Rise of Religious and Ethnic Nationalism: A Singaporean Muslim Perspective
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq A simple scroll on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram can generate mixed reactions within a few seconds. You can see a cute GIF image of cats, and in the next post, a disheartening article shared by one of your...
Invisible Diversity: Lived Experiences of Malay Rental Flat Occupants
By Nabilah Mohammad Most Singaporeans desire a home to call their own, however, there are inevitably marginal segments of society who encounter obstacles to having access to home ownership and, require assistance with this. For them, the government has provided...
Opposites Attract: Experiences of Muslim-Non-Muslim Couples Seeking Civil Union
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq “You can’t choose who you want to fall in love with.” An interviewee shared this to reflect the realities of love and marriage. Nonetheless, this ‘absence’ of choice may cause some issues due to differing expectations and requirements in a...
A Budget 2020 Wish List For Social Development
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim The difficulty in coming up with a budget wish list when one is in the social service sector is that it would almost certainly entail proposals that would add to government expenditure. It would be ingenious to achieve the goal of...
Mothering Solo – Unwed Mothers in the Malay/Muslim Community
By Nabilah Mohammad Raising a child is no easy feat. We often hear about the sacrifices a parent makes and the time and energy it takes to care for a child. A single mother’s responsibilities are no different, except that she is on her own. She has to be both a mother...
Developing a New Generation of Asatizah
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq The asatizah community in Singapore is one that is well-regarded by the Muslim community here. Asatizah, is the plural form of Ustaz or Ustazah in Arabic, and generally refers to Islamic religious teachers. Their purpose is to provide religious...
“This is the Choice I Made”: Lived Experiences of Malay Women Staying in an Abusive Marriage
By Nurshirah Tabrani Singapore society is plagued with incidences of intimate partner violence[1] (IPV). From 2012 to 2018, more than 70% of those who filed for Personal Protection Order (PPO) or Expedited Order (EO) or Domestic Exclusion Order (DEO) in Singapore are...
National Day Rally Speech 2019: The Goodies and the Problems
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong delivered his seventh consecutive National Day Rally (NDR) speech this year at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College Central. The annual speech was moved to the present venue in 2013 after...
Taking That Leap Abroad – Nurlina Awaludin
This interview was also published in Karyawan, A Magazine by AMP Singapore, October 2019, Volume 4, Issue 4. More Singaporeans, especially the younger generation, are choosing to work or live abroad. The number who choose to work or live abroad has increased over the...
On the Move with Daliyana Hamid
This interview was also published in Karyawan, A Magazine by AMP Singapore, July 2019, Volume 4, Issue 3. The global workplace offers a wealth of opportunities. For some, working abroad is a personal career goal, with opportunities to experience new cities and...
Taking That Leap Abroad – Nurlina Awaludin
This interview was also published in Karyawan, A Magazine by AMP Singapore, October 2019, Volume 4, Issue 4. More Singaporeans, especially the younger generation, are choosing to work or live abroad. The number who choose to work or live abroad has increased over the...
On the Move with Daliyana Hamid
This interview was also published in Karyawan, A Magazine by AMP Singapore, July 2019, Volume 4, Issue 3. The global workplace offers a wealth of opportunities. For some, working abroad is a personal career goal, with opportunities to experience new cities and...
A Prime Minister in the Making: Will Heng’s Open, Consultative Style Take Off?
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim On 23 April 2019, the long wait for a clear indication as to who would be Singapore’s next Prime Minister (PM) seemed to be over. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) announced that Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat will be promoted to Deputy...
Misunderstood Minds: Living with Mental Illness
By Nabilah Mohammad Disorders of the mind are among the most misunderstood and can have a devastating impact on a person's quality of life. According to the latest nationwide study spearheaded by the Institute of Mental Health in 2016, 1 in 7 people in Singapore has...
Is Justice by Online Mob a Threat?
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim When National University of Singapore (NUS) student Monica Baey learnt that a voyeur, a fellow NUS student, who filmed her showering was “let off” with a 12-month conditional warning by the police and a semester’s suspension by NUS, she...
The Alchemy of Curating with Khairuddin Hori
This interview was also published in Karyawan, A Magazine by AMP Singapore, April 2019, Volume 14, Issue 2. As you wander into an art exhibition, have you ever wondered about all the steps it took to put the exhibition together? Who is the person behind this...
Eradicating the Drug Menace: No One Left Behind
By Dr Nuraliah Norasid For the average Singaporean, it is far easier to believe that the drug problem exists far away—in another country, another neighbourhood, amongst another community, an alien and invisible segment of our society. Many of us learnt about drugs...
The Bicentennial and the Layperson
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim Those who have gone through the Singapore education system may recall having studied history at least at the lower secondary level. Some of the key names or words associated with the early history of Singapore they would be familiar with...
Trapped in the “Wrong” Body?: Transgender Among the Malay Community
By Nabilah Mohammad You know them as the ‘T’ in ‘LGBTQ+’ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer), but how much do we really know about the transgender community in Singapore? Transgender people, especially among the Malay/Muslim community, are rather...
SG Budget 2019: The Vision of a Caring and Inclusive Society
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim The Singapore Budget 2019 outlined a strategic plan to allocate resources to build a “Strong, United Singapore”. To realise this vision, among other objectives such as keeping Singapore safe and secure, transforming our economy into a...
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