This book unveils the history of discriminatory policies imposed in Indonesia upon people of Arab descent, and reveals the instrumental role of a Dutch scholar and orientalist, Prof. Snouck Hurgronje, in creating systematic policies to segregate and isolate these Indonesians from the local indigenous Moslem population
Peter Popham distills five years of research including covert trips to Burma, meetings with Suu Kyi and her friends and family, and extracts from the unpublished diaries of her co-campaigner and former confidante Ma Thanegi into this vivid portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, illuminating her public successes and private sorrows, her intellect and enduring sense of humor, her commitment to peaceful re…
Tribute to Aung San (1945-47) in the form of documents selected and edited by Dr. Maung Maung from Aung San's own speechs and writings, together with the memories and appreciative essays by Burmese and Western cotemporaries of Aung San, with a who's who.