History & Culture & Politics (GR)

CHONG FAH HING: “…Justeru, tidaklah keterlaluan menggelar Ban Chen sebagai intelek kiri. Bermula dari penterjemahan karya Lu Xun, langsung menyerlahkan tekad beliau mengkritik aparat kuasa yang bongkak, dan sikap Ban Chen pantang berkompromi. Andaikata terjemahan boleh disifatkan sebagai kerja kreatif, maka pemilihan teks terjemahan boleh disamakan dengan garapan bahan penulisan…”ZIN...

The process of working with soil is a humbling one. The material narrates a lesson for all involved about their landscape. Buildings and objects that use soil take on its meaning. But often, the hegemony dictates that this meaning is humble and undignified. In this project, we are interested in...

This book was created as part of the research project “Big Trip-Tracking New Connections,” spanning from 2021 to 2023. It brings together articles written in various temporal states.To gather ancestral wisdom from diffrent places and ethnic groups, we used text, images, sound, interview and experiential exploration as mediums of exploration....

‘Before the colonial governments came, we were serumpun.’ – Pak Sujianto, the ketua Kampung, Jagoi Babang in Kalimantan (2022) Serumpun means a bundle of grass that shares the same root. It helps us convey how knowledge, wisdom and material cultures in craft across the borders of Kalimantan, Sarawak and Sabah...

Setelah pulang berpetualangan di bumi Inggeris ke tanah air, Saari Sungib meneruskan kerja-kerja dakwah dalam suasana dan cabaran baru yang jauh lebih kompleks berbanding di United Kingdom. Di samping membina kerjaya dan keluarga pada masa yang sama, usaha-usaha dakwah diteruskan dengan membangun sebuah wadah baharu yang menghimpunkan aktivis-aktivis dakwah serata...

Buku Amanah: Mekar Dalam Api merupakan memoir perkembangan suatu idealisme melalui likuan yang penuh ranjau dan duri sebuah parti Islam di Malaysia iaitu Parti Amanah Negara. Politik bukanlah suatu persoalan hitam putih yang mudah untuk diputuskan. Menulis kembali cerita lama seperti membuka luka lama yang belum sembuh. Sejarah adalah ibrah...

Setiap pemerintah mempunyai gagasan dan hasrat tersendiri untuk memacu pembangunan negara. Justeru, mereka akan mewujudkan sebuah model yang ingin dibawa dan diterapkan dalam sistem pemerintahan. Hal ini agar dapat menjadi prinsip dan agenda yang jelas bagi Malaysia. Begitulah apa yang diikhtiarkan oleh Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim dengan mewujudkan satu singkatan...

Perbahasan tentang kemunduran dalam dunia Islam telahpun semarak sejak dari 200 tahun yang lampau dengan kedatangan kuasa-kuasa kolonialisme ke dunia Islam. Namun begitu, ia kekal sebagai perbahasan yang agak dangkal antara kedua-dua ekstrim – mereka yang menyerang Islam dan mengatakan yang ia sebagai punca kemunduran; dan mereka yang senantiasa menyalahkan...

Winner at the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards Shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________ Daily Telegraph's Best Books of the Year, 2018 Guardian's Best Books of the Year, 2018 Evening Standard's Best Books of the Year, 2018 Daily Mail's Best Books...

SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES – from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL...

Always forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.' JFK 'What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.' David Lloyd George 'Unchallenged...

Jakarta is a fascinating city. Its attraction lies in the incredibly wide variety of people – Indonesians, Chinese, Indians, Arabs, and Europeans – who have arrived over the centuries, bringing with them their own habits, folklore, and culture. Their descendants have resulted in a vibrant mix of people, most of...

A spellbinding, sweeping novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unlikely spy for the invading Japanese forces during WWII – and the shocking consequences that rain upon her community and family.Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her 15-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter,...

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands...

Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday TimesIslamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent. For centuries the caliphate was both...

Dreaming of Freedom places Israel's military detention of Palestinian children in its full context, shedding insight onto the Israel occupation and the Palestinian resistance to it - as well as the lives of children who grow up in an environment filled with heavily-armed soldiers, walls and tanks. It contains first-hand...

A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archival documents, award-winning historian...

An illustrated collection of Malaysian trivia, Malaysia at Random is filled with anecdotes, statistics, quotations, diagrams, facts, recipes, advice, folklore and other unusual and often useful tidbits. This veritable treasure trove of information on Malaysia is arranged, as the title suggests, randomly, so that readers will come to expect the...

‘Persoalan wira atau pejuang bukanlah sekadar melayani emosi atau citarasa sewenang, menurut tuntutan prasangka...Ia menuntut pengamatan halus soal-soal nilai, ideologi, konteks sejarah, pergolakan siasah semasa dan persoalan falsafah kayu ukur moralitas...bukan cuma moralitas tokoh-tokoh yang dijulang, tetapi juga mereka yang mendukung tokoh-tokoh berkenaan.’– Shaharuddin Maaruf Asas kepada penerbitan buku ini untuk...

The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today! Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with West—vital choke points in the world's commerce. Since ancient times, ports along the Silk Road of the Sea were populated by peoples...