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Rebecca Chew: "I think being an outsider, or having that perspective, helps"
Q&A: An art director on moving from Malaysia to the U.S. for a dream job at the start of the pandemic, the differences in being a creative here and…
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Emily Ding
Mabel Ho: “I still flirt with the idea of leaving. But that dream plays to a different tune now.”
Guest essay: After years imagining what her exit plan would look like, A Malaysian finally comes to terms with her choice to remain.
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Emily Ding
July 2022
Wael Qarssifi: "Everyone saying what they think, out of love, is an act of activism"
Q&A: A Syrian refugee journalist in Malaysia on piecing together a life for himself in exile in Kuala Lumpur, and reconciling his feelings for his…
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Emily Ding
April 2022
Abby Seiff: "The water failing them, they take to the land"
Dispatch from Cambodia + Q&A: A journalist tells the story of the stateless Vietnamese forced to leave their floating homes on the Tonle Sap.
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Emily Ding
March 2022
Travis Criddle: "I walked with an open mind and heart, and no plans"
Q&A: An American acquaintance from my early backpacking days talks about everything that has taken him to his new home along Italy’s Via Francigena.
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Emily Ding
February 2022
December 2021
October 2021
August 2021
Elizabeth Wong: "I had begun with an image of fishermen hauling their nets out of the sea"
Guest essay + Q&A: A novelist on how a trip with her mother to a fishing village—and the complicated feelings it surfaced about privilege …
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Emily Ding
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October 2020
July 2020
Jason Brooke: "Certainly, I would consider the Brookes Sarawakian"
Q&A: From a descendant of the White Rajahs: a Bornean tale for Hollywood, finding identity and opportunity in a family legacy, and grappling with…
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Emily Ding
July 2019
Amanda Lee Koe: "I was not wrong, I was only in the wrong time and place"
Q&A: A Singaporean author on her debut novel, growing up under the influence of cultures not rooted in her own reality, and how she built her own.
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Emily Ding
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