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Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham GCMG CH was the first Resident General of the Federated Malay States (part of the then Royal Colonies, now independent Malaysia) which was formed by combining a number of kingdoms. He served from July 1, 1896 to 1901. He was also an amateur photographer.
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James Joyce
A profound influence of literary innovations of Irish writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on modern fiction includes his works, Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
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Sylvia Beach published the first edition of Ulysses of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce in 1922.
John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman and father of James Joyce, nine younger surviving siblings, and two other siblings who died of typhoid, failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of other professions, including politics and tax collecting. The Roman Catholic Church dominated life of Mary Jane Murray, an accomplished pianist and his mother. In spite of poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class façade.
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A. Samad Ismail
Beliau dilahirkan pada 18 April 1924 di Singapura. Anak ke-8 daripada 16 adik-beradik. Bapanya Ismail Shairazi dan ibunya Aida Abdul Majid, keturunan Jawa, Indonesia. Bapanya merupakan guru besar di sekolah Melayu Singapura , penulis pelbagai artikel berbahasa Melayu .
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Kartunis Lat menggambarkan beliau sebagai tokoh bermisai tebal dan bercermin mata serta menghisap rokok.
Isteri pertamanya Puan Sri Hamidah Hassan juga merupakan bekas pemberita di Singapura. Anaknya Nuraina Samad merupakan penulis blog yang terkenal dan pernah bersemuka dalam program Blog di RTM1. Anaknya Maria turut terlibat dalam dunia kewartawanan.
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F. Spencer Chapman
Frederick 'Freddie' Spencer Chapman, DSO & Bar, ED was a British Army officer and veteran of World War II who became famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in the jungles of Japanese-occupied Malaya.
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Few men in the modern world have lived such an adventurous life as Lieutenant Colonel Chapman. He explored the frozen wastes of Greenland; he climbed among the high mountains of the Himalayas; in his time he was one of the few white men who had visited Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
During the Second World War, he spent over three years behind the Japanese lines in the jungle of Malaya. He worked with brave Chinese and Malayans, harrying the Japanese across their lines of communication. He was often grievously ill; he was wounded at least thre -
S. Othman Kelantan
Dilahirkan sebagai Syed Othman bin Syed Omar (al-Yahya) pada 13 November 1938, di Tebing Tinggi, Kemumin, Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
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Beliau berkelulusan Sarjana Muda Sastera (1979) dan Sarjana Sastera (1982/83) dari Universiti Sains Malaysia. Kemudian pada tahun 1994/95 beliau memperoleh Ph.D dari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Setelah lulus Ijazah Sarjana, S. Othman berkhidmat dengan Universiti Sains Malaysia selama dua tahun. Mulai tahun 1983, beliau berkhidmat di Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia sebagai pensyarah di fakulti Pendidikan/ ATMA. Jawatan terakhirnya yang disandang ialah profesor madya hingga beliau bersara pada tahun 1997. Kemudian beliau berkhidmat sebagai pensyarah kontrak di Jabatan Pengajian Media, Universiti Malaya (1997 -
Frank Athelstane Swettenham
Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham GCMG CH was the first Resident General of the Federated Malay States (part of the then Royal Colonies, now independent Malaysia) which was formed by combining a number of kingdoms. He served from July 1, 1896 to 1901. He was also an amateur photographer.
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Syed Hussein Alatas
Syed Hussein Alatas (September 17, 1928 – January 23, 2007) was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organizations, and former politician. He was once Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s, and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and post colonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.
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Mohammed Hussein Haikal محمد حسين هيكل
(السيرة الذاتية باللغة العربية أدناه)
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Mohammed Hussein Heikal[a] (Arabic: محمد حسين هيكل Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmmæd ħeˈseːn ˈheːkæl]; August 20, 1888 – December 8, 1956) was an Egyptian writer, journalist, politician. He held several cabinet posts, including minister of education.
He obtained a B.A. in Law in 1909 and a PhD from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1912.
While a student in Paris, he composed what is considered the first authentic Egyptian novel, Zaynab. After returning to Egypt, he worked as a lawyer for 10 years, then as a journalist. He published articles in Al Jarida. He was the cofounder of Al Siyasa newspaper, the organ of the Liberal Constitutionalist party for which he was also an adviser and was also ele -
Ahmet T. Kuru
Ahmet T. Kuru is the director of Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. His recent book, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019) co-won the American Political Science Association's International History and Politics Section Award, received honorable mention of SSSR’s Award, and was included in Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year. He is also the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which received Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR)’s Book Award. He is the co-editor (with Alfred Stepan
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Adania Shibli
Adania Shibli (عدنية شبلي) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul Starkey, 2012). She was awarded the Young Writer’s Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004.
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M. Navin
M. Navin is a Malaysian Tamil writer with MA in Tamil Literature. His works speak the lives of Malaysian Tamils and their daily struggles and 39 books have been published to date. He established Vallinam, a magazine for alternative literary endeavors in 2007, which has gone digital in 2009. He supervised the publication of Parai, a compilation of research papers such as Malay/Chinese Literature, Riverine and Eelam Literature in 2014. He has also worked in various fields of the arts and has directed documentaries on 14 Malaysian-Singaporean personalities and worked in films such as Jerantut Ninaivugal and Maounam and screenplays for films such as Jagat (Malaysia), and Kabali (Tamil Nadu). He started the Yazl Publication for students of Tamil
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