MalaysiaKini and the Power of Independent Media

MalaysiaKini and the Power of Independent MediaMalaysiakini was founded in 1999 by Steven Gan and Premesh Chandran, two young Malaysians who met as overseas students in Australia. One of the many online portals that sprung up in the wake of Reformasi, a movement sparked by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammads 1998 firing of his deputy Anwar Ibrahim, there was no reason to think that Malaysiakini would be different from the other blogs and portals that covered the trial of the charismatic former

Eliane Glaser asks why mothers are idealised

Azzam argues that Saladin was in reality a child of the Sunni Revival and that it was the ideals of this Revival which more than anything affected his beliefs and actions and constitute the foundations of the greatness of his political and spiritual vision

did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination

and rhythmic representations

The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest

is “when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves

The Killing Season is the definitive account of a pivotal period in Indonesian history

That it can only be measured only by the physical displacement of certain people

For more than a century

could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or

Minh-An Pham

examining both its inner workings — lyrics