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Marina Mahathir


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May 11, 1957

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Marina is well known as a leader in many non-governmental organizations such as the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and is currently an active socio-political blogger. She also writes in her bi-weekly column called Musings in The Star newspaper since 1989. Some of her pieces in the column have been published in her books such as 50 Days: Rantings by MM, published in 1997 and Telling It Straight, published in 2012 by Editions Didier Millet. The latter is a selection of her articles published in her column between 2003 and 2012. It includes a foreword by Dr. Farish A. Noor, a local political scientist and historian. It contains 90 articles which are written thematically including a special written introduction on the topics discussed in the book. I ...more

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The Year That Was

Dear everyone,

I know, I know, I've been very bad. Haven't posted anything since August. But life has been ridiculously busy with so many different projects. In November I launched my new book Telling It Straight which is a compilation of some of my columns from around 2001 til 2012. The excuse was that I was invited to the Singapore Writers' Festival and it seemed like a good occasion to launch a Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.88 · 258 ratings · 53 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
Telling It Straight
3.83 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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At Night We Are Dancers
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Dancing On Thin Ice
3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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In Liberal Doses
3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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50 Days: Rantings by MM
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Alamak! All in God's Name
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50 Ways to live in Malaysia...
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Gender and HIV/AIDS: Taking...
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Drug Law Reform in East and...
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“In a country that is so used to binary concepts—with us or against us—I think I confused people a lot.”
― Marina Mahathir, The Apple and the Tree: Life as Dr Mahathir's Daughter
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“The idea was to shake the tubes and make the marbles descend to the other end through a series of holes just big enough to allow one marble to drop through at a time. It made for a very exciting, somewhat noisy, relay when our”
― Marina Mahathir, The Apple and the Tree: Life as Dr Mahathir's Daughter
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