Agreement of Cooperation signed between the State of Texas and the Ismaili Imamat – Photographs

H.H Aga Khan signs agreement between the Ismaili Imamat and the State of Texas

Austin, Texas, 30 October 2009 — At the invitation of Texas State Governor Rick Perry, Mawlana Hazar Imam traveled to Austin yesterday to sign an Agreement of Cooperation between the State of Texas and the Ismaili Imamat. During the visit, Hazar Imam and Governor Perry also held talks at the State Capitol on a range of issues [...]

Download: Islamic Art & Culture – A Resource for teachers

“Islamic art” is a label coined in the West in the nineteenth century. Unlike “Christian art” or “Buddhist art,” it does not describe art with a particular set of religious imagery. In fact, Islamic art has few exclusively religious symbols comparable to the Christian cross. Instead, the term “Islamic art” designates all art, religious or secular, that was produced in lands [...]

World’s faster supercomputer models origins of the unseen universe

Scientists have for some time postulated that “dark matter” could partially account for evidence of missing mass in the universe, while the hypothetical form of energy known as “dark energy” is the most popular way to explain recent observations that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate and accounts for 74 percent [...]

The Ismaili Centre, Dushanbe, Tajikistan – Video Preview

Preventive steps for H1N1 Flu Virus

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease that is transmitted through the air by coughs and sneeze. Every year, influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in numerous deaths. 
The 2009 flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 — officially referred [...]

Hip and knee joint replacements can last longer

 
Improvement in materials and recent advances in surgical techniques means that most active patients requiring hip and knee implants will be able to use their joint replacements for as long as 15 to 20 years, according to doctors at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) speaking on the occasion of Bone and Joint Day to raise [...]

Worm glue could help repair broken bones

A sea creature called the sandcastle worm could hold the secret to repairing broken bones in humans. The screws and pins favored by many surgeons today have achieved much success over the years, but they are not suitable for repairing all kinds of fractures. For more precise reconstruction of compound fractures and shattered bones, bioengineers [...]

Baba Ghundi festival celebrated in Chipursan, Hunza on the World Tourism Day

First-ever Baba Ghundi Festival was held in the Chipurson valley of upper Hunza on Sunday in connection with the World Tourism Day. The main event was held in the Ispenj village of Chipurson, where traditional songs and games like polo, buz kashi and mindek received applauds from the spectators.
The event was organized by the Gilgit-Baltistan [...]

Aga Khan Foundation: Link-Road in Passu

Link-road is the main road of Passu that connects the whole village.
This road has been supported with the financial aid  from Aga Khan Organization and the volunteer work of the people in this village.
Article by: Elena Akari /Photo･Sisso /Writer･Tomiko.
To view the complete gallery visit:
http://www.tomika-c.com/yumyum/pakistan_en/?p=368

Remix Asia: A Catalyst for New Music – Photographs

 What do nineteen musicians hailing from eight countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Eurasia have in common? That was the question that participants in Remix Asia strove to answer during an intensive, fortnight-long workshop and concert tour that ended in Aleppo, Syria on October 18.The participants included sixteen young composer-performers and three [...]

Diversity in Muslim cultures discussed

A leading scholar has spoken of common roots of Muslim and European cultures and in discussing examples of their dynamic interactions has debunked claims of “clash of civilisation” in the wake of 9/11 events.
Dr.Kathryn Spellman Poots, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at The Aga Khan University, London campus, spoke on the topic of ‘Gender [...]

From Kabul to Halifax: Musical Performance and Film Screening

Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

This event will examine Canada’s role in Afghanistan from a development perspective and explore how, with thoughtful Canadian leadership, success is possible.  The evening will feature a musical performance by renowned Afghan-Canadian musician Vaheed Kaacemy and a special screening of award-winning documentary film-maker Richard Phinney’s documentary on [...]

Bridging the divide…

Soulafa al-Abbasi, a fellow student with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada 
In an ever-shrinking world, Canada’s role in international development is becoming increasingly significant. This is the focus of Bridges that Unite, a traveling exhibit that opened earlier this month at Pier 21. The exhibition celebrates Canada’s part in global development, as well as our country’s [...]

24% of country’s hospital beds occupied by waterborne disease patients’

Experts from different countries and officials of the Pakistani government, as well as international organisations, have expressed concern over the alarming increase in the number of waterborne and diarrhoeal diseases around the world. The increase is due to the limited access to safe drinking water and the lack of proper sanitation systems.
Quoting data collected by [...]

Experts explore solution to water, sanitation problems

KARACHI: Experts at a health sciences research symposium on Tuesday observed that poor quality of drinking water and inadequate sanitation coverage were the major national crisis, adversely impacting the well-being of people, particularly women and children.
Many developing countries, including Pakistan, continued to face both the issues as their respective governments had so far failed to [...]

A Catalyst for New Music – Asia ReMix

What do nineteen musicians hailing from eight countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Eurasia have in common? That was the question that participants in Remix Asia strove to answer during an intensive, fortnight-long workshop and concert tour that ended in Aleppo, Syria on October 18.
The participants included sixteen young composer-performers and three [...]

Aga Khan University: Bone and Joint Day 2009

Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi is commemorating Bone and Joint Day 2009. Join and learn about advances in medicine, technology and rehabilitation strategies to improve patients’ quality of life.
Date, Time and Venue
October 29, 2009  
4:00 – 5:30 pm
AKU Auditorium, Karachi, Pakistan
Programme

Lectures
Speakers

Shoulder problems and keyhole surgery
Dr M A Wajid
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Ankle and foot problem in [...]

Less than 10 per cent of water available for drinking and sanitation

October 27, 2009: Around 1.8 million people die from diarrhoeal diseases globally, 90 per cent of whom are children under five, mostly in developing countries. In Pakistan, 630 children die each day from water-borne illnesses. Experts at the first day of Aga Khan University’s National Health Sciences Research Symposium on the Impact of Water and [...]

Video Preview: Aga Khan Foundation’s Partnership Walk – Atlanta Oct 25, 2009

Symposium on Impact of Water and Sanitation on Health

KARACHI, The 13th National Health Sciences Research Symposium on ‘Impact of Water and Sanitation on Health, Our Problem, Our Solutions’ will be held from October 27 to 28, 2009 at Aga Khan University Auditorium, Karachi.
Pakistan has been unable to meet the water demand of the rapidly growing population resulting in low availability and poor [...]

IIS Publishes an Account of Imam-Caliph al-Mu‘izz’s Reign

The latest IIS publication, Towards a Shi‘i Mediterranean Empire: Fatimid Egypt and the Founding of Cairo, explores the reign of the fourth Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu‘izz li-din Allah (r. 953-975 CE), based on the only complete history of the Fatimids written by a mediaeval Sunni Muslim historian. The work by Dr Shainool Jiwa, provides a translation [...]

FOCUS & The Aga Khan Health Boards take preventive steps against H1N1 Virus

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease that is transmitted through the air by coughs and sneezes. Every year, influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in numerous deaths.
The 2009 flu pandemic is a global outbreak of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 — officially referred [...]

Aga Khan University: World Pneumonia Awareness Day

Aga Khan University’s Department of Continuing Professional Education invites you to a programme Pneumonia – Forgotten Killer of Children on the occasion of World Pneumonia Awareness Day organised by the Division of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Johns Hopkins University (PneumoADIP and Hib Initiative). 
Time, Date and Venue
November 2, 2009
2:30 – [...]

Butterfly new species discovered

AFTER nearly a century in the Natural History Museum collections, a new butterfly species has been discovered because of its mustache. A new butterfly species from the dry Magdalena valleys of Colombia has been discovered among the three million butterfly specimens at the Natural History Museum in London by a butterfly curator. It lay undiscovered [...]

EU launches free EGNOS satnav system

The European Commission has announced the official start of operations of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), a satellite based augmentation system (SBAS) that improves the accuracy of the current US Global Positioning System (GPS) and Russian GLONASS system signals from about ten meters to two meters. Like the U.S. GPS, the EGNOS Open [...]

First look: Nokia’s Booklet 3G

Recently at Nokia’s NokiaWorld 09 event, the company unveiled what appears to be the first in a line of netbook devices, the Booklet 3G. Dave Weinstein was there to get a first hand look at the device.
The Nokia Booklet 3G is sleek, thin, well designed, and generally feels like a high quality device. Key feel [...]

Research says ‘enact policies now’ to limit risk of climate catastrophe

Researchers at MIT have continued a study of climate risk and released a new report to show that even moderate carbon-reduction policies can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. It also shows that action is needed quickly if global emissions reductions are to provide a good chance of avoiding a temperature increase of [...]

Brain-to-brain communication over the Internet

Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) is a hot area of research. In the past year alone we’ve looked at a system to allow people to control a robotic arm and another that enables users to control an ASIMO robot with nothing but the power of thought. Such systems rely on the use of [...]

An electron microscope that won’t destroy living cells

We’ve all seen those scary images of monstrous looking insects captured by high-resolution electron microscopes, like the house dust mite in the image above. One thing you may not be aware of though, is that all the creepy crawlies in such images are dead. That’s because the particle beam of electrons used to illuminate a [...]