The passing of the late Royal Laureate Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas on March 8, 2026 (18 Ramadan 1447), at the age of 94, has been mourned by diverse segments of the global Muslim community,…
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…
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…
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…
Vivid and disturbing images of women and children dying in conflict-ridden parts of the Middle East and Myanmar were flashing across the digital media as this essay is being written. The popular press around the…