Overcoming the odds June 14, 2021 – Posted in: In The News, Reviews

Terence Toh A paraplegic who finds mobility with a motorcycle. A woman who manages to find happiness despite having a lame leg. A man with a hunched back, but a heart which is straight and true. Many of the characters in Datin Patricia Lim Pui Huen’s book One-legged Football And Other Stories are people living with disabilities. In this collection of short stories, we find that all their hopes, aspirations and loves are just the…

Malaisie : la vie “épargnée” des missionnaires catholiques sous l’occupation japonaise June 11, 2021 – Posted in: Authors, In The News

Les bombardements, les arrestations, le rationnement… La vie sous occupation japonaise du Collège général de Penang en Malaisie se révèle directement à travers le journal inédit de son père supérieur. Il témoigne de la vie de ces « hommes blancs », ni en fuite, ni prisonniers, épargnés par l’occupant.En 1781, deux prêtres de la Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris débarquèrent en Malaisie comme réfugiés, après avoir fui le Siam. Le Collège général, destiné à la formation…

Batu Uban: Bukti Pertapakan Melayu di Pulau Pinang June 10, 2021 – Posted in: Uncategorized

Francis Light dianggap sebagai orang yang bertanggungjawab membuka Pulau Pinang pada tahun 1876. Kaum-kaum lain yang datang berhijrah pula dianggap membantu menyemarakkan lagi perkembangan kapitalisme di Pulau Pinang. Atas sebab itu sumbangan mereka dijulang dan segala yang berkaitan dengan mereka seperti kawasan (petempatan), bangunan dan tokoh dianggap warisan sejarah yang perlu disimpan malah diwartakan sebagai warisan sejarah yang diiktiraf oleh UNESCO. Dalam waktu yang sama, pihak-pihak tertentu melupakan sejarah tempatan iaitu sejarah orang-orang Melayu yang…

Batu Uban Sejarah Awal Pulau Pinang – Posted in: In The News

Apakah sebenarnya yang berlaku pada orang Melayu di Pulau Pinang? Apakah mereka dikhianati sejarah atau tertindas oleh transformasi ekonomi? Apapun yang sebenarnya berlaku, perkara utama perlu diketahui ialah kecurangan orientalis yang mencatatkan Pulau Pinang sebagai pulau yang kosong ketika Francis Light menjejakkan kaki pada 1786. Pandangan balas itu diperincikan menerusi naskhah Batu Uban Sejarah Awal Pulau Pinang karya Ahmad Murad Merican. Malah, beliau jelas menyebut naskhah itu dihasilkan bertujuan meluruskan sejarah dengan harapan Batu Uban…

Review: One-Legged Football and Other Stories June 8, 2021 – Posted in: Reviews

In loving memory of her husband, Dato’ Dr Lim Kee Jin, Datin Patricia Lim Pui Huen has compiled a collection of short stories and published a charming book titled, One-Legged Football and Other Stories. Born in 1923, Dato’ passed peacefully in 2015. Datin Patricia, or Datin Pat in short, is a professional librarian and historian who has authored several historical books including, Wong Ah Fook – Immigrant, Builder and Entrepreneur (Times Editions 2002) and Johor…

Authors & Contributors draft June 7, 2021 – Posted in: Authors

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ABDUR-RAZZAQ LUBIS – Posted in: Uncategorized

ABDUR-RAZZAQ LUBIS (also known by his Mandailing name Namora Sende Loebis) is an author and activist who writes on the environment as well as the social history and cultural heritage of Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Sumatra, Indonesia. His publications include Perak Postcards: 1890s-1940s (2010), Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia’s Modern Development (2005) and Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak: 1875-1911 (2003). His latest book Sutan Puasa, Founder of Kuala Lumpur (2018) was met with…

Khoo Salma Nasution – Posted in: Authors

KHOO SALMA NASUTION is a writer, publisher and heritage advocate. She is author or co-author of about a dozen books, namely Streets of George Town (1993), Penang Postcard Collection (2003), Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak (2003), Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia’s Modern Development (2005), More Than Merchants (2006), Sun Yat Sen in Penang (2008), Heritage Houses of Penang (2009) and Redoubtable Reformer: The Life and Times of Cheah Cheang Lim (2015). Her recent book…

Cartoonist draws big success after repeated rejections May 31, 2021 – Posted in: In The News

He had just lost his job. The concept of his first book was rejected by 13 different publishers with the excuse that it wouldn’t sell. Customers have even scolded him and laughed at his caricatures, saying that his artworks don’t resemble them at all. Many would have thrown in the towel after facing not one, but 13 rejections, and locked away their dreams forever. But not Azmi Hussin. He refused to give in and give…

Review: Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis May 28, 2021 – Posted in: Reviews

Richard Foltz Concordia University, Montréal Richard.foltz@concordia.ca The global environmental crisis disproportionately affects Muslims, insofar as its effects are more severely felt in the developing world and fall harder upon the poor than upon the rich. And yet, the issue has received little attention from contemporary Muslim thinkers and activists worldwide, preoccupied with ‘more pressing’ issues. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a Muslim philosopher who spent most of his career in the United States, was among the first…

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