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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Anwar Ibrahim

My 1999 Letter from Prison to Dr. Abdulhamid AbuSulayman | by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim

By Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim  //  February 10, 2022February 10, 2022

Maydan is pleased to have the opportunity to publish for the first time—and add to the historical record—a noteworthy prison letter from Anwar Ibrahim to AbdulHamid AbuSulayman from the late 1990s. In it we have…

Here Are Five Reasons Why the Malaysian Elections Matter

By Ermin Sinanović  //  May 30, 2018May 30, 2018

Malaysia has held regular elections since its independence in 1957 and it has been ruled by the same political coalition ever since – until this month’s 14th General Elections, where the opposition dramatically and unexpectedly…

The Strategic Democratic Moment in Malaysia: The Beginning of New Coalition Politics?

By Phar Kim Beng  //  May 17, 2018

On May 9 2018, some 13 million Malaysians took to the polls, to remove the government of Najib Razak from office. Thus, in one bold stroke ending the kleptocratic practices of the government that has been…

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