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Shan Malik - From Entrepreneur to Entertainer

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Shan Malik , the Entrepreneur and the diligent young man has recently opened up about himself and gave his fans an insight to his wonderful, hard-working personality. Very well-known in the industry by his character which is full of entertainment and love for others, he has yet again proved himself of being someone, the wondrous youth could look up to. The exchange of conversation between the two had been thoroughly interesting and the words echoed of the hard work and effort that Mr. Malik puts into his business and career. Some of the notable question and answers had been: "How do you judge your path from being an entrepreneur to an entertainer? What were your challenges?" [Shan]: "When you really want to become a person of your dreams, the path is never easy. It is not only tiring; it is very twisted and complicated. Often we do not even have the clear vision to what our struggles are leading us to. Entrepreneurship was the base to the goals I had set for m...

Interview with graphic designer Nadeem Khan

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Our guest today is Nadeem Khan from Karachi, Pakistan who is a graphic Designer with 3 years of experience in this field. We have conducted an interview with him. What are the graphic designing services that you are great at? I’m a proficient graphic designer and have an extensive experience designing brand identities, print and promotional material. What kind of design challenges do you take up? Well, I had faced various challenges along my course, whether it be following the atomic structure of brand guidelines, picking up the best course for designing in the limited time and taking on logo design competitions. Which graphic design tools/software are you well-versed in? I have learned many of the design tools and ready to adapt any software but my experience in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign is flawless. Could you show us two of your top logo or brand identity designs? Here are they: 1. Behance.net/nkhansays 2. Flickr.com/...

Sufi music

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Waleed founded a website on Sufism and Sufi Music in 2002 at his University in Pakistan. The websites has more than 1000 tracks by Sufi Artists such as Nusrat Fateh Ali, Abida Parveen, who are very popular artists in Pakistan and India. We have conducted an interview with him. What inspired you towards Sufism and the founding of www.thesufi.com? TheSufi.com was born in 2002 on an old computer at my tiny student room. It is reasonable to say that its idea were actually planted much longer ago. During late 1970s, Idries Shah was a hugely popular and revered for his books on Sufism in London. My mother read Idries Shah's 'The Way of the Sufis' during pregnancy and I believe that was my first interaction with mysticism! I grew up reading Rumi, Saadi, Attar and Iqbal, each of which fascinated me. I merged my interest in Web Design with Sufism and the result was TheSufi.com How many tracks and who are the prominent artists are on your site? I never counted but ...

Build My Idea

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Ryan Makhani lives in Houston, grew up in the Bay Area (San Jose and Fremont, CA), born in Chicago with parents from Pakistan. He leads BuildMyIdea.org which aims to inspire young people to become innovative leaders. Why did you aspire and aim to inspire young people? Young people today have access to incredible tools to make change. Young people care and want to make a difference. Young people have so much hunger for change and so much talent to share with the world. However, many young people fail to recognize the opportunities they have to be able to make difference in the world and live their dreams. I have seen too many bright young people feel shackled by school in pursuit of getting good grades. Instead of experimenting and challenging themselves, many young people are not able to see the beyond the schooling in front of them. I was one those too. Instead of striving for what may be possible and imagining the impossible of what we want to do, we fall into the horrib...

Malala Yousafzai Extended Interview

The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook In this exclusive, unedited interview, "I Am Malala" author Malala Yousafzai remembers the Taliban's rise to power in her Pakistani hometown.