Kevork Mourad is an Armenian-Syrian artist who collaborates with musicians, creating visual art in front of live audiences. He has worked with some of the most celebrated performers in classical music including Yo-Yo Ma, violist Kim Kashkashian and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. He talks about growing up as an Armenian in Syria, developing his unique practice, the thrill of creating art ...
Anissa Helou is an award-winning cookbook author, whose books include Lebanese Cuisine, Mediterranean Street Food and Feast: Food of the Islamic World. She talks about why she actively avoided cooking for much of her life, her dramatic and unlikely path to her current profession, and why she undertook the massive project of trying to capture the food of Muslim societies all around the ...
Shahzia Sikander is a visual artist who revolutionized miniature painting, and is now widely credited for creating the neo-miniaturist movement. She looks back on her life and her thirty-year career in the arts. A retrospective of Shahzia Sikander's work, called Extraordinary Realities, is currently on display at The Morgan Library and Museum. Learn more about This Being Human: ...
Shireen Ahmed is a sports journalist and advocate. She's a go-to voice for TSN and The Guardian and co-hosts the podcast Burn It All Down. Shireen was an outspoken critic of FIFA's seven-year hijab ban. She talks about how that ban affected her personally, her childhood in a Pakistani household in Halifax, and breaking into the world of mainstream sports broadcasting. Learn more ...
Dr. Ayesha Khanna is a global leader in artificial intelligence and an advocate for good governance in the tech sector. As the co-founder and CEO of ADDO AI, she has helped develop projects like smart cities and financial innovations. She talks about why she believes the world should look east for models of tech governance, the ethical struggles involved in AI and ...
In spring of 2020, when America was first grappling with COVID-19, Dr. Craig Considine wrote an article for NewsWeek about what the Prophet Muhammad had to say about living through a pandemic. He found a lot that still resonates today. He talks about those lessons and others, what the current state of the world could mean for interfaith dialogue and how, as ...
Asad Ali Jafri spent his early childhood in Kuwait, but found himself in the suburbs of Chicago after the outbreak of war. Hip hop became his entry point to American culture, quickly taking over his life and leading him down a path to the arts and community organizing. He started DJing under the name Man-O-Wax, staged major festivals, and became a visionary ...
Eid Milad-un-Nabi Mubarak Ginan - Meetha Muhammad Naam - Text and Translation - Composition of Sayyid Saleh (R.A) - Recited by Huzur Mukhi Ehteshaam Alee - Presentation by Spiritual Children ...
Baaeed, Seachange and Lizaid score for Sea The Stars, Siyouni and Zarak The Aga Khan Studs sires were in the news across Europe during the weekend. Baaeed provided the highlight with his superb victory in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Champions Day, while Seachange lifted the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris and Lizaid offered a first Group success ...
This week, The Ismaili is pleased to present "Nagaria," a song about the experience of waiting and longing for the beloved to visit, and the joy and elation felt when the wish is fulfilled. ...
Global -- This week, the Earthshot Prize was awarded to five winners for their ground-breaking solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing our planet. The award, considered to be the most prestigious global environment prize in history, was launched last year by Prince William with the Aga Khan Development Network as a Founding Partner. Climate change is sometimes seen as an ...
Seeno lives in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, one of the most remote parts of the world. As they pursue their dreams, Seeno and his family find expanded opportunities through AKF's presence in their community. AKF's work in Tajikistan is exemplified by programs like Thrive Tajikistan, a five-year program supported by AKF and USAID. Thrive Tajikistan is working to improve the quality of ...
"It is not piety that you turn your faces to the East or the West. But the pious is one who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the prophets; and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to kinsfolk, orphans, the needy, the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set ...
Compiled and prepared by MALIK MERCHANT (Publisher-EditorBarakah,Simerg, and Simergphotos) Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan (left), and Secretary of State Colin Powell (d. October 18, 2021), touring Samarkand Square, one of the main pavillions set up on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the weeklong Silk Road Festival that was launched on June 26, 2002. Photo: AKDN/Zahur ...
Global -- Prince Rahim attended a cultural celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of Tajikistan's independence, held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, in the presence of the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon. Prince Rahim attended a cultural celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of Tajikistan's independence, held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, in the presence of the President of Tajikistan, Emomali ...
USA -- As you may recall, on March 22, 2018, during his Diamond Jubilee visit to the United States, Mawlana Hazar Imam gave permission to start planning to build the seventh Ismaili Center in the world to be located in Houston, Texas. We are deeply grateful to Mawlana Hazar Imam for his oversight of this project and for visiting Houston in ...
Join us for the Aga Khan Foundation USA Town Hall, part of this year's 2021 Virtual Voyage campaign. We will explore how AKF is going the distance to help remote and hard-to-reach communities in Asia and Africa. We are excited for this opportunity for you to hear from AKF USA's leadership and staff, as well as some of our National Committee members responding ...
Join us for the Aga Khan Foundation USA Town Hall, part of this year's 2021 Virtual Voyage campaign. We will explore how AKF is going the distance to help remote and hard-to-reach communities in Asia and Africa. We are excited for this opportunity for you to hear from AKF USA's leadership and staff, as well as some of our National Committee members responding ...
Events -- 8th November 2021 -- Join us for the launch of this long-awaited and highly anticipated volume "On Women", the second in An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries. Subscribe to monthly updates on academic research, news and publications from The Institute of Ismaili Studies. An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume II: On Women(Oxford University Press and The Institute of Ismaili Studies, November ...
Ginans are a vast collection of several hundred poetic compositions which have been a central part of the religious life of the Nizari Ismaili community of the Indian subcontinent that today ...
Global -- Mawlana Hazar Imam's guidance on building bridges to understand and learn from one another, and his emphasis on local participation in the promotion of peace and pluralism served as an inspiration for two recent initiatives held in Georgia, USA. Our Imam has often stressed the need for embracing pluralism as a key value for peace and development. In a ...
Strength does not lie in carrying heavy loads: a camel can do that. The essence of strength lies in taming your temper and your anger. -- Tradition of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.S.) from article How a Muslim Sees Muhammad by Michael Wolfe Compiled and prepared by MALIK MERCHANT (Publisher-Editor Simerg, Barakah, and Simergphotos) The Milad or Mawlid of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.S. ...
Global -- Every year, the third Thursday in October is designated as Conflict Resolution Day, a global event intended to promote the concept of peaceful conflict resolution. Mediation Week is also celebrated during the month of October. This month gives us an opportunity to reflect on how we can each play a part in creating a more peaceful, generous, and hopeful ...
Paris, France, 14 October 2021 - Prince Rahim Aga Khan attended a cultural celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of Tajikistan's independence, held at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, in the presence of the President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon. Prince Rahim conveyed His Highness the Aga Khan's warmest greetings and congratulations, and affirmed the Aga Khan Development Network's commitment to Tajikistan's peace ...
The latest meditation in the Aga Khan Museum/YMCA Mindfulness and Education series is about calming down and focusing in. Based on current science on the sleeplessness epidemic and other indications of information overload (in the general population), the discussion focuses on subjective experiences of excess arousal (wired) and insufficient restoration (tired). Mindfulness meditation provides a means of "resting the mind" while "letting go" ...
A partnership between the Aga Khan Foundation and the LEGO Foundation to transform education in the region and support the uptake and use if play-based learning methodologies. ...
In Mozambique, to address the major challenge of malnutrition, the #AgaKhan Foundation works with #rural families so that mothers can prepare their young children an enriched porridge that provides good #nutrition and helps prevent a multitude of health issues. ...
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In Mozambique, to address the major challenge of malnutrition, the #AgaKhan Foundation works with #rural families so that mothers can prepare their young children an enriched porridge that provides good #nutrition and helps prevent a multitude of health issues. ...
From 2017 to 2021 the #AgaKhan Foundation, in collaboration with the Government of #Tanzania, civil society partners and local communities and with the financial support of Global Affairs Canada, undertook a project dedicated to improving the health of women, adolescent girls and children, and reducing maternal and newborn mortality in eight underserved districts of Mwanza, Tanzania. The US$ 11.6 million project - ...
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From 2017 to 2021 the #AgaKhan Foundation, in collaboration with the Government of #Tanzania, civil society partners and local communities and with the financial support of Global Affairs Canada, undertook a project dedicated to improving the health of women, adolescent girls and children, and reducing maternal and newborn mortality in eight underserved districts of Mwanza, Tanzania. The US$ 11.6 million project - ...
Why was a gold Qur'an case in the Aga Khan Museum's Collection made to be so small? The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Courtney Stewart investigates in our latest Peer Perspective video for the #MuseumWithoutWalls. A senior research assistant with The Met's Department of Islamic Art, Stewart pores over the intricate detailing on this 4.7 cm-by-3.9 cm wonder from 11th-century Egypt. As you'll ...
The sixth Fatimid Caliph and sixteenth Ismaili Imam Abu 'Ali Mansur, succeeded his father Imam 'Aziz (r. 975-96) at the age of eleven on 14 October 996 with the caliphal title of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah ('Ruler by God's Command'). The first Fatimid ruler to have been born in Egypt, Mawlana al-Hakim worked to extend the da'wa outside the Fatimid domains especially ...
Portugal -- De modo a celebrar mais um aniversário e a enaltecer e agradecer o serviço dos voluntários, a semana de 23 a 29 de outubro vai ser-lhes dedicada. Ser voluntário e o sentido de servir com humildade e dedicação, fazem parte da nossa fé e da nossa tradição. Apesar dos desafios pessoais e profissionais e das exigências do dia-a-dia, os ...
Portugal -- Azhar Andani é Ismaili, natural da Índia, e mudou-se recentemente para Portugal. English Desde pequeno que Azhar Andani sempre praticou críquete e o seu sonho era ser jogador profissional para uma equipa na Índia. Quando chegou a Portugal, ultrapassou vários desafios e aos 27 anos viu o seu sonho ser realizado quando foi escolhido para jogar na Seleção Nacional ...
Portugal -- Azhar Andani is an Ismaili from India who recently moved to Portugal. Portuguese Since he was little, Azhar Andani always played cricket and his dream was to be a professional player for a team in India. When he arrived in Portugal, he overcame several challenges and at 27 he saw his dream come true, when he was chosen to ...
Over the centuries, Ismaili thinkers have engaged with diverse theological and philosophical systems. They were "comfortable in expressing key concepts related to revelation within a wide range of contexts. In the ...
