The Aga Khan Development Network is a contemporary endeavour of the Ismaili Imamat to realise the social conscience of Islam through institutional action. The Network brings together a number of agencies, institutions, and programmes that are aimed at improving the living conditions and opportunities in regions of the developing world. ...
Aga Khan University education conference kicks off with calls to end 19th century curriculum. The 2nd Annual Aga Khan University Education conference is underway in Kampala to improve, innovate and change. ...
This Thursday (October 23 2017) Khallil Mangali, Arif Bhanji, Zain Manji and George Marji from Toronto, Ont., pitch their on-demand auto repair service in the Den. ...
Excerpt: Speaking with The Express Tribune, Aga Khan Trust for Culture Pakistan CEO Salman Beg said that the festival brought out amazing display of rich and important historical features of our ...
Twelve graduated from The Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications after a nine-month journalism training program sponsored by the Standard Media Group. Twelve trainees graduated on Thursday after ...
Aga Khan Museum in two major Hollywood productions. Lauren O'Neil for BlogTo Knowing this, fans figured it would only be a matter of time before a local landmark worked its way ...
Features Aga Khan IV at the Global Centre of Pluralism; a breathtaking documentary of the Ismaili Centres; a presentation on the AKDN Ethical Framework; Eboo Patel at the IIS; a talk by Mohamed Keshavjee (IIS) on his family history in the Apartheid; clip of Azim Nanji on culture...and more. ...
A short film on His Highness the Aga Khan and his role as the Spiritual Leader of the Ismaili Muslims, as well as the Chairman and Founder of the Aga Khan Development Network. ...
Dr. Mohamed Keshavjee (R) with Matthew Thomas (L) Photo credit: Parvaiz Machiwala Well known Malaysian short story writer and novelist, Matthew Thomas, launched Mohamed Keshavjee's latest book of short stories entitled "Diasporic ...
Every year across Metro Vancouver, residents throw out more than 100,000 tonnes of food. To put that in perspective, each day residents across our communities send more than 15,000 heads of ...
MARYVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ruby Tuesday, Inc. (NYSE:RT) today announced an agreement to be acquired by a fund managed by NRD Capital ("NRD"), an Atlanta-based private equity ...
A local sixth-grader is looking to make a difference this Christmas in a big way. Sanya Pirani, a student at Hidden Oaks Middle School, is looking for the community's help to ...
While the NGO, which currently employs 400 staff, helped 34,000 farmers in both Mali and Senegal in 2017, the aim is to expand into Tanzania next year with the support of ...
A 14th century bronze and silver astronomical device inscribed with Latin, Hebrew and Arabic on display at the Aga Khan Museum is intended to symbolize the pluralism promoted by the Toronto ...
The Devil in Act and the Potential Devil: The Principles of Evil in 10th-Century Ismā'īlism. The Demons and Demonology in Late Antiquity conference seeks to investigate how demons, and more generally evil beings, were conceived, represented, invoked or rejected by the main religious traditions of the Middle East between the 4th - 9th centuries. ...
Global -- Mawlana Hazar Imam was presented with the Champion for Global Change Award on 18 October at the 2017 Global Leadership Dinner, hosted by the United Nations Foundation in New York City. The Global Leadership Awards ceremony recognises exemplary individuals, organisations, and institutions that align with the aims of the United Nations to advance global peace and progress. Mawlana Hazar ...
Global -- Jubilee Concerts debuted its first performances in 7 cities across the United States, with upcoming events planned in Europe and Asia. International recording artists Salim and Sulaiman Merchant were accompanied on the US tour by award winning performers Sukriti Kakkar and Vipul Mehta, along with a 16-member band. In honour of the Diamond Jubilee year, the Jubilee Concerts initiative ...
Watch the excerpted video of the concert where five living former US presidents: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter honor Murad Ajani and other ...
Science and Religion Blogger Easy Nash On Friday, October 20th 2017 my wife, our son and I attended the SOS Children's Village Charity Gala held at the exclusive Granite Club a ...
Students of the Aga Khan High school organised a run in which they participated with the residents of Kakajjo village in Old Kampala Source: Fighting Prostate Cancer: Aga Khan High School ...
October 22, 2017 WATER WORKS PARK 1710 N. HIGHLAND AVENUE TAMPA, FL 33602 ...
October 22, 2017 WATER WORKS PARK 1710 N. HIGHLAND AVENUE TAMPA, FL 33602 ...
Canada -- One million hours for Canada: Ismaili Civic 150 is a Diamond Jubilee initiative to improve the quality of life of Canadians, with a pledge of one million volunteer service hours. "I have been impressed by recent studies showing the activity of voluntary institutions and not-for-profit organisations in Canada to be among the highest in the world. This Canadian spirit ...
Seven Wonders of India: The Aga Khan Palace in Pune is the place where Mahatma Gandhi was kept as a prisoner after he launched the Quit India movement. ...
Watch a recap of Mawlana Hazar Imam receiving the Champion for Global Change Award at UNF #GlobalLeadership Dinner... twitter.com/i/web/status/9...-- The Ismaili (@TheIsmaili) October 21, 2017 Related ...
I took this photograph high up in the Pamir Mountains near Bulunkul village, eastern Tajikistan. This young dancer was performing in an event organised by the Aga Khan Foundation to promote ...
"Celebrating Rahim" was launched by InterGlobe Foundation, in association with Aga Khan Trust for Culture, as a part of a joint conservation and cultural revival project of Rahims tomb that started ...
Arts of the East: Highlights of Islamic Art from the Bruschettini Collection From the stellar collection of Italy's Bruschettini Foundation comes a show of lavish textiles, elaborate carpets, precious metalwork and ...
This is what some of the media reviewers have been saying about Mansoor Ladha's Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West Memoirs of a Muhindi gave me a ...
On September 30, this past Saturday, I attended the inaugural Annual Early-Career Health Researchers' Symposium. The Faculty of Health Sciences of Aga Khan University organised the Symposium. Sixteen great research papers ...
Excerpt: Majjid Zammar, the official in the Aleppo governor's office who is in charge of reconstruction for the historic Old City within the ancient walls, told Middle East Eye that 50,000 ...
The Architecture Of Silence Before Kerala's wellness destinations and Rajasthan's palaces took off as tourism hotspots, it almost seemed as if our vast country had nothing to offer except the Taj Mahal ...
The Aga Khan III led the Muslim delegation to the first Round Table Conference, held in London 1930 to consider the future of India. The distinguished attendees included Gandhi, Sir Mohammad Iqbal, Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Sir Mohammad Shafi, etc. The Aga Khan III was better suited than any other Muslim leader for the negotiations that were to ensue. ...
On October 23, 2017, Women To Watch will be live with Shelmina Abji an empowerment speaker and the former vice president of IBM. Source: October 23, 2017 - Shelmina Abji - ...
"What are art and culture? How can they enhance the quality of life and make lives better?" These were some of the questions answered by director and CEO of the Aga ...
The Friends of the Aga Khan Museum in the Gulf and South Asia was opened at Concrete, a new space on Alserkal Avenue, and will offer visitors a chance to see ...
Kampala Serena hotel was awarded Uganda's leading hotel in the 2017 Annual World Travel Awards Africa. The winners were announced at a glittering ceremony held at the Radisson Blu Hotel & ...
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 at 18:00 This presentation explains how the negative identity of second-generation Alevis in the UK has been transmitted intergenerationally, linked to their history of persecuted exclusion in ...
Global -- In a speech at the Canadian Parliament in 2014, Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke of the contributions made by Time and Knowledge Nazrana (TKN) volunteers and said "The importance of contributing one's individual energies on a voluntary basis to improving the lives of others is not a matter of philanthropy, but rather of self-fulfilment... their impact has been enormous in ...
