Penang Profile - Penang Monthly (Page 6)

A designer wise to the streets of Pulau Tikus

4 min read

Tell us a bit about your background. You dropped out of school at a young age; how has that experience shaped you?When I was growing up, education was a luxur...

by Emilia Ismail

The Art of Sonny Liew

9 min read

Comics are fun, but if one is to make a career of it, one needs luck and lots of talent. And one needs to take bold initiatives and to experiment. A very adult way to stay young, really.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Here, There and Everywhere with Thomas Powell

6 min read

How did English artist Thomas Powell's art end up half a world away from home, and what makes him so “Charles Dickens-y”? Penang Monthly catches up with the talented artist.

by Emilia Ismail

Resisting the Closing of the Malaysian Mind

6 min read

Eccentric professor Latif Kamaluddin writes powerful, mean verses that challenge Malaysians to think about where their modernity really comes from.

by Marco Ferrarese

Penang’s frontline survivor

6 min read

One can glean that Kim Gooi has lived an amazing life just by looking at him: donning a slanting beret, his whole persona exudes the sense that he’s flirt...

by Marco Ferrarese

Letting colonial literature reveal its wealth – and ambivalence

6 min read

Dr Mohamad Rashidi Mohd Pakri is from Baling, but has been living in Penang for the better part of the past 20 years. This is thanks to Universiti Sains Malaysi...

by Julia Tan

Cartoons for the people

5 min read

Who is the most controversial cartoonist in Malaysia, currently being investigated on a whopping nine charges under the notorious Sedition Act and facing a pote...

by Dr. Mustafa K Anuar

Living Hyphenated

6 min read

Penang Monthly talked to Omar Musa when he was in town for a two-month artist’s residency at Hotel Penaga to chat about identity, belonging and Russell Crowe.

by Julia Tan

Marina Mahathir: Malaysia is My Colour Movie

11 min read

Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir is the keynote speaker at the fifth George Town Literary Festival (GTLF), which takes place on November 27-29 . On a daily basis, Malaysians look out in the news for her most recent comments on issues that interest and bother the country.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Taking Penang Chinese Cuisine Abroad

6 min read

Leong’s journey with food started at a very young age, when he helped sell hokkien mee in Chowrasta Market in the 1970s. He would get up at 7am to push the stall cart from Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah to the market, and helped to sell until 1pm.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Sow Dissent, Harvest Freedom

6 min read

In her writings, Dr Khoo Ying Hooi reminds Malaysians that dissent is not illegal. When it comes to civil disobedience, Dr Khoo is one of the first few names that pop up in the minds of Malaysians.

by Fikri Fisal

In Defence of the Spirit of the Law

7 min read

The case of Azmi Sharom vs the Federal Court is a battle to save a basic right for all Malaysians. But has it been lost already?

by Ooi Kok Hin