VIDEO: Galdir, Nodira Pirmatova
Concert in Chiesa Evangelica Riformata in Ascona, 2014 ...
VIDEO: In Conversation with Oleg Grabar (Part 2)
Following part 1 of "In Conversation with Oleg Grabar", part 2 continues one of the last recordings made with the scholar, who received the Chairman's Award of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the field of Islamic art and architecture. In the videos, he talks with 3 of his former students: Renata Holod, ...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek #5: Kaie Kellough & Jason Sharp
In front of a statement advocating for Truth and a tapestry detailing the intimate beauty of white noise, Kaie Kellough (spoken word) and Jason Sharp (bari saxophone) give an improvised performance in the Sanctuary exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum. A short preview of their new work UBGNLSWRE (debuting on October 15, 2020), Kellough and Sharp provide an articulated, percussive and unceasing ...
VIDEO: UBGNLSWRE by Jason Sharp and Kaie Kellough w/ Pre-Show Interview
Fusing music and spoken-word poetry, Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp will wield their percussive avant-jazz sound in a new performance piece they have dreamed up specially for the Aga Khan Museum. Tying into themes from the Museum exhibitions Sanctuary and Don't Ask Me Where I'm From, UBGNLSWRE is a mixed-media performance that combines literature, electronic and acoustic sound, and graphic design by artist ...
JollyGul.com Presentation: 4 Popular Ginans Medley (Instruments-Only ) - Flute, Violin and Tabla
JollyGul.com presents Ginan Medley Instrumental-Only Series Episode 1. Waqas Ali and his team play 4 popular ginans on the flute, violin and tabla. The ginans played in this Episode 1 are ...
Horizons Series: Music, Islam, and Spirituality - Devotional Music from South Asia
[H/T ISMAILIMAIL] -- Do you know why the term "music" is extremely debatable in the Muslim world? What is the relationship between music, Islam, and spirituality There is profound mystical music from South Asia, including Qawwalis, Kafis and Ginans. Dr. Karim Gillani is an expert in the field of music and Islam, and inthis session he will explore the mystical music from South Asia, including Qawwalis, ...
Recognising rural women for their contribution to a sustainable future
Global -- The vital role of women throughout history has ensured that communities and nations have been able to progress, safeguarding the stability and long-term development of society as a whole. Rural women play a key role in food production worldwide and form a large proportion of the global agricultural workforce. Women comprise 43 percent of the world's total agricultural labour ...
GALLERY: Protecting the environment and helping populations adapt to the effects of climate change
Environment and climate are core strategic priorities for AKDN, stressing that good environmental stewardship is part of the development agenda and ensuring that the Earth can sustainably support future generations. In line with this goal, AKDN agencies and institutions have worked towards a number of goals, including reforestation. For example the Aga Khan Foundation and the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme ...
VIDEO: Bakbergen Sarymbetov performing Qyrq Qyz
Bakbergen Sarymbetov, the son of Jaksylik Sarymbetov performing Qyrq Qyz, the oral epic story that was not preformed for the last 30 years. ...
Amir Jivraj: Civil engineering behind AKDN's climate-friendly buildings
Whether it is more efficient smoke-free stoves in northern Pakistan, a hydroelectric plant in Uganda, cooling the buildings of the Aga Khan University in Karachi or installing a solar array at an Aga Khan Health Services-managed hospital in Afghanistan, good stewardship of the environment has always been one of the underlying ethics driving the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)'s work. Now, ...
VIDEO: In Conversation with Oleg Grabar (Part 1)
"In Conversation with Oleg Grabar" consists of three videos that, together, represent one of the last recordings made with the scholar, who received the Chairman's Award of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the field of Islamic art and architecture. In the videos, he talks with three of his former students: Renata Holod, ...
VIDEO: Quote of the Week
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Graduation ceremony of the University of Alberta, Canada, 9 June 2009. Read full speech: ...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek #4: Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp
Catch the extraordinary resonance of the Aga Khan Museum's courtyard space in an improvised performance by Kaie Kellough (spoken word) and Jason Sharp (bari saxophone). Design as a short preview for their performance of UBGNLSWRE on October 15, 2020, Kellough and Sharp welcome you into the Kafka-esque experience of entering a new space, a new land, a new home, detailing in highly ...
The Ismaili Imamat acquires the Palacete Leitão in Lisbon
Global -- The Ismaili Imamat has acquired the Palacete Leitão located on Rua Marquês da Fronteira in Lisbon. The site is adjacent to the existing Palacete Henrique Mendonça, which on 11 July 2018, was designated by Mawlana Hazar Imam as the Seat of the Ismaili Imamat. The transfer was concluded on 8 October 2020, with the Diplomatic Representative of the Ismaili ...
VIDEO: Announcing Virtual Voyage: Around the World with AKF
This fall, we invite you to join us on our first-ever Virtual Voyage: Around the World with AKF. The voyage will launch on October 27 and culminate with a live celebration event on December 6. ...
God touches and moves, warns and desires ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received." -- Johannes Tauler (14th Century German mystic) ...
VIDEO: Emily Jan: Field Trip Artist Residency V-Log #2
One of seven artists participating in the inaugural Field Trip Artist Residency, fibre artist Emily Jan gives us a peek into her work and processes as an artists. This v-log entry, the second of four, shows viewers a preview of her project titled "The Museum of Everywhere and Nowhere." Recreating a vast survey of objects "collected" throughout her travels and career, Jan ...
VIDEO: Optimism as an Attitude Choice- Alwaez Rai Kamaluddin
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Os principais benefícios da caminhada para saúde
Portugal -- A caminhada é uma atividade física aeróbica que pode ser realizada por qualquer pessoa, independentemente da idade e do seu condicionamento físico, e possui diversos benefícios para a saúde, tais como a melhoria do sistema cardiovascular, a diminuição dos sintomas de stress e ansiedade, o fortalecimento muscular e diminuição do inchaço. Para que tenha benefícios para a saúde, é ...
ShakeOut 2020 Goes Virtual: Learn how to protect yourself during an earthquake
USA -- Earthquakes continue to be a danger to life and property. Each year, we remind people of this hidden threat and how to take precautions and remain safe. The global coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live, work, and go to school. Every day, we are confronting old and new challenges. But earthquakes are still happening all around us. ...
Conflict Resolution Day and Mediation Awareness Week programming on The Ismaili TV
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 ...
AKU, AKAH, UCA launch climate change documentary series for South and Central Asia
Karachi, Pakistan and Geneva, Switzerland, 14 October 2020 - In a bid to spotlight the dire consequences of climate change in Central and South Asia, the Aga Khan University, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat and the University of Central Asia launched a film series focusing on the catastrophic impact of the rapid melting of the world's largest repository of ice ...
VIDEO: Warning from the Roof of the World
The Aga Khan University, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat and the University of Central Asia launch a documentary film series about the climate crisis on the Roof of the World. Echoing the call to action of the newly launched Earthshot Prize, Voices from the Roof of the World will tell the stories of the millions of people and endangered wildlife living ...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek #3: Kaie Kellough & Jason Sharp
Heritage is a complicated subject -- family, place, language, geography, feelings -- they all swirl into one to create an indelible understanding of who it is you are. See here a moving statement from Kaie Kellough's Griffin-prize winning book "Magnetic Equator" performed as part of an improvised presentation with Jason Sharp (bari saxophone). This is a short preview for Sharp and Kellough's ...
VIDEO: Curator's Pick: A Dagger's Secret History with Dr. Marika Sardar
Sharpen your knowledge of 18th-century Persian art history with a closer look at Curator Dr. Marika Sardar's object of the week -- a well-travelled gold, jade, and steel dagger in the Museum's Collection. About the object: Accession Number: AKM963 Creator: Faizallah Shushtari Isfahani Place: Iran or Turkey Dimensions: 44.5 cm Date: ca. 1700 Materials and Technique: gold, jade, and steel To learn more: Bringing ...
School Choice Saved My Life
YOUTUBE.COM -- PRAGERU -- Schools in my neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, functioned less as places of learning and more as warehouses to keep kids off the street. I know - I was one of those kids. My early years in school were not a success, to put it mildly. I seldom understood the lesson. I was often confused and frustrated. I'd ask my teachers questions, but it seemed to me that this just annoyed them. So, I stopped asking questions. I failed third grade -- twice. Fourth and fifth weren't much better. I lashed out by getting into fights with my classmates. I was going nowhere. I was just another kid in the warehouse. But fortunately, my life changed the summer before sixth grade. I went to live with my godmother. She had one overriding thought ...
VIDEO: Danger in the Pamirs
The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction celebrates how people and communities around the world are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of reigning in the risks that they face. The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) works closely with communities living in hazard-prone areas, particularly in remote mountain areas in the Roof of the World, to ...
GALLERY: Reducing risk and preparing communities for disasters in South and Central Asia
Working with local governments and communities, AKAH implements a wide range of disaster risk reduction (DRR) programmes across Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Syria, and Tajikistan. DRR programmes include hazard, risk and vulnerability assessments; disaster preparedness education; emergency response and search and rescue training; and structural mitigation projects for all levels of community and institutional structures, such as building flood retaining walls, riverbank ...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek #2: Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp
Take #2 -- A second short preview for their performance of UBGNLSWRE on October 15, 2020, Kaie Kellough (spoken word) and Jason Sharp (bari saxophone) give an improvised performance in the Sanctuary exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum. The long, slow, tones of the saxophone slip into the space, with Kellough's pulsating poetry providing the arcing, rhythmic churn detailing the history of ...
VIDEO: Welcome Back to Jamatkhana in the USA!
This brief video highlights what to expect when your Jamatkhana re-opens. In addition, the Jamat is requested to remain informed of the Jamatkhana re-opening guidelines and the associated precautions, which can be found on . ...
Prince Rahim Aga Khan Announces AKDN's Exciting Partnership with Prince William to Launch Earthshot Prize to Keep our Planet Habitable, and Ensure a Future for Life on Earth
Prepared and compiled by MALIK MERCHANT (Publisher/Editor Barakah, Simerg and Simergphotos) Inspiration Behind the Earthshot Prize: President John F. Kennedy and Moonshot In 1962, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave his now famous "Moonshot" speech at Rice University in which he outlined his plans to put a man on the moon. The speech would go on to become one of the most ...
The Moon has been a timekeeper, an emblem of the divine, and an inspiration for poets
"And of his signs are the night and day, the sun and the moon..." (41:37)Source: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Hamilton Centre From the Greek root me meaning to measure, the word 'moon' can be traced to the Old English word mona which shares its origin with the Latin word mensis, meaning month; hence, it was named Moon. The Earth's Moon, ...
VIDEO: Sneak Peek #1: Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp
A short preview for their performance of UBGNLSWRE on October 15, 2020, Kaie Kellough (spoken word) and Jason Sharp (bari saxophone) give an improvised performance in the Sanctuary exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum. Intensely focused and driving, the rhythmic pulse of Kellough's poetry is driven along by Sharp's seemingly never-ending wave of arpeggios on the saxophone. ...
The Three Parts of Morality by C.S. Lewis
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- CSLEWISDOODLE -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2002: There are sometimes some moral issues, vis-a-vis the West, where there are attitudes in the West where some of our people ... ask themselves is there a dividing line between freedom and licence?] ARTICLE: There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was "The sort of person who is always snooping round to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it." And I am afraid that is the sort of idea that the word Morality raises in a good many people's minds: something that interferes, something that stops you having a good time. In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. When a man says about something he wants to do, "It can't be wrong because it doesn't do anyone else any harm," he is ...
The "Cardinal Virtues" by C.S. Lewis
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- CSLEWISDOODLE -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazrat Ali: "The measure of a man depends on the scope of his resolution, and his sincerity depends on the degree of his chivalric virtues. His courage depends on the degree of honour he has, and his integrity is based on the degree of his sense of shame."] ARTICLE: One point about the virtues is that there is a difference between doing some particular just or temperate action and being a just or temperate man. We might think that, provided you did the right thing, it did not matter how or why you did it -- whether sulkily or cheerfully, or fear of public opinion or for its own sake. But the truth is that right actions done for the wrong reason do not help to build the internal quality or character called a "virtue," and it is this quality or character that really matters. We might think God simply wants obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort. You will notice, of course, that you cannot practise any virtues very long without fortitude. Fortitude includes both kinds of courage ...
The Genetics of Mental Health
Global -- During the pandemic, mental health has come to the forefront of many discussions, not only because of the effects of the virus on the body, but because of additional factors such as changes in daily life, job stress, stay at home orders, and reductions in social interactions within and outside the Jamat. A silver lining of the virus is ...
