Last year, there was an incident involving the local chapter of the atheist group Atheist Republic in Malaysia posted up a photo from their gathering
Mekong Review: Southeast Asia’s New Narratives in Old Media
I was invited for a visit to the official venue of the George Town Literary Festival 2017 by Gareth Richards, an editor, bookseller and the
Reflecting on The Curious Case of Siti Aishah
The latest season of TV Thriller Homeland began with an ex-CIA officer trying to defend an American of Nigerian descent, Sekou Bah, who was arrested
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As scholar, I’ve always been keen to understand how regular people make sense of the entertainment media they consume. I look at how media piracy’s
We Can’t Talk About the Terrorists: An Ethnography of Silence in the East Coast of Sabah
As an anthropologist, I see my work as necessary in gaining deeper and more insightful perspectives of how communities work and find meaning in their
Malaysia, with or without IS
To date, we have an estimate of 140-150 Malaysians who have joined the war in Syria; around 90 returnees; and more than 30 individuals arrested