The Ismaili Imamat and the Province of British Columbia today signed an Agreement of Cooperation committing to improve quality of life of vulnerable peoples, with a focus on climate change. The signing was part of a series of events held this week in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia to mark 50 years of the significant presence of Ismaili Muslims in Canada. His ...
EDMONTON, AB, Sept. 28, 2022- The University of Alberta inaugurated the Diwan Pavilion at the Aga Khan Garden, Alberta, part of the University's Botanic Garden in Edmonton. Presided over the ceremony ...
This week, a series of special events are taking place across the country to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the significant presence of the Jamat in Canada. Over the past five decades, Jamati members from various parts of the world have made Canada their permanent home while notably contributing to its rich cultural mosaic and vibrant civil society. Let's join Mursal Bahri ...
UAE -- The Ismaili Muslim Community across the globe celebrated the second annual Global Ismaili CIVIC Day on 25 September 2022. Ismaili CIVIC is a global programme that unites the community around its centuries-old tradition of serving humanity by rendering voluntary service to improve the quality of life of the communities in which it lives, regardless of faith, gender or background. ...
CTV News September 28, 2022 I turned 50 earlier this year. I always know how old I am because I coincide with two major events in Canada's history: the Summit Series ...
Inaugurated on September 29, 2022, the Diwan is a year round pavilion and event space for the University of Alberta Botanic Gardens and the final piece to complete the 4.8 hectare Aga Khan Garden, Alberta. The site of the pavilion was designated in the original concept plan for the Garden. In addition to providing multi-use functionality, the pavilion resonates with its rich ...
Global -- The celebrations of 50 years of the Ismaili community's significant presence in Canada continued today in the city of Edmonton, with a luncheon at Government House attended by Princess Zahra and Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Salma Lakhani, followed by the formal opening of the Diwan Pavilion at the Aga Khan Garden. Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney welcomed guests to ...
Global -- Prince Amyn attended the groundbreaking ceremony today for Generations Toronto, a multi-generational housing development close to the Ismaili Centre in Toronto. Distinguished guests included Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Toronto's Mayor John Tory and local and national leaders of the Jamat. Based on a successful pilot project launched in Calgary during Mawlana Hazar Imam's Golden Jubilee in 2007, Generations Toronto ...
TORONTO, Sept. 27, 2022 - Today, Premier Doug Ford, Mayor John Tory, and the leadership of Canada's Ismaili Community broke ground on a new multigenerational community campus in Toronto. Prince Amyn ...
UK -- FOCUS has been supporting the resettlement of approximately 200 Afghan migrants from refugee camps in Greece to Portugal since winter 2021, with a further 150 migrants due to be resettled by the end of the year. Today we hear from three families who have recently resettled in Portugal as part of "A New Beginning", the bilateral agreement between the ...
Join host Mursal Bahri for the first instalment of Celebrating 50, an Ismaili TV special going behind-the-scenes at this week's commemorative events taking place across Canada. Day one includes highlights from the Municipal Honours ceremony, in which the Key to the City of Toronto was awarded to Mawlana Hazar Imam and a segment of Wynford Drive was ceremonially named Aga Khan Boulevard. The ...
This week, a series of special events are taking place across the country to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the significant presence of the Jamat in Canada. Over the past five decades, Jamati members from various parts of the world have made Canada their permanent home, while notably contributing to its rich cultural mosaic and vibrant civil society. Mursal Bahri hosts the ...
AUSTRALIANCLIMATESCEPTICS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2011: "I have seen situations where energy has been produced by windmills, by solar batteries and the damage that they have done to the environment is simply incredible."] ARTICLE: That little yellow thing is a bulldozer. It's burying windmill blades. Why? Because the lifespan of a modern, top quality wind turbine is 20 years. After that, the gigantic fiber composite blades cannot economically be reused, refurbished, reduced, repurposed, or recycled so they're buried in special landfills, which are already running out. Then, every 20 years, we'll have an equal number of new blades to bury from all the replacement turbines. And that's with wind only supplying about 7% of the nation's energy. On top of that, there's the 500,000 birds wind turbine blades kill each year, most of which are endangered. How green is that? ...
WATTSUPWITHTHAT.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2010: "My sense is we are looking to the future for a massive increase in nuclear use around the world.... We don't have an alternative."] ARTICLE: Environmentalists, governments and news media never tell you about the costs of wind energy. For example, in 2013, when turbines were smaller, concrete manufacturer Lafarge said anchoring just one wind turbine required 2,500,000 pounds of concrete. Remember that manufacturing concrete is already the third largest emitter of carbon dioxide and also requires nearly a tenth of the world's industrial water use. Furthermore, wind farms create unsafe flying conditions. Indeed, a Michigan county bars air ambulances from rescuing citizens living near wind farms. In addition to being weather-dependent, intermittent and unreliable, wind turbines cover vast areas of land, require massive amounts of raw materials, involve enormous air and water pollution in faraway countries where ...
Even though you're the last in our da'wa, You have surpassed the compass of the earlier (da'is). The like of you cannot be found among those who have gone, From all the people, nor those that remain. Imam Al-Mustansir bi'llah Abu Nasr Hibat Allah b. Musa b. Abi Imran b. Dawud al-Shirazi, one of the most distinguished da'is of the Fatimid ...
At a lecture at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, on 19 August 2022, Dr Mahmood Mamdani discussed the Uganda Asian expulsion. His lecture 'What have we learnt over half a century' ...
To support secondary school students to become better descriptive writers, Nakyanzi Jalia and her colleagues at MacKay Memorial College-Nateete, in Uganda, created this writing adventure game, that takes students on a collaborative writing and learning journey. ...
Dilawar and Rozgar entered in the Arc Sale. The Aga Khan Studs will offer two Stakes winners for sale on Saturday at the Arqana Arc Sale at Saint-Cloud. Both lot 21, ROZGAR, and lot 38, DILAWAR, have won multiple races and have also performed admirably in Group 1 company. Three-year-old ROZGAR, a son of Exceed And Excel out of a Stakes-placed ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the inauguration of the restoration of the Polana #Serena Hotel in Maputo, Mozambique on 16 December 2010. Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
ESI-AFRICA.COM -- Independent power producer Globeleq and IPS (West Africa), a company owned by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, announced that their subsidiary, Azito Energie SA has secured financing for its 253MW expansion of the Azito gas-fired power plant near Abidjan. The combined cycle gas turbine technology will allow the deployment and monetisation of Côte d'Ivoire's domestic gas reserves in the most efficient and environmentally effective and sustainable way. The Phase IV expansion and other upgrades, will see Azito supplying approximately 30% of Côte d'Ivoire's installed capacity. Construction has already started with first power expected in ...
SPIKED-ONLINE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2007: "Skyrocketing [electricity] costs work to reinforce the cycle of poverty for millions."] ARTICLE: President Biden's climate envoy, John Kerry, told African countries to give up, beyond 2030, using natural gas to grow their economies despite the fact that African countries contribute less than 4% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions. Meanwhile, due to current gas shortages, many Western countries are extending their use of coal. Western insistence that Africa forgo using their gas, oil and coal energy reserves has long been a blockage on Africa's development. Today, more than 600 million Africans have no access to electricity at all. If African countries are not supposed to use their gas reserves, what should they do, exactly? No wonder the President of Senegal rejected Kerry's orders. They need electricity for power. They need fertiliser, produced from gas, for agriculture. And they need ...
Join us this fall for Local Roots, Global Fruits, our 2022 campaign. We will explore how AKF supports the best local ideas and leadership as the way for addressing the problems facing communities in Africa and Asia. Those then grow and mature and bear fruit--ideas and experiences that AKF shares widely, across other regions. ...
TKN -- The Academic Skills Support Team in the Department of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is tasked with raising the number of high-quality applicants for the Institute's graduate programmes from priority countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Syria and Tajikistan. In particular, we focus on finding excellent candidates to apply for the Secondary Teacher Education Programme ...
Global -- The eagerly anticipated winners of this year's Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced this week. The six winning projects uniquely differ from one another, but they share one important aspect. As an architect myself, I have always been fascinated by how architecture can encompass all aspects of an individual's life, from secular facets of aesthetics, beauty, functionality, and ...
Global -- Action, ambition, and hope were on display this week as world leaders joined United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, Amanda Gorman, and others for the annual SDG Moment at the UN headquarters in New York. Projected onto the big screens this year were Prince Hussain's photographs depicting the beauty and fragility of the natural world. Convened by the UN ...
Join host Mursal Bahri for the first instalment of Celebrating 50, an Ismaili TV special going behind-the-scenes at this week's commemorative events taking place across Canada. Day one includes highlights from the Municipal Honours ceremony, in which the Key to the City of Toronto was awarded to Mawlana Hazar Imam and a segment of Wynford Drive was ceremonially named Aga Khan Boulevard. The ...
ANZ -- In between country and home Article by Maryam Ismaili. Afghan Ismaili refugee to Australia, 2019 "I was born in a war-torn country. From the moment that I was smart enough to realize what life is, I wasn't able to live a life where I could feel safe and happy. My memories of my own home country are so dull. ...
By: Sadruddin Noorani, Chicago, USA Let us try to understand the diversity of forms, significance, and meaning of "Worship and Prayer in Islam". What is the notion of "worship?" Worship is ...
Entrepreneurship is all about mindset, ambition, hard work, and motivation. Recently I had an opportunity to have a conversation with Zehra Shallwani from Pakistan as she shares her insights into her ...
Global -- The Key to the City of Toronto was awarded to Mawlana Hazar Imam at a special ceremony hosted today at the Ismaili Centre in Toronto, during which a segment of Wynford Drive was ceremonially named Aga Khan Boulevard. Prince Amyn accepted the honours on behalf of Hazar Imam and thanked Mayor John Tory and the City of Toronto for ...
Global -- The tradition of service and volunteering in the Ismaili community is one rooted in a 1400-year history. The giving of one's time, effort, and resources for the development of both the community and wider society is a core value of the faith, and its many expressions have been an essential part of the community's history, well-being, and identity. "Through ...
Global -- As rehabilitation efforts continue in Pakistan, Ismaili CIVIC volunteers continue to support affected individuals and the communities in which they reside - demonstrating a commitment to Islam's core values of service, peace, compassion and care for the vulnerable. Devastating record floods in Pakistan have displaced 33 million people, with the death toll reaching 1500. Hundreds of villages have been ...
GOOGLE.COM -- How much is known about the activities of these "dai'is" whose main task was to spread and preach the Ismalli doctrines considered by the 'Abbasids and the Saljuqs as a threat to their domination? By whom were these "da'is" appointed, and what were the status and functions of their various ranks? Unfortunately most of the Isma'ili sources tend to give a rather ideal or Utopian picture of the Isma'ili organization, which they consider to be the embodiment of history; and all that is available to supplement them is very scrappy information provided by ...
Two new winners in a day take Gilltown sire to 100. Gilltown Stud resident SEA THE STARS achieved his 99th and 100th Stakes winners in quick succession on Friday. In Australia, Desert Icon, originally bred in France by Ecurie des Monceaux but now in training with Chris Waller Racing, won the Gr.3 JRA Stakes at Moonee Valley. Just a couple of ...
Portugal -- O inglês é uma das línguas mais faladas globalmente, possibilitando o contacto entre pessoas de todos os cantos do mundo. Conheça as principais razões para aprender inglês e que levaram à criação do English4All! Desde cedo que ouvimos pessoas a comunicar, a falar e a expressar-se em inglês. Ao longo dos anos, Mawlana Hazar Imam tem vindo a exprimir ...
Portugal -- Considerando que a nossa presença na Terra é de curta duração, cada um de nós tem a responsabilidade de deixar a natureza em condições melhores do que as que encontrou, em prol das gerações futuras. No próximo dia 25 de setembro, junte-se a nós para mais um Global Ismaili CIVIC Day e em conjunto fazermos deste mundo um lugar ...
Portugal -- Considering that our presence on earth is temporary, each of us has the responsibility to leave nature in a better condition than we found it, for the sake of future generations. On September 25, join us for another Global Ismaili CIVIC Day and together make this world a better place. Portuguese Islam teaches us to care for Allah's creation, ...
Portugal -- É cada vez mais comum procurar-se novas formas de aprendizagem na terceira idade, sendo uma das mais atrativas, o conhecimento de uma nova língua. A experiência e as habilidades desenvolvidas com a maturidade, podem ser grandes aliadas na sua aprendizagem. Falar inglês pode abrir-lhe portas para novas amizades, mais opções de lazer, desenvolvimento de novas habilidades, pode contribuir para ...
Portugal -- The Pre-School, Ta'lim and Secondary Curriculum materials are being made available in a digital form to the Jamat. Access these materials through the IIS Digital Curriculum (IISDC) e-book platform. For more information contact ITREB: [email protected]. Portuguese ...
USA -- The US economy is showing signs of slowing, with the possibility of a recession in the coming months. Economic volatility is expected to present challenges due to rising prices, higher interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and supply chain disruptions. The Jamat is strongly encouraged to exercise caution concerning spending, investing, and borrowing decisions and to take defensive steps to preserve ...
