Think Beyond Borders: Malay Studies at NUS
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The Half-life of Knowledge
How should a fresh graduate, filled with aspirations to change the world, deal with the harsh reality that a significant portion of their undergraduate training may be rendered irrelevant by the simple passage of time?
Seeing the World Through Different Lenses: NUS Malay Studies
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Call for Nominations | FASS Inspiring Mentor Award 2022
We invite NUS FASS members of staff to nominate the colleagues who have served as their truly inspiring mentors – who have gone beyond the call of duty to positively impact their work and life – for FIMA 2022 honours.
Visionary Culture will Nourish the Thoughts and Minds of the Community
In this commentary piece for Suria News Online, Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee (NUS Malay Studies) looks at the value and role of films and how they function as channels of the arts and cultural education that are highly influential and effective in shaping the perspectives of society.
Last Convocation of Nanyang University 16 August 1980
The National University of Singapore (NUS) that we are familiar with today is the product of a merger between two predecessor tertiary education institutions. Nanyang University, which was Singapore’s only private university that employed Chinese as a medium of instruction, was first set up with the purpose of providing tertiary education to Chinese-educated students in …
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Abdullah al-Misri and why Hikayat Mareskalek is Still Relevant to this Day
Commentary by Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee (NUS Malay Studies) on Abdullah al-Misri’s ‘Hikayat Mareskalek’.