“Teaching is an invitation to a life of nobility and sanity”

Abbas Husain is an educator, scholar, trainer and writer. His work explores how education, culture, and moral imagination shape teaching and learning.

Founder and Director, Teachers' Development Centre

Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Aga Khan University

120,000+

teachers trained

2,000+

schools covered

5

countries

Recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th Annual Teacher Development Conference 2020 by the late Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan

Invited at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. by the Obama Administration in February 2009

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Essays

Qu’ranic Voice

MOST of us who read the Quran in English or Urdu do so with a quiet, unexamined assumption: that we are encountering the text...

Ramadan Without Algorithms

Something remarkable happens when a human being voluntarily chooses hunger. In a civilization engineered around stimulation, speed, and consumption, the fasting Muslim performs a...

Governance: When An Exam Refuses To Learn

In January 1997, I published an article, titled The CSS English Paper: A Scrutiny, in Dawn. The argument was simple: the English (Précis and...

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