In the north of the country, a village that has been isolated from the outside world for centuries is suffering from the ...

ix, 352 pages ; 24 cm "The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the ...

Ismailis are led by the Aga Khan, a hereditary position held by a family with Pakistani roots now living in Europe. The family opened a girls' school in Hunza in 1946, kickstarting an educational ...

Ismailis are led by the Aga Khan, a hereditary position held by a family with Pakistani roots now living in Europe. The family opened a girls' school in Hunza in 1946, kickstarting an educational ...

Hunza Valley's population of around 50,000, spread across mountains abounding with apricot, cherry, walnut and mulberry orchards, follow the Ismaili branch of Shiite Islam. Ismailis are led by the ...

In a sawdust-filled workshop nestled in the Karakoram Mountains, a team of women carpenters chisel away at cabinets -- and forge an unlikely career for themselves in Pakistan. Women make up just a ...

Historically, Syria has ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity among Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Alawites, Druze, and Ismailis, in addition to the Yazidi faith, Sunni and Shia Muslims, and Christians.