, but abstracted. The landscape part of the exterior features an artificial lake to ...
ARCHDAILY.COM -- Yasamkent mosque in this respect represents a research towards creating a sense of consciousness towards creating a peaceful continuity between traditional and modern values of cultural accumulation. Located in a relatively small plot within the new development area of Ankara, Yasamkent mosque is the search for balance between open and closed areas, modesty and expression, identity and convention as well as modernity and tradition. The reinforced concrete and glass, the abstract and solid geometries, modest simplicity and minimalist architectural attitude directly refers to a contemporary architectural language whereas abstract Kufic expression of the minaret, as well as ...
ARCHDAILY.COM -- Designing a church seems to us to be an ideal instrument in searching for a symbolic, mystical and expressive dimension. As history has taught us, the alliance between art and religion offers mankind unique, magical and exalting moments that enrich life, mind and soul. The church, as a material construction and human representation of the Divine, plays a very important role in the development of sensibility. For believers and lay people, it is a living sign that conveys a transcendent meaning that makes us look beyond what we see, and take time to feel our lives at a deeper level. The first impressions and ideas emerged ...
ARCHDAILY.COM -- The Wong Dai Sin Temple houses a dynamic Taoist community committed to their inner spiritual development through the ancient physical practice of tai chi. The Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism needed a new spiritual home in suburban Toronto that had to reflect not only the heart and soul of their religious beliefs but also the modern contemporary world of their congregants. The daily worship of one of the world's ancient religion of Taoism is embedded in the fabric of this modern sacred space. This new temple building demonstrates asymmetry and counterbalance while maintaining its equilibrium much like a measured tai chi pose. Inside the ...
ARCHDAILY.COM -- Located in a site steeped in history, the challenge consisted of implementing a new larger church without overshadowing the smaller 18th-century chapel with its limestone vault structure. The roof of the church, an outdoor amphitheater cascading down towards the historical edifice, is suspended between two monolithic fair-faced concrete skeletons, punctuated by two big olive trees, ready to be covered with layers of green climbers. With its interior height ranging from 3m to 10m, the church enables a transcendental spatial experience that is further enhanced ...
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ECONOMIST.COM -- THE ECONOMIST -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: While we normally do not post on political matters, we are posting on the situation in Ukraine because it is an invaluable case study about Big Tech and Western media. ~~ Hazar Imam, 1996: "Even as the press has become more international, it has often left a trail of misunderstanding in its wake."] ARTICLE: The mainstream view in the West is that Vladimir Putin is an irrational, out-of-touch aggressor bent on creating a greater Russia. Thus, he alone bears full responsibility for the Ukraine crisis. But that story is wrong. The West, and especially America, is principally responsible for the crisis. The trouble over Ukraine started at NATO's Bucharest summit in April 2008, when the Bush administration pushed the alliance to announce that Ukraine and Georgia "will become members". The prevailing mantra in the West, portrays NATO expansion as irrelevant to the Ukraine crisis. The issue at hand is not what Western leaders say NATO's purpose or intentions are; it is how Moscow sees NATO's actions. None of this should be controversial. Prominent American foreign-policy experts have warned against NATO expansion for decades. America's Secretary of Defence at the time of the Bucharest summit ...
DAILYWIRE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: While we normally do not post on political matters, we are posting on the situation in Ukraine because it is an invaluable case study about Big Tech and Western media.] ARTICLE: "Hi there, I'm writing from The New York Times," an email from the reporter to Candace Owens started. "We note that you advanced the idea that Ukraine was a corrupt country, which matched comments we've seen from Russian state media," it continued. "I'm very confused by this email," Owens responded. "I educated myself about both the neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine and the unyielding corruption by reading your newspaper, not Russian state media. You guys have covered the corruption in Ukraine extensively. Here is a piece from the NYT Editorial Board titled, 'Ukraine's Unyielding Corruption.' Here are some more past articles written from reputable sources over the past few years about the corruption and neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine," Owens wrote. She also provided screengrabs ...
Lahore, Pakistan, 24 March 2022 - Ethnologist and art historian Jean Baptiste Clais, curator of the Asian collection and European porcelains at the Department of Art Objects at the Louvre Museum in Paris, visited the historic Lahore Fort this week to view the restoration being undertaken by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC). During the visit - part of the ...
Since devastating news from Afghanistan dominated headlines last year, the humanitarian situation in the country has rapidly deteriorated. Roughly 3.4 million people are now displaced by conflict inside the country and today, almost 23 million people are facing extreme hunger. Afghanistan is now experiencing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Learn from UNHCR, AKF and others about the situation on the ...
This webinar covers important topics like cost of living, maintaining a student status, work laws and more! Session by Mr. Anish Lakhani ...
If you have any questions about what universities to choose, the cost of studying, scholarship support and other such queries about studying in Australia or New Zealand Session by Nazim Bhimani & Shehzad Lakhani ...
Blockchain technology has been greatly talked about in recent times. Understanding its true potential and the new opportunities that are emerging because of it is the need of the hour! Blockchain technology has great potential capable of creating the same kind of fundamental changes, as those brought over the last two decades by the Internet. ...
Ms. Vibha covers all aspects of pursuing Education abroad including Undergraduate programs /MBA/MS/PhD and Executive Education Programs. ...
The British Columbia Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards are held annually to honour British Columbians for their leadership in promoting multiculturalism and addressing racism. This year's ceremony was held virtually on March ...
By MALIK MERCHANTPublisher/Editor Simerg, Barakah andSimergphotos We recently read Professor Tammy Gaber's new book "Beyond the Divide: A Century of Canadian Mosque Design" and found it to be beautiful and impressive -- its design brings together pictures, text, and architectural drawings in a clean and easy-to-read layout. Her analysis covers a lot of ground, quite literally. Simerg presented a few questions ...
BMJ.COM -- BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Note that this recent article, by a former Editor of the BMJ itself (and also quoting previous BMJ Editors), seriously doubting the quality of all medical research, was published by the BMJ which is, arguably, one of the world's top three medical journals.] ARTICLE: I've been concerned about research fraud for 40 years [and] think that the time may have come to assume that research is fraudulent until there is evidence to show it happened and is honestly reported. Six years ago Ian Roberts also wrote about the problem in The BMJ with the provocative title: "The knowledge system underpinning healthcare is not fit for purpose and must change." Everybody gains from the publication game, concluded Roberts, except the patients suffering from treatments based on fraudulent data. Stephen Lock, my predecessor as editor of The BMJ, became worried about research fraud in the 1980s and, 40 years on from Lock's concerns, we are realising that the problem is huge, the system encourages fraud, the business model of journals and publishers depends ...
BMJ.COM -- BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is, arguably, one of the world's top three medical journals.] ARTICLE: Evidence based medicine depends on reliable data from clinical trials, most of which are conducted by the pharmaceutical industry and reported in the names of senior academics. Previously confidential industry documents have provided insight to the degree that industry sponsored clinical trials are misrepresented. Until this problem is corrected, evidence based medicine will remain an illusion. Medicine is dominated by a few very large pharmaceutical companies which suppress negative trial results, fail to report adverse events, and do not share raw data with the academic research community. Regulators receive funding from industry and use industry funded and performed trials to approve drugs, without in most cases seeing the raw data. In essence, drug companies "mark their own homework" rather than ...
Tatuli Abuladze plays an instrumental version of a popular Ukrainian folk song "Plyve Kacha" with her 1872 antique French cello. She is playing this sad song about war from a bomb ...
Delhi, India, 22 March 2022 - The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) has won a Certificate of Recognition as runner-up in the 2021 TERI-IWA-UNDP Water Sustainability Awards for Excellence in Participatory Water Management. The Water Sustainability Awards evaluate excellence in new ideas, approaches, processes, products, services, technologies and other types of innovations in the water sector to encourage the achievement ...
